Corpo-real discourse workshop - The Rodina / design research: Tereza Ruller
Tereza Ruller (she/her) identifies as a mother, a communication designer, a researcher, and an educator. In her practice—The Rodina—Ruller investigates the performative and critical approach toward graphic design. Her transdisciplinary practice emphasizes the power of situation, playfulness, active spectatorship, and relations between human and nonhuman actors. Ruller’s work is deeply collaborative and consists of participatory events, spatial installations, virtual environments, and visual identities. Addressing critical issues of our time—such as ecological, social, and political crises—she seeks to develop collective shifts in perspective.
Ruller works with multicultural and educational institutions such as Harvard GSD, FRONT International Triennial, CARA New York, Van Abbemuseum, Helsinki Biennial, ZKM Karlsruhe, and Columbia GSAPP.
Ruller is a professor of Communication Design and Digital Practices at HfG Karlsruhe and a Design Research tutor at ArtEZ, Arnhem. Next to her regular teaching, she is a frequent lecturer and leads workshops internationally – for example at ZHdK (CH), CalArts (USA), RCA (UK), Design Academy Eindhoven (NL), and Central Saint Martins (UK).