Benedikt Groß is a speculative and computational designer who works antidisciplinarily. He is a professor of Strategic and Interaction Design at the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd.
His work deals with the fascination of relationships between people, their data, technology and environments. He is particularly interested to speculate about these relationships in the near future. He uses design as a vehicle to visualize potential implications and scenarios.
He holds an M.A. in Design Interactions (under Anthony Dunne) from the Royal College of Art London, a Diploma in Information & Media from the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd. He is Alumnus of the MIT Senseable City Lab and the STUDIO for Creative Inquiry at Carnegie Mellon University.
He is co-author of “Generative Gestaltung” and “Zukünfte gestalten”, both are considered being standard books in the field of computational design and design futuring, with translations for “Generative Gestaltung” to English (Princeton Architectural Press), French (Editions Pyramid) and Japanese (BNN).
Benedikt’s work has been published widely and exhibited internationally. Some notable features include publications in WIRED, CAN, Page, Form, Fast Co.Design, Spiegel Online, Guardian, IEEE VIS and exhibitions at the Japanese Media Arts Festival, Ars Electronica, V2_ & the New Institute, Open Data Institute, and the Node Festival. Benedikt has been recognised with awards such as the IxDA Best Concept, Excellence Award of the Japanese Media Arts Festival, Information is Beautiful Award Silver, Honorary Mention Prix Ars Electronica and German Design Award. Furthermore, Benedikt has taught and lectured internationally.
Since 2019, he has been head of the MA programme in Strategic Design at the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd.
Based in South Germany, Benedikt balances his time between teaching and working on commercial- and self-initiated research projects and raising a family.
Photo by Stefan Eigner
Professional Experience
2020 Jan – 2020 Sep
Associate Design Director, move lab by FREE NOW, Berlin, DE
2019 Aug – 2020 Jan
Creative Resident at the Frank-Ratchye STUDIO for Creative Inquiry and Visiting Faculty (for Data Viz) at the School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, US
2019 Mar – 2023 Feb
Programme Director of MA Strategic Design, HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, DE
2017 Mar – Present
Full Professor for Interaction Design, Interaktionsgestaltung Program, HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, DE
2016 Jan – 2019 Dec
Associate Director of Design at moovel lab, moovel, Stuttgart, DE
2015 Sep – 2017 Aug
Full Professor for Digital Design, Digital Media Design Program, HS Ravensburg-Weingarten, DE
2014 Oct – 2015 Dec
Research Associate at moovel Lab, moovel, Stuttgart
2014 Jun – 2015 Sep
Data Visualization Consultant, Development Data Group, World Bank, Washington DC and Vienna, AT
2013 Oct – Present
Founder of Studio Benedikt Groß, Stuttgart, DE
2013 Sep – 2013 Sep
Visiting Research Fellow at MIT Senseable City Lab / S.M.A.R.T, University of Singapore, SG
2012 Nov – 2012 Dec
Research Assistant / Data Visualization Specialist at MIT Senseable City Lab / S.M.A.R.T, University of Singapore, SG
2012 Jun – 2012 Sep
Data Visualization Specialist at MIT Senseable City Lab, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Boston, US
2009 Sep – 2011 Sep
Concept and IX/UX-Designer, Intuity Media Lab, Stuttgart, DE
2008 Mar – 2009 Sep
Author of Generative Gestaltung, Verlag Hermann Schmidt, Mainz, DE
2007 Sep – 2009 Aug
Academic Assistant, Interaction Design Program, Founding member of the HfG Media Lab, HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, Schwäbisch Gmünd, DE
2005 Mar – 2005 Oct
Internship with MESO, Frankfurt, DE
2002 Sep – 2003 Jan
Internship with Slogdesign, Biberach, DE
Education
2011 Oct – 2013 Jun
MA in Design Interactions, graduated with distinction, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2007 Jul
Diploma in Information and Media, HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, DE
2005 Sep – 2006 Aug
Erasmus exchange, HGK Basel, Basel, CH
2003 Mar – 2005 Feb
Studies in Information and Media, HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, DE
2002 Oct – 2003 Aug
Studies in Geography and Computer Science, University Stuttgart, DE
Books, Texts, and Papers
2023 Apr
Workshop Paper, "Entrepreneurship Futures or: What Entrepreneurship Education can learn from Design Futuring", Sebastian Planck, Eileen Mandir and Benedikt Groß, 3E Conference – ECSB Entrepreneurship Education Conference, Track: Entrepreneurial Education and Identity, Aarhus, DK
2022 Sep
Book, “Zukünfte gestalten: Spekulation. Kritik. Innovation. Mit »Design Futuring« Zukunftsszenarien strategisch erkunden, entwerfen und verhandeln”. ISBN 978-3-87439-958-6. Benedikt Groß, Eileen Mandir. Hermann Schmidt, Mainz, DE
2020 Mar
Book, “ABC: The Alphabet from the Sky” (Board Book), ISBN 9780593094372, Penguin Random House, Benedikt Groß, Joey Lee, US
2020 Mar
Paper, "Who wants to be a self-driving car? A mixed-reality data-trust exercise". Joey Lee, Benedikt Groß and Raphael Reimann, pp. 21–27, Special issue of Information Design Journal 25:1 (2019).
