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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       WorkSSelected Works
   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
   

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Post-Labouratory

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Publisher: Querido
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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.

Through individual sessions with post-labour companions, participants explored the possibility of a post-labour future by developing a robot designed to take over their own work. The creative process of imagining, discussing, and building the robot enabled participants to reflect on their relationship to labour, leisure, and personal desires beyond economic productivity.

The project proposes that the development of automated technologies can become more meaningful when the people whose work is being automated actively participate in the design process. During the collaboration, the robot became an apprentice of the participant, learning from their specific knowledge, skills, and experiences while simultaneously opening up questions about the future of work and human-machine relationships.

Post-Labouratory was nominated for the Gijs Bakker Award 2017.


Following the pilot project with Veronique, a cleaner, Will, a post officer, and Sjors, a wall painter, the Post-Labouratory expanded into a series of further experiments and speculative scenarios. These included a tea maker robot developed in Istanbul, a photographer robot in Detroit, participatory formats for discussing the automation of visitors’ own labour, a chatbot exploring how to invest money in order to support the automation of one’s labour, a series of robots that build robots, and a speculation on the future automation of Ottonie von Roeder’s labour, among others.

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