Timothée Ingen-Housz

Trained as a multimedia artist, author and visual language designer, Timothée Ingen-Housz´s practice as artist and educator is concerned with the exploration, communication and productive awareness of complexity. His journey started at Paris´s „arts-déco“ (ensad), where he graduated with the experimental, non-linear logographic writing system “Elephant’s Memory”, a linguistic toy allowing concepts and norms to be playfully negotiated across existing languages and cultural environments. Initiated in 1993, the language comprises more than 200 logograms, is still growing to this day and has been exhibited in numerous occasion.

Relocating in Cologne in the late nineties, he founded an independent creative studio for “screen, stage and page”, authoring formats for science communication, game design, art exhibitions, film, theater, children books, online formats, interactive installations and music videos. In the meantime, he continued his own artistic research with video installations, and developed an intense screenwriting activity for film and television. Starting his “teaching tour” while still a student, he held lectures and workshops at Ensad (Paris) , Harvard film faculty, Goldsmiths University of London, Academy of Media Arts Cologne, KISD, Bauhaus University, and finally the UDK Berlin, where he now teaches “media conception and dramaturgy”.

Currently involved in the development of participatory formats and transformation maps towards “sustainable living”, he is coordinating and co-writing the UdK´s research horizon for the upcoming Einstein Center for Climate Change with leading partner universities and research centers in Berlin, Europe and abroad. Together with research associates, he is developing co-design methods to facilitate epistemic interactions with stakeholders from public and private sectors, and initiate new “transformation literacy” formats and with museums and public institutions.

Timothée Ingen-Housz is part of the Network Naturwissen at the Museum for Naturkunde Berlin, scientific fellow with the Kompetenzzentrum für Kultur- & Kreativwirtschaft, researcher with Climate Change Center Berlin Brandenburg and Centre Marc Bloch´s French/German Climate network.