Prof. Katrin Müller-Russo

• Poche / St. Karl / Reditum / Passagen
  Poche – for all the things inside the walls – between social and spiritual spaces: What used to be a space for worship services for a single religious community in churches is now evolving into a place for spiritual diversity and charitable purposes. The Poche project is a semester-long collaboration between KISD Design and Ecology, St. Karl Borromaus, and Reditum. Under the guidance of Professor Katrin Müller-Russo, students at KISD (Cologne International School of Design) designed transformable interiors for churches, from flexible walls to movable benches. The students visited the church during various events and ceremonies, met with parishioners, and gained a deep understanding of different religious practices and social institutions. As part of the course, interior design concepts for the church were developed and designs for flexible interior furnishings were created: movable walls, benches, cabinets, and folding tables. The Poche design accommodates the things that enable diverse and future uses of church spaces. The designs were presented to the St. Karl parish in 7/2023. For Passagen 2024, a focused project group from the original semester-long Poche project continued the design development of the flexible walls and movable benches and presented them during the Passagen exhibition. Models (on a scale of 1:25 and 1:1) and animations of the Poche interior and furniture were exhibited during Passagen 2024.
  Passagen: Poche
• Lab Culture / Between the Trees / MAKK / ÖkoRausch
  Lab Culture Design Projects: Collaboration with ÖkoRausch and the Museum of Applied Arts (MAKK). Prof. Katrin Müller-Russo together with students from KISD (Cologne International School of Design) present at the events program of the exhibition "Between the Trees". A tree is part of an underlying ecosystem in which the “Wood Wide Web” consists of a communicating and interacting mycelium network. In “Lab Culture,” a project in the field of design and ecology, materials, processes, and systems resulting from working with organic matter in this ecosystem are examined. Students present their experiments with fungi, cellulose, and particles and their application scenarios, from clothing to products to installations. The presentation of the semester-long project results took place at MAKK on April 2, 2023.
  Between the Trees Events Program MAKK: Lab Culture
• Nachtmann / Glass Design Competition / Riedel Factories / Ambiente
  Ten students from the Department of Industrial Design at Pratt Institute traveled to Germany and Austria on an intensive study of the glassware design industry, thanks to a semester-long competition sponsored by Nachtmann, one of the world’s top crystal manufacturers. As part of the contest, students attended Ambiente, the world’s leading tabletop exhibition in Frankfurt, Germany. They also visited three glass-making factories in Germany and Austria owned by Nachtmann and its parent-company, Riedel. Katrin Mueller-Russo, professor in the Department of Industrial Design, co-organized and guided the competition project. Nachtmann went into production with the awarded designs and a licensee agreement put in place with the students, 7/2010.
  Riedel/Nachtmann: Glass Design Competition