2018 Nov
Book, “Generative Design – Visualize, Program, and Create with JavaScript in p5.js”, ISBN: 9781616897581. Benedikt Groß, Hartmut Bohnacker, Julia Laub, Claudius Lazzeroni. With Contributions by Niels Poldervaart, Joey Lee. Princeton Architectural Press, Princeton, US
2018 Aug
Book, “Generative Design with p5.js［p5.js版ジェネラティブデザイン］ ―ウェブでのクリエイティブ・コーディング”, ISBN: 978-4-8025-1097-4, Benedikt Groß, Hartmut Bohnacker, Julia Laub, Claudius Lazzeroni. With Contributions by Niels Poldervaart, Joey Lee. BNN, Tokyo, JP
2018 Feb
Book, “Generative Gestaltung: Creative Coding im Web. Entwerfen, Programmieren und Visualisieren mit Javascript in p5.js”, ISBN: 978-3874399029. Benedikt Groß, Hartmut Bohnacker, Julia Laub, Claudius Lazzeroni. With Contributions by Niels Poldervaart, Joey Lee. Hermann Schmidt, Mainz, DE
2017 Mar
Article, "Was Wäre Wenn?" (Einführung in Speculative Design), Benedikt Groß and Verena Dauerer, Page Magazine, p. 31 - 35, Issue 3, 2017
2016 Oct
Paper, "All Roads to Rome: Visualizing Mobility at Scale". Raphael Reimann, Benedikt Groß, and Philipp Schmitt. Proceedings of the IEEE VIS Arts Program (VISAP), pages 37-40, Baltimore, Maryland, October 2016, US.
2016 Sep
Book, “ABC: The Alphabet from the Sky”, ISBN 9781101995815, Penguin Random House, Benedikt Groß, Joey Lee, US
2016 Feb
Book, “Generative Design”, ISBN: 978-4-8025-1013-4, BNN. Hartmut Bohnacker, Benedikt Groß, Julia Laub, Claudius Lazzeroni, JP
2016 Jan
Paper, ”Shanghai Metro Flow – Multiple Perspectives into a Subway System”, Till Nagel and Benedikt Groß, Leonardo 2017 50:5, 511-512, MIT Press Journals
2014 Nov
Paper, ”Shanghai Metro Flow – Multiple Perspectives into a Subway System”, Till Nagel and Benedikt Groß. Proceedings of the IEEE VIS 2014 Arts Program, VISAP’14: Art+Interpretation, 9-14 November 2014, Paris, France. pages 137-138
2014 Aug
Chapter, “Hubcab – Exploring the benefits of shared taxi services”, Decoding the City – How Big Data Can Change Urbanism, ISBN: 303821597X, Birkhäuser Basel, CH
2014 Jun
Paper, "Basil.js – Bridging Mouse and Code Based Design Strategies". Ludwig Zeller, Benedikt Groß, and Ted Davis. Marcus A. (eds) Design, User Experience, and Usability. Theories, Methods, and Tools for Designing the User Experience. DUXU 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8517. Springer, Cham
2013 Oct
Chapter, “Hubcab – Exploring the benefits of shared taxi services”, Die Stadt entschlüsseln, ISBN: 3038215902, Birkhäuser Berlin, DE
2013 Apr
Text, “Tools and Authorship in Computational Design”, Thesis, Royal College of Art Library, UK
2013 Mar
Interview/Text, “Generative Design”, The Digital Turn: Design in the Era of Interactive Technologies, ISBN: 3906027023, Park Books
2012 Aug
Book, “Generative Design”, ISBN: 9781616890773, Princeton Architectural Press. Hartmut Bohnacker, Benedikt Groß, Julia Laub, Claudius Lazzeroni, US
2011 Jan
Book, “Design génératif”, ISBN: 978-2350172156, Editions Pyramid, Paris. Hartmut Bohnacker, Benedikt Groß, Julia Laub, Claudius Lazzeroni, FR
2009 Sep
Book, “Generative Gestaltung”, ISBN: 978-3-87439-759-9, Hermann Schmidt, Mainz. Hartmut Bohnacker, Benedikt Groß, Julia Laub, Claudius Lazzeroni, DE
Talks
2023 May
"Panel Professional requirements and fields of activity for designers in AI Industry", Reshape Forum, KITeGG Summer School, HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, DE
