Prof. Dr. Nadine Zinser-Junghanns
Professur für Grundlagen der Gestaltung und Entwerfen
Professorship for Architecture + Design
Raum
309
Sprechzeiten
nach Vereinbarung per Email
By appointment via email
Kontakt
+49 221-8275-2859
Website
Zuständigkeit
Leiterin space+ lab / Head of space+ lab
Gleichstellungsbeauftragte / Gender Equality Officer
Lehrinhalte
Conceptual Architecture + Design, Immersive Technologies XR, AI in Architecture + Design
BA l Design, Architectural Design, IP, Thesis, Architectural Sciences
MA l Master Spatial Strategies, Concept + Design, Architectural Sciences, Architectural Research
BA l Mensch und Raum, Gestaltung, Entwerfen 1, IP, Thesis, Architekturwissenschaften
MA | Corporate Architecture Projekt, Konzept + Design, Architekturwissenschaften
Forschung
. 11 2024 l ´Spatial Computing and AI-generated Art´, Sino-German cooperation project with Tongji University
. 02-08 2024 l ´KI in Architektur und Design´, Researchsemester in Shanghai in cooperation with Tongji University + BMW Design Works Shanghai
since 01 2023 l ´Hybrid Spatial Research ́ in ooperation with TransferING TH Köln
since 10 2022 l ´mixed reality space - eine hybride Lehr- und Lernumgebung ́ in cooperation with REDiEE TH Köln
. 07 2019 l Hackathon zu Theater im öffentlichen Raum und digitalen Medien´, in cooperation with Drama Köln
. 11 2018 l Hackathon zu künstlerischem Forschen´, in cooperation with Drama Köln
Prof. Dr. Nadine Zinser-Junghanns on Teaching
Design | TH Köln, Conceptual Architecture + Design focuses on innovative design processes for real, virtual, and hybrid spaces, from the initial abstract thought to a possible concrete realization. The goal is to create meaningful atmospheres that provide the spatial framework for human perception and interaction with the environment. Inspiration and new technologies are drawn from other disciplines, where we explore new approaches at the intersection of space and object design.
Students research and develop various strategies and methods for the conceptual derivation of real, virtual, and hybrid space. Considering the increasing fusion of analog and digital realms, they are enabled to explore, understand, and co-create the complex interrelationship of human, space, and time. Through process-oriented, adaptive, interconnected, and participatory approaches, students learn to translate their abstract ideas into concrete applications and activate space. Methodological knowledge is experimentally conveyed and acquired through both practice-based and theory-based teaching formats – Learning by Doing and Design by Research. Students are empowered to implement, communicate, and discuss their concepts using analog, digital, and increasingly hybrid working methods and tools.
Within the affiliated hybrid space+ lab, we specifically research and experiment with the following topics:
We explore real, virtual, and hybrid spaces.
We design possible and impossible places.
We sense spaces and atmospheres.
We transfer the virtual into reality and back.
We activate space, object, and human.
Exhibitions
. ´space+ show ll´, AKöln l Exhibition of the results from the space+ lab
. ´AI-conic six´ l D, Exhibition of the results from the elective module with Ola Handford at Raum 13, Cologne
. ´space+ show´, Passagen Köln l D, Exhibition of the results from the space+ lab
.́ geheimnisse eines kunstsalons ́ l D, MA project, Corporate Architecture, TH Köln, exhibition at MAKK Cologne
Lectures
. 11 2024 l Hybrid Aesthetics and Fragmentary Realities, Contribution to the Research Day, TH Köln
. 04 2024 l AI in Architecture + Design, Keynote Lecture, BMW Design Works Shanghai
. 03 2024 l AI in Architecture + Design, Keynote Lecture, College of Arts and Media, Tongji University Shanghai
. 09 2023 l Hybrid Spatial Research, Plenary Lecture, TURN Conference 2023
. 11 2021 l Architecture + Transportation Design, Keynote Lecture, Detmold Conference Week 2021
. 06 2020 l Design is Attitude, Lecture, HEAD Genève
Short Bio
Prof. Dr. Nadine Zinser-Junghanns is a Professor of ´Conceptual Architecture and Design´ at TH Köln and head of the ´space+ lab´, where she explores hybrid spatial research at the intersection of XR, AI, and emerging design methodologies. Her work focuses on the dynamic interplay between real, virtual, and hybrid spaces, emphasizing process-driven, adaptive, and participatory design approaches.
She is actively involved in the development of the new international ´Master of Spatial Strategies´, launching in collaboration with KISD, Köln International School of Design, in the winter semester of 2025. Her teaching and research integrate analog, digital, and mixed methodologies, enabling students to develop innovative strategies for spatial perception and interaction.
Her research includes Sino-German collaborations with Tongji University, a research semester in Shanghai in cooperation with BMW Design Works Shanghai, and projects such as ´mixed reality space´ with REDiEE TH Köln and ´Hybrid Spatial Research´. She has also curated hackathons on digital media in public space and artistic research in cooperation with Drama Köln.
Her latest exhibitions include ´AI-conic six´ at Raum 13 Köln in collaboration with Ola Handford from Mind Makers (2025), the ´space+ show l + II´ (2024 + 25) and ´Geheimnisse eines Kunstsalons´ at MAKK Köln.
Her work challenges the boundaries between material and immaterial design, translating abstract ideas into new spatial realities that activate humans, objects, and spaces.