About Tim

Tim Rodenbröker is a design educator dedicated to building an online school and a community for Creative Coding. His teaching is rooted in a deeply critical attitude to harmful mythologies of ‘technological progress’ and offers alternative, positive perspectives on technological simplicity. For Tim, Creative Coding is both a simple and versatile tool – not just to develop design systems for a wide range of media formats. More importantly, to demystify information technology.

Since 2018, Tim has taught at a wide range of academic institutions, including Elisava (Barcelona), Glasgow School of Art and ECAL (Geneva). As a freelance creative technologist, he has worked for clients such as The New York Times, IBM, the University of Pennsylvania, and Slate + Ash. Together with Dr. Martin Lorenz, he runs the design studio Coding Systems, which explores the synergies between Flexible Visual Systems and code. Tim is also part of the curatorial team for the Design in Motion Festival (Netherlands).

Tim also writes essays and designs visual identities.

Selected Clients

Netflix Design Studios, Slate+Ash, The New York Times, UPENN, Julia Stoschek Foundation (2), ZKM Karlsruhe, CCCB Barcelona (3), Holo Magazine, IBM (4), Springer Science + Business Media, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau, DEMO Festival

(1) with Serve and Volley
(2) with Studio von Monkiewitsch
(3) with TwoPoints.Net
(4) with Swift.co

Selected talks, panels, workshops, curational work, press and exhibitions

Teaching

  • 2023 – 2024
  • Winter 2022/2023
    • University of Applied Sciences Bielefeld
  • Summer 2021
    • Rhine-Waal University
    • HAWK Hildesheim
  • Winter 2020/2021
    • Rhine-Waal University
    • HAWK Hildesheim
    • University of applied Sciences Dortmund
  • Summer 2020
    • Münster School of Design
    • University of applied Sciences Dortmund
    • HAWK Hildesheim
  • Summer 2019
    • University of applied Sciences Dortmund
  • Winter 2018/2019
    • Rhine-Waal University

Education

  • 2019 – 2022
    • Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences
      • Master of Arts (graduated)
      • Digital Media and Experiment
      • Thesis
  • Summer 2019
    • Center of Music and Film Informatics Detmold
      • Master of Arts (not completed)
      • Audiovisual Arts Computing
  • Winter 2010 / 2011
    • IADE Lisbon
      • Erasmus
  • 2008 – 2013
    • Münster School of Design
      • Bachelor of Arts (graduated)
      • Communication Design

Learn more about me and my work

About Tim

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