Anke von der Heide

Research Scientist

Anke von der Heide holds a diploma in Design from the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (2003) and completed a double-degree Master of Science at TU Berlin and Tongji University Shanghai (2010–2012). From 2007 to 2009 she carried out a research project in Intermedia Art at the Tokyo National University for Fine Arts and Music. Since 2018 she has been pursuing her PhD at TU Berlin. She has gained international experience as an information designer and media artist in Japan, India, South Korea, and Germany. Since 2020 she has been working as an independent researcher at the FTZ Digital Reality, HAW Hamburg, in the XRevent project. In 2026 she joined the Immersive Reality Lab at Hamm-Lippstadt University of Applied Sciences, where she works on the XRwise project. Her interests lie at the intersection of media design, technology, and sociology in the fields of media architecture, HCI, and extended reality.

Research interests:

• Media Architecture
• Human–Computer Interaction (HCI)
• Extended Reality (XR)

Contact: +49 0(2381) 8789-981 · Anke.vonderHeide@hshl.de