Ingrid Rügemer is an independent designer, curator, editor and artist. Her work focuses on investigating the intricate interdependence of human-object relationships and the material agency of art, craft and design, particularly in the context of transformative change. Her creative endeavours centre on exploring the emotional dimensions of sensory experiences and their impact on our cognition – the interconnectedness of matter and mind.
Ingrid Rügemer is a member of the editorial team at the bilingual arts and crafts magazine Art Aurea, where she is responsible for the magazine’s section and global project Curators’ Choice. In this role, she contributes her international expertise in the fields of art, craft and design, moderating the selection of curators, galleries and museums worldwide, editing texts and designing articles.
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Ingrid Rügemer co-founded Symbio(s)cene – a non-profit organisation with the vision to contribute to shaping a new mindset that promotes transformative change. Symbio(s)cene interconnects sciences and arts – giving space to both cognitive and emotional dimensions of knowledge – to open up new perspectives for a liveable future for all living things.
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Ingrid Rügemer also co-founded Culturesphere, a design consultancy and former gallery in Munich. The venture was born from a vision to infuse the arts and artistic methodologies as a catalyst for change into diverse realms — organizational, societal, and ecological — in order to spark future-oriented ways of seeing and thinking and acting.
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