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Carolin Schelkle is a German Industrial Designer and Material-Researcher. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Product- and Communication Design from the Free University of Bolzano↗ and a Master of Product Design from écal↗ (Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne).

Her work is led by exploring the life of products and raw materials and driven by curiosity, field studies and cross-disciplinary research. The investigations cover a broad range of typologies, including materials, processes, products, spaces and exhibitions, materialized through extensive experimenting, sampling and prototyping. The research results either in the record of a process itself or in a commercial product, encouraging a deeper understanding of the materials and products that surround us.


 


Participations / Exhibitions

2023
Bioreginoal Design Practices
Exhibition for Atelier LUMA↗
at ALCOVA, Salone del Mobile
Milan

2023
Talk at PRADA FRAMES↗ Materials in Flux
Symposium curated by Formafantasma↗
Milan

2022
Rethinking the Wheel↗
Exhibition for MINI Cooper↗
Zürich 

2021
Non-Extractive Architecture
Workshop curated by Space Caviar↗
V–A–C Zattere↗
Venice 

2019
Biolife Fair↗
Exhibition of the project New Menu
Bozen/Bolzano 



Awards

Pure Talents contests↗ Winner, Project: Wasted Treasure↗, 2024

Eyes on Talents↗ Winner, Project: The Black Sheep of the Wool Industry↗, 2022



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Carolin Schelkle is an Industrial Designer and Material-Researcher. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Product Design from the Free University of Bolzano↗ and a Master of Product Design from écal↗ (Ecole cantonale d'art de Lausanne).

Her work is led by exploring the life of products and raw materials and driven by curiosity, field studies and cross-disciplinary research. The investigations cover a broad range of typologies, including materials, processes, products, spaces and exhibitions, materialized through extensive experimenting, sampling and prototyping. The research results either in the record of a process itself or in a commercial product, encouraging a deeper understanding of the materials and products that surround us.
 


La Botte Laine

What shoes are we wearing and how are they manufactured? Through the design of a boot, materials and manufacturing  techniques are re-thought, using local networks and resources in combination with new technologies.

2023
Sheep Wool, Natural Latex
Research / Product Design
for Atelier LUMA

The Black Sheep of the Wool Industy

A research project investigating the possibilities of European waste-wool by exploring a new production process: automatic felting. The resulting jacket illustrates the potential of this technology, as well as taking advantage of the natural properties of wool, turning it from a burden into a valued raw material.

2022
Sheep Wool 
Research / Product Design

Wool Tools

The project is an ongoing research on local wool and the new technology of robotic felting. An intermediate result of this research was presented in April 2023 in the context of the Salone del Mobile in Milan at ALCOVA. 

2022
Sheep Wool 
Research / Product Design
for Atelier LUMA

Wasted Treasure

The waste from the large-scale production of palm products is used for architectural materials that could be produced at the cultivation area of the palm trees while taking advantage of the discovered properties of the material.

2021
Palm Waste
Research / Product Design


Hydro Exhibition

Curation and design of an exhibition for the aluminium producer Hydro, highlighting their new, sustainable range of products, focussing on sustainable production from the very start.

2021
Sustainable Aluminium
Exhibition Design
for Atelier522