Function (s) at PHBern Lecturer Fachwissenschaften Textiles Design and subjectdidactics Textiles and technical design Co-leader Fachdidaktikzentrum and Masterstudiengang Fachdidaktik Textiles and Technical Design - Design Work areas at PHBern Teaching activity in the department of design, focus on textile design in basic education Development of textiles and technical design at primary level Traineeship students Supervision of Bachelor's thesis in the design department Fachdidactical Development Research Textiles and Technical Design - Design Cooperations Master Fachdidaktik Textiles und Technisches Gestalten - Design   Professional background Since 2012 lecturer for textile design PHBern 2005-2008 Guest lecturer at the University of Arts in Zurich and Basel, University of Zurich and F + F School of Art and Mediendesign, Zurich 2012 Teaching at the intermediate level in the program "Universikum", school office of the city of Zurich 2007-2011 Doctorate (scholarship Dr. Carlo Fleischmann Foundation and Marienheim-Vögtlin scholarship of the Swiss National Science Foundation) at the teaching and research center for the theory and history of photography, Kunsthistorisches Institut der Universität Zürich 2000-2007 Kunstvermittlung Fotomuseum Winterthur and Fotostiftung Switzerland 2005 scientific cooperation Zurich University of the Arts 1996-2000 Teaching Textiles Design / Handwork Primary schools Canton Zurich 1996-1998 Co-operation and course management in the field of textile design in the "Workshop", Winterthur, open workshop for children and adults 1996-1998 assistant costumes at theaters in Zurich, Winterthur and New York  

Research activities at PHBern Since August 2016: Co-lead research project "Developing Textile Products Cooperatively" through Dialogue and Process-oriented Learning (together with Elisabeth Eichelberger), part of the project "Competence-oriented, subject-specific teaching development" Research activities outside PHBern 2007-2011 Research project (dissertation) "From agglomerations and highways. Photographical discourse on the changed settlement landscape of Switzerland between 1960 and 1991" within the framework of the Swiss National Science Foundation's ProDoc "Art & Science" graduate school 2005 research assistant at the "Fotokultur in der Schweiz 1930-1950" project, Hans Finsler and the Fotoklasse der Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich "at the Zurich University of the Arts