Annette Geiger is Professor of Theory and History of Design. She studied art, cultural studies and communication in Berlin, Grenoble and Paris. She completed her doctorate on "Urbild und fotografischer Blick" at the Institute of Art History (IKG) of the University of Stuttgart. She then taught at universities in Paris, Berlin and Darmstadt. Today she researches the cultures of the aesthetic between art, design and everyday life (signs/things, images/media, spaces/places, bodies/clothes). The question of the scope of design, the ambivalent and diverse in design, is just as central as the interest in discourse and criticism.