Heidi Jalkh
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. She leads the research group Sistemas Materiales and teaches at various universities in Argentina.
In 2022, Heidi received the Humboldt Innovation Prize and in 2024 she was awarded the Experimental fellowship at Bauhaus Earth.
Cluster of Excellence
»Matters of Activity«
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Sophienstr. 22a
10178 Berlin
Edited Volumes & Exhibition Catalogues
Pozzetti, G., Jalkh, H. ed. 2024. Trazos edición biomateriales. With contributions by Jalkh, H., Schäffner, W., Beyer, B., Suarez, D. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Sistemas Materiales.
Highlighted by La Nación, The Praxis Journal, DeArchNet.
Exhibitions
Heidi Jalkh, Gisela Pozzetti, Valentina Aliaga, Claudia Banz. Matter of South. Biomaterial Cultures from Latin America. Exhibition. More Than Human: Design after the Anthropocene. Kunstgewerbemuseum. 12 July 2024 - 26 August 2024.
Büsse, M. (curator), de Visscher, E. (curator), Banz, C., Dean, M., Dierichs, K., Eder, M., Eigen, L., Guiducci, L., Hehemeyer-Cürten, J., Jalkh, H., Kycia, A., Mareis, C., Nyakatura, J. A., Rasehorn, F., Rešetar, I., Ribault, P., Sauer, C., Sauer, I., Schneider, M., Stock, R., Shone, J., Wenig, C. Design Lab #13. Material Legacies. Exhibition. Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Museum of Decorative Arts. Kunstgewerbemuseum. 3 November 2022 - 26 February 2023.
https://www.smb.museum/en/museums-institutions/kunstgewerbemuseum/exhibitions/detail/design-lab-13/
Highlighted by TAZ, 15.11.2022.
Talks & Presentations
Beyer, B., Bauer, F., Jalkh, H., Schäffner, W. Constructing activity. Keynote at the Trazos biomateriales, Biomaterial Traces Conversation. Centro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires. 2 December 2022.
http://www.centroculturalrecoleta.org/agenda/trazos-biomateriales
Guiducci, L., Jalkh, H. A (re)programmable auxetic sheet for morphing applications. Talk at the CurvoBio2022, Berlin. 24 August 2022.
Guiducci, L., Jalkh, H. A (re)programmable auxetic sheet for morphing applications. Talk at the Mini-Symposia - 1- 3 - Architected Materials. National University, Galway. 5 July 2022.
Teaching & Courses
Dierichs, K., Farmer, J., Eder, M., Hehemeyer-Cürten, J., Jalkh, H., Lienhard, J., Liu, D., Margariti, J., Schilling, A. Minimal Machines 2 - Hygroscopic Hemp. MoA Design Research Studio, weißensee school of art and design berlin. 4 April 2022 - 8 July 2022.
https://www.matters-of-activity.de/en/activities/11038/minimal-machines-2
Prizes & Competition Awards
Jalkh, H. 2022. Humboldt Preis 2022. Research to Innovation. »Making matter active through form. Fabricating bio-inspired behavior with auxetic structures.« Master thesis supervised by Rodrigo Martin Iglesias and Lorenzo Guiducci.
https://www.hu-berlin.de/de/ueberblick/menschen/ehrungen/humboldtpreis/archiv/humboldt-preis-2022