KEA – Copenhagen School of Design and Technology

 

PROJECTS 2022

 

Next Human Filters

Adele Zavagno, Nadia Back Krahmer, Sereta David, Cecilie Bønnelycke Hansen

The project proposes a model for the fashion industry where users are company stakeholders. Wearers grow cyanobacteria in pouches on their clothes which is then returned to the company and converted into bioplastic for new products.

 

Instructors 2022

Anke Pasold

Anke Pasold is an associate professor at the Material Design Lab at the Copenhagen School of Design and Technology, where she is developing the methodological and technological side of the lab and is structuring new material-educational programs. Her research focus is on sustainable material practice, in particular advanced design methodologies and material formation and fabrication processes by means of experimental prototypes making things tangible between the digital and the physical. She has an international profile with a background in architecture and cross-disciplinary design, and a specific focus on bio-based material studies across scales. Apart from the research and education field, she has been active in her own practice that she co-founded in 2010. Her works have been exhibited and published in international contexts.

Sofie Edvard Nielsen

Sofie Edvard works as an associate lecturer at Copenhagen School of Design & Technology in Denmark. For the past 8 years she has been teaching within the area of design and business with a special focus on fashion, sustainability, and new technologies in the fashion field. She has contributed to the research-based academic dialog on sustainability with the peer reviewed paper “the Open Design Object” for the 2017 international Cumulus design conference. Before her career in academia, Sofie worked in the fashion industry for 7 years as a designer and entrepreneur. She is the co-founder of 2 fashion companies and has worked as a designer in established companies. Her focus within the fashion field has been on sustainability and entrepreneurship of garments, accessories, and shoe design. Her professional goal is to be a part of the rebirth of a future sustainable fashion industry.