The Digital Turn

Zane Berzina did her Ph.D. at the London College of Fashion(University of the Arts London) in 2005. She has been a professor for textile and surface design (conceptual development of materials and surfaces) at the Weissensee Berlin School of Art since 2008, where she also initiated the transdisciplinary eLAB with her colleagues Barbara Junge and Carola Zwick. She is also an associate of the Goldsmiths Digital Studios (University of London). In her studio practice and research she is working on responsive and intelligent textiles, soft technologies, new materials and processes in the field of textiles as well as biomimetic practices. Barbara Junge studied visual communication and has been a professor for digital media in visual communication at the Weissensee Berlin School of Art since 2008, where she also initiated the transdisciplinary eLAB with her colleagues Zane Berzina and Carola Zwick. She also works as a freelance graphic designer and is a member of Milchhof: Atelier, a design studio in Berlin. Wim Westerveld studied graphic design at the Hogeschool voor de Kunsten in Arnhem (Arnhem school of art, Netherlands) and has been practicing, teaching and publishing in design since 1985. He has been a professor for typography and type design at the Weissensee Berlin School of Art since 2008. Carola Zwick took her degree in Industrial Design from the Berlin University of the Arts. She has been teaching interaction design at Magdeburg-Stendal University of Applied Sciences from 1998-2008 and as a professor for product design at Weissensee Berlin School of Art since 2008, where she also initiated the transdisciplinary eLAB with her colleagues Zane Berzina and Barbara Junge. She is also a co-founder of studio 7.5 in Berlin.