Jennifer L. Schubert

Jennifer Schubert is researcher at Free University of Bolzano in the area of Social Interaction Design. In 2018 she obtained her Ph.D. (Dr. phil.) at the Berlin University of the Arts (UdK). In her practice-based dissertation about “Civic Tools for Informal City Making” she explored new possibilities of visual and tangible forms of participation. Since 2011 she worked in bottom-up as well as municipal research projects, in rural and urban spaces, locally based with a global perspective. She studied Design Strategy, Service Design, Design Concepts at KISD (Cologne) and Parsons (New York). She has been teaching Design Research modules in Dessau (MA of Integrated Design), Wuppertal (MA for Strategic Product & Innovation Development) and Cologne (BA/MAIntegrated Design).