“As a designer and researcher, I am interested in exploring the possibilities of Design to enhance the Social – especially in the field of technology and its corresponding interfaces thus communication, to think and draft alternative ways of living for our future.

When I teach, it is exciting for me to take my practical experience and theoretical findings directly back into utilization. My Students will be prepared to shape a thoughtful design practice, thus be enabled to create new and meaningful approaches and projects that aim to improve all kinds of social issues.”

EXPERIENCE
Since 2022 // Professorship for Information Design at the University of Applied Sciences Kiel
2016-2022 // Lecturer for Design Methods (Designexperiment and New Technologies / Material Development), Master Creative Direction, Diploma University, Online and Study Centre Bad Sooden-Allendorf, Germany
Since 2006 // Freelance Designer for different Companies, Main Focus Healthcare Design
2004-2022 // Product and Communication Designer, Art Direction, Wesemann GmbH, Syke, Germany
2003-2004 // Photo Designer, Wolfgang Schwager Photography, Aachen, Germany
2000-2003 // Graphic Designer, Gegensatz, Newspaper Publisher, Aachen, Germany
1999 // Model Builder, Centre for Prototype Building, Erkelenz, Germany
1998 // Graphic Designer, Der Designpool, Aachen, Germany

EDUCATION
2015-2022 // PhD at the Muthesius Academy of Arts and Design, Kiel, Germany, in Cooperation with the Philips Chair for Medical Information Technology (MedIT), Helmholtz-Institute for Biomedical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University, Aachen
2014-2015 // WindH, Vocational Education in University Teaching, Competence Centre University Didactics, TU Braunschweig, Germany
2012-2014 // Master Industrial Design, Muthesius Academy of Arts and Design, Kiel, Germany
1999-2004 // Diploma Product Design, University of Applied Sciences, Aachen, Germany
1996-1999 // Training as a Graphic Designer, Vocational College for Technologies and Media, Mönchengladbach, Germany

SCHOLARSHIPS
01.2016-06.2016 // Promos Scholarship, Glasgow School of Art – School of Design, Glasgow, Scotland
02.2003-07.2003 // BAfög Grants for Studies Abroad Scholarship – University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

WORKSHOPS
16.04.2021 // ‮„‬Designing Future Products“‭, ‬BA Product Design‭, ‬University of Applied Sciences Coburg‭, ‬Germany, Online
18.10.2019 // “Zwischenraum” – Designing the Inbetween, MSD School of Design, University of Applied Sciences Münster, Germany
30.10.2018 // “Prototyping Democracy” – Building social-democratic Futures as Alternatives in Medical Device Design, OTH Regensburg University, Regensburg, Germany
21.07.2018 // “WIR gestalten” – Approaching the concept of “We” in Design, Mastercamp, Diploma University, Study centre, Hanover, Germany

TALKS
27.09.2021 // “Design and the Future”, Academy of Arts and Design Bremen, Germany
23.07.2021 // “Under surfaces”, Mastercamp “Design berührt”, Diploma University, Germany, Online
24.03.2021 // “Connected Objects – Design between physical Products and digital Processes”, University Hamm-Lippstadt, Online
05.02.2021 // “Designing for Crisis”, Mastercamp New Realities, Diploma University, Germany, Online
20.07.2020 // “Digital Design”, HFG Offenbach, Offenbach, Germany
28.05.2019 // “Methodical, constructive and experimental Basics for Design Projects”, MSD School of Design, University of Applied Sciences Münster, Germany
16.06.2018 // “Designing Democratization”, NERD2GO Conference “New experimental Research in Design”, Hildesheim, Germany
29.06.2016 // Doctoral Colloquium, DRS Conference “Future-focused Thinking“, Brighton, England
02.11.2015 // Doctoral Colloquium, IASDR Conference “Interplay“, Brisbane, Australia

PUBLICATIONS
11.2021 // Study Booklet, „Experimentelle Designmethoden“ (“Experimental Methods in Design”), Diploma University, Bad Sooden-Allendorf, Germany
05.2019 // Study Booklet, “Dokumentation als wissenschaftliche Arbeit im Design” (“Scientific Documentation in Design”), Diploma University, Bad Sooden-Allendorf, Germany
03.2017 // Study Booklet, „Code und Material“ (“Code and Material”), Diploma University, Bad Sooden-Allendorf, Germany
09.2015 // Study Booklet, „Methoden der Designforschung“ (“Methods of Design Research”), Diploma University, Bad Sooden-Allendorf, Germany

Member of the DGTF – Deutsche Gesellschaft für Designtheorie und Forschung