Sofia Fernández is a german-uruguayan Product Designer and Researcher with a focus on digital and sustainable materials combining both in her bio-digital crafts. Currently she does her PhD on fungal mycelium materials & digital fabrication at Bauhaus-university Weimar (Junior-Prof. Pearce, Prof. Willmann) and works as a research associate in the department of product design at Weißensee Kunsthoschule Berlin where she teaches digital tools and workflows after working for several years at the University of Applied Sciences, Berlin. Besides her academic work, Sofia follows her independent design projects from her studio in Berlin-Schöneweide, which merges with her own design-label for sustainable digital furniture called „soft matter“.
She has a strong practice and teaching experience having held undergraduate and graduate courses in 3D Design, hybrid prototyping, system design and intersectional design theory, with a particular focus on the cross- section of technology, ecology and gender within practice and theory.
She is an alumni from Folkwang University of the Arts (MA) and Köln International School of Design (BA) and was a scholarship holder from a.o. Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes.
Contact
mail@sofiafernandez.de
