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Gabriele Schönfelder

Social change management

Social Gerontology (MA, HSZG),

Product and interior design (diploma, KHB Weißensee)

Phone : 0049 163 258 1137

E-mail:

art-of-ageing@web.de

https://art-of-ageing.wixsite.com

Address:

02826 Görlitz, Saxony

Steinweg 40

Giving shape to ideas

At home in Görlitz since 2014, the city that inspires me with the vision of becoming a German-Polish European city.

Committed, curious, currently students at the Zittau / Görlitz University of Applied Sciences in the management of social change, before that here

Master's degree in social gerontology.

Mainly a project developer and coordinator with a focus on regional development, German-Polish cooperation and civic participation.

Until 2007 product and interior designer in her own studio: from ergonomic designs of human-machine relationships in products to interior design for social institutions. Likewise, product design for clients from the economy such as high-quality writing instruments, furniture, ......

Thinking about social contexts in design processes , so that my current research studies logically connect: for active social change management in transformation processes with impetus for opportunities to participate in the coexistence of generations and gender equality

Living in Görlitz and in good contact with 2 adult sons, a granddaughter and a grandson.

EXPERIENCE

2018-

Study-research-engagement

Management of social change at the HSZG, topics on regional development and structural change: participation, generations in cooperation in our German-Polish border region and the European city of Görlitz / Zgorzelec.

2015-2018

Project development and support, studies

Social Gerontology (MA)

Master on the topic: Mobility as the key to independent living ......

Research, concepts, lectures on social phenomena: civic participation with a view across the border: situation of pensioners in Poland (2016), participation formats for committed citizens (participation formats in the multigenerational house in Görlitz), integration experiences: care for people with dementia in elderly care (2016),

Co-founder of the cultural association Ars Augusta eV in Görlitz (2017)

2007-2014

Project coordination and management

Active in the EU project: Re-Turn: "Regions benefitting from returning migrants" (Lead partner: Leibnitz.Institut Leipzig) Concept and network work for the region: District of Görlitz / Saxony 2011-2014), demography projects such as: Bürgerwerkstatt, Bad Muskau ( from 2008), senior management plan in the northern district of Görlitz (2009), living in the region with support needs (2010)

1990-2007

Freelance and committed

Co-founder of the Design Center Dresden (1990), member of the Presidium of the VDID (1991-1993), active in cooperation with the BVMW: Projects for and with medium-sized companies, from 2003 especially German-Polish projects in East Saxony.

Working examples: Interior design and exterior design: boarding school of the deaf school Dresden (1992), station B2 in the Arnsdorf hospital (1995), steel furniture for the exterior (1995-1997), writing implements (Cleo Skribent, 1997-2003), test workstation (workplace design Solarwatt Dresden, 2007 ),

Co-founder of the association: Forum & Projekt Lausitz eV (2007)

EDUCATION

2015-2018- ......

Master's Degree

Social Gerontology (MA, HSZG 2016-2018),

parallel training as a dementia companion (DPFA 2015),

Study of Management of Social Change (from 2018)

1990-2014

Additional qualifications

CAD design training for 3-dimensional construction / design, fundraising and project management training English (B2) graduation 2010,

involved in the Design Center Dresden / Saxony and in the VDID (board member),

Language Studies: Polish Language (A2 2008)

Barrier-free design for interior design, public space, website didactics)

After Abitur in Berlin: Art Academy Berlin-Weißensee (KHB), graduated with a diploma as industrial designer with additional interior design.

CLIENTS

Examples

Demography and participation projects in Upper Lusatia

Design concepts and graphic design

(Topics each with links to examples)

Product design

Interior and public design

Experiments, ......

Biography

EXPERTISE

begin

Years of childhood with parents in Warsaw, Abi with distinction in Berlin (parallel skilled worker for electronic data processing) and then artistic basics with interdisciplinary Bauhaus ideas at the Berlin-Weißensee School of Art with a diploma in industrial design.

Active in Berlin, Kiev, Dresden, study trip to Hong Kong, there presentation in the Chamber of Commerce of a designed, innovative household waste disposal system for residential areas (1996!).

The world of products with their social and societal interrelationships are relevant to me: do we design tomorrow's garbage? Social design, could it change our society, even improve our quality of life while conserving resources?

Active in the "Group of 20" at the turnaround

and co-founder in Dresden of the various associations for people with disabilities, mainly involved in the LAGSH (State Working Group on Self-Help Saxony) and for this initiator of the first accessible Internet portal in Saxony (award winner in the team in 2003 at the international radio exhibition Berlin)

My way

After the turn I was elected to the presidium of the VDID (Association of German Industrial Designers). Instructive, because now we were in the market economy - an abundance of products, ideas, ...

Away from "consumer" products I designed the boarding school of the deaf school in Dresden (outside and inside areas), as well as the psychiatry department B1 with an innovative training living model for the Saxon specialist hospital in Arnsdorf near Dresden.

It was a good school, away from the mainstream and the apocalyptic overflow of things.

And yet: A cool time was the design of high-quality writing implements for Cleo Skribent - as "tools of the mind".

But also for Solarwatt Dresden

Test workstation (2008), then some

Demography projects in Bad Muskau such as a "citizen internet workshop" (innovative participation project, funded by the BBSR),

Projects of the German-Polish citizen cooperation in the border region, a senior management plan (conception) for the northern district of Görlitz as a future concept for successful development of the region (2009)

at home in Görlitz

With the EU "Re-Turn" project (Regions benefitting from returning migrants, (12 partners from 7 EU countries) the role of returnees was addressed as an applied research topic, with the example of LK Görlitz.

This was followed by a master’s degree, part-time social gerontology at the HSZG and voluntary work in the multigenerational house for and with people with dementia and their relatives - up to training as a dementia companion and work in assisted living - as a practice parallel to the course.

To refer to the UN Disability Convention and to critically examine whether it is relevant in the study or the like in social practice - that

I made the master's topic: "Mobility as the key to independent living in old age with disabilities" Conclusion: we need a city with different mobility, designed to be inclusive for everyone with free public transport tickets (music of the future), good for everyone and for the climate.

Then the study management of social change as a logical connection to experience and then, if necessary, to act yourself: for a social change in our city that enables us to have a future, not obstructed, in times of the 3 major crises based on the anthropogenic resource overuse crisis .