Rasa
Weber

Rasa Weber is an experimental designer, researcher and diver based between Zurich and Berlin, exploring the narrative and choreographic potential of materials, ecologies, and environments. Her design concepts are characterized by a strong narrative approach and critical ecological thinking. She regularly teaches at international universities and is currently a research associate and doctoral candidate at the Zurich University of the Arts ZHDK as part of the Swiss National Science Foundation project Interfacing the Ocean and a research associate at the Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity at the Humboldt University in Berlin. She works interdisciplinary in the fields of design, materials research, marine biology, and design anthropology. She explores the design of artificial reefs and their potential for the development of a new design methodology, which she calls Sympoïetic Design, focusing on the creation of convivial spaces and the inclusion of various multispecies actors. Her research creates tangible invitations for humans, animals, microbes, animate and inanimate matter in the ocean. She is one of the founders of They Feed Off Buildings, a design and architecture collective, in collaboration with Luisa Rubisch. As founder of the studio Blond & Bieber, she worked with textile designer Essi Glomb on bio-based material and color concepts.