Rasa Weber

Rasa Weber is a designer with a focus on bio-based materials and interdisciplinary research. She is a researcher at Zürich University of the Arts in the Interaction Design department and an associated member of the Cluster of Excellence »Matters of Activity« at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. In her PhD thesis »Symbiocean«, she researches on the process of underwater mineral accretion and its sympoïetic potential for the ecological formation of marine habitats. At the intersection of marine biology, anthropology and design, she explores the notion of Interspecies Architecture with her practice-based and theoretical research on sympoïetic design processes with human, animal and microbial actors in the ocean.