Coordination & Organisation
Hanna Wiesener
Hanna is currently working as a project manager for DesignFarmBerlin and as a research assistant for the Cluster of Excellence ‘Matters of Activity’ (HU Berlin). With a background in design and cultural studies, she founded her own company in the intersection of textile and digital design. Her entrepreneurial experience has motivated her to support founders in creative entrepreneurship. In addition to her teaching activities in design, she also has many years of expertise in the coordination of scholarship programmes in the field of design-in-tech (kh berlin, Berlin University of the Arts).
At DesignFarmBerlin Hanna is consulting ventures, in particular with focus on product and business development, circular economy and new digital and material culture.
wiesener[at]kh-berlin.de
designfarm[at]kh-berlin.de
Mentors
Prof. Carola Zwick
Carola is a Professor of Product Design, an initiator of DesignFarmBerlin and a passionate entrepreneur. In her work Carola especially focuses on Interaction Design and User Experience Design.
Through her career, she has been coaching alumni in three different universities (alumni now working with Apple, BCG, Audi, Frog, Spotify, Yahoo, Here, MyKita, SAP, Walmart). She is a co-founder of an internationally acting design agency Studio 7.5 Berlin. Apart from that, Carola is also a Principal Investigator in the Excellency Cluster „Matters of Activity“ at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin.
Prof. Dr. Olaf Bach
Olaf is a visiting Professor of Business Economics at the weißensee school of art and design and an initiator of DesignFarmBerlin. His teaching and research focus on creative entrepreneurship, design thinking and business design as well as the strategies, institutions and socioeconomic processes in creative industries. Lecturing management and organization design at the University of St. Gallen and with a background as project manager of a leading global strategy consulting firm he gained an extensive experience in consulting and coaching start-up teams. Olaf is an initiator of the «Art Business Coaching» at the Academy Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart.
Prof. Dr. Jörg Petruschat
Jörg is a Professor of Theory and History of Design with a focus on “practice-based research”.
Earlier, he acted as a Professor of Design in Dresden focusing on design-driven research and business collaborations as well as effective product design. In 2005 he initiated and managed the Institute for Innovation and Design at the Center of Applied Research and Technology (e.V.) with the aim to transfer design to small and medium businesses.
Prof. Christiane Sauer
Since 2013 Christiane Sauer has been a Professor of Textile and Surface Design with focus on Material and Concept. Earlier, she has been involved in education, research and consulting in the area of material development for architecture and design. Christiane is currently running her own agency in architecture Formade – Agency for Material and Architecture. Additionally, Christiane is a member of smart3 Consortium for Development of New Products with Smart Materials and a co-founder of the design marketing platform – Architonic.
Prof. Dr. Zane Berzina
Since 2008 Zane Bernina has been a Professor of Textile and Surface Design with a focus on the conceptual development of materials and surfaces. In the past, she was involved in various interdisciplinary research projects related to various aspects of design, technology, natural sciences and society. Zane also acted as a lecturer and researcher in the area of Soft Technologies and Smart Textiles. She is a co-founder of the research platforms: eLab – Laboratory for Interactive Technologies and greenlab – Laboratory for Sustainable Design Strategies. Apart from that, Zane is a member and a principle Investigator of the Research Consortium smart3 I materials, solutions, growth for the Development of New Products with Smart Materials.
Veronika Aumann
is a textile designer and researcher. She investigates conceptions of the digital and designs materials and material fictions from which new and unexpected interactions between humans, machines and materials emerge. Veronika Aumann is currently working on the practice-based research project “Digital Materials” as part of the excellence programme “DiGiTal” in the field of “Design and Experimental Materials Research” at the weißensee kunsthochschule berlin. Since January 2019 she is a Ph.D. candidate of the PhDArts Program at the Academy of Creative and Performing Arts (ACPA) in Leiden and the Royal Academy of Art (KABK) in The Hague, NL.
Contact
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