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Info
Mini introduction on who you are, where you are from and what you do.
I’m a designer and design researcher with a ten-year experience in material and craft-based research projects. As a researcher and lecturer at weißensee school of art and design in Berlin, GER, I have been involved in national and international research and teaching projects with partners ranging from museums and cultural institutions to educational partners and research institutes like Fraunhofer among others.
The focus in my projects shifted from finding new ways of engaging the public with new material technologies (e.g. “smart materials “) to grasping (traditional, intangible) material-based craft knowledge for a contemporary understanding and sustainable handling the material world.
My current three year project „Material-digital entanglements – situated and implicit material knowledge in a post-digital world“ deals with the multifaceted implications of linking the (immaterial) digital and the (analogue) material world with a special focus on craft techniques. The project aims at making the potentials of these entanglements graspable whilst making the real social and ecological costs of the digital transparent and tangible in order to foster an informed discourse and open up a space for knowledge production.
What makes you passionate about your craft/profession?
Researching in these projects from a design perspective gives the opportunity to link various topics and disciplines through the eyes of a maker, that first-hand works with materials, tools and craft techniques. At the same time the design perspective demands considering social and ecological contexts and histories paired with a responsibility for teaching a new generation of designers to acquire a broad understanding of the complexities of their own discipline and help them to navigate responsibly yet visionary.
Why does craft matter?
Craftsmanship, in my opinion, is the culmination of thousands of years of knowledge about materials, their properties, cultural progress and changing values over time. Craft manifests individual ability, implicit knowledge that cannot be described is captured in the material and becomes tangible. craft also has a qualitative side. what is produced by hand and hand tools cannot be scaled up at will, it is practised within the framework of the available resources and is closely interwoven with the maker.