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Sigrid Schmeisser
INSTAGRAM: @sigrid_schmeisser
LINKED-IN: Sigrid Schmeisser
E-mail: hi@sigridschmeisser.com

Peak15 Design & Research Studio
www.peak15.design
Sigrid Schmeisser (AT/NL) is a designer and researcher whose practice is characterized by a site-responsive approach resulting in a range of multi-media based outcomes. A focus lies on investigating landfills as post-natural landscapes within the long-term project »Centre to Periphery«. Chapters include a lecture performance (premiered at Dutch Design Week 23), ongoing documentary photography, artistic publications, and an award-winning essay (Avery Review, July 2024). A second interest are more-than-human relationships including species with invasive behavior, and foregrounding plants as agents into complex ecosystems (»Raccogliere Magazine«). 

She completed a second Masters in Geo-Design (2023) at the Design Academy Eindhoven, Netherlands.

Peak15 is a design & research studio founded by Sigrid Schmeisser in 2016 in Scotland, and moved to the Netherlands in 2020. The studio works with academics and researchers to distill and publish their research. Projects included a travel exhibitions, several exhibition identities during the Edinburgh Festival, publications, poster-framework and web platforms for researchers from institution including the University of Edinburgh, M-ITI Madeira, TU Delft and Aarhus University.  
2024 (ON/OFFSITE LECTURE PERFORMANCE)
Invited and curated by the Swiss Architecture Museum, Basel (SAM) and Soundcamp cooperative (S AM FM project)
Centre to Periphery (site-responsive performances in SAM and locations nearby)

2024 TALK & LECTURE PERFORMANCE
Soil Horizons, NL
World Soil Museum, Wageningen
How to Hide a Mountain

2024 ESSAY PRIZE
Avery Review Journal, edition 69
How to Hide a Mountain

2024 CONFERENCE
Thick Mapping Panel, UK
Abstract presentation
Searching for the Dutch Mountains

2023 CONFERENCE
Uncertain Landscapes, PT
Abstract presentation
How to Hide A Mountain

2023 TALK
Wasteland Collective 2023, NL
Centre To Periphery

2023 LECTURE PERFORMANCE
Dutch Design Week 2023, NL
How to Hide a Mountain


2023 TALK
AA VS Terrain Lab, IT
Raccogliere

2023 TALK
Venice Design Biennale, IT
Raccogliere

2022 EXHIBITION
Raccogliere exhibited at the
Symbiocene Forest Group Exhibition, Dutch Design Week 2022, NL

2022 CONFERENCE
Counterparts: Exploring Design Beyond the Human Conference, CH with the project Mediating the Land

2021   WINNER
TDC Type Directors Club New York, Communication Design

2021 BRONZE AWARD
European Design Award

2021 SHORTLIST & LONGLIST
Best German Design Books

2021 MERIT AWARD
ADC, Art Directors Club of New York, Communication Design

2020 EXHIBITION
PastPleasures Series 2 exhibited
in Open 20/21, Amsterdam, NL
Photography Group Exhibition

2020 EXHIBITION
PastPleasures Series 2 exhibited
in Ways of Seeing, Glasgow, UK
Photography Group Exhibition

2020 EXHIBITION
RSA Annual Exhibition, Edinburgh, UK: Present Voices–Future Lives
travel exhibition and public engage-
ment workshops with Chris Leslie, Collective Architecture and ESALA

2019 Shortlist
The Herald Cultural Award, Edinburgh

2019 Shortlist
Creative Edinburgh Award

2019 EXHIBITION
PastPleasures Series 1 exhibited in
Discourse Artist Group Exhibition

2014 BOOK FEATURE
Stories in 140 Characters featured in the Book Library as Incubator

2013 EXHIBITION
Central Inspiration Exhibition
Group Exhibition
Stories in 140 Characters
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