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Jesko Fezer (*1970) has been a professor of Experimental Design at HFBK Hamburg since 2011. Fezer works as an architect, an author, a designer, an artist and an exhibition designer. In collaboration withifau (institut für angewandte urbanistik / institute for applied urban science), he has created architecture projects in Munich, Graz, Utrecht, Stuttgart, Berlin, New York and London.
After jointly running the Pro qm specialist book store—specialising in urban subjects, politics, pop, economic criticism, architecture, design, art and theory—he became co-editor of the political architecture magazineAn Architektur. Produktion und Gebrauch gebauter Umwelt and co-founder of theKooperative für Darstellungspolitik research and exhibition design studio. In 2009 and 2010, lectureships at a number of art and architecture institutions and a visiting professorship in architecture theory and urban research at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Nuremberg were followed by a post as director of the research project Civic City. Design for the Post-Neoliberal City at the Institut für Designforschung of the Zürich Hochschule der Künste.
Jesko Fezer researches and publishes on the architecture and design history of the post-war era, on design methods, on processual orientation and participation and on the politics of design. He has been a member of the board of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Designtheorie und -forschung (DGTF) since 2011. He is also a member of the Hamburger Kunstkommission.