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

trickle is a vessel that plays with the themes of ritual, gathering and sharing. The project found its origins in a vessel with three drinking holes that served an early Christian drinking ceremonial and grew out of a series of experiments with the ceramic 3D printer. 
The extent to which the ceramic 3D printer can unassistedly print individual layers in the air without the clay, and thus the mold, caving in was investigated. This resulted in a perforated surface that serves as the pitcher's dispensing mechanism. After the drink is poured into the pitcher, it seeps down three sides into three underlying cups each, which are fitted into the vessel like a puzzle.

2022/23, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar
ceramic 3D-print, 18x18x26cm

Projektmodul/
Prehistoric ≈ Postdigital? Speculative 
Practices and Tools for Ongoingness