Prof.
Markus Frenzl

Markus Frenzl is a design researcher, design consultant, design critic and university lecturer. He studied product design at the HfG Offenbach and works with his office 4gzl/designkontext in the fields of design consulting, conceptualisation and corporate publishing.
He researches and publishes on the public image of design, on design-historical and everyday cultural issues and on design as a social, cultural and transformative practice. He has published a selection of his essays. He teaches at the Faculty of Design at HM and heads the MA Applied Design Research programme. [...] In 2024 he founded the Designkulturen Institut für Angewandte Designforschung (dci).