2023 Feb
Talk, "Strategically exploring, designing and negotiating future scenarios with »Design Futuring«", IxDA Education Summit 2023, Zürich, CH
2023 Feb
Talk, "Zukünfte gestalten: Spekulation. Kritik. Innovation.", Webinar, German UPA, DE
2022 Dec
Talk, "Zukünfte gestalten: Spekulation. Kritik. Innovation.", DHBW Ravensburg, Studiengang Mediendesign, Ravensburg, DE
2022 Nov
Talk, "Zukünfte gestalten: Spekulation. Kritik. Innovation.", HS München, Fakultät für Design, Design im Zeughaus, Grosser Hörsaal (x. 1.022), München, DE
2022 Oct
Talk, "Zukünfte gestalten: Spekulation. Kritik. Innovation.", Frankfurter Buchmesse, Podium Rheinland-Pfalz, Halle 3.1, Stand G 48, Frankfurt, DE
2021 Oct
Talk, "Reading and Writing Landscape – Rural automation with Agricultural Printing", FLYOVER Summit, Johnny Carson Center for Emerging Media Arts, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, US
2021 Sep
Talk, "Design? Speculation? Design Intent? ", Communication Design , School of Design, Politecnico di Milano, IT
2019 Nov
Talk, "Design × Technology", Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), New York University, New York, US
2019 Nov
Talk, "Design: Speculation, Computation and Technology", Northeastern University, Pittsburgh, Boston
2019 Oct
Talk, "Speculation, Computation, Design, Technology – Rethinking Products / Critique / Media", College of Fine Arts and School of Design at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, US
2019 Jun
Talk, “Corporate Speculative Design? – Our example on how to deploy speculative design in a corporate environment” with Raphael Reimann, PRIMER19, Parsons The New School, New York, US
2019 May
Talk, “Was wäre wenn!?”, Symposium Maschinenraum 2019, Augsburg, DE
2019 Apr
Talk (Video Call), “Corporate Speculative Design?”, Strelka Institute, Moscow, RU
2018 Nov
Talk, "Generative Design" with Hartmut Bohnacker, Lunchtime Talk, Mediendesign Program, DHBW Ravensburg, Ravensburg, DE
2018 Oct
Talk, "Corporate" Speculative Design at moovel lab – Exploring Future Mobility Scenarios, Speculative Futures Berlin Meetup, Berlin, DE
2018 Jun
Artist Talk, Typomania Moscow 2018, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, RU
2018 Feb
Talk/Panel, "Data, Futures and the Automated City", 999 A collection of questions about contemporary living, Future Living: N°2 Automated City, Triennale di Milano, Milano, IT
2017 Nov
Talk, "Speculative Future Mobility" and "Life after college", Royal College of Art, London, UK
2017 Sep
Talk/Panel, "Future of Mobility", d.confestival - The Pionieering Event in Design Thinking, Hasso-Plattner-Institut, Potsdam, DE
2017 Jun
Talk/Panel, "Design Pattern for Designing Hope", NODE17 Forum for Digital Art, Symposium - The Hope of Technology, Frankfurt, DE
2017 Apr
Talk, "Bye Bye Formal – New Thinking by Design", Designpositionen, HTWG Konstanz, DE
2017 Jan
Talk, "Bye Bye Formal – New Thinking by Design", aed DesignersPunch, Stuttgart, DE
2016 Oct
Talk, "All Roads to Rome: Visualizing Mobility at Scale", IEEE VIS 2016 Arts Program, Baltimore, US
2016 Sep
Speaker/Panel, "Mobility T.B.D. – Designing Speculative Pop Future Mobility", ADC Design Experience, Stuttgart, DE
2015 Nov
Artist Talk, Shapeshifters, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, BE
2015 Oct
Artist Talk, “Data Improvisations”, IEEE VIS 2015 Arts Program, Chicago, US
