Currently, I’m exploring a range of questions that sit between design, technology, and systems. I’ve been researching what influence emerging technologies have on design and how these technologies can shape new forms of interaction, experiences abd shapes. I’m interested how tools influence creative processes and how experimentation can lead to unexpected and exciting outcomes.

To approach these questions, I work through hands-on experimentation, rapid prototyping, and iterative testing. I combine digital tools with physical making and document those processes.

Lately, I’ve been diving deeper into new technologies, running AI experiments, exploring generative workflows, and trying out new tools like TouchDesigner to understand real-time visuals and interactive systems. At the same time, I’ve been teaching myself music production in Ableton, expanding my creative practice into sound.

I also like to experiment with materials in a very direct way, sourcing from hardware stores, working with new materials i‘ve never worked with before, and exploring upcycling. Upcycling allows me to rethink existing materials, understand their constraints, and turn limitations into design opportunities while working more resourcefull.

Alongside this, I’ve been engaging with different kinds of systems from design systems and modular product thinking to computational and interactive systems, as well as workflows that connect hardware and software. These explorations allow me to better understand how complex systems can be designed, controlled, and experienced.

In the future, I want to focus on projects that go beyond purely product-driven problem solving. During my industrial design studies, many challenges were centered around objects and functionality, often disconnected from broader human or societal questions. I tried to shift this in my own projects by addressing real human needs, for example through the medical-related concept that creates direct value for people. In the Master, I want to push this further: working on topics that have a tangible impact, combining design, research, and technology to address complex human-centered problems.

What I’ve been missing is a stronger focus on systems thinking, research-driven design, and critical engagement with technology. During the Master, I want to experiment with interactive installations, bio-sensing technologies, and material-driven design processes. I want to explore VR environments, new materials such as smart textiles, medical technology, robotics, AI-driven systems and large language models, always in relation to how people interact with these systems. I’m interested in how humans experience, trust, and adapt to technological systems. I would like to translate the gained data into meaningful visualizations, interactions, or installations.

I’m choosing this Master over a traditional industrial design program because I want to step outside of purely conventional design workflows. I’ve already gained experience in classic design processes from ideation to CAD, prototyping, and production. Now, I want to take my time to experiment, research, and develop my own projects in a more open, interdisciplinary environment. The Design & Computation program offers me exactly that: a space to explore ideas across disciplines and collaborate with people from different backgrounds.

I see the program as a kind of playground where learning happens through experimentation, collaboration, and self-driven exploration. I want to learn by building prototypes, testing ideas, working with data, and exploring new tools and methods together with others. Interdisciplinary work is key for me: learning from people with different perspectives and different disciplines and contributing my own perspective in return.