Univ.-Prof.
Annette Fauvel
MA
Annette Fauvel's approach to design driven by the question of how design can contribute to ecological and social transformation. Drawing on her background in textile and product design, she explores how materials, production processes and collaborative practices can contribute to more resilient and sustainable futures. Her work spans material innovation, education and interdisciplinary project development.
In addition to numerous freelance projects with companies, institutes and museums, Annette Fauvel worked as a textile designer for Nya Nordiska and as a product and range developer for Manufactum following her studies before devoting herself to teaching in 2018: As an artistic collaborator, she worked with renowned visiting professors and supervised product design students at the Kunsthochschule Kassel, as well as taking on teaching assignments for textile technology and materials science at various design universities.
Her teaching focuses on sustainable, circular and social design: design creates knowledge and awareness and - in collaboration with other disciplines - creates results in the form of materials and textiles, but also products, tools, concepts, processes, systems, services and communication strategies that help us on our way to a more ecologically and socially sustainable future. In 2022, she developed and facilitated the 6-month hybrid training programme ‘Circular Design: Material Innovation & Entrepreneurship’ for the Goethe-Institut Jordan, which was designed for 30 participants from Iraq, Jordan and Lebanon.
At the University of Kassel, she also supervised social entrepreneurs, coordinated interdisciplinary service learning projects and was involved in setting up the SDG+ Lab, the sustainability laboratory at the University of Kassel.