2015 Apr
Artist Talk, New Design Areas, KISDtalks, Köln International School of Design, DE
2014 Nov
Speaker, “Framing Reality with Data”, KIKK Festival, Namur, BE
2014 Apr
Speaker, “Reading and Writing Landscape”, Chaos Computer Club Easterhegg 2014, Stuttgart, DE
2014 Apr
Speaker, “Reading and Writing Landscape”, Resonate 2014, Belgrade, RS
2014 Apr
Artist Talk, Shenkar College, Tel Aviv, IL
2014 Feb
Artist Talk, Japanese Media Arts Festival, Tokyo, JP
2014 Jan
Artist Talk, Mediendesign – DHBW Ravensburg, DE
2013 Nov
Speaker, “Reading and Writing Landscape”, The World 2.0 – Do It Together, CPH:DOX, Copenhagen, DK
2013 Oct
Speaker, “Reading and Writing Landscape”, Visualized.io Berlin, DE
2013 Jul
Speaker, Test_Lab: The Graduation Edition 2013, V2_ & The New Institute, Rotterdam, NL
2013 Apr
Speaker, “The Big Atlas of LA Pools”, geomobLDN, London, UK
2012 Apr
Speaker, “Speculative Maps and Open Data”, Open Data on the Web Workshop, W3C, London, UK
2012 Mar
Speaker, “Mashing up OSM and Mental Maps”, geomobLDN, London, UK
2010 Oct
Speaker, “Generative Gestaltung”, Decoded Conference Munich, DE
2009 Oct – 2010 Dec
Lecture Tour, “Generative Gestaltung”:HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, DEFH Salzburg, ATHTW Berlin, DEFH Augsburg, DEHTWG Konstanz, DEBA Mannheim, DEAKA Stuttgart, DEHGK Basel, CHand more …
2006 Apr
Speaker, “Raumstaben”, Typo Berlin, Berlin, DE
2005 Apr
Speaker, “Kelten Digital”, FMX-05, Stuttgart, DE
Exhibitions
2022 Jun
Exhibition, "Roads to Rome", Part of the collection of the ARTIS/Het Groote Museum, Amsterdam, NL
2022 Apr – 2022 Jul
Exhibition, "Who Wants to be a Self-Driving Car?", Autofiction, Cité du design, Biennale Internationale design Saint-Etienne 2022, Saint-Etienne, FR
2021 Sep – 2021 Nov
Exhibition, “Avena+ Test Bed”, Vers un imaginaire numérique, Centre de Design de l’UQAM, Montreal, CA
2021 Jul – 2021 Sep
Exhibition, “Flights to Rome”, The Data Imaginary: Fears and Fantasies, Griffith University Art Museum, Brisbane, AU
2019 Nov
Exhibition, OpenMoji is part of "BIO 26 – Common Knowledge Exhibition", 14 Nov 2019 – 9 Feb 2020, Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO), Ljubljana, SI
2019 May
Exhibition, "Roads to Rome", Part of the permanent exhibition, Ars Electronica Center, Linz, AT
2019 Feb
Exhibition, "OpenMoji", Nicht mein Ding – Gender im Design, HfG-Archiv, Museum Ulm, Ulm, DE
2018 Oct
Exhibition, “Flights to Rome”, IEEE VIS 2018 Arts Program, Berlin, DE
2018 Sep
Exhibition, "Who Wants to be a Self-Driving Car?", POSTCITY, Ars Electronica 2018, Linz, AT
2018 Aug
Exhibition, “OpenDataCam”, WeMakeThe.City, Amsterdam, NL
2018 May
Exhibition, "Aerial Bold", Museum of Moscow, Moscow, RU
2018 May
Exhibition, "Who Wants to be a Self-Driving Car?", SHIFT Festival, Turku, FI
2018 Mar
Exhibition, "Roads to Rome", Art of Networks III, Network Science Institute, Northeastern University, Boston, US
2017 Nov
Exhibition, "Who Wants to be a Self-Driving Car?", Kikk Festival 2017, Namur, BE
2017 Nov
Exhibition, "Shanghai Metro Flow", Social Mobility – Envisioning Bodies in Motion, Hyundai Motorstudio, Beijing, CN
2017 Oct
Exhibition, "Who Wants to be a Self-Driving Car?", PUSH Conference 2017, Munich, DE
2017 Sep
Exhibition, "Who Wants to Be a Self-Driving Car?", Daimler Fachtagung zu Autonomes Fahren, Recht und Ethik, Stuttgart, DE
2017 Aug
