
Tim Rodenbröker is a creative technologist, designer and educator, based in Barcelona.
He is the founder of trcc, an online learning platform and a cultural hub for Creative Coding.
Together with Martin Lorenz, he runs design studio called Coding Systems.
Tim Rodenbröker creates tools, environments and stories around Creative Coding. Based in Barcelona, he works as an creative technologist, designer and educator.
He is the founder of trcc, an online learning platform and cultural hub for Creative Coding.
Together with Martin Lorenz, he runs a design studio called Coding Systems.
Tim has taught at a wide range of international design institutions, including Elisava in Barcelona, the Glasgow School of Art, HEAD Genève and ECAL. He has also worked across disciplines for clients such as The New York Times, IBM, University of Pennsylvania, the Julia Stoschek Foundation, Holo Magazine and Slate + Ash.
The word "downgrade" is his north star.
Tim Rodenbröker probes the tension at the heart of a deceptively simple question: what is software, really? For him, creative coding is the essential tool, a highly charged dialogue between human and machine. Writing code by hand, he argues, is how this small, deliberate act comes to address the larger questions of our time: Where is the line between computer as tool and computer as machine? And what does "technology on a human scale" (a phrase coined by Fritz Schumacher) mean today? Creative Coding then becomes philosophy: a way of asking questions and finding answers through the act of making.
CCCB Barcelona (with Coding Systems), Coinbase, DEMO Festival, Holo Magazine, IBM (with Swift.co), Julia Stoschek Foundation (with Studio von Monkiewitsch), Lenbachhaus, Mozilla, Netflix Design Studios, Porta Rocha, Slate+Ash (with Lena Weber), Springer Science + Business Media, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, The New York Times, University of Pennsylvania (with Coding Systems), ZKM Karlsruhe
100 Rabbits, Alexander Scholz, Antoine Jaunard, Library of Artistic Print on Demand, James Bridle, Cem Eskinazi, computationalmama.xyz, Creative Applications, Dark Matter Labs, domesticstreamers.com, Esen K. Tütüncü, Felix Martinez, First Monday, Flexible Visual Systems, Glashaus Barcelona, Hacker News, Hannah Gmeiner, Holo Magazine, Ipek Bayraktar, Julian Hespenheide, Justin Lincoln, Laurel Schwulst, Lea Hansjürgen, Lena Weber, Life Enobling Design, Life Ennobling Economics, Low-Tech Magazine, Mane Tatulyan, Martin Lorenz, Master for Societal Design, Melanie Huang Buntine, Micropolis, Larissa Lenze, Nico Landrieux, permacomputing.net, Processing Foundation, Roel Roscam Abbing, Silvio Lorusso, Moon Davé, Stig Møller Hansen, tante.cc, Toban Shadlyn, Ville-Matias Heikkilä, Kit Kuksenok
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