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Paula L. Schuster is a design researcher and lecturer specializing in prototyping. She studied Communication in Social and Economic Contexts at the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK, B.A.) and Product and Interface Design at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam (FHP, B.A., M.A.) as well as at the Institut supérieur des arts Toulouse (IsdaT), France.
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Paula L. Schuster is a design researcher and lecturer specializing in prototyping. She studied Communication in Social and Economic Contexts at the University of the Arts Berlin (UdK, B.A.) and Product and Interface Design at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam (FHP, B.A., M.A.) as well as at the Institut supérieur des arts Toulouse (IsdaT), France.
Since 2022, she has been pursuing her doctorate at Humboldt University Berlin, supervised by Prof. Dr. Claudia Mareis (HU Berlin) and Prof. Dr. Frank Heidmann (FHP). In her dissertation, she examines prototyping as a research mode.
From 2018 to 2022, Paula worked at the Interaction Design Lab of FHP on projects addressing mental health and speculative futures. Since 2021, she has organized the "Design Promoviert" colloquium of the dgtf. Since 2025, she is a pre-doctoral researcher in the PhD program of the excellence cluster "Matters of Activity" at Humboldt University Berlin and a research fellow at the Berlin Open Lab (BOL) at University of Arts, Berlin (UdK).
Paula lives with her family and her five-year-old in Berlin. She talks, teaches and writes in German, English and French.