Carlina Rethwilm (*1999, Berlin) is a designer studying product design at 
Bauhaus Universität Weimar and Pratt Institute New York. Her work mainly takes place in the mediums of clay and porcelain, where she works at the intersection of ancient craft and digital fabrication, exploring the ways in which we come together to eat (and play with) food. Her projects are rooted in an experimental and process-based design approach, embracing mishaps and unforeseen surprises.

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2021 - present
B.A. product design Bauhaus- Universität Weimar and Pratt Institute New York

2023 - 2024
student assistant, 
Chair for Emerging Technologies, 
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

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2024 
The Melting Point, Winterwerkschau & Go4Spring, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

2023/24 
MOSCHVER Shelter for the Homeless,
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

2023 
Prehistoric Postdigital, Museum für 
Ur-und Frühgeschichte Thüringen, 
Weimar

2023 
Misfits, summaery23, 
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

2022 
Anschluss, summaery 2022, 
Bauhaus-Universität Weimar

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crethw@gmail.com
carlina.rethwilm@uni-weimar.de

© Carlina Rethwilm 2025

ecquibamba is a rocking bench designed specifically for the product design courtyard at Bauhaus Universität Weimar. It is developed to bring people together, enable rest and relaxation and passive work in a turbulent working atmosphere after isolating years lined with social restrictions.
Since the campus culture thrives off of exchange and coorperation the goal was to provide an alternative, playful space for working which does not solely focus on active working and productivity but rather on the progress that happens while we relax, talk and take a breath of fresh air.

In collaboration with Leran Tao
2023, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
timber, steel tubes, aluminium joints
200x120x86cm

Projektmodul/
Anschluss. Study Need = Work Need