Vera Baur-Kockot
Vera Baur has a degree in Cultural Science at Luenburg (Germany) and she is an associate investigator in Sociology of Design at St. Gallen University – Switzerland. Vera Baur makes interdisciplinary practices and investigations in the border of culture, politics and science. She is the founder and director of Interdis, an interdisciplinary institute based in Zurich/Berlin/Paris that develops publications, exhibitions, conferences and investigation projects since 1989. After an international career as a curator and director of contemporary art centers, Vera Baur co directed the Arts, Design and Media Technology Institute of the University of Nuremberg (2000/2004) and the Design2context Institute of the University of Zurich. She was co founder and member of the directing committee of the Interdisciplinary Visual Studies Society and the Transmedia Academy of Hellerau, in Dresden. Vera Baur is the Chair of the City Institute civic association for the investigation of science and design critic, and the director, with Ruedi Baur, of the doctorate programme “Visible/Invisible” in the School of Arts and Design of Geneva. Vera Baur is also responsible for the social design department of the Intégral studio, Paris/Zurich.
