Lilo Viehweg is a designer, researcher, mediator and lecturer witha background in Industrial Design and Cultural Studies. In her works she investigates material based design processes, the hierarchies of knowledge production and the related socio-political conditions of design. She is currently a PhD researcher in the Make/Sense programme at HGK Basel IXDM and University of Arts Linz investigating the becomings of piezoelectric materials – a project looking into critical histories, presents and futures of particular electroactive minerals and their paths in-between mountain, clean-room, kitchen and archive.