Greta Hauer is a designer and researcher interested in means of enacting alternative futures by combining ethnographic research with speculative thinking.
Her practice examines existing systems by tracing their geographical, political and ecological changes and their often unseen impact on society. Projects may result in a variety of media including text, real life simulations, film, events, and architectural interventions.
Since 2022 she is a Policy Analyst at the EU Policy Lab, Joint Research Centre at the European Commission - a space driving cross-disciplinary exploration and innovation in policymaking.
Exhibitions
Another Land
Kingston Museum
London, UK, 2019
Three Models For Change,
Grand Union & UOB Curating
STRYX Gallery
Birmingham, UK, 2018
Virtualities - Realities,
Kim? Contemporary Art Centre
Riga, LV, 2017
Possible / Probable Worlds
Upper Gallery, LCC
London, UK, 2017
The Landing
Workshop Lead on Fake News
Icpeccioli Elementary School
Palaia, IT, 2017
Immune Zone - All’s One
Roomservice Gallery,
NY, USA, 2016
Of The Sea
Chatham Historic Dockyard
Chatham - Medway
2016
Things we didn’t have before
Pumphouse Gallery
London, UK, 2015
DAAD Art Show, Display Gallery
London, UK, 2014
SHOW RCA
Royal College of Art
London, UK, 2014
Light / Materiality
Britannia House
London, UK, 2014
A & M
Britannia House
London, UK, 2013
A Day At The Spa
Henry Moore Gallery
RCA, London, UK, 2013
Rural Is Radical
The Gallop & Kurt Schwitters Merz Barn
Cumbria, UK, 2012
Workshops, Talks &
Presentations
Institutional Otherness, Lecture
University of Technology Sydney
Sydney, AUS, 2019
The Plague, Workshop,
University of Hertfordshire
Hatfield, UK, 2018
POM - Politics of the Machine
The Ecosystem Analogy,
Conference Speaker
Beirut, LB, 2019
Shifting Terrains
Stanley Picker Gallery
Talk and Screening
London, UK, 2019
Island Cities & Urban Archipelagos
Conference Speaker and Panel Lead
Funchal, PT, 2017
Virtualities and Realities
Conference
RIXC Media Festival
Riga, LV, 2017
The Supernatural in Literature and Film
Conference
Island Dynamics
Svalbard, NO, 2017
Borders / Frontiers: A Contemporary Interdisciplinary Exploration
Conference Presentation
Centre for Cultural Studies,
Goldsmiths University
London, UK, 2016
When an Object becomes a Thing
Talk and Screening
Pumphouse Gallery
London, UK, 2015
DAAD - Talk
Bloomsbury House
London, UK, 2015
Immune Zone, Workshop
Henry Moore Gallery, RCA
London, UK, 2014
Inside The Embassy, Workshop,
Copleston Community Centre
London, UK, 2014
Life (Bildung), Screening & Talk
Barbican Arts Centre
London, UK, 2013
Education
Royal Horticultural Society, RHS Level 2, Principles of Horticulture, 2023
Royal College of Art
MA Design Products
Specification: Platform 13
Onkar Kular, Dash Macdonald, Jimmy Loizeau
London, UK, 2014
School of Arts and Design Kassel
University Kassel
MA, Scenography
Kassel, DE, 2010
Fellowships, Grants & Awards
Arts Council Project Grant
London, UK, 2020
a-n Project Grant
London, UK, 2020
ifa Project Grant
Stuttgart / Birmingham
2018
University of the Arts London
Research Grant
2017, 18, 19
Artist Residency
Villa Lena Art Foundation
Pallaia, IT, 2017
Artist Residency
Roomservice Gallery
NY, USA
2016
DAAD Fellowship
Bonