How can we embrace change to drive desirable futures?
In my work, this is what I aim for: researching, analysing, proposing, prototyping and teaching new processes and systems in order to drive change towards desirable futures.
Using the wisdom of nature, AI, a vivid network of ambitious people, that I have the fortune to collaborate with and a great deal of digital high-tech, I aspire to be a an empowering consultant, an inspiring professor and last but not least a loving father,
How does the 'new' come into existence?
Let us appreciate it: we live in a world that is driven by radical change. It's in the very definition of life: the complex interplay of resources and challenges.
Evolution has led to a mind-blowing abundance of processes that are doing exactly that: Creating resilience through change!
Applying the principles of design thinking and intense user research, I love to take design innovation to the next level.
Academic Endeavours
My academic activities are based at HS ANHALT, located in the monumental heritage BAUHAUS-Building in Dessau, next to Berlin. I research and teach interaction design, including the fields of Complex User Experience, Data Visualization, Digital-Physical Convergence and Artificial Intelligence. Inspired by Walter Gropius' holistic approach, I research and synthesize innovative interaction to address 21th centuries' wicked challenges.
Together with my colleagues, fellow researchers and international students we strive to further develop Dessau's role as a disruptive design school.
I am an external PhD candidate at TUM Technical University of Munich, Integrated Product Design, where I also contribute research on joint decision-making.
Business and Realising Futures
My consulting activities are strongly associated with CAVORIT Consulting, a Berlin-based company innovating in Data Science, Digital Twins and AI. It does so by facilitating a combination of big data visualization/interaction, business psychology, software development and strategic consulting — including DataCards: The Agentic Algorithm Warehouse — a platform for collaborative, data-driven decision support.
CAVORIT hosts both research and commercial projects. Clients range from international companies like Mercedes-Benz and Rolls-Royce to Berlin start-ups and NGOs.
CAVORIT's passion is to empower user-centric innovation.
Curriculum Vitae / Selected Projects
- + Full Professor for 'Interaction Design' at Anhalt University of Applied Sciences
- + Partner and 30% Shareholder at CAVORIT Consulting GmbH, Berlin — DataCards: The Agentic Algorithm Warehouse
- + Upcoming Paper: „Decisive Design: How spatial arrangements shape group decision-making“, Design 2026 Dubrovnik
- + 2026 Paper „Dialectical AI in Foresight: Advancing Futures Literacy with the Futures’ Fingerprints+AI Method“, HICSS Conference USA
- + 2025 Paper „Collaborative and Participatory Design of Community Spaces at Local and Municipal Level – A Multi-Method Approach“, E&PDE Conference
- + 2025 Akyol, Wiesner, Klöckner, Paper „Skeuomorphism in Extended Reality: Enhancing User Interaction Through Familiar Design in AR and VR Interfaces – Insights from the Home Interspace Project“, E&PDE Conference
- + 2025 Rudzinska, Klöckner: AI Boundary Objects in Foresight, Futuring Conference, Turku, Finland
- + 2025 Klöckner et. al. Paper „Future’s Fingerprints – Joint Scenario Assessment via Graspable Boundary Objects in Digital Decision-Making Spaces“, HICSS, USA, Nominated Best Paper Award
- + 2025 Co-author: The Bauhaus Code — Bauhaus principles for data, AI ethics and product teams (with Dyan Valdés and Harald Fiedler), Kulturbuchverlag Berlin, ISBN 978-3-88961-480-3
- + 2024 Klöckner et. al. Paper „The Evolution of Design Patterns in Joint Decision-Making Spaces“, Design 2024 Conference, Dubrovnik
