

“I don’t want to close my eyes in this fast-moving and changing world”, Stefanie states while affirming her disapproval towards blind consumerism. So far, multiple experiences allowed her to have a quite big view of reality, in a continuous learning process: studying carpentry for three years, doing workshops with kids in Mozambique to repair their school furniture, approaching product design in an artistic way, getting a glimpse into photography in Lisbon, graduating in social design in Eindhoven, living and working with a remote tribe in the jungle of wild Borneo and, most of all, travelling around the world. Interested in all kinds of architecture, art, design, photography, Stefanie Rittler strives to go beyond the limits of ‘normality’, while giving voice to her inner world – ©studio jephrïm Let’s discover how design, architecture, and technology are rethinking the working life. Our culture has been radically impacted by COVID-19, resulting in t he “new Normal”, made of new habits and standards. While trying to find her own language to express her inner world, she decided to open a studio for deepening the wish to break the boundaries of the so-called ‘normal’. Her journey in design started when she was a child, travelling the whole world and collecting memories and things since almost ever. Always hunting culture and its traditions while travelling with her camera, she tries to see the world from different perspectives. She is interested in all kinds of architecture, art, design, photography, as well as philosophic topics, nature and music. île sculptural objects designed by Stefanie Rittler, founder of studio jephrïm, follow the aim of combining craft, design and social issues – ©studio jephrïmĬraving for aesthetics in any kind of way, Stefanie Rittler is a spontaneous person of color, form and materials a maker, a researcher, an activist, not too serious, lover of detail and adventurer. Always wanting to be her own boss, no matter probable discomforts, she founded studio jephrïm in Berlin combining craft, design and social issues through a hands-on approach. With a structured yet flexible mindset, designers might respond by asking themselves: “What if there was an opportunity in the vague definition of our practice?”.ĭefining herself as a woman “of everything, of unexpected and surprises”, Stefanie Rittler definitely took advantage of design being so fluid and open to pollination from different realities. Boundaries within design are often hard to set and contamination from other fields or external contexts gets these “limits” even more complex to establish.
