Michael Hohl is designer, researcher and educator, currently Professor of Design Theory & Research at the Anhalt University of Applied Sciences in Dessau, Germany. He completed a practice-based Ph.D. from Sheffield Hallam University, UK, and spent a total of 10 years as a design researcher at various universities in the UK. He supervises doctoral students from art & design and organises seminars for advanced students and members of staff on methods & methodologies of practice-based design research. For example at the Royal College of Art, London or the Bauhaus University Weimar. After participating in a conference of the American Society for Cybernetics, the effective conversation format of Bela Banathy’s Fuschl Conferences moved him to rethink and transform his learning & teaching approach. Here it is of particular importance to him to show the relevance of design theory to its practice, as well as the role of reflection and, from cybernetics, to apply concepts such as conversation, circularity, teach-back and feedback in teaching.