Hi, there!

Sabine Reitmaier (she / her) is a designer and researcher specializing in futures research, digital design, and transdisciplinary contexts to enable change and repair. Her design practice makes extensive use of tangible objects, artefacts and prototypes to stimulate conversation, communicate insights and explore the unknown. Materiality is at the heart of her work, whether developing prototypes for digital product development in a human-centred design process, or speculative design objects in a futures process.

She graduated with a Master's in Futures Studies from Freie Universität Berlin and a Diploma in Design from Hochschule für Gestaltung Offenbach. Currently she is part of otherwise studio. where she has recently developed and facilitated workshops in the context of generative ai, mobility and natures futures, bringing diverse voices together, telling stories that inspire action and connecting people meaningfully. 💚

She has developed concepts and applications such as "Mobility Design Guide", the serious game "FlowMo" and "Imagine Flow". She previously worked as research associate at Offenbach Institute for Mobility Design (OIMD) at Hochschule für Gestaltung and Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI), contributing to national and international research projects such as "Future Lives with Ocean and Waters (FLOW)" and "What the FAQ Informatik". Her work has been published in various academic publications and presented in international contexts and exhibitions.

As as a member of the Design Research Society (DRS), the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and sts.ing e.v., she continues to explore and shape what could be otherwise. Her research focus is on human-water relations, reparative futures, and relational lenses in design research. 😃