Ottonie von Roeder
Experimental designer and educator based in Leipzig, Germany.
Her practice creates fictional institutions, participatory infrastructures, and speculative services through which alternative social, ecological, and technological futures can be collectively imagined, prototyped and inhabited.
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Viennese Caviar goes Vegan
Home Tours
Post-Labouratory
Cow&Co
Motel win-win
Inside-Out
La Grande Transformation
Dream Factory
Selected Teaching
2022 Jelly World, Die Angwandte Vienna
2020/21 Find a Fact & Act, UdK Berlin
2017 - 2020 Bauhaus Agenten, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
2018/19 New Grounds - Neue Gründe, UdK Berlin
website currently under construction
Selected Works
Viennese Caviar goes Vegan
Collaboration with Anastasia Eggers
Vienna Biennale for Change 2021
Viennese Caviar goes Vegan offers a sustainable take on a historically exclusive delicacy, redefining luxury by transforming invasive, edible underwater plants from Vienna's Old Danube into a premium, fish-friendly alternative.
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Home Tours
Collaboration with Anastasia Eggers, Silvia Susanna and Alessandro Fonte
Goethe-Institut Milan, KdFS Cultural Foundation of the Free State of Saxony 2020 - 2022
Home Tours is a fictional travel agency that designs touristic experiences within the travelers' own homes. By turning familiar domestic spaces into holiday destinations, the project reimagines tourism as a tool for shifting perspectives on everyday environments, the body, and identity.
Post-Labouratory
Design Aacdemy Eindhoven, Istanbul Design Biennial, Institute of Design Research Vienna, Baltan Laboratories, Goethe-Institut Budapest, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau and more 2017 - 2023
Post-Labouratory is a fictional office that addresses the cultural crisis of rapid automation. By inviting participants to co-design a robot that replaces their own labour, the project transforms job abolition into a speculative process of rethinking labour and work, purpose, and human desires beyond productivity.
Cow&Co
Including Egg to Go and BeestenbuurtCollaboration with Anastasia Eggers
Post-Fossil City Contest 2017
Vienna Design Week 2019
Cow&Co is a speculative concept featuring a fictional collective of cows that launches its own enterprise. By becoming self-sufficient dairy machines and taking control of milk production and distribution, the project imagines a future in which farm animals become economic actors, challenging conventional ideas of labour, agency, and human–animal relationships while inspiring other farm animals to follow suit.
Motel win-win
Collaboration with Anastasia Eggers
Temporary Art Center Eindhoven 2018 - 2019
Motel win-win is a collaborative platform that speculates on the future of hospitality. By taking the form of a temporary hotel where guests exchange their skills for a night’s stay, the project reimagines tourism as a form of participation, enabling visitors and local communities to co-create cultural experiences.
Inside Out
Collaboration with Anaïs Borie and Aram Lee
Zuiderzeemuseum Enkhuizen 2016
Museum der Dinge, Bröhanmuseum and Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin, Forecast Platform 2018
Inside Out activates forgotten design artefacts by bringing them from museum depots into contemporary contexts. The project breathes new life into objects usually hidden in storage facilities by creating a celebratory journey that temporarily reintroduces each object into public life on a specifically chosen day.
La Grande Transformation
Collaboration with Anaïs Borie and Aram Lee
Goethe-Institut Marseille, Friche la Belle de Mai 2019
La Grande Transformation is a participatory performance that questions the authority of the modern design canon. During a walk-in workshop, designers and local citizens collectively transformed everyday objects into fictional Bauhaus artefacts, reimagining iconic design movements through contemporary everyday culture.
Dream Factory
Collaboration with Anaïs Borie and Aram Lee
Dutch Design Week, Plug In City Eindhoven 2016
Dream Factory is a durational performance that transforms the logic of industrial production into a lived experience. By living and working inside a specialized vending machine, the designers produce candles in the shape of their own busts, inviting consumers to literally burn the producer.