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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

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

Eyes on Talents↗ Winner, 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.
 


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

Wasted Treasure

The waste from the large scale production of palm products are 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


Woven Wind

Research about the material flax and the related manufacturing techniques. The resulting collection is highlighting the beauty as well as the unique properties of the material.

2019
Flax
Research / Product Design


Heimat-Verbunden

Copying the traditional wood joint of South Tyrol from the past into a contemporary context by transforming it into new and unexpected typologies.

2019
Wood Joints
Product Design