University of Applied Sciences Saarbrücken

University of Applied Sciences Saarbrücken

PROJECTS | 2020

Hungry Fungy

Maike Buddenkotte, Ronny Becker, Gabrijela Mijic, Sandrine Michel, Patrik Petersen, Katja Thiem, Moritz Schmidt, Gaius Motho

The project proposes feeding paper waste to mycelium in order to grow public art installations as a public participatory recycling project.

Finalist Team

Instructor

**Hellen Westerhof**

**Hellen Westerhof** is a Frankfurt based product designer. Her projects include assignments for a variety of global brands such as BMW, Carlsson, Lufthansa Sky Chefs, Philips and Siemens, in the areas of product design, design thinking concepts and design strategy. In 2014 she launched her own side and coffee table collection ‘Tisc’ which got distributed by Ikarus and awarded several times by German Design Award 2016 (Special Mention), Interior Innovation Award 2015 (Winner) and A&W design magazine Designtalent 2015 (Nominee). She graduated with a diploma in Product Design (2010) and a postgraduate degree in Corporate Product Branding (2011) with Siemens and Peter Schmidt Group (BBDO). Subsequently she received a one semester lectureship at University of Arts & Design Offenbach, Germany (2012).