Bjorn Franke

Forthcoming

Franke, Björn and Sarah Owens, eds. Seeing, vol. 2. Zurich: VC Edition, (forthcomming).

Lange, Christian, Björn Franke, and Sarah Owens, eds. Danke Martin. Zurich: VC Edition, (forthcomming).

2023

Franke, Björn, Sarah Owens and Annamaria Vasvari, eds. Seeing, vol. 1. Zurich: VC Edition, 2023.

Seeing Volume 1

Franke, Björn, Sarah Owens and Annamaria Vasvari, eds. Hyperimages. Zurich: VC Edition, 2023.

Hyperimages

2022

Franke, Björn. “Undesign and Understanding.” In Critical by Design? Cultures, Epistemologies, Practices, ed. Claudia Mareis, Michael Renner, and Moritz Greiner-Petter. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2022.

Lange, Christian, Björn Franke, and Sarah Owens, eds. Trainspots. Zurich: VC Edition, 2022.

Trainspots

2020

Franke, Björn and Hansuli Matter, eds. Not at Your Service: Manifestos for Design. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2020.

Not at Your Service: Manifestos for Design

Franke, Björn. “Introduction.” In Not at Your Service: Manifestos for Design, ed. Björn Franke and Hansuli Matter. Basel: Birkhäuser, 2020.

2018

Franke, Björn and Sarah Owens, eds. A Ghost Story for Grown-Ups: 94 Strange Sensations – A Dictionary of the Unseen. Zurich: VC Edition, 2018.

A Ghost Story for Grown-Ups

2016

Franke, Björn. “Design as Inquiry: Prospects for a Material Philosophy.” PhD diss., Royal College of Art, 2016.

2012

Franke, Björn. “Mind Hygiene.” In The Design of the (In)Human, ed. Julia Warmers. Stuttgart: Merz & Solitude, 2013.

2010

Franke, Björn, “Design Fiction is Not Necessarily About the Future.” Sixth Swiss Design Network Conference, Negotiating Futures – Design Fiction (2010): 80–90.

Franke, Björn. Violent Machines for Troubled Times. Bad Ems: Künstlerhaus Schloss Balmoral, 2010.

Franke, Björn. Design as Ethical and Moral Inquiry.” CEPHAD 2010: The Borderland between Philosophy and Design Research. Copenhagen Working Papers on Design No. 1 (2010): 71–72.

Franke, Björn. “Violent Machines for Troubled Times.” In Things Beyond Control: Like Love and Art, ed. Jean-Baptiste Joly, 88-89. Stuttgart: Merz & Solitude, 2010.

2009

Franke, Björn. “Design as a Medium for Inquiry.” Fifth Swiss Design Network Symposium, Multiple Ways to Design Research – Research Cases that Reshape the Design Discipline (2009): 225–232.

Franke, Björn. “Traces of an Imaginary Affair.” In Fetisch + Konsum/Fetish + Consumption, edited by Jean-Baptiste Joly, Catherine Perret, and Julia Warmers. Stuttgart: Merz & Solitude, 2009.

2005

Franke, Björn. “Apocalyptic Architecture.” MA thesis, Royal College of Art, 2005.