ABOUT

Bea Brücker is a biodesigner, researcher and artist. Her work explores the potential of bio' as a tool for social, political and ecological progress in response to the climate catastrophe and increasing social injustice. Since completing her MA at the Royal College of Art she has taught the Bio platform of the MA Fashion programme there. She is part of the Centre for Design Research in Hamburg and regularly works on multidisciplinary projects, for example with researchers from the Fraunhofer Society, with makerspaces or on theatre and film productions.

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Her research explores the development of biomaterials, computational design based on biological-structure formation and new fabrication technologies to develop an accessible climate- positive, post-capitalist biodesign practice. Her work interrogates how the combination of biodesign practices and new fabrication technologies could be used for a post-capitalist design practise. It is an expression of her fascination with the relationship between us and our natural and digital environments. Through sculptural and digital art, she explores new technologies, ecology and computational design. Working with biomaterials, installations, fashion and animation, alternate realities emerge, critically addressing issues such as neoliberalism, climate change, transhumanism and technologically enhanced ecologies. As a lecturer and speaker, she discusses the challenges of the climate crisis and the importance of systemic change.

Bea Brücker's work have won numerous awards, including the Fraunhofer 'High Tech Meets Tradition Competition,  Artsthread x Gucci Global Design Graduate Award, Future Fashion Competition, Silberstreifen Award and the Wesldet Exhibition Award. She earned her master’s degree in Fashion Biowear from the RCA in London in 2021. Prior to this, she completed her Bachelor's degree at the Hamburg University of Applied Sciences and a DAAD-funded exchange semester at California State University Long Beach. After graduating, she was part of the Youth Fashion Summit in Copenhagen, a two-year sustainability programme launched by the UN Global Compact, the Copenhagen Fashion Summit and the Global Fashion Agenda. Bea Brücker's work has been shown at Fashionclash Festival (Maastricht 2021), Westfield's Future Fashion (London 2021), ICADE (Beijing 2021) at Berlin Fashion Week- Neo Fashion (Berlin 2019) and in various exhibitions. Her work has been featured in iD Magazine, ARTS THREAD, Nick Knight's SHOWstudio, 1GRANARY and ZEITGEIST.

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