Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity

Heidi Jalkh

Berlin Science Week
2024
Speaker

Heidi Jalkh is an experimental designer, design educator, researcher, and curator, born in Medellín, Colombia, and currently based in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Trained in industrial design, she is a specialist in the Logic and Technique of Form and holds a master’s in interdisciplinary research through the Open Design program, a collaboration between Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (HU) and Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA).

Heidi’s work focuses on material design, blending her interests in bio-inspired and biofabricated materials, interdisciplinary research, and craft-based processes.

Since 2018, she has led the research group Sistemas Materiales and teaches at various universities in Argentina. In 2022, she received the Humboldt Innovation Prize and is currently a Bauhaus Earth Fellow. Heidi is also an associate member of the Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity.

Events by this speaker

07.11.

19:30 - 21:30

English

Clear the Stage for Science - the Science Slam of the Berlin Clusters of Excellence

Gregor Pasemann, Niels von Wardenburg, Roberta Astolfi, Alice Podestà, Tamanna Manjur Ahamad, Alina Pushkarev, Chun-Sheng Hsueh, Anna Lange, Heidi Jalkh, Andrew James Johnston

Berlin Clusters of Excellence

In a Seashell: Marine-Based Industries and Construction Meet Towards a More Sustainable Architecture

Angie Dub, Heidi Jalkh, Margaux Arabian, Kika Brockstedt, Sandra Revuelta Albero, Christiane Sauer, Rosa Hanhausen, Antje Nestler

Bauhaus Earth, Experimental, Matters of Activity