Heidi Jalkh
Heidi Jalkh is an Experimental Designer trained in Industrial Design. She is a specialist in Logic and Technique of Form and holds a master in interdisciplinary research from OpenDesign, a joint program from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and the University of Buenos Aires (UBA).
Since 2010 she serves as a teacher at UBA, FADU and from 2020 at Universidad Austral. In 2018 she founded the interdisciplinary research group »Sistemas materiales«.
Her professional practice as a designer is the product of many interests she pursues passionately: craft, bio-inspired material fabrication, and Interdisciplinary research.
Heidi sees materials as a creative trigger. She is interested in making significant connections between the fields of biology, design, and engineering with the aim of achieving a higher level of integration between Form, behavior and material.
Cluster of Excellence
»Matters of Activity«
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Sophienstr. 22a
10178 Berlin
Exhibitions
Büsse, M. (curator), de Visscher, E. (curator), Dean, M., Dierichs, D., 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
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