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Sophia Guggenberger studied fashion, shoe and product design in Vienna, London and Berlin. She worked as a designer for the shoe company Camper in Spain. Since 2015 she has been working as an independent designer researching production as a tool for transformation and has received a number of grants, including from the Akademie Schloss Solitude, the Austrian Ministry of Culture and the European Union. Her work focuses on sustainability and the development of multi-perspective solutions for the conception and manufacturing of products with a holistic approach to social, technical and material aspects.

Since Feb 2023 Research Assistant, Institute for Design Research Vienna
Oct 2021 - March 2023 Designer in Residence / Collaboration @ Atelier Luma, Arles, France
Feb - July 2021 Guest lecturer - Project “Schuhwerkstatt”, University of the Arts and Industrial Design Linz, Austria
Jan - Sep 2021 Syntropia with Eugenia Morpurgo, Refream Grant - Research Project Fashion and Technology - from the European Union, Starts/ Horizon 2020
Dec 2019 - Dec 2020 Textile Restauration, Textilrestaurierung Neugebauer; Vienna, Austria

Since May 2017 Independent Designer, Research and Development

April 2015 - 2018 AnOtherShoe, Development of a new model for shoe production. In collaboration with Eugenia Morpurgo.

Jan - Dec 2013 Collaboration with  Don’t Run Beta, Don’t Run Beta is a conceptual project researching alternative processes for production

Sep 2014 - Sep 2015 Freelance Designer, Camper

Nov 2012 - Sep 2014 Designer, Camper; Mallorca, Spain, Development of in- house collection

July 2012 Camper Summer Workshop; Mallorca, Spain


Education

Oct 2014 - Oct 2016 MA Design _ University of the Arts Berlin, Project: KONGLOMERATE 

Oct 2009 - July 2012 BA (hons) Cordwainers Footwear: Product Design and Development, London College of Fashion; London, UK

Sept 2007 - Juni 2009 Diploma for Fashion and Clothing Technology, HLMW Michelbeuern; Vienna, Austria


Awards & Fellowships
2022/2023 AFA support collection - ¡OJO! - A Shoe Collection
Sept 2021 START- Fellowship of the Austrian Ministry for Culture
Jan - Sept 2021 Refream Fellowhip -  Starts/ Horizon 2020 from the European Union

Nov 2019 Artist in Residence upon invitation of the  Goethe Institute Philippines, HUB Make Space, Manila, Philippines
Jan - Oct 2019 Fellow Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany

Jan - June 2018 Creative Prototyping Fellowship, University of the Arts Berlin, Fellowship of the European Social Fund and the Berlin Senate
June - Nov 2017 Berlin StartUp Fellowship, University of the Arts Berlin, Fellowship of the European Social Fund and the Berlin Senate

April 2016 AnOtherShoe _ Residency @ Maker in Residence Programme by WeMake Milan
May & Sep 2015 AnOtherShoe _ Residency @ Artist in Residence Programmme byTimelab Gent
June 2012 Runner- Up - Dato‘ Professor Jimmy Choo Awards 2012 of the Worshipful Company of Cordwainers


Exhibitions

Jänner 2024 Syntropia @ HKDI Gallery ; Hongkong

April-September 2023 Syntropia @ ADI Design Museum, Milan, Italy

April 2023 Footprint Arles & Footprint Egypt with Atlelier Luma @ Alcova Milan, Milan Italy

April 2023 Footprint Arles & Egypt-Atelier Luma @ Alcova Milano, Salone del Mobile, Milan, Italy

March 2023 Syntropia @ Villa Rot, Germany

Dec-Jan 2021/22 Syntropia @ Sorry we are Trying - Biomaterials in Practice; Bratislava, Slovakia

September 2021 Syntropia @ Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
November 2019 Postcards from the Philippines @ HUB Make Lab, First United Building; Manila, Philippines

October 2019 big foot displaced @ amarok friends of anorak, HuMbase, Stuttgart, Germany

June 2019 big foot stepping over @ Sommerfest, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
March 2019 MyFirstDayInUniform @ Engaging with Histories, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany
Jan-Feb 2019 thelast.tools @ DesignLab#1, Kunstegewerbemuseum, Berlin, Germany
October 2018 Collaboration CraftingPlastics!Studio and Malai @ designblok, Prague, Czech Republic
February 2017 Konglomerate @ Talente 2017; Munich, Germany
November 2016 Konglomerate @ formnext 2016; Frankfurt, Germany
October 2016 Konglomerate @ Natural Forces, designtransfer, Berlin, Germany
October 2016 AnOtherShoe @ Manufactuur 3.0; c-mine, Genk, Belgium
June 2016 AnOtherShoe @ Total Design Museum; Seoul, South Korea
April 2016 AnOtherShoe @ WeMake @ SaloneDelMobile 2016; Milan, Italy
Okt 2015 AnOtherShoe @ Rehogar 7; Barcelona, Spain
June 2015 AnOtherShoe @ Bratislava Design Week; Bratislava, Slovakia
Dec 2013 Don’t Run- Beta, High Street Factory in These Things Take Time Gallerie; Gent, Belgium
Oct 2013 Don’t Run- Beta part of Maakbar in der Budafabriek; Kortrijk, Belgium
Sep 2013 Don‘t Run- Beta part of Openstructure in Adhocracy, London Design Week, United Kingdom
Aug- Oct 2013 Don’t Run- Beta part of Openstructure in Gallery Oh; Sidney, Australia
June 2013 Don’t Run- Beta part of TheMachine3 in NAI; Rotterdam, Netherlands
May 2013 Don‘t Run- Beta part of Openstructure in Adhocracy, New Museum; New York, USA


Workshops
Februar 2024 Biomaterials in Practice @ Kunsthochschule Kassel, Germany

October 2023 Coral Reef - Regnerative Design, University of the Arts Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina

Febuary 2023 Biomaterials in Practice with Vlasta Kubusova, Bratislava, Slovakia

March 2018 AnOtherShoe @ ShoeStyleLab; Vigevano, Italy
Febuary 2018 AnOtherShoe @ Adidas Maker Lab; Herzogenaurach, Germany

December 2016 AnOtherShoe @ c-mine; Genk, Belgium

June 2016 AnOtherShoe @ Total Design Museum; Seoul, South Korea

April 2016 AnOtherShoe @ WeMake; Mailand, Italy

September 2015 AnOtherShoe @ Timelab; Gent, Belgium