Susanne Schwarz-Raacke

Susanne Schwarz-Raacke (* 1958 in Bremen ) is a German industrial designer and professor for design principles and product design at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art . She lives and works in Berlin .

Career

After studying educational sciences from 1978 to 1980 at the University of Hamburg , she completed the study of industrial design at the University of Fine Arts (HFBK) Hamburg , which she graduated with a diploma in 1986. She then worked as an artistic assistant at the University of Hanover / Institute for Industrial Design and at the Berlin University of the Arts , today Berlin University of the Arts (UdK) in the Department of Design, Design Basics. From 1991 to 2000 she lived in Switzerland. During this time she was employed as an industrial designer in the design team of the telecommunications company "ascom".

At the same time, she was a member of the project team to set up the art and design department at the FH Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW), which conceived and founded the industrial design department at the FHNW. From 1999 to 2001 she was a lecturer at the Institute for Industrial Design at the University of Art and Design FHNW.

Back in Germany she worked as a freelance designer. From 2004 to 2009 she was visiting professor at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin. Since 2009 she has been professor for design principles and product design at the art college. Her design practice focuses on the design of telecommunication devices and machines, as well as products in the areas of cooking, food and nutrition. At the beginning of 2010 she initiated and founded the greenlab, a laboratory for sustainable design strategies, at the Weißensee Kunsthochschule berlin together with Zane Berzina and Heike Selmer .

Publications

• GreenDesign series of publications together with Zane Berzina, Heike Selmer, Steffen Schuhmann

Awards

• 1984 Federal Prize for Good Form / Cookware
• since 1993 various awards at IF Hannover

Exhibitions

• 1990 Exhibition "Women in Design" in the IDZ, Technologie und Innovationspark Berlin
• 1994 Exhibition "Good Offices and beyond", as well as inclusion in the permanent collection of the Cooper Hewitt National Museum of Design New York / ISDN device family "ascom office" and cordless telephone "ascom libra"
• 1996 touring exhibition of the Swiss Industrial Design Pavilion / avalanche search device “ascom barryvox”, as well as cordless telephones “Tritel Leysin” (Swisscom) and “Beocom 5000”, stations in Sydney and Singapore
• 2002/03 "Nice and good: Design from Switzerland", exhibition in the Yellow House in Flims / Switzerland "ascom barryvox"

Web links

• Portrait on the pages of the KH Weißensee
• Biography on art-in-Berlin.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ A shared view - stitching together ideas in time: a walking project from students at Weissensee Kunsthochschule Berlin . In: Carnac, Helen; Berzina, Zane; Schwarz-Raacke, Susanne; Selmer, Heike; Klug, Alex (Ed.): Green Design 2.0 . Weißensee Kunsthochschule Berlin, Berlin 2012, ISBN 978-3-9814373-2-4 , p. 191 .