Permanent collection, “The Big Atlas of LA Pools”, Library of Congress, Washington DC, US
2017 Jun
Exhibition, "Who Wants to be a Self-Driving Car?", NODE17 Forum for Digital Art, Frankfurt, DE
2016 Oct
Exhibition, "TRAJECTORIES", ARTS+ 2016, Frankfurt Book Fair, Frankfurt, DE
2016 Oct
Exhibition, “Roads to Rome”, IEEE VIS 2016 Arts Program, Baltimore, US
2016 Sep
Exhibition, “Aerial Bold”, TLDR (Too Long, Didn’t Read), B4BEL4B Gallery, Oakland, US
2015 Oct
Exhibition, ”The Big Atlas of LA Pools”, 12th Bienal de Artes Mediales, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, CL
2015 Oct
Exhibition, “Avena+ Test Bed”, constellation-s exhibition, arc en rêve centre d’architecture, Bordeaux, FR
2015 Oct
Exhibition, “Aerial Bold”, IEEE VIS 2015 Arts Program, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
2015 Sep
Exhibition, “Avena+ Test Bed”, Experimental Thinking / Design Practices, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane, AU
2015 May
Exhibition, “Avena+ Test Bed”, Experimental Practice, RMIT Design Hubs, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, Melbourne, AU
2014 Nov
Exhibition, ”The Big Atlas of LA Pools”, Mapmaker Manifesto, 2014 Istanbul Design Biennial, Istanbul, TR
2014 Nov
Exhibition, “Metrography”, Mapmaker Manifesto, 2014 Istanbul Design Biennial, Istanbul, TR
2014 Oct
Exhibition, “Syn Bio Ads”, BIO-FICTON International Synthetic Biology Festival, Vienna, AT
2014 Oct
Exhibition, “DNA Control Agency”, BIO-FICTON International Synthetic Biology Festival, Vienna, AT
2014 Sep
Exhibition, “Avena+ Test Bed”, CyberArts Exhibition of the Ars Electronica Festival, OK Center, OÖ Kulturquartier, Linz, AT
2014 Jul
Exhibition, “Avena+ Test Bed”, Feral Experimental: New Design Thinking, UNSW Galleries, Paddington, AU
2014 Jun
Exhibition, ”The Big Atlas of LA Pools”, the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design (LA Forum), Los Angeles, US
2014 May
Exhibition/Screening, “LA Swimmer”, On the Road Project, Modernism Week, Palm Springs, US
2014 Feb
Exhibition, “The Big Atlas of LA Pools”, 17th Japan Media Arts Festival, National Gallery, Tokyo, JP
2014 Jan
Exhibition, “Avena+ Test Bed”, “Mansolt, Landscape in perspective”, Bureau Europa, Maastricht, NL
2013 Nov
Exhibition, “Shanghai Metro Flow” is part of the Aesthetics City, Design Shanghai Biennale, CN
2013 Oct
Exhibition, “The Big Atlas of LA Pools”, The Book Lab, swissnex, San Francisco, US
2013 Sep
Exhibition, “Metrography”, Information In Style – Information Visualization in the UK, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, CN
2013 Sep
Exhibition, “Avena+ Test Bed”, Sustain RCA Show 2013, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2013 Jun
Exhibition, “Final SHOW”, Lower Gulbenkian Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2012 Dec
Commission, “Metrography”, Data-As-Culture Art Commission of the Open Data Institute, London, UK
2012 Sep
Exhibition, “Metrography” is featured on Visualizing Gallery Brücknerhaus, Ars Electronica, Linz, AT
2008 Apr
Exhibition, “Attack + Swap” and “Seelenlose Automaten”, Node 08 – Forum for Digital Art, Frankfurt, DE
2008 Mar
Exhibition, “Seelenlose Automaten”, DigitalArt.LA Gallery, LA, US
2006 Oct
Exhibition, “Attack + Swap”, Eikones, Basel, CH
Teaching and Workshops
2023 Jun – 2023 Jun
Training, "Strategien & Szenarien mit Design Futuring", Dark Horse Academy, Berlin, DE
