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
© Carolin Schelkle, 2024, all rights reserved
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.
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Object, shapes, landscapes, senses, colours and other pleasures.
![Moss on stone, Dolomites]()
![Set of stones, Studio Brynjar & Veronika]()
![Seagrass, Coast Guadeloupe]()
![3D Printed Texture, Bold Designers]()
![Ermita de Santa Justa]()
![CB01, Massive Copper, Johan Viladrich]()
![A deep water starfish, 1905]()
![Coulds, Lausanne, Switzerland]()
![Globlow Lamp, Vesa Hinkola, Markus Nevalainen, Rane Vaskivuori, 1996]()
![Morning Song, Esa Riippa, 1947]()
![Barbar Table Lamp, Anne Holtrop, 2018]()
![Crabitats, Robert DuGrenier, 2012, Hand blown crystal shells]()
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![Coast, Guadeloupe]()
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![Cubo 15 Television, Mario Bellini, Italy, 1992]()
![Ceramic Texture]()
![Carine Gilson]()
![Blaesospira echinus infernalis]()
![Huiswerk-Tafel, Marie-José Van Hee, 2013]()
![Dalila I, II and III, Gaetano Pesce for Cassina, 1980]()
![Detail of carpet, Allegra Hicks for Giustini Stagetti, hand-painted]()
![Detail of "Nursing Madonna", Master of emroidered foliage, late 15th century]()
![Felt Cabinet with Drawers, Gaetano Pesce, 1987-1991]()
![Hair Comb, Alesander Calder, 1940]()
![Cushion, Jeffrey Shaw, 1969, Amsterdam]()
![Dorothee Becker, UtenSilo, for Ingo Maurer, 1971]()
![Heroic Shelves, Martin Szekely, 2009]()
![Drawing, Gilles Belley]()
![Italien Gardens, Sacro Bosco di Bomarzo, 1950s]()
![Humanos, Paula Cortazar, Patterns carved on stone]()
![Kajunwar collection, La double clique]()
![Carotte de Mauritanie]()
![Knitted texture, Helen Elizabeth Kaye]()
![Rene Antoine Houasse, 1677]()
![Chruch Wall, Verona, Italy]()
![Klemmelampe, 1971]()
![The Mark Twain Tree, 1350-year-old Sequoia felled 1891]()
![Pot Drainer, Mike and Roz Duflo, Bird's eye maple, carved, shaped, drilled]()
![Kim Tschang-Yeul, 1 a 10 Gouttes No 6, 1977]()
![Homage to Bladen, Jeffery Shaw, Theo Botschuijver, Sean Wellesley-Miller, Arnhem, Netherlands, 1971]()
![Gelber Frauenschuh]()
![Altar Objects, Lobi Tribe, Ghana]()
![Firefly in the night]()
![LOPOLY no.06, La double clique]()
![Low Chair, Jacques Dumond, Philippe Leloup, 1961]()
![Hallway and staircase of the Hotel Tassel, Brussels, Victor Horta, 1893-94]()
![The fringed petals of the serpent gourd flower unfurl each night to attract pollinating moths]()
![Paul Kooiker & Katie Burnett]()
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![Selection of Venini glass vases exhibited at Venice pavilion at the XVIII Biennale di Venezia, 1932]()
![Think Evolution: 1 Kiku-ishi (Ammonite), Aki Inomata, 2016-2017]()
![Olga Diego, El Vuelo, Playa del Carabassi, Alicante, 2003]()
![Shepard wearing ciocie, traditional sandals, goatskin leggings, Localita Buranello, Italy, 1986, Margaret Courtney-Clarke]()
![Portrait of a lady in an allegorical guise, holding a dish of pearls, Pierre Mignard I.]()
![Parola Lamp, Gae Aulenti, 1980]()
![Stilnovo Lamp, 1970-80]()
![Preparatory drawing for short film, Destino, Salvador Dali, 1946]()
![Study for Fruit Bowl (with Grapes), Ettore Sottsass, 1973]()
![Handoven basket from palm leafs, Guadeloupe]()
![Delos Ashtray, Enzo Mari, 1979-80]()
![Esagonali Glassware, Carlo Scarpa, Paolo Venini, 1932]()
![Vespers Lazarus, 3D printed multicolored Vero acrylic polymer, Neri Oxman, Mediated Matter Group, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, 2016]()
![Squadra, Klaus Vogt, 1964]()
![Ruth Asawa, Untitled, circa 1954, iron wire]()
![Mapping the Internet, Barrett Lyon, The Opte Project, 2003]()
![Habitacle, André Bloc, 1962]()
![Table (model B10), Marcel Breuer, 1927]()
![Clearwater Cube, William Pye, 2000]()
![Broken Glass Table, Shiro Kuramata, 1986]()
![Eames Screen, Charles & Ray Eames, 1946]()
![Think Evolution #1 Kiku-ishi (Ammonite)_Aki Inomata_2016-2017_2]()
![Silver centerpiece, Angelo Mangiarotti, 1983, for Cleto Munari]()
![Fazzoletto Vase_Fulvio Bianconi, Paolo Venini, 1949]()
![Silver metal and glass vase with handle, Josef Hoffmann, Wiener Werkstätte, c.1903]()
![Givenchy]()
![Canary Sandals, formed from a single piece of rubber, SuperNormal, Naoto Fukasawa, Jasper Morrison]()
![Thinking Man's Chair, Jasper Morrison, 1986/2021]()
![Conchiglie, Carlo Scarpa, 1942]()
![Marcuso Dining Table, Marco Zanuso, 1969]()
![Wineglass (Roemer), Dutch, 1600-30]()
![Specimen 06v leto from Voynich Botanical Studies_Ulrik Heltoft, Miljohn Ruperto_2013-14]()
![Sub Rosa, Formafantasma, Joanna Piotrowska, 2022]()
![Fold, Formafantasma, Maison Matisse, 2022]()
![Cotton Grass]()
![Felt Undershoes, SuperNormal, Naoto Fukasawa, Jasper Morrison]()
![West 12th Street Residence, New York, Gabellini Sheppard Associates, 1987]()
Object, shapes, landscapes, senses, colours and other pleasures.
