Porsch, Nadja

Porsch, Nadja

Teaching Staff for Special Tasks | Director Textile Workshop

Since 2018 Lecturer for special tasks

Since 2010 Freelance designer; Specialising in corporate fashion, textile consulting, Industry 4.0 (digital textile factory)

2009 Patent granted for a textile manufacturing process

2008 Graduate designer (full-time position) for FA Karlie Heimtierbedarf GmbH in EU & CN

2003–2008 Graduate degree in product design, specialising in "textile product design" and "system design" at the Kassel Art Academy

2007 Internship at the Güsken Krefeld silk weaving mill 

2003 Journeyman's examination as a men's tailor at the Kassel State Theatre

2000 A-levels at the Wilhelmsgymnasium Kassel

Teaching:

2016–2018 Lecturer in textile technologies: cutting, garment construction, dyeing, colour & finishing, textile printing, weave theory, flat knitting, digital embroidery, tufting, at the Kassel Art Academy

2019–2021 Teacher of bespoke tailors and BÜA at the Elisabeth Knipping School in Kassel

2018, 2019 Lecturer in aesthetics and function of textiles and clothing, University of Osnabrück

2012, 2013 Lecturer in design management, University of Applied Arts & Sciences Hildesheim

Publications:

2024: "COLOURED BY THE SEA" – ALGAE EXPERIMENT
Publisher: kassel university press 137 pp. – ISBN 978-3-7376-1158-9

2023: "COLLECTION OF RECIPES" – TEXTILE COMPOSITE
Publisher: kassel university press 137 pp. – ISBN 978-3-7376-1097-1

2021: "GROWN IN GERMANY" – HANDWERK@HOME 
Publisher: kassel university press 185 pages – ISBN 978-3-7376-0937-1

Specialist articles in the industry magazine zza:

06/2024 "Festival of colours"
06/2022 "In detail"
06/2018 "New accessories"
07/2016 "Woven vs. knitted fabrics"
05/2016 "Trendscout on the road"
05/2014 “A trend is not a fashion”
05/2013 “Design works”