Sofia Fernández is a Product Designer and Researcher with a focus on Generative and (Bio-)Material Design combining both interests into Bio-Digital Crafts. Currently she does her PhD on fungal mycelium materials at Bauhaus-university Weimar (Junior-Prof. Pearce, Prof. Willmann) and works as a research associate in the department of product design at KH Weißensee for generative Design and Rapid Prototyping, after working for several years at the University of Applied Sciences, Berlin.
She has a strong practice and teaching experience having held undergraduate and graduate courses in 3D Design, Digital & Analog 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.
Besides her academic work, Sofia follows her independent design projects from her studio in Berlin-Schöneweide.
Contact
mail@sofiafernandez.de
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