Our latest work on Self-Shaping Textiles can be seen as part of the exhibition >>Design Lab #13: MATERIAL LEGACIES<< at the Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, accessible from the 03rd November 2022 until the 26th February 2023. The exhibition, curated by Michaela Büsse and Emile de Visscher, explores contingencies and […]

FELT & FOLD
Dates: Wintersemester 21/22 Project supervision: Agata Kycia, Andrea Rossi, Jörg Hugo Institution: Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Textil- und Flächendesign Students BA Textile- and Surface Design: Anna Schmökel, Ewa Nowacka, Paolina Bumeder, Zäzilie Schilling, Jinyu Li, Xingwen Pan, Antonia Schulze, Xenia Schelper Guest student MA Textile- and Surface […]

SELF-SHAPING TEXTILES / PhD defense and publication
On the 14th of December 2021 I defended my doctoral research entitled SELF-SHAPING TEXTILES: Form-Finding of Tensile Surface Structures through 3D Printing on Pre-stressed Fabric at the TU Berlin.I would like to thank my supervisors and all the members of the doctoral examination board: Prof. […]

Bauhaus 4.0 – Fibrous Systems
Recent developments in computational design and robotic manufacturing open up new possibilities for production and materialization, challenging designers to reconsider the entire design-to-production chain. Initially developed for factory automation, industrial robots revolutionized creative disciplines where architects, artists and designers constantly push the limits of what […]

Dotted tiles
Handmade ceramic tiles designed by combining analog techniques such as clay forming and screenprinting with digital techniques for creating seamless patterns. This collection consists of three different triangular tiles which can be freely composed to create endless configurations. It is inspired by an older design […]

Magic Circle Symposium
The “Magic Circle” symposium is carried out by Forschungskreis of the Weißensee Kunsthochschule berlin (khb) in cooperation with “Matters of Activity”, under the direction of Prof. Dr. Jörg Petruschat. It aims to further develop the exchange between the knowledge cultures of the natural sciences, engineering […]

BAUHAUS 4.0
BAUHAUS 4.0 is a collaborative research project between Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin (Produkt Design, Textil-und Flächen Design und Künstlerisch-Gestalterische Grundlagen) and TU Berlin, Fakultät I Geistes- und Bildungswissenschaften, Institut für Erziehungswissenschaft Fachgebiet Pädagogische Psychologie. This project focuses on the development of new digital teaching formats for […]

eCAADe 2020 – “Self-shaping textiles” publication
Our latest research entitled SELF-SHAPING TEXTILES – A material platform for digitally designed, material-informed surface elements, in collaboration with Dr. Lorenzo Guiducci (Matters of Activity. Image Space Material, Cluster of Excellence at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) has been published at the eCAADe 2020 conference. Full paper […]

Scaling Nature (2): Fibers, Muscles, Bones
MoA Design Studio 2019/2020 Department of Textile and Surface Design weißensee school of art and design berlin Scaling Nature / MoA design studio is a series of interdisciplinary, experimental and innovative teaching, conducted by Prof. Christiane Sauer at weißensee school of art and design, berlin […]

Experimental Diagramming. Between Spatial Figuration and Abstraction
On the 12th of December 2019 at 18 o’clock there will be official opening of the exhibition “Experimental Diagramming” at the Architekturmuseum der Technischen Universität Berlin, where some of my recent works will be shown. The exhibition is based on a call for artefacts and aims […]

Big Data Visualisation
Dates: SoSe 2019 Institution: TU Berlin, CHORA: Conscious City Supervision PIV: Agata Kycia (as part of the Design Studio SUPPLY CHAIN URBANISM supervised by prof. Raoul Bunschoten, Moritz Maria Karl and Georg Hubmann) PIV seminar was part of the SUPPLY CHAIN URBANISM design studio: Belt and Road […]

CAD CAM II
Dates: SoSe 2019 Institution: Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Textil- und Flächendesign Tutor: Agata Kycia Students: Nayeli Vega, Samira Akhavan, Olga Kuschchyk, Juni Neyenhuys, Luis Magg, Jasmin Sermonet, Jade Mauduit, Luise schumacher, Serafina Baucken, Joanna Czekajlo, Clara Santos Thomas, Maria Paula Barbosa Posada, Josephine Shone, Carlotta Scholz, Lisa Braun, Anna […]