Anna Schäffner

Anna Schäffner is Pre-Doctoral Candidate at Matters of Activity within the project Filtering, and a practice-based PhD Candidate in the SACRe doctoral program at École nationale superieure des Arts Décoratifs.
She studied Product Design in France and in Berlin at the weissensee school of art and design berlin, where she graduated with a Master in 2021.
Her research focuses on soft robotics, and the design of deformation as a vector of movement, as a capacity for dynamic material adaptation and expressiveness. Through the practice of design, she explores hybrid forms of interacting advancing the relation between robotic objects and their environments.
Cluster of Excellence
»Matters of Activity«
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Sophienstr. 22a
10178 Berlin
Talks & Presentations
Weber, R., Schäffner, A. »A Sympoietic Ocean. Design research with/in the marine holobiont«. Talk at the ISEA Conference, Ecosystems – Climate Change. Symbiotic Organizations. Les Halles, Paris. 17 May 2023.
https://www.isea-archives.org/isea2023_presentation_weber