2019 Aug – 2019 Dec
Course, Data Visualization, Fall 2019, School of Design, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, US
2018 Jun
Guest Tutor, Experience Design Workshop: Mobility++, Domus Academy, Milano, IT
2018 Jun
Workshop, “Computational Design in Adobe Indesign Using Basil.js”, Typomania 2018, Museum of Moscow, Moscow, RU
2018 May
Workshop, “Generative Design Workshop with Pen and Paper – Computational and Algorithmic Thinking Exercises”, Design Department, South Ural State University, Chelyabinsk, RU
2016 Sep
Workshop, "Computational Design in Adobe Indesign using Basil.js", TLDR (Too Long, Didn’t Read), O_o Shiny, San Francisco, US
2016 May
Workshop, “Mobility Future Speculative Workshop”, with J. Paul Neely, Köln International School of Design (KISD), Cologne, DE
2015 Sep
Workshop, “City as a Service Intensive School”, with Wio d’Hespeel, PUSH, Erice, IT
2015 Apr
Guest Tutor, Eingabe/Ausgabe – Grundlagen der prozessorientierten Gestaltung, Fachhochschule Potsdam, Potsdam, DE
2014 Apr
Workshop, “New Threads on Authorship – Phantom Books”, with Koby Barhad, Shenkar College, Tel Aviv, IL
2013 Oct – 2014 Jul
Tutor for “Digital Culture” (Theory) and “Interactive Communication Systems”, BA Interaktionsgestaltung, HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, Schwäbisch Gmünd, DE
2012 Apr
Workshop, "Computational Book Design", Basel School of Design, Basel, CH
2009 Jul
Workshop, Alternative Visualisations of Hierarchical Data in 3d, with Franklin Hernandez-Castro, HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, Schwäbisch Gmünd, DE
2008 Nov
Workshop, “100 Jahre HFG”, 3d Projection on Architecture/VVVV Workshop, with Joreg, HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, Schwäbisch Gmünd, DE
2008 Apr
Workshop, VVVV Course, Node 08 – Forum for Digital Art, Frankfurt, DE
2006 Oct – 2009 Jul
Tutor in BA Interaktionsgestaltung and MA Communication Planning and Design, HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, Schwäbisch Gmünd, DE
2006 Mar
Workshop, "VVVV Workshop", HyperWerk Institute for Postindustrial Design, Basel, CH
Awards
2021 Mar
Selected Teams Prize (Track 2), MyGalileoSolution Competition, European Union Agency for the Space Programme (EUSPA), 2021
2020 Nov
Editorial Design Award, Designpreis Rheinland-Pfalz, DE
2018 Oct
Winner, Art & Advocacy, City Vis 2018, Berlin, DE
2018 Oct
Special Mention, Excellent Communications Design/Interactive User Experience, German Design Award 2019, DE
2018 Jun
Nomination, STARTS Prize Ars Electronica 2018, AT
2017 Oct
Winner, Excellent Communications Design, Books and Calendars, German Design Award 2018, DE
2017 Mar
Jury Selection of the 20th Japan Media Arts Festival, JP
2016 Nov
Silver Award, Kantar Information is Beautiful Awards 2016
2016 Oct
Special Mention, Excellent Communications Design, Posters, German Design Award 2017, DE
2016 Oct
Honorable Mention, Graphic Design & Data Visualization, Fastcodesign Innovation By Design Awards 2016, US
2014 Dec
IxDA Interaction Awards Finalist Disrupting 2014, US
2014 Dec
IxDA Interaction Awards Best Student 2014, US
2014 Dec
IxDA Interaction Awards Best Concept 2014, US
2014 Dec
Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica 2014, AT
2014 Sep
Honorary Mention, Prix Ars Electronica 2014, AT
2013 Dec
Notable Mention, Global Urban Humanities Initiative, UC Berkeley & Berkeley Center for New Media, US
