Jennifer Keusgen is a textile and fashion designer with a research-driven approach. Her creative practice explores alternative methods of producing fashion, based on the concept of 'Caring Garments' that prioritize the tactile and haptic criteria relevant to the human body. Using methods from integrative design, design research, speculative design, and critical design, she creates artefacts and experiences that aim to provide both embodied experience and space for critical reflection.
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After completing her fashion design studies at Pforzheim University - School of Design and studying abroad at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, India, Jennifer Keusgen worked internationally as a concept and fashion designer for several years. In 2020, she completed a Master's degree in Integrative Design at the Academy of Art and Design (FHNW) in Basel. Her master project, 'Tactile Matters,' has been featured in various design magazines and exhibited internationally.
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As a research assistant at the Studio for New Materials and Technologies in the Department of Textile Design at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, she lectures on new textile practices in the field of electronic and digital textiles.
LECTURES / PUBLICATIONS / EXHIBITIONS
2024
E-Textile Konferenz Berlin, DE – lecture: 'The Beauty of Textile Pressure Sensors and the Tastefulness of their Applications in the Context of the Human Body' – together with V. Aumann, S. Kim
2024
HGK Basel, Institut Innenarchitektur und Szenografie, CH – lecture: 'Spatial Clothes – Wearable Spaces'
2024
ABK Stuttgart, DE – textile design degree programme – publication: Stitching New Worlds
2023
ISOLA Design — Salone del Mobile, Milan, IT — exhibition: Take Care
2023
TUM München, DE – lecture: textile shading
2021
Pforzheim University of Art and Design, DE – lecture: Tactile Matters
2020
Junior Design Research Conference, Hochschule Luzern, CH – lecture: Tactile Matters
2019
Raum und Wohnen
2019
AD Architectural Digest – Neues Malen – p. 36
2019
Wohnrevue
2019
Mis Magazin
2019
Brigitte Woman
TEACHING / WORKSHOPS
2025
PH Tirol Innsbruck, AUT – workshop together with Anna Blumenkranz
2024 – 2025
Staatliches Textil- und Industriemuseum Augsburg, DE – workshop introduction to electronic textiles
2024
PH Tirol Innsbruck, AUT – Material Mindfulness – workshop together with Anna Blumenkranz
2021 – 2023
ABK Stuttgart, DE – academic assistant – Studio New Materials and Technologies
2023
ABK Stuttgart, DE – Heat: Textile and fashion design for a changing climate – Impulse workshop in cooperation with Bilge Kobas, SENSE LAB, TUM Munich
2022
Museum Brandhorst, München, DE – BLINK BLINK BZZ BZZZ...! – e-textile workshop together with Anna Blumenkranz
2022
FHNW, Hochschule für Kunst und Gestaltung Basel, CH – Textile Fiction Crafting Lab – interdisciplinary e-textile workshop together with Sophie Kellner
2022
ABK Stuttgart, DE – Materiality of Soft Sound – interdisciplinary e-textile workshop with Sophie Kellner
2017 – 2022
Akadamie für Mode und Design München, DE – vistiting lecturer
2020
FHNW, Hochschule für Kunst und Gestaltung Basel, CH – e-textile workshop together with Sophie Kellner
2016 – 2018
Mediadesign Hochschule München, DE – vistiting lecturer
COLLABORATIONS / CLIENTS & REFERENCES
ASCA, Deutsche Institute für Textil und Faserforschung, Fondation Beyeler Basel, Hennes & Mauritz Stockholm, HGK Basel, Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM), Lenbachhaus München, Museum Brandhorst München, PH Tirol, Tim Augsburg
EDUCATION
MA – Integrative Design – Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, CH
BA – Fashion Design – University of Design Pforzheim, DE
Jennifer Keusgen is a textile and fashion designer with a research-driven approach. Her creative practice explores alternative methods of producing fashion, based on the concept of 'Caring Garments' that prioritize the tactile and haptic criteria relevant to the human body. Using methods from integrative design, design research, speculative design, and critical design, she creates artefacts and experiences that aim to provide both embodied experience and space for critical reflection.
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After completing her fashion design studies at Pforzheim University - School of Design and studying abroad at the National Institute of Design in Ahmedabad, India, Jennifer Keusgen worked internationally as a concept and fashion designer for several years. In 2020, she completed a Master's degree in Integrative Design at the Academy of Art and Design (FHNW) in Basel. Her master project, 'Tactile Matters,' has been featured in various design magazines and exhibited internationally.
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As a research assistant at the Studio for New Materials and Technologies in the Department of Textile Design at the State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart, she lectures on new textile practices in the field of electronic and digital textiles.
LECTURES / PUBLICATIONS / EXHIBITIONS
2024
E-Textile Konferenz Berlin, DE – lecture: 'The Beauty of Textile Pressure Sensors and the Tastefulness of their Applications in the Context of the Human Body' – together with V. Aumann, S. Kim
2024
HGK Basel, Institut Innenarchitektur und Szenografie, CH – lecture: 'Spatial Clothes – Wearable Spaces'
2024
ABK Stuttgart, DE – textile design degree programme – publication: Stitching New Worlds
2023
ISOLA Design — Salone del Mobile, Milan, IT — exhibition: Take Care
2023
TUM München, DE – lecture: textile shading
2021
Pforzheim University of Art and Design, DE – lecture: Tactile Matters
2020
Junior Design Research Conference, Hochschule Luzern, CH – lecture: Tactile Matters
2019
Raum und Wohnen
2019
AD Architectural Digest – Neues Malen – p. 36
2019
Wohnrevue
2019
Mis Magazin
2019
Brigitte Woman
TEACHING / WORKSHOPS
2025
PH Tirol Innsbruck, AUT – workshop together with Anna Blumenkranz
2024 – 2025
Staatliches Textil- und Industriemuseum Augsburg, DE – workshop introduction to electronic textiles
2024
PH Tirol Innsbruck, AUT – Material Mindfulness – workshop together with Anna Blumenkranz
2021 – 2023
ABK Stuttgart, DE – academic assistant – Studio New Materials and Technologies
2023
ABK Stuttgart, DE – Heat: Textile and fashion design for a changing climate – Impulse workshop in cooperation with Bilge Kobas, SENSE LAB, TUM Munich
2022
Museum Brandhorst, München, DE – BLINK BLINK BZZ BZZZ...! – e-textile workshop together with Anna Blumenkranz
2022
FHNW, Hochschule für Kunst und Gestaltung Basel, CH – Textile Fiction Crafting Lab – interdisciplinary e-textile workshop together with Sophie Kellner
2022
ABK Stuttgart, DE – Materiality of Soft Sound – interdisciplinary e-textile workshop with Sophie Kellner
2017 – 2022
Akadamie für Mode und Design München, DE – vistiting lecturer
2020
FHNW, Hochschule für Kunst und Gestaltung Basel, CH – e-textile workshop together with Sophie Kellner
2016 – 2018
Mediadesign Hochschule München, DE – vistiting lecturer
COLLABORATIONS / CLIENTS & REFERENCES
ASCA, Deutsche Institute für Textil und Faserforschung, Fondation Beyeler Basel, Hennes & Mauritz Stockholm, HGK Basel, Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures (IXDM), Lenbachhaus München, Museum Brandhorst München, PH Tirol, Tim Augsburg
EDUCATION
MA – Integrative Design – Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, CH
BA – Fashion Design – University of Design Pforzheim, DE
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