We are pleased to invite you to the inaugural lecture by Johanna Seelemann, who will take over the project professorship in the Product Design Study Programm at the Kunsthochschule Kassel in the winter semester 2025/26. All interested parties are cordially invited.
Born in Leipzig in 1990, Johanna Seelemann is a designer whose practice drifts between Germany and Iceland, tracing the stories hidden within the objects of everyday life. Educated in design in both Iceland and the Netherlands, she founded her studio in 2020.
Her work decodes the mundane — from the packaging and tools that accompany us daily to the systems of production and circulation that shape them. By following supply chains and exploring material languages, she opens up alternative readings of the prosaic, together ideas of substitution, adaptation, and resilience. The studio’s approach moves fluidly across product design, conceptual research, and strategy, often blending disciplines into thoughtful experiments that suggest how design might serve new values in a changing world.
Seelemann’s practice has reached an international audience, with exhibitions at institutions such as the Design Museum London, the Victoria & Albert Museum, and Villa Noailles in Hyères. Her work has been recognised with the Green Concept Award (2022), and in 2023 she was shortlisted as Emerging Designer of the Year by Dezeen Awards. Wallpaper* also named her among the creative leaders of the future, highlighting her role in expanding the ways design is practiced today.
Date & Location:
Monday, October 13, 2025, 12pm
Lecture Hall, Kunsthochschule Kassel
Studio Johanna Seelemann:
johannaseelemann.com/studio