Rasa
Weber

Rasa Weber is an experimental designer, researcher, and diver exploring practice-based research on the intersection of critical ecology and anthropogenic environmental change. Her work integrates design, materials research, biology, and anthropology, with a strong narrative approach and a critical ecological perspective. The ocean serves as a central focus in her design research, particularly in the context of queer ecological figurations.

She is a lecturer and researcher at Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) and is pursuing a practice-based PhD, «SymbiOcean», investigating artificial reefs and marine habitat creation as a form of sympoietic design. She is also part of the Swiss National Science Foundation project «Interfacing the Ocean» and an associated researcher at the Cluster of Excellence «Matters of Activity» at Humboldt-University of Berlin.

She co-founded They Feed Off Buildings, a design and architecture collective, and previously led the studio Blond & Bieber, known for bio-based materials and color concepts. She has taught at institutions including the Royal College of Art London, Berlin University of the Arts, OCAD University Toronto, and the University of Leeds.

She recently published her first book together with Flore de Crombrugghe »333 Saftige Papayas. Ein unvollständiges Kompendium der dicken Dinger« at März Verlag.

Rasa is a 2nd Dan in Aikido (Tenshinkan Watanabe Sensei, Gruber).