• Design Without Borders: A Multi-Everything Masters
  John Simon Stevens, Katrin Mueller-Russo, Megumi Fujikawa, Peter R. N. Childs, Miles Pennington, Scott Lundberg, Steve Diskin, Masa Inakage, Andrew Brand, 6/2015, Publisher: Aalto University, LearnxDesign, The DRS//CUMULUS// DESIGN-ED 2015 Chicago, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference for Design Education Researchers, Chapter 8, ISBN 978-952-60-0069-5, vol. 1–4
  Local and Global Connections to Design Education: GID program, a Masters Programme and collaboration between four centres of three cities over two years. This GID Programme is a collaboration between Pratt Institute, New York, Royal College and Imperial College, London and KEIO University Tokyo
  Global Innovation Design GID
• The Making of the 2015 Legend Award
  Katrin Müller-Russo, Kerchuan Soong, 10/2015, Publisher: Pratt Institute
  Faculty advisor for the Legend Award trophy design
  Design of the Legends Award
• Specific Objects: New York Design Duo Cast Creative Chair
  F. Brutscher, 3/2012, Publisher: Centurion online magazine, Germany
  Article on the T-Stool, ceramics and craft
• Lo más destacado de Object Rotterdam
  Victor Méndez, 2/2012, Publisher: Código online magazine, México
  Article on T Stool exhibited at Object Rotterdam
• Global Innovation Design: Learn Industrial Design in New York
  GID Faculty, 5/2015, Publisher: GID Keio University
  GID annual publication, Tokyo, Japan
• Cluj International Ceramics Biennale
  Katrin Müller-Russo, Rhett Russo, Specific Objects, 10/2013, Publisher: Cluj-Napoca Museum of Art, Romania
  Cluj International Ceramics Biennale, Exhibition Catalog, T-Stool, Ceramic, Cluj, Romania
  Cluj International Ceramics Biennale, 1st Edition
• Object Rotterdam: Keraamilise tooli T-Stool
  Eve Arpo, 3/2012, Publisher: Diivan Magazine, Estonia
  Article on ceramic T Stool exhibited at Object Rotterdam
• OBJECT Rotterdam 2012
  Sunday Morning @ EKWC, 2/2012, Publisher: Object Rotterdam
  Exhibition catalog, ceramic T-Stool representing the European Ceramic Workcentre EKWC at Object Rotterdam, Contemporary Design Fair
• Ambience 11 Exhibition: T-Stool
  Katrin Müller-Russo, Rhett Russo, Editors: A. Hellstrom, H. Landin, L. Worbin, 11/2011, Publisher: The Swedish School of Textiles, ISBN: 978-91-975576-7-2, p 6-11.
  Ambience 11 Exhibition, Where Art & Technology Meet Design, The Swedish School of Textiles, Borås, Sweden
  Ambience 11 Exhibition
• Textiles: Alternative Forms of Malleability
  Katrin Müller-Russo, Rhett Russo, Editor: Nancy de Freitas, 3/2011, Publisher: Studies in Material Thinking
  Studies in Material Thinking Volume 7, online journal, p.1-9, Invited submission
  Textiles: Alternative Forms of Malleability
• Ambience '11 Proceedings, Digital Architecture, Textiles: Alternative Forms of Malleability
  Katrin Müller-Russo, Rhett Russo, 11/2011, Publisher: The Swedish School of Textiles, Boras, Sweden, ISBN: 978-91-975576-8-9, Pgs: 207, peer reviewed; double blind referred 5000-word manuscript submission
  Ambience ’11 Proceedings, Textiles: Alternative Forms of Malleability, Swedish School of Textiles
  Ambience ’11, Proceedings
• Demo Hour: T-Stool
  Katrin Müller-Russo, Rhett Russo, Clemens Winkler, Kärt Ojavee, Eszter Ozsvald, James Charlton, Nico Refiti, 2/2012, Publisher: Interactions Magazine, ACM Association for Computing Machinery Inc., Volume 19, Issue 1, ISSN: 1072-5520, pgs 6-7
  T-Stool, project was selected for demo hour publication by instructors at the Swedish School of Textiles, University of Borås, Linda Worbin (textile design) and Clemens Thornquist (fashion design).
  Demo Hour: T-Stool
• Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production
  Specific Objects Inc., Editors Gail Peter Borden & Michael Meredith, 7/2011, Publisher: Taylor & Francis/Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-78028-5, Part 8 Matter Sensations, Chapter 26
  Matter: Material Processes in Architectural Production
• (P)Article House, speculative design for a 24-hour locker facility at Wall Street, New York
  Katrin Müller-Russo, Rhett Russo, 7/2000, Publisher: Metropolis Magazine, New York
  (P)Article House, a speculative design for a 24-hour locker facility and outdoor theater in New York. Entry for the Van Alan Institute’s competition entitled “A Temporary Cultural Exchange for Wall Street”.

