Heike Selmer

Heike Selmer (born before 1988) is a German fashion designer and professor of fashion design in the fashion design department at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art .

biography

Selmer studied fashion design in England from 1988 to 1993. In 1993 she graduated from the Royal College of Art in London with a Master of Arts.

From 2003 to 2006 Selmer taught as a lecturer and visiting professor at the Offenbach University of Design. In autumn 2006 she was appointed professor for fashion design at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art. In 2010 she founded the research focus “GreenLab - Laboratory for Sustainable Design Strategies” together with the designer and artist Zane Berzina and the industrial designer Susanne Schwarz-Raacke.

2014 initiated Selmer together with Valeska Schmidt-Thomsen, a professor of fashion design at the University of the Arts (UdK), local international, an international project for fashion designer with a focus on sustainability. The project is a cooperation between the Goethe-Institut Bangladesh, the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK) and the Weißensee Art Academy Berlin.

Publications

• Zane Berzina: Green design 1.0 . Projects from the Greenlab. Ed .: Greenlab, Laboratory for Sustainable Design Strategies. Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-9814373-8-6 (study projects from 2010 to 2013 - German / English).
• Helen Carnac and students: A Shared View - stitching together ideas in time: a walking project from students at weissensee kunsthochschule berlin . Greendesign 2.0. Ed .: Greenlab, Laboratory for Sustainable Design Strategies. Kunsthochschule Berlin, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-9814373-2-4 (partly German, partly English).

Web links

• Heike Selmer at the Weißensee Academy of Art in Berlin
• greenlab
• Project "local international"

Selmer in interviews / portrait

• Interview by mitmischen.de about the project "local international"
• Interview by Deutschlandradios about the "local international" project
• Portrait in the Süddeutsche Zeitung