Sandra Böhm
Dipl. Designer, Product Design, University of Art and Design Karlsruhe, 2014
Contact: sandra.boehm@kit.edu
Doctoral Student at the Chair of Sustainable Construction KIT Karlsruhe 2021 – present / Lecturer and Researcher at the Chair of Sustainable Construction KIT Karlsruhe 2017 – present / Freelance Work as Designer 2015-2020 / Designer at Fachwerk Marketing GmbH 2016-2017 / founding Sandra Böhm Produktdesign 2015 / Assistant at Jerszy Seymour Designworkshop Berlin 2013 / Assistant at Studio Judith Seng und Alex Valder Berlin 2013
Sandra Böhm is a lecturer and researcher at the Chair of Sustainable Construction at KIT Karlsruhe. She studied product design at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, where she graduated in 2014. Her diploma thesis Komposita dealt with the recycling of biogenic waste materials and was presented at numerous exhibitions and trade fairs. In her doctoral thesis at KIT, she is researching the recycling of biogenic residues within the construction industry with a focus on bio-based insulation materials. She recently presented her research in a reviewed paper and talk at the Real Corp 2023 – let it grow, let us plan, let it grow conference in Ljubljana, Slovenia. Together with Elena Boerman, she is responsible for the KIT Material Library and its continuous development. The KIT Material Library focuses on circular architecture, as well es on sustainable and future-oriented building materials. In addition, she organizes and holds the material lecture series in the 1st semester and regularly organizes practice-oriented research seminars for master students.
Sandra Böhm published some articles and papers, recently the reviewed paper The Potential of Bio-Based Insulation Materials for Healthy Living Spaces and Sustainable Architecture (CORP – Competence Center of Urban and Regional Planning, 2023. URL: https://conference.corp.at/archive/CORP2023_90.pdf, doi:10.48494/REALCORP2023.3090) and the book chapter Der ästhetische Reiz der urbanen Mine (Heisel, Felix, und Dirk E. Hebel (Hrsg.). Urban Mining und kreislaufgerechtes Bauen. Die Stadt als Rohstofflager. Fraunhofer IRB Verlag, 2021).
Before taking her position at the KIT, she developed her own projects dealing with furniture design and experimental work on materials and material development. During her studies at the University of Art and Design Karlsruhe she also worked as an assistant at Jerszy Seymour Design Workshop Berlin and at Studio Judith Seng und Alex Valder in Berlin.
Sandra Böhm has already presented her projects in numerous exhibitions. Especially her furniture series Prei, which is made of recycled paper, has already been attracted by a number of exhibitions, such as in Circular Thinking “Innovation of Interior” – From Upcycling to Biofabrication, interzum, KölnMesse (2017), Es war einmal…, Passagen – Interior Design Week Köln, Galerie Kunst&So (2017), Have a seat, Saarländisches Künstlerhaus Saarbrücken (2016), Eunique, Messe Karlsruhe (2015), Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Milan, kkaarrlls (2012, 2013, 2014).
