Prof. Dr. Patricia Ribault

Patricia Ribault will strengthen teaching and research in the Department of Theory and History at weissensee school of art and design berlin from the summer semester 2020.

The new professor for »Performative Design Research« was most recently Junior Professor for History and Theory of Gestaltung at the Institute for Cultural History and Theory at the HUB. She was involved in the Cluster of Excellence »Image Knowledge Gestaltung«, the forerunner of »Matters of Activity«, for which she is also a Principal Investigator.

Patricia Ribault started her career in design, ceramics and glassblowing and her research interests cover the fields of design, craft, art, body, work, technology, industry. Since 2011 she has also been leading a master's seminar at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts in Paris.