• Lab Culture Design Projects
  Museum of Applied Arts MAKK, ÖkoRausch. Prof. Katrin Müller-Russo, together with students from KISD (Köln International School of Design), presents projects from the field of design and ecology as part of the supporting program for the exhibition “Between the Trees” at the Museum of Applied Arts MAKK.
  4/2023
  Programm Between the Trees MAKK ÖkoRausch KISD ECO Lab Culture
• Lab Culture
  Lecturer and juror at the 2022 BID, Bienal Iberoamericana de Diseño, Madrid
  11/2022
  BID Juror Introduction
• Professional Design Work, Scholarly Teaching and Research
  School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Designed Products department, Chicago, IL
  3/2016
• Design and Transformation
  University of Applied Sciences, Design department, Potsdam, Germany
  11/2015
• Design without borders: a multi everything masters
  LearnxDesign 3rd International Conference for Design Education Researchers, DESIGN-ED, Cumulus, Paper and presentation on Global Innovation Design Master GID, SAIC, Chicago, USA
  6/2015
• Interdisciplinary, Case study presentation
  RIDE Design Education at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, USA
  3/2015
• GID Global Innovation Design
  Global Innovation Design Forum, Lecture and workshop, Keio University Media Design, Tokyo, Japan
  12/2014
• Global Innovation Design Program Trailer
  Video presentation of GID program, Keio University Media Design, Tokyo, Japan and Pratt Institute, New York, USA
  12/2014
• Global Innovation Design Forum
  Lecture, workshop, board meeting, Keio University Media Design, Tokyo, Japan
  3/2014
• Textile Based Applications in Product Design
  University of Borås, Swedish School of Textiles, Sweden
  12/2013
• GID: Intro to Pratt
  Royal College of Art/Imperial College, Innovation Design Engineering program (IDE), London, Great Britain
  2/2013
• Global Innovation Design Symposium
  Lecture, Workshop, Board Meeting, Keio University KMD, Tokyo, Japan
  11/2012
• Textiles: Alternative Forms of Malleability
  Ambience ’11, Proceedings, Where Art & Technology Meet Design, The Swedish School of Textiles, Borås, Sweden
  11/2011
• Design Research
  University of Pennsylvania, Integrated Product Design department (IPD), Philadelphia, PA, USA
  5/2011
• From Technique to Product
  Rhode Island School of Design, Industrial Design department, Providence, RI, USA
  4/2011
• Sustaining your Business: Sustaining the World
  American Institute of Architects (AIA) NYC 2-day seminar and lecture
  11/2008

• ArcInTex
  Research through design network, member since 2012
  
  ArcInTex Home Page

• Pratt Faculty Development Award 2013/2014, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, USA
  Sintered granular porcelain
• Residency at the European Ceramic Workcentre, 12/2011-1/ 2012
  Large scale press molded ceramics & glazing, s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
• Residency at the European Ceramic Workcentre EKWC, 6-8, 2011
  T-Stool, Ceramic furniture, CNC Ceramic mold making, Full-Scale prototyping, s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
• Pratt Faculty Development Award 2010/2011, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, USA
  Ceramic techniques for furniture design
• Pratt Faculty Development Award 2007/2008, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, USA
  Electroforming techniques in product design
• Landscape Architectural Competition Wismarplatz, Berlin, 1995, 2nd Prize
  Redesign of an urban plaza.
• Ideas Competition Design Plus, Frankfurt, Tokyo, 1992, 3rd Prize
  Hearing aid design for children
• Scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 9/1988
  Study abroad program in Cuba, with one-year advance preparation (Architecture, design, history, Spanish language)

EXHIBITIONS

Emerging Practices: Material Matters, Idea Exchange Design at Riverside, curated by Ila Berman, University of Waterloo, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada, 11/2015

Data Clay: Digital Strategies for Parsing the Earth, Museum of Craft and Design, Flabella and T-Stool, invited group show, San Francisco, CA, USA, 1/2015

Digital Machines and Creative Production, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA, 10/2014

Cluj International Ceramics Biennale, Large T-Stool and Heap Tiles, Cluj, Romania,10/2013

Pratt Institute Faculty Development Fund, T-Stool ceramic prototypes, Schafler Gallery, New York, USA, 6/2012

OBJECT Rotterdam, Contemporary Design Fair, T-Stool, invited solo exhibition, The Netherlands, 2/2012

Suzhou Fast Forward, Moraine, WorkShop Gallery, invited group show, Toronto, Canada, 10/2012

Ambience 11, Where Art & Technology Meet Design, T-Stool, juried exhibition, Boras, Sweden, 10/2011

EKWC Final Presentation, Hertogenbosch, solo show, The Netherlands, 8/2011

Newark Visitor Center, Online Gallery, finalist, juried group show, 10/2009

Project 4, “Useless“ exhibition, invited group show, Washington, DC, USA, 5/2007

The University of the Arts, UArts Faculty Work: 2001 Show, Philadelphia, PA, USA, 6/2001

Van Alen Institute, “A Temporary Cultural Exchange for Wall Street”, entry selected for the Paris Prize Exhibition, New York, USA, 2/1997

International Design Conference, USWA ”Young Designers”, group show, Aspen, CO, USA, 5/1996