Prof. Dr. Lasse Scherffig
Dr. phil.
Faculty of Cultural Sciences
Cologne International School of Design

Campus Südstadt
Ubierring 40
50678 Köln
Mailing address
+49 221-8275-5172
lasse.scherffig@th-koeln.de
Teaching disciplines
- Interaction Design Interaction Design at KISD
Projects / Cooperations
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KITeGG - Making AI tangible and comprehensible: Connecting technology and society through designKITeGG Website
A joint project of five universities on the integration of AI in design teaching.
Publications
- Maris, Simon; Scherffig, Lasse (2024): Designing on the Micro Scale. In: Kretzer, Manuel (Hrsg.): Synthetic Realities : New Frontiers in AI-driven Design, Fabrication and Materiality. Baunach: AADR - Art Architecture Design Research, S. 116 - 123. (peer-reviewed)
- Scherffig, Lasse; Hawranke, Thomas (2024): Hallucinating Canines : Google DeepDream's Taxonomic Heritage. In: Jenett, Florian; Bold, Julia-Jasmin; Dietrich, Maika (Hrsg.): un/learn ai : Approaching AI in Aesthetic Practices. Mainz: Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, S. 174 - 178. (Open Access)
- Grund, Matthias; Scherffig, Lasse (2024): Approaching the Aesthetics and Materiality of Hidden Layers. In: rrrreflect. Journal of Integrated Design Research., S. 1 - 6. (Open Access)
- Scherffig, Lasse; Hawranke, Thomas (2024): Hund : Gassi gehen im Latent Space. In: Bolinski, Ina; Hawranke, Thomas; Rieger, Stefan (Hrsg.): Virtuelle Tiere : Lebewesen zwischen Code und Kreatur. Bielefeld: Transcript (Virtuelle Lebenswelten), S. 101 - 126. (peer-reviewed/Open Access)
- Scherffig, Lasse (2024): KI als Werkzeug und Medium. In: Flessa, Nicolas (Hrsg.): Warum KI unsere Museen intelligenter macht. Karlsruhe: ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien Karlsruhe, S. 63 - 68. (Open Access)
- Kilian, Jakob; Neugebauer, Alexander; Scherffig, Lasse; Wahl, Siegfried (2022): The Unfolding Space Glove : A Wearable Spatio-Visual to Haptic Sensory Substitution Device for Blind People. In: Sensors. Vol. 22. (peer-reviewed/Open Access)
- Scherffig, Lasse (2022): Some Kind of Actual Space“ oder: Cyberspace als kybernetischer Raum. In: Höfler, Carolin; Philipp, Reinfeld (Hrsg.): Mit weit geschlossenen Augen : Virtuelle Realitäten entwerfen. Paderborn: Brill | Fink (Architektur der Medien – Medien der Architektur), S. 81 - 104. (peer-reviewed)
- Scherffig, Lasse; Muxel, Andreas; Faubel, Christian; Popplow, Laura (2021): Training to Deal with Otherness – Rehearsing & Maintaining Human-Machine Relations. In: Proceedings of Politics of the Machines - Rogue Research 2021. POM 2021; Berlin; 14.09.-17.09.2021., S. 359 - 364. (peer-reviewed/Open Access)
- Scherffig, Lasse; Tincuta, Heinzel; Diminescu, Dana (2019): Preliminaries. In: Diminescu, Dana; Heinzel, Tincuta (Hrsg.): Utopian Cities, Programmed Societies : Victoria Summer Camp's Journal. Loughborough: Loughborough University, S. 1.
- Scherffig, Lasse (2018): Leaked Locations from you Networked Past. In: Kronman, Linda; Zingerle, Andreas (Hrsg.): The Internet of Other People´s Things : Dealing with the pathologies of a digital world. Graz: KAIRUS ART+RESEARCH, S. 197 - 205. (Open Access)
Talks
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Un/Learn AI: Experimente, Strategien, Infrastruktur
Presentation as part of the lecture series Point 7, HFT Stuttgart
17.1.2025 -
AI – Opportunities and Barriers for Artists with Disabilities
Panel am kaethe:k Kunsthaus, Pulheim-Brauweiler
12.9.2024 -
Puppy Slugs, Vibes, and Visual AlignmentThe Art of AI: Narratives, Creativities, and Ethics
Talk at the workshop "The Art of AI: Narratives, Creativities, and Ethics" at Kunsthistorisches Institut Florenz, Max Planck Institute
19.4.2024 -
The Aesthetics of Generative AI and AI Literacy for Design
Online-presentation at the symposium "AI Drivers Future, International Design Innovation Forum", Shanghai, China
22.11.2023 -
Unlearning the Hype
Talk at the symposium “Artificial Intelligence in Design. Insights and Outlooks” at Hochschule Darmstadt
17.11.2023 -
The Planning Game – for an Archeology of Cybernetics in EconomyISEA 2023 Symposium
Panel discussion at ISEA 2023
20.05.2023 -
Rethinking Knowledge Sharing in Design
Online-Presentation at Loughborough Open Research Collective, Loughborough University
April 17, 2023 -
Learning to Fail at Design, AI, and TechnologyDEL in Between
Online presentaiton at DEL in Between of the Digitally Engaged Learning Conference
January 20, 2023 -
Walking the Dog in Latent SpaceMenagerie Virtueller Tiere
Presentation at the symposium "Menagerie virtueller Tiere"
Dec. 12, 2022 -
Machine-Centered Design: Engaging in Non-human EcologiesFestival website
Presentation at Festival Internacional de la Imagen, Manizales, Colombia
May 25, 2021
Conferences
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Hidden LayersHidden Layers Proceedings
International conference of the BMBF project KITeGG at KISD, TH Köln
12.-15.6.2024 -
Hidden LayersHidden Layers Website
International conference of the BMBF project KITeGG at KISD, TH Köln
July 18-22, 2022
Memberships
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Promotionskolleg NRWPK NRW
Member of the Promotionskolleg NRW, Department of Media and Interaction