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· Post-Publishing
· Sensing Gaia
· Shift Register
· Together, we will write
· Übertritthilfen
· Un/making the Chair
· Urban Data Objects
· Urban Living Labs

I AM
a design ethnographer and research maker cultures in times of polycrisis. In my PhD at the Institute for Sociology and Cultural Organisation at Leuphana University Lüneburg, I explored urban living labs in the rural areas of North-Eastern Germany and investigated how they mobilise design as an agent of eco-social change. I have a background in integrative design, experimental typography and media studies.

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Making Blue

Design Research

☞ Dyeing with indigo is widespread around the world and each region has its own traditions and myths. As a design ethnographer, I am particularly interested in the craft and history of dyeing blue in Basel, which is closely linked to the development of the chemical industry. …

Crafting Arguments / Writing Workshop

Teaching

Since 2022

☞ This is a writing workshop, from scratch. Really from scratch, we want to start from the very beginning. Before we are even able to write a word, we need tools, resources and skills. …

Global approaches to art and design education

☞ The research map is the outcome of a seminar that I had the pleasure to pursue with students from the HGK Basel. Together, we explored different art and design schools in different decades and from different parts of the world: u.a. the moscovite VKhUTEMAS (1920-1930), the Black Mountain College in North Carolina (1933-1957), the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad (1961 to today), …

Design as Agent of Change

☞ In my doctoral research, I deal with social transformation processes in rural areas and how they materialise in prototypes. In particular, I focus on project communities that engage in the development of their regions, are based on self-initiative and build an alternative vision of their futures. …

Together, we will write: Future

☞ In this workshop we took a step back, and developed hands-on, whatever we needed for being able to write at all. Making paper, binding books, pressing leaves, grinding ink, shaping type or whatever we can make ourselves, we brought together and complement each other‘s skills. …