The Epistemology of the Unspoken: On the Concept of Tacit Knowledge in Contemporary Design Research

Claudia Mareis, DPhil, is a Senior Researcher at the NCCR “eikones,” University of Basel. Her research interests include the history and theory of design, creativity techniques, and the history of knowledge in the 20th century. She teaches at several art schools and universities in Switzerland and Germany, and is a board member of the German Association for design theory and research DGTF, as well as a member of the “Board of International Research in Design” at Birkhäuser Publisher.