Louise Bennetts, Fashion Designer, Lecturer MA Fashion, Royal College of Art, London

Louise Bennetts is a designer, researcher, producer and lecturer specializing in research and development in future fashion and textile systems and sustainable innovation. Her clients include the interdisciplinary design studio Toogood and the fashion designer Roksanda Illinčić. From 2021-23 she led the research and development department for the sustainable textile innovation studio ReWeave and worked on developing fine art textiles for Tate Modern in 2023. She has taught at the Royal College of Art in London and the Edinburgh Collage of Art. She is currently co-curator of the State of Fashion Biennale 2024 in Arnhem, Netherlands.

Romin Heide, Product Designer

Romin Heide studied product design at the Coburg University of Applied Sciences with guest semesters at the Berlin Weißensee School of Art and the ENSCI|Les Aterliers in Paris. Together with Hanna Litwin, he has been running the design studio BÜRO FAMOS in Berlin since 2012. The studio’s work includes projects with a wide variety of materials in the areas of furniture, lighting and accessories and has been awarded the Apolline Prize of the Grassi Messe Leipzig and the Red Dot Award, among others.

Romin Heide’s long-standing involvement in the Association of German Industrial Designers – VDID e.V. included co-founding the VDIDlab, the association’s young designers’ organisation.

Since 2015, he has also held teaching positions at various universities – including Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle – and most recently a substitute professorship at Angewandte Kunst Schneeberg.

Jiro Kamata, Jewelery Artist

Jiro Kamata, born in Japan in 1978, lives and works in Munich. He studied at the Yamanashi Institute of Gemology and Jewelry Art in Kofu, Japan and at Pforzheim University. He then studied with Otto Künzli at the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich. His works have been exhibited internationally and are in several private and public collections, such as the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, the Grassi Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Leipzig, the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum, USA or the Victoria & Albert Museum, UK.