Lars Schlenker studied Architecture at the TU Dresden (Diplom, 1997), Interactive Models at the private mediaAkademie Dresden (2000) and Educational Media at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Master of Arts, 2005). At the Learning Lab of the University of Duisburg-Essen in 2012, he did his doctorate on socio-spatial contexts of virtual environments and worlds. He has worked at the interfaces of architecture, technology and knowledge production in different formats and various professional contexts since the mid-1990s. Lars Schlenker lives and works in Dresden, Germany.