SDD Work­shop II

As a com­mu­ni­ca­tion design­er (Bach­e­lor Hochschule Augs­burg 2012), Jen­ny Gallen worked for var­i­ous brands and design agen­cies until she shift­ed her main focus to social design dur­ing her Mas­ter’s stud­ies (Hochschule München 2018). Since 2017, she has been build­ing up the social design lab with the team of the Hans Sauer Foun­da­tion and in this con­text has gained prac­ti­cal expe­ri­ence in social design in var­i­ous projects as well as help­ing to devel­op new focus top­ics (includ­ing Mehrw­erthof Markt2 Schwaben and Cir­cu­lar Soci­ety). Since 2022, she has also been teach­ing at uni­ver­si­ties and is con­cerned with the ques­tion of how design­ers* can con­tribute their com­pe­ten­cies to the design of social-eco­log­i­cal trans­for­ma­tion process­es. The devel­op­ment of social design work­shops serves as a reflec­tion of her own project work and makes the Lab’s way of work­ing com­pre­hen­si­ble for her and thus applic­a­ble for others.

As a social sci­en­tist, Sarah Dost has been work­ing in the Cir­cu­lar Soci­ety the­mat­ic focus area at the Hans Sauer Foun­da­tion since 2019. She stud­ied Man­age­ment of Social Inno­va­tions (Uni­ver­si­ty of Applied Sci­ences Munich 2019) and deals with par­tic­i­pa­to­ry process­es and social design meth­ods in her work in the con­text of oper­a­tional prac­tice projects. Since 2021, she has been lead­ing the Cir­cu­lar Wes­t­end project, which focus­es on how to ini­ti­ate a food turn­around in a Munich neigh­bor­hood. With her expe­ri­ence as a trained health and nurs­ing pro­fes­sion­al, she has already gained insights into dif­fer­ent activ­i­ties her­self and is inter­est­ed in redesign­ing and net­work­ing dif­fer­ent fields of work. When con­duct­ing social design work­shop for­mats, she finds the dif­fer­ent top­ics and per­spec­tives of the par­tic­i­pants par­tic­u­lar­ly exciting.