2013 Dec
Nomination, Sustain RCA Award, UK
2013 Dec
Excellence Award of the 17th Japan Media Arts Festival, JP
2011 Dec
Nomination, Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany 2011, DE
2010 Dec
Red Dot, DE
2010 Dec
Nomination, ADC*E, EU
2010 Dec
Distinction, Joseph Binder Award, AT
2010 Dec
Distinction, Designpreis Rheinland-Pfalz, DE
2010 Dec
ADC Silver (best project in category), DE
2008 Dec
Output 11 (winner project), DE
2007 Dec
Output 10 (winner project), DE
2005 Dec
iFiF Communication Design Award, DE
Interviews
2022 Dec
Interview, "55 Hurra Hurra x Eileen Mandir & Benedikt Groß", Hurra Hurra – ein Designpodcast der BURG, Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle, DE
2022 Sep
Interview, “Zukünfte gestalten und Design Futuring”, Futures Design Special, Page Magazine, October Issue, DE
2019 Jul
Interview, “Speculative and Critical Design”, SpeculativeEdu, FR
2016 Jul
Interview, GRAPHIC #37 magazine, Introduction to Computation, Seoul, KR
2015 Apr
Interview/podcast, "Data Safaris w/ Benedikt Groß", Data Stories #53 (A podcast on data visualization with Enrico Bertini and Moritz Stefaner)
2014 Jun
Interview/Feature, “The Art of Visualizing Data”, Colliding Worlds, ISBN: 0393083365, W. W. Norton & Company New York, US
2013 Dec
Interview, “Mappers spot all the pools in L.A. Basin“, LA Times, US
2013 Oct
Interview, “Speculative cartography & programmed landscapes – a chat with Benedikt Groß”, CreativeApplications.Net
2013 Jun
Interview, Text, “Grenzverschiebung”, Basil.js feature, Page Magazine, June Issue, DE
2013 Mar
Practice Profile, “Gestalter@Work”, Page Magazine, March Issue, DE
2009 May
Interview, “Interaction Design and New Tools”, Weave Magazine, May Issue, DE
Selected Press and Project Features
2023 May
Zukünfte gestalten featured in Designlesen – Bücher von Bedeutung, Thilo Schwer & Georg-Christof Bertsch, DDCAST Podcast des Deutschen Designer Club, #145, DE
2022 Jun
Mind the “Uuh” featured in Signale of Page Magazine, June Issue, DE
2022 Apr
Mind the “Uuh” featured on CreativeApplications.Net
2019 Oct
“Who Wants to Be a Self-Driving Car?”, featured in SPECULATIONS 人間中心主義のデザインをこえて, ISBN 978-4-8025-1139-1, BNN, Tokyo, JP
2019 May
“OpenMoji 12.0”, featured on Fontblog.de
2018 Apr
“OpenMoji”, featured at Page Blog, DE
2017 Nov
“Who Wants to be a Self-Driving Car?”, featured on Wired.com
2017 Oct
“Who Wants to be a Self-Driving Car?”, featured on Fastcodesign
2017 Oct
“Who Wants to be a Self-Driving Car?”, featured on CreativeApplications.Net
2017 May
"LA Pools" and "LA Swimmer", ART PAPERS, "Cut to the Pool", Issue 41.01, US
2017 May
“Avena+ Test Bed”, featured in Food Futures: Sensory Explorations in Food Design, ISBN-10: 8416504652, Promopress, SP
2016 Oct
“Aerial Bold Project”, featured on Page Online
2016 Jul
"#teamchatviz" featured on Fastcodesign
2016 Jul
“ABC: The Alphabet from the Sky”, featured in TIME For Kids, Issue Jul 2016
2016 Mar
"A clever typeface crafted from satellite shots of buildings", Aerial Bold featured on Wired.com
2016 Jan
“Roads to Rome”, Page Magazine, March Issue, DE
2015 Dec
“Roads to Rome”, featured on Repubblica.it
2015 Dec
“Roads to Rome”, Süddeutsche Zeitung, Issue Dec 15 2015
2015 Dec
“Roads to Rome”, featured on Gizmodo.com
2015 Dec
“Roads to Rome”, featured on Spiegel Online
2015 Dec
“Roads to Rome”, featured on Wired.com
