Maike Gebker studied integrated product design at the Coburg University of Applied Sciences and transformation design at the Braunschweig University of Fine Arts. She worked in the field of political consultancy in sustainable and resilient transformation. In her work for the University of Edinburgh, she researched the possibilities of design for communicating temporalities within natural processes and participation methods for co-design initiatives. Today she works as a research associate at the Institute for Design Research at the Braunschweig University of the Arts on multidisciplinary research projects investigating the influence of technical and social innovations on natural actors in the future imaginations of agriculture and urban development.