- + 2024 DaMitt („Data Science für den Mittelstand“) by BMBF (300.000€ Volume) Transfer Project TUM Integrated Product Design + CAVORIT
- + 2024–2027 New European Bauhaus Network-App Participative City Development via AI and AR
- + „Just Transition Fund, ca 1.700.000 € Full RZZ Project 7.400.000 € for my University“
- + 2024 Deutsche Bahn VZS Virtual Train System for optimized design of future ICE Trains CAVORIT GmbH
- + 2024 Paper „Crafting Future Scenarios with the Help of AI“, HICSS, Hawaii, USA
- + 2023 Paper ICED Bordeaux OpenSource Analog Fashionable Hearing Aid
- + 2020–2024 (ongoing) Mercedes-Benz Fleet Planning Tool „Joint Decision Assist“ JoDA, CAVORIT Consulting GmbH
- + 2023 Hawaiian International Conference on System Science „Future Oriented Design Framework“
- + 2022 Paper „Data Physicalization“, Design Research Society DRS, Bilbao, Spain
- + 2022 Paper „Designing the Future With the Delphi Design Sprint: Introducing a Novel Method for Design Science Research“, Hawaiian International Conference on System Science, Hawaii, USA
- + 2019 Successful Fundraising Transfer-Project „Forza“ (ca. 400.000€, BMBF)
- + 2019 Successful Fundraising Spin-Off Startup „Panels“ (ca. 230.000€, Investitionsbank)
- + 2019 Generative Campaign ITZ Bund with Serviceplan
- + 2018 VJE Virtual Jet Engine Digital Twin for Rolls-Royce Civil Aerospace CAVORIT
- + 2017 „Design against walls“ with Prof. Alejandro Lecuna
- + 2016 Introduction of the Y-Method at DGTF – Conference
- + 2016 Partner at Cavorit GmbH in its founding phase
- + 2014 – 2017 Research Project „Kinetic Change“ with BiTS Iserlohn and BTK Berlin, Prof. Dr. Ralf Lanwehr
- + 2014–2024 (ongoing) Full Professor (W2) for Interaction Design
- + 2013 – 2014: Deputy Professor of Interaction Design, Anhalt University of Applied Sciences, Dessau
- + 2013: Academic Paper on Smart Geometries 'Gradient Grid - A Spring Mesh with Different Zones of Flexibility'
- + 2011: IF Gold Award with ART+COM
- + 2010: Boulevard of Stars, Berlin
- + 2010: Reflective Kinematronic Sculpture 'Mobility' for Shanghai World Expo
- + 2009: OttoBock Science Center for Medical Technology
- + 2013: New Research Project 'Kinetic Change' about tangible communication of cooperate processes. With Prof. Dr. Ralf Lanwehr.
- + 2013: New Patent about gradient structures through Rapid Manufacturing.
- + 2012: 'Manta Rhei' - Kinetik OLED Luminaire
- + 2012: 'Four Rivers' – Semantic Caustic Surface, Gwangju, South Korea
- + 2011: Birth of my lovely daughter Mina.
- + 2011: ADC New York Award – Silver Cube (For ART+COM AG)
- + 2011: ADC Deutschland Bronzener Nagel (For ART+COM AG)
- + 2009: Creative Direction Ottobock Science Center for Medical Technology
- + 2008: Publication at Form+Zweck, „TUI-Tangibility of the Digital“
- + 2008: Exhibition at ARS Electronica Festival, Linz
- + 2008 – 2013: Senior Art Director at ART+COM
- + 2008 Project 'Cockpit' – driving in the digital age, CdK, Hangzhou
- + 2008 – 2011: Visiting Professor at Chinesisch-Deutsche Kunstakademie, Hangzhou, China
- + 2007: Design Reactor – assisted in the development of 5 pending student patents
- + 2007: 'Generative Growth', for 'Prototypen' Exhibition at Stiftung Brandenburger Tor
- + 2006 Diploma: TransForm – a geodesic tangible shape display, UdK Berlin
- + 2006–2008 Cooperation with Hyperwerk, Basel
- + 2006 – 2013: Docent at the Berlin University of the Arts
- + 2003–2008: Freelance Interaction Design Professional
- + 2003 Cultural Clusters, Assistant docent at Prof. Langkilde in cooperation with Mitsubishi Mobile Europe
- + 2001–2006: Interaction Design Studies at ID5 – Fachgruppe für interaktive Systeme, UdK Berlin, Prof. Burkard Schmitz
- + 2000–2001 Astrophysics, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn
- + 1998 International Patents for auxetic flexible smart mesh Formetall / Flexmetall
- + Born May 1979