Leo Mühlfeld

Designer for Industry, Science & Culture

My work turns difficult questions into shared understanding. It sits between design, strategy, and epistemology. I'm interested in how the things we make shape our capacity to understand and act.

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The Practice

Work Together.

Research

How will we design the future?

The design landscape is evolving rapidly. Actively experimenting and building prototypes is essential to understanding what design will become in the years ahead and how it can reach its fullest potential today.

Read: Centaur Design

Teaching

How can we transfer knowledge?

Tool literacy is the foundation to make something amazing. Designing and leading workshops contributes thoughtful perspectives and practical insights for orgs.

Read: AI in science futures

Partnerships

What holds a project together?

A project rarely rests on single decisions. It grows through mutual trust between institution, fabricator, audience, and designer. Every project is shaped by shared intent.

Read: Blockchain Unchained at MAK

Studio

Design is my form of care. It doesn't demand perfection, only attention to the stories we tell and the things we build. The work sits close to the subject matter, close to the material, and close to the institutions holding meaning for a public.

I offer the integrated practice this kind of work needs: storytelling, design and fabrication under one roof, so artefacts and thinking arrive together.

Selected Writing