Prof. Florian Petri

Sustainable, socially responsible and environmentally friendly, forward-looking product and process design; technical industrial design (engineering, materials, manufacturing processes, model and prototype construction)

Florian Petri was appointed Professor of Industrial Design at Hochschule München in 2010. There, he is responsible for the areas of design and technical industrial design within the Industrial Design programme.

His teaching focuses on holistic design, which is characterised by a people-centred, interdisciplinary, collaborative and integrative approach, whilst taking equal account of both social and technological developments. Within the field of Industrial Design, Florian Petri teaches courses in design, materials and manufacturing processes, as well as model and prototype construction.

After completing an apprenticeship as a joiner, Florian Petri studied industrial design at Darmstadt University of Applied Sciences and at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam. Before being appointed to Hochschule München, Florian Petri worked as a lecturer on the Design degree programme at the Berlin University of the Arts from 2005 to 2010.

Through his studio, FPID, Florian Petri works primarily in the fields of furniture and office furniture, computers and personal technology, as well as consultancy. His clients include, for example, Studio 7.5 (including the Mirra Chair and Setu Chair for Herman Miller), Lenovo (including the IdeaPad) and möbelbau kaether & weise (platten_bau and unend_tisch/unend_bank).

His work has received numerous awards – including the Red Dot Award, the Red Dot Award: Best of the Best, the iF Design Award, the CNET Award: Best of CES, the CNET Award: Best Ultraportable, and a nomination for the Design Award of the Federal Republic of Germany.