Mareen Baumeister

Mareen Baumeister is a designer working at the intersection of ecology and technology, exploring how the intelligence of matter itself can guide design and unlock potentials in materials, production processes. Her practice is driven by research into materials and their processes, and into the economic, ecological and social forces embedded in them.

She develops materials and new ways of making for underestimated resources, turning to traditional craft techniques to invent new methods. In FLOCK she works with wool from European sheep too coarse for clothing and therefore thrown away by the tonne, which robotic felting turns into three-dimensional felts with programmed variations of hardness. She is assistant professor at greenlab, at the weißensee school of art and design Berlin, and lecturer at the University of Art and Design Linz.