ABOUT
I am a cross disciplinary industrial designer with an investigative and research driven approach. My holistic design method is nourished by a diversity of interests and backgrounds in political science, biology and architecture.
Within my creative practice I aim to question prevalent political and cultural paradigms, while trying to embrace phenomena of accelerated technological and ecological change. I use design as an experimental tool to develop concepts, strategies, stories and systems in the form of objects, installations, films and experiences that aim to stimulate, empower and trigger debate. Design is my medium to not only make ideas, but ideals imaginable and discussable for a broad audience.
My projects have been shown at the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, the Shanghai Biennale, the Triennale die Milano and at Ingenium Canada in 2019.
In 2017 I was a speaker for Antenna Conference at Dutch Design Week presenting Menu from the New Wild. With the project 1070 Unseen I was awarded the MehrWert Design Prize in 2018.
Recently Transitory Yarn was included in the Design Collection of the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna.
In 2019 I received the Startstipendium for emerging Designers from the Austrian Federal Chancellery.
After gaining work experience in several design studios in Vienna and at Studio Superflux in London, I founded my own design and research studio in Vienna in 2017, where I am working on projects at the intersection of humans and non-humans, culture, nature and technology.
EXHIBITIONS
2020
upcoming! 31 May - 13 Sept Le Grand-Hornu, Belgien
Plant Fever / Menu from the New Wild
upcoming! 17 May - 17 June Angewandte Innovation Lab, Vienna
May I introduce: Alien / Racoon Approved
upcoming! 28 May - 07 June Innovation Space, Graz
das Zukunftsamt der Arbeit / Wer schafft die Arbeit?!
IDS show, Toronto
Edible Futures / Menu from the New Wild
2019
IDS show, Vancouver
Edible Futures / Menu from the New Wild
Dubai Design Week, Dubai
Nature Based Generations / Transitory Yarn
ongoing! Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
MAK Design Lab Collection / Transitory Yarn
Agriculture and Food Museum, Ingenium Canada
Edible Futures / Menu from the New Wild
Triennale di Milano, Milan
Broken Nature / Transitory Yarn
Schloss Hollenegg for Design, Hollenegg
Ad Mensam / Menu from the New Wild
2018
Amerling Haus, Vienna
1070 Unseen
LAZNIA Centre for contemporary Art, Gdansk
Graphics go politics! / Chlorine Washed Chicken
Vienna Design Week, Vienna
1070 Unseen
AWARDED THE MEHRWERT DESIGNPRIZE
Maker Faire, Vienna
Transitory Yarn
MAK Museum of Contemporary Art, Vienna
Ästhetik der Veränderung / Everything is Shifting
2017
Kunstfabrik, Groß Siegharts
Transitory Yarn & Weftwarp
Dutch Design Week / Design Indaba, Eindhoven
Antenna Conference / Menu from the New Wild
Alte Post, Vienna
The Essence / Menu from the New Wild
Angewandte Innovation Lab, Vienna
How Will We Work / DeRIVE
Museum for Applied Arts, Vienna/Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein/Design Museum, Gent
Hello Robot / Uninvited Guests (Superflux)
Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
Stadtfabrik (IDRV) / Transitory Yarn
2016
Alte Post, Vienna
The Essence / Transitory Yarn, Mechanics of Holes
2015
Victoria & Albert Museum, London
All of this belongs to you / Drone Aviary (Superflux)
World Food Expo / Cumulus, Milan
Design to feed the world / Rejam
2014
Künstlerhaus, Vienna
The Essence / DeRIVE, Rejam
Sheila C. Johnson Design Center, New York
How Things Don't Work: The Dreamspace of Victor Papanek / Table Manners, DeRIVE
Power Station of Arts, Shanghai
Design Shanghai / DeRIVE
2013
Künstlerhaus, Vienna
The Essence / Table Manners, Microbial Ventilation
2012
Künstlerhaus, Vienna
The Essence / Urine-Fertilizer Machine No.1
TALKS, WORKSHOPS & TEACHING
2020
upcoming! 04.-05. March Reininghaus Gründe, Graz
Workshop / Wer schafft die Arbeit?!
FH Campus 02, Graz
Kick-Off Presentation &
Workshop / Wer schafft die Arbeit?!
2019
University of Applied Arts, Vienna
Student and Diploma Crit
HTL Mödling, Lower Austria
Virtual Reality Workshop
PechaKucha, Vienna
Transdisciplinary Design
2018
Vienna Design Week, Vienna
postcard workshops
Schloss Eckartsau, Lower Austria
100 years ago: Karl & Zita / opening talk
AHS Rahlgasse, Vienna
3-day film and foto workshop supported by Canon,
How to ethically kill a turtle
Maker Faire, Vienna
interactive workshop / Transitory Yarn
2017
Dutch Design Week / Design Indaba
Antenna Conference / Speaker
Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna
Stadtfabrik / Talk about Transitory Yarn
Design Austria, Vienna
Graphics go politics! / Note for Chlorine Washed Chicken
EDUCATION
2011 - 2017
University of Applied Arts Vienna,
Industrial Design Mag. des.ind
Studio Fiona Raby (Dunne&Raby, UK) & Anab Jain (Superflux, UK)
2007 - 2009
Higher Technical School, Mödling
College for Interior Design and Furniture Construction
2006 - 2007
University of Vienna, Vienna
Political Science
PRESS FEATURES
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WORK EXPERIENCE
since 2012
working as independent designer and artist
2015
Superflux London
2012
ongoing WW Wohnwagon GmbH
2012 - 2015
Polka Products
2011 - 2014
University of Applied Arts Vienna, ID2, study assistant