PhD
Student
E-mail: anja.neidhardt@umu.se
Mobile: +46 90 7867001
Background
I was born in Germany and grew up in the area of Frankfurt am
Main where I also completed my Bachelor's degree in Communication
Design in 2014. After working as a member of form design magazine's
editorial team for two years, I moved to the Netherlands to study
Design Curating and Writing (MA) at the Design Academy Eindhoven
and graduated in 2016. Before coming to Umeå I had been based in
Berlin, working as a self-employed design writer and
educator.
What I do
at UID
Next to working on my PhD thesis I also teach in the different
educations at UID.
Research
The aim of my research is to identify and analyse alternative,
intersectional feminist practices that could be implemented by
design archives and museums in order to contribute to the
development of more just design disciplines. Which products and
stories can be identified and analysed through the consultation of
protest archives from an intersectional feminist design
perspective? To what extent do feminist activist groups and
archives offer alternative, more socially and economically
sustainable design practices? And, can design archives and museums
represent those who are oppressed, rather than being accomplices of
discriminating structures reproduced by the industrial design
discipline.
Teaching
I aim at applying an intersectional feminist perspective to
design education, which includes norm-criticality, non-hierarchical
forms of learning with and from each other, and alternative
approaches to design histories, just to mention a few.
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