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

vitrified explores the interaction of two ancient materials, glass and clay, at the intersection of craft and digital fabrication by using 3D printed ceramics as molds for glassblowing. A series of experiments showed in how far ceramic 3D prints could serve as molds for glassblowing, resulting both in material composition of glass and clay, and ceramics serving as waste molds, being removed from the glass after blowing. Remnants of digital fabrication were left as subtle imprints on the glass, like the surface structure created by 3D printed layers and imperfections like seams, embracing the irregularities stemming from using a Grasshopper script to slice the geometries.

2023/24, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar,
Glasmanufaktur Harzkristall

ceramic 3D-print, glass
Fachmodul/ The Melting Point +
Freies Projekt/ Grasshopper with Grace Hopper