Christoph Böninger (1982) studied Industrial Design in Munich and Los Angeles. After graduating, he moved to New York and established the design department for Siemens in the USA. In 2000, he turned SIEMENS DESIGN into the internationally active design consultancy DESIGNAFFAIRS with offices in Munich, Shanghai and Silicon Valley.

After 20 years as a design manager, he founded the furniture manufacturer AUERBERG in the Bavarian Oberland in 2010. His furniture designs have been included in Die Neue Sammlung, the design museum in the Pinakothek der Moderne, as well as other museums.

He has been a curator at the Burg Giebichenstein Art Academy in Halle an der Saale since XNUMX and Chairman of the non-profit educational foundation iF Design Foundation based in Hanover since XNUMX.

Fritz Frenkler is co-founder of the f/p design GmbH with offices in Munich and Berlin and a subsidiary in Kyoto. After graduating in industrial design from the HBK Braunschweig, he first worked for frogdesign in Germany and the US before being entrusted with the development and management of frogdesign Asia in Tokyo. Subsequent positions included managing director of wiege Wilkhahn Entwicklungsgesellschaft, head of design at Deutsche Bahn AG and managing director of Deutsche Bahn Medien GmbH. From XNUMX to XNUMX he was treasurer of ICSID (now WDO) and since XNUMX he has been regional advisor of the World Design Organization (WDO).

In 2005, Fritz Frenkler was appointed honorary professor of industrial design at the HBK Braunschweig. In 2006, he was appointed chair of industrial design at the faculty of architecture of the Technical University of Munich (TUM), where he was professor of industrial design until 2020. In October 2020, TUM awarded him the title "emeritus of excellence" in the Senior Excellence Faculty.

Since 2013, Fritz Frenkler has been a member of the Architectural Arts Section of the Academy of Arts (AdK), Berlin, and in 2021, he was appointed senator of the AdK and director of the section. Fritz Frenkler has been chairman of the iF DESIGN AWARD jury since 1995. He has also been a board member of the iF Design Foundation since April 2018.

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Designer and professor Annette Diefenthaler is focused on the question, what can design accomplish to improve our society. Her teaching and research at the Technical University of Munich aims to promote a human- and society-centered approach to design that results in solutions that are not only technically feasible and marketable, but also sustainable, just, and valuable. As Executive Director of the newly founded Munich Design Institute, she is entrusted with the task of establishing an integrative research center that anchors Human Centered Design in the context of the TUM.

Prior to joining TUM, Annette Diefenthaler spent XNUMX years at IDEO and IDEO.org, designing solutions for complex systems that are both practical and transformative, such as a high-quality school network in Latin America or a professional development program for school leaders. She is committed to ensuring that people affected by the impacts of design solutions are given equitable authorship in their development. A practical example of this approach is her collaboration with families impacted by the child welfare system in New Jersey to create a future-oriented vision for family wellbeing. Annette Diefenthaler has won several design awards for her work. She has been a board member of the iF Design Foundation since June XNUMX.