Teaching / Workshops / Mentoring

Learning through
making.

I teach design and artistic concepts through experiments with materials, code, sound and physical systems. Students build, test and revise their ideas, developing technical understanding alongside their own artistic questions.

Approach

From shared exercises
to independent work.

My courses connect short technical and theoretical inputs with hands-on exploration. A common starting point gives students tools to work with; successive prototypes help them discover what those tools can do in their own practice.

Material behaviour, fabrication and control are developed together. Group discussions and individual feedback make the decisions behind an outcome visible—not just whether a prototype works, but how it shapes an experience.

Selected course / 01

Mechanisms of Control

Berlin University of the Arts · New Media Class · BA / MA · 2025–26

Exercises in Arduino, sensing, actuation and communication introduce ways to work with light, movement and interactive systems. Students reinterpret and combine these foundations, moving from code challenges and hardware experiments towards independent kinetic and media works.

Weekly prototype cycles connect technical choices to their perceptual and artistic effects. Topics include mechanisms and machines, light in time and space, and the practical value of testing an idea early.

Working together on physical computing and interactive prototypes.

Connecting code, electronics and physical components.

Testing a light-based prototype.

Selected course / 02

Introduction to Soft Robotics

Anhalt University of Applied Sciences · MA · Five-day workshop · May 2023

Co-taught with Virginia Binsch. Students explored how flexible films, geometry, joining methods, and air pressure can produce movement.

Brief introductions to research and techniques led into material experiments and the development of pneumatic structures. Fabrication and control were tested in parallel, with peer discussions supporting each iteration.

Material experiments in Introduction to Soft Robotics, May 2023.

Discussing material tests and pneumatic prototypes.

Selected course / 03

Kinetic Origami Structures

Anhalt University of Applied Sciences · MA · Five-day workshop · November 2023

Folding studies offered a route from a flat sheet to a moving three-dimensional structure. Students combined digital geometry with plotter and laser-cutting processes, then returned to physical models to refine their behaviour.

The course alternated theory, practical exercises and group projects. Peer and guest critiques connected geometric and material decisions to possible applications.

Selected course / 04

Changes in Creative Coding

Anhalt University of Applied Sciences · MA · Five-day workshop · May 2024

Do AI Copilots Actually Help? This workshop examined the use of AI assistance in creative coding for design students without any pre-existing knowledge of coding or relevant techniques.

Discussion during class, May 2024. Photograph: Harsh Pandya.

Peer review of a coding experiment. Photograph: Harsh Pandya.

Teaching record

Berlin University of the Arts

New Media Class

April–July 2026 — How to Make Mechanisms of Control. Teaching appointment, BA/MA.Physical computing, mechanisms, light, movement, sound and data-based systems for artistic installations.

April 2025–February 2026 — Mechanisms of Control. Teaching appointment, BA/MA. Creative and physical computing, sensors, actuators and interactive project development.

Anhalt University of Applied Sciences

Department of Design / International Master Integrated Design

November 2021–October 2024 — Research assistant with teaching responsibilities. Taught foundation and project courses in materials, technology, digital fabrication, and experimental design.

November 2024 — Narrative Powers of Sound. Five-day MA workshop; separate teaching appointment. Sound, perception, narration and space.

May 2024 — Changes in Creative Coding – Do AI Copilots Actually Help? Five-day MA workshop.

November 2023 — Kinetic Origami Structures – Geometric Prototyping. Five-day MA workshop.

May 2023 — Introduction to Soft Robotics – Designing for Motion. Five-day MA workshop with Virginia Binsch.

April–July 2022 — Material & Technology Foundation Course: CAD & Digital Fabrication. Introductory teaching in Rhino, digital construction and laser cutting, for two groups within a three-part foundation module.

November 2021 — Creative Coding for Designers. Five-day MA workshop.

Braunschweig University of Art

May 2022

Soft Robotics – Pneumatic Structures and How to Control Them. Two-day BA workshop and public talk, with Kristin Dolz. Material experiments, pneumatic structures, fabrication and control.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MIT Media Lab · February–May 2020

Sound: Past & Future – Projects in Music and Media. One of three teaching assistants. Co-developed and delivered exercises and teaching structures, supported student projects and the transition to remote teaching in spring 2020.

Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin

2012–13

October 2012–September 2013 — Sound Lab. Founder and tutor; established and ran the lab and supported student sound projects.

April 2012–September 2013 — Rapid Prototyping Workshop. Tutor supporting digital design and fabrication, physical prototypes and models.

Practice & research

Get in touch

Teaching through experiment.

For teaching appointments, workshops or mentoring in sound, physical computing and experimental design, tell me about your students, context and timeframe.

Learning throughmaking.

From shared exercisesto independent work.