Emma Sicher

Emma Sicher is an eco-social designer investigating materials and foods made with microorganisms. In particular, she researched microbial cellulose (MC) at the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free University of Bolzano, where she obtained her BA and MA degrees and conducted an interdisciplinary research project at Design F(r)iction Lab.

Her research focuses especially on MC-based materialities for packaging and food applications, MC production, and processing, with special attention on systemic dynamics and (g)local perspectives. In the project Weaving she deepens entanglements among design, microbiology, and anthropologic principles and how they could be translated into innovative MC-based appications. Her interest is especially in multispecies and multi-scale experimental approaches.