Ruven Wiegert, M.A.
Lecturer for specific matters for Visual Communication
24148 Kiel
Room: F10-0.04
Ruven Wiegert, M.A., is a communication designer specializing in visual and spatial communication. Since 2024, he has served as a Senior Lecturer in visual communication (architecture) at HAW Kiel. At the Institute of Civil Engineering, he teaches techniques, methods, and principles of presentation in the modules Presentation I (Freehand Drawing) and Presentation IV (Visual and Verbal Communication) in the Architecture program, as well as CAD in the Civil Engineering program.
Information on the individual courses can be found in the module database.
Ruven Wiegert studied communication design at the Peter Behrens School of Arts, Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences. As a freelance designer, he works in the fields of visual and spatial communication. He explores and designs spaces: spaces in museums and cultural institutions, urban spaces, temporary spaces in both the physical (analog) and digital realms, as well as the space between and on two pages of a book, a poster, or a postage stamp.
Since March 2024, he has been teaching as a Senior Lecturer in Visual Communication (Architecture) at the Institute of Civil Engineering within the Architecture program at Kiel University of Applied Sciences (HAW Kiel). From 2018 to 2024, he worked as an artistic staff member in the Design Department for Spatial Design and Exhibition Design at the Berlin University of the Arts, where he was involved in both teaching and research. In addition, from 2021 to 2024, he was a lecturer in typography and graphic design in the Department of Architecture at the Peter Behrens School of Arts, Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences. Since 2021, he has been active as a founding member of the Focus Group on Design Research. From 2016 to 2018, he was a scholarship recipient of the German National Academic Foundation.
In his work, Ruven Wiegert focuses on spatial communication, exhibition design, typography, and book design, employing a process-oriented, concept-based, and experimental approach. He explores language, typography, form, material, structure, movement, space, and interaction, and examines how these elements relate to one another.
Further information: www.ruvenwiegert.de
Through an experimental design process, Ruven Wiegert explores how type, symbols, surface, color, form, objects, and space interact to create communicative, spatial situations. These are examined in terms of their spatial qualities and made usable. In doing so, he develops his own methods, rules, and principles to create new possibilities for making spaces and situations visible and tangible to people through interaction and action. In artistic and design experiments, forms and signs are detached from the surface, geometries are transformed, and materials are explored.
Through arrangement and function within space, new contexts, relationships, and systems are made visible to evoke a dialogue between people, the medium, and space. The results—both digital and analog—are transferred into multidimensional communication spaces and conceived, designed, and realized on various scales. This design approach is the central starting point of his practice, teaching, and research: an open-ended, process-oriented, continuous experimentation with space and medium, whose principles serve as the Fundamentals for applications.
Further information: www.ruvenwiegert.de/category/lehreforschung