About

In her work Eileen is always looking for surprising and engaging ways to engage with non-experts on complex issues of technology, society and politics. She is particularly interested in discovering overlooked systemic relations. Through the means of design she explores new ways to collectively imagine preferable futures and create alternative presents.

Eileen is co-author of the book »Zukünfte gestalten – Spekulation. Kritik. Innovation. Mit Design Futuring Zukunftsszenarien strategisch erkunden, entwerfen und verhandeln.« published by Hermann Schmidt, 2022.

Besides her design and research projects, Eileen lectures internationally at Universities, hosts workshops and facilitates future dialogues. She lives with her wife in Stuttgart (Germany) and Cotes d’Armor (France).

Eileen’s work has been published widely (i.a. Fast Co.Design, Page, BBC Brasil, ZEIT online, BILD) and awarded (i.a. German Design Award, Deutscher Mobilitätspreis, Werner von Siemens Excellence Award).

In 2015 she co-founded moovel lab, a space for ideas on the futures of urban mobility. From 2020 to 2022 she was Visiting Professor for Strategic Design at the HfG Schwäbisch Gmünd, University of Applied Sciences Schwäbisch Gmünd.

Since 2022 she is Professor for Systemic Design at the Faculty of Design at the University of Applied Sciences Munich where she teaches in the Bachelor and Master Program and conducts research on the role of design in the context of social change and transformative processes.