Lisa Baumgarten (*1988, Frankfurt am Main) lives and practices in Berlin. She gives lectures, organizes workshops, performs critical dialogs and reflects – in the course of her teaching assignment at University of the Arts Bremen – with students about the genealogy of typographic dogmas.
As educator her focus lies on establishing scopes for action and to encourage students to question and break through entrenched structures.
As Art Director, she works for cultural institutions and corporate giants on analog and digital projects at the intersection of graphic design and space.
As a part-time student at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, she researches feminist design theory and design pedagogy.
From 2008–2014 she studied Communication Design at the Department of Design at University of Applied Sciences in Darmstadt (DE), at the University of Portsmouth (UK) and at the Estonian Academy of Arts (EE)