Rebecca Schedler

Rebecca Schedler is an instructor at the Living Station and is excited to explore with you how design, biology, and more-than-human perspectives can help us rethink our relationship to the living world.

Originally from Berlin and currently based in Rotterdam, Rebecca is a designer and researcher working at the intersection of design and science. Her practice investigates the complex relationships between social, cultural, political, and environmental systems, often through unexpected materials, organisms, and technologies. She is particularly interested in interspecies collaborations, material narratives, and the hidden infrastructures that shape our everyday lives.

Rebecca’s work frequently engages with materials and processes that are often overlooked, ignored, or considered taboo, from fungi and sweat to human waste and microbial ecologies. Through projects such as Symbiopunk, a bioreactor that transforms human waste into fertile compost with the help of fungi, she explores how alternative relationships between humans and other life forms might contribute to more equitable and sustainable futures.

She graduated from the Design Academy Eindhoven with a Master’s degree in Social Design and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Textile and Surface Design from Kunsthochschule Weißensee in Berlin. Alongside her own artistic and research practice, she has taught and mentored within the Biolab and Master’s programmes at Design Academy Eindhoven, focusing on material experimentation, ecological thinking, and interdisciplinary research.

If you would like to discuss a project, explore bio-based materials, get a slime mold as a new pet, or simply exchange ideas about design, ecology, and more-than-human futures, you are very welcome to get in touch.

r.t.schedler@hr.nl