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            ︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎ Toni Wagner ︎︎︎ she/her/they ︎︎︎ a designer, researcher, storyteller, learner, feminist, maker – born and raised on a farm in the German south, I embrace a practical working-class background that follows a deep curiosity to untangle intuitively felt struggles.

           Holding a BA in Interaction Desgin and MA in Critical Design Research my practice is situated at the intersection of design research, storytelling, (user) experience design, and workshop facilitation. My methods aim to actively translate relationships between critical theory, design, and everyday-practices to a broad audience, aiming to explore different formats from user research, product development, to writing, programming and workshop facilitating.




               
︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎What I Do

︎ (UX) Design Research
︎ Concept Development
︎ Writing
︎ Editorial and Graphic Design
︎ UI & UX Design
︎ Project managment & Coordinatoin
︎ Workshop Facilitation and Hosting

︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎Where I learned

2024 - Current
︎ Tailoring/Seamstress (Modevaakschool) at Modefabrique Valkenswaard, NL

2021 – 2023
︎ MA of Arts → Critical Inquiry Lab (Critical Design Research)
at Design Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands

2017 – 2021
︎ BA of Arts → Interaction Design
at Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany
︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎What I have done

2023 – Current
︎ Coordinator & Project Management,
for Social Innovation Lab
at Design Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands

2023 – Current
︎ Cofounder of Morgaestudio a Research Studio w/ Monja Simon
Eindhoven, Netherlands

2022
︎ Event Producer → The Arena, Graduation Show, for Design Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands


2022 – 2023
︎ Freelance Graphic Design,
for lexxion Berlin, Germany 

2021 
︎ Visual Design & Prototyping,
for Dark Horse Berlin, Germany

2021
︎ UX Design & Research,
at denkwerk Berlin, Germany

2019 
︎ UX Design & Research Internship,
at denkwerk Köln, Germany

2019 
︎ UX Design & Research Internship,
at neustart coorporate media lab Munich, Germany
︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎What I wrote

2024 
︎ Dia-Lektiv Gestalten, zwischen Dialekt und Design.
Essay w/ Monja Simon for FORMAT Magazine #32, Germany

2023 
︎ When my Hands Touch the Soil, I Remember You.
Essay for @Robida Magazine, Italy

2023
︎ Loose Threads: Reclaiming Feminist Craft Through Maintenance and Repair.
MA Thesis Research and self published book 

2023
︎ The maintenance of everyday, a humbling design practice. Collaborative Essay with Monja Simon @Designers Write, Netherlands

2022 
︎ A tender touch of generations.
Essay for a joint Critial Inquiry Lab Publication, Netherlands

2020 
︎ Paradox Box, from being inside, outside and on top of the HfG-Box. Essay for FORMAT Magazine, Germany

2019 
︎ Gestaltungstanz.
Essay for FORMAT Magazine #23, Germany

2019 
︎ Ausgetriggert.
Essay for FORMAT Magazine #22, Germany

2018 
︎ Behvioural Design. Essay for FORMAT Magazine #21, Germany
︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎Where I teach

2024
︎ Listening Matters: Archiving Stories.
Collaboration w/ Monja Simon for Labratoryweek @Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany


2023
︎ Designing Discomfort: Do not solve the problem, create the problem!
Collaboration w/ Monja Simon for Labratoryweek @Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany


2023
︎ Caring in Action, a dialogue mapping session.
Collaboration w/ Monja Simon for @Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, Netherlands

2021
︎ Gender Sensitive Design, an introduction and application.
for Labratoryweek @Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany

2019
︎ Storytelling & Posters, a Format Magazine Collaboration w/ Julia Peglow.
for Labratoryweek @Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany




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︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎apart from having my own practice I co-founded ︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎ MORGÄSTUDIO ︎︎︎ Inspired by daily mundane practices of mending, preserving, writing and sharing stories the studio researches the relation between design and classism from a critical, socio-political perspective, and focusing on bringing lived experiences, mindsets and struggles of marginalised bodies to create new narrations and audiences into the academic discourse.



︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎my work would be nothing without being in inspiring proximity with, and influence under these talented people ︎︎︎︎︎︎ @monjasimon @sophboobyer @simonmoog @myrnadebruijn @anaschao @mariapaloma @lizawillemsen @olgakorosteleva



            ︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎latest update: November 2024

            ︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎©Antonia Wagner




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