2015 Dec
“Roads to Rome”, featured on Flowingdata
2015 Jun
“The Autonomous Human Drone Taxi”, featured on Gizmodo.com
2014 Nov
“Aerial Bold Kickstarter”, featured in the Guardian, UK
2014 Nov
“Population.io”, featured on Fast Co.Design
2014 Nov
“Aerial Bold Kickstarter”, featured on Wired.com
2014 Oct
“Aerial Bold Kickstarter”, featured on FastCoDesign
2014 Oct
“Aerial Bold Kickstarter”, featured on Gizmodo.com
2014 Oct
“Aerial Bold Kickstarter”, featured on CreativeApplications.Net
2014 Sep
“Hubcab”, featured on nytimes.com
2014 Sep
“Hubcab”, front cover feature in PNAS, Issue 37, US
2014 Jul
“The Big Atlas of LA Pools”, featured in the Landscape Architecture Mag., US
2014 Mar
“Hubcab”, featured on Fast Co.Design
2014 Mar
“Hubcab”, featured on Infosthetics
2014 Mar
“Avena+ Test Bed”, front cover feature in KONstruktiv Magazine, Issue 293, AT
2014 Jan
“The Big Atlas of LA Pools”, review by Denis Woods in Cartographica 49:1, 2014, pp. 77–78, CA
2013 Dec
“Avena+ Test Bed”, featured on Processing.org Exhibition
2013 Dec
“The Big Atlas of LA Pools” featured on Huffingtonpost.com
2013 Dec
“The Big Atlas of LA Pools” featured on TheAtlanticCities.com
2013 Nov
Feature Article, “The Big Atlas of LA Pools”, Wired Magazine UK, November Issue, UK
2013 Oct
Feature Article, “Avena+ Test Bed”, Wired Magazine UK, October Issue, UK
2013 Aug
“Avena+ Test Bed”, featured on Dezeen.com
2013 Jul
“Avena+ Test Bed”, featured on Designboom.com
2013 Jul
“Avena+ Test Bed”, featured on CreativeApplications.Net
2013 May
“Avena+ Test Bed”, featured on Gizmodo.com
2013 Apr
“Speculative Sea Level Explorer”, featured on TheAtlanticCities.com
2013 Apr
“Speculative Sea Level Explorer”, featured on CreativeApplications.Net
2013 Apr
“Speculative Sea Level Explorer”, featured on Infosthetics
2013 Mar
“The Big Atlas of LA Pools” featured on Gizmodo.com
2013 Mar
“Basil.js”, featured on CreativeApplications.Net
2012 Dec
“Generative Design”, featured on CreativeApplications.Net
2012 Apr
Feature Article, “Metrography”, WIRED Magazine UK, April Issue, UK
2012 Feb
“Metrography”, featured on Infosthetics
2012 Jan
“Crime Sounds App”, featured in “Robot cleaners and the Museum of Me: Intel’s vision of the future”, guardian.co.uk
2011 Feb
“MapMap Vauxhall”, featured on CreativeApplications.Net
2010 Feb
Feature Article, Tutorial, “Generative Gestaltung”, Page Magazine, February Issue, DE
2010 Jan
Feature Article, “Generative Gestaltung”, Page Magazine, January Issue, DE
2010 Jan
Feature Article, “Generative Gestaltung”, Form Magazine, January Issue, DE
2009 Dec
“Generative Gestaltung”, featured on Slanted
2009 Feb
“HfG Wiki Related Pages Viz”, featured on Infosthetics
2008 Oct
Feature, “Seelenlose Automaten”, Font 007, Fontmag of FontShop International, US
2007 Dec
“Seelenlose Automaten” featured on Generatorx.no
2007 Jan
Feature, “Raumstaben”, Page Magazine, January Issue
Scholarships
2012 Dec
DAAD scholarship “Jahresstipendium Bildende Kunst, Design, Film”
Meetup
2023 May
"Reshape – Forum for Artificial Intelligence in Art and Design", KITeGG Summer School, HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, DE
2022 Nov
Talk, Buchvorstellung »Zukünfte gestalten«, Speculative Futures Stuttgart Meetup, Stuttgart, DE
2022 Oct
Talk, "Zukünfte gestalten: Spekulation, Kritik, Innovation und Design-Futuring", Speculative Futures Berlin Meetup, Berlin, DE