Design & Social Context
WiSe 2025/2026
Julia Läufer studied fashion and textile design at St. Martin’s School of Arts in London, and at the University of the Arts in Berlin. Together with her partner Marcus Keichel, she founded the design studio LÄUFER+KEICHEL Berlin in 2000.
The studio works with international companies such as Kristalia, Lammhults, Lapalma, Schönbuch, Thonet, Wilkhahn, Zeitraum, and others focusing on sustainable and innovative industrial designed furniture. With their concepts and designs, the studio aims to promote a sustainable relationship between people and objects. Reflecting on cultural contexts is essential for the development of new product ideas.
The studio’s designs have won numerous international awards, including German Design Awards, iF Design Awards, red dot design awards and Good Design Awards. Julia has been visiting professor for product design at the FHP University of Applied Sciences in Potsdam, but next to it she has worked mainly in the furniture industry and gained a lot of experience in developing products for work and domestic environments.
In the Wintersemester of 2025/26 will lead the project group Design & Social Context
Persönliche website: www.laeuferkeichel.de
More on this UdK project group:
SEE – Design and Social Context
