Experience

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  Spectrum fotostudio

  Feb 2018 - Feb 2018

  Photography intern

  → assistance → editing

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  Neustart corporate medialab

  Sept 2018 - Sept 2018

  Intern user experience

  → UI basics → UX basics

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  Hochschule für gestaltung schwäbisch gmünd

  Nov 2018 - Nov 2018

  Guest lecturer - storytelling für designer*innen workshop
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  Denkwerk

  Aug 2019 - Feb 2020

  Intern experience design

  → evaluative user research + testing→ generative user research + testing→ concept + wireframe→ assistance in workshops + presentations→ workshop preparation

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  Wagner kartoffeln gmbh und co kg

  Jan 2020 - Jan 2024

  Freelance graphic designer

  → social media→ packaging design→ CI

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  Denkwerk

  Mar 2021 - Jul 2021

  Experience designerin

  → evaluative/generative user research + testing + validating→ concept + wireframe→ assistance/facilitation in workshops + presentations→ workshop preparation→ b2c, b2e→ energy and telecommunication sector→ internal research and pitches focused on insight repository, gender sensitive design guidelines

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  Hochschule für gestaltung schwäbisch gmünd

  May 2021 - May 2021

  Lecturer workshop "gender sensitive design"

  I am happy to share, that on the 4th and 5th of may, I had the chance to do my explorative session called „gender sensitive design“ with first-semester students from HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd. Together we focused on „gender“ and the variety of topics that can occur with this term. By taking a closer look at surroundings, contexts, and behavioural patterns we identified blindspots and problems. There many stories can be found, heard, and analyzed. By sharing these experiences we collected different perspectives, biases, and problems that were used to explore solutions and reflect on „how we want to design“ Show less

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  Design academy eindhoven

  Mar 2022 - Jun 2023

  Curated, planned and moderated over 15 Lectures online as well as onsite within the Lecture Series Committee. → working as an event-producer in curating, organising, hosting and moderating the Arena talks programme of DDW 2023 Together with Johanna Denecke we coordinated the management and realisation of the student magazine "de cheap journal issue two.

  • Curation and Programming of Lecture Series Committee

    Sept 2021 - Jun 2023

  • Eventproducer Arena

    Aug 2022 - Oct 2022

  • „de Cheap Journal issue 02“ Magazine Curating and Publishing

    Mar 2022 - Jun 2022
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  Design academy eindhoven

  Oct 2023 - now

  Coordination/project management of design & social innovation lab (si–lab)
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  Hochschule für gestaltung schwäbisch gmünd

  Nov 2023 - Nov 2023

  Lecturer workshop "designing discomfort"

  Discriminating norms are all around us, whether we look at white normativity of spaces, heteronormative imagery, gendered typography, or doors that only abled bodies can open. How as designers, students, educators can we address these issues? How can we unlearn the norms and rules of the only one “good” design, deeply rooted in our education? In the workshop Designing Discomfort, Monja Simon, I and our students, critically explored how specific norms and ideas about gender, race, class, ability, and sexuality influence our design practices. In Groups the students inquired the question of how to make the “invisible, visible” - Creating, Designing and allowing discomfort. How to raise (and design) awareness on various topics touching upon accessibility, design and privilege. Show less

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  Hochschule für gestaltung schwäbisch gmünd

  Nov 2024 - Nov 2024

  Lecturer workshop

  ⤳⤳⤳ About the Workshop“Everything you design has an effect. Everything we put in this world designs us back and influences this environment.” (Julia Lohmann)In design, we often overlook hidden stories and perspectives, focusing instead on what’s normal or neutral. But design is never truly neutral, it can include or exclude people based on race, gender, ability, and other factors. This workshop invited the students to listen closely and uncover the stories that lie - in between - the unspoken experiences: voices, and histories embedded in our close surroundings. We aimed to practice listening as a way to discover the hidden stories that surround us in our physical and virtual enviornments. Together we Imagined what the walls would say if they could hear every experience that’s taken place, and asked ourselves what voices or perspectives might they share with us? By listening, collecting, visualising, and sharing these invisible stories, we started to understand how certain design norms can unintentionally exclude or marginalise people.Supporting the discourse we shared projects that used listening either as a starting point, methodology, or mode of operation - we analysed and shared related tools, references and possibilities of making the students research public.⤳⤳⤳ Key QuestionsShaped by theories of Sara Ahmed (Feminist Ear), Pauline Oliveros (Deep Listening) and Julia Lohman (What designs us?) the following questions shaped the trajectory of our weeks inquiry:If the walls or objects around us could share the stories they’ve heard, what might they tell us?What kinds of experiences might people have in this space that we don’t immediately notice?What unspoken rules or invisible boundaries are present in the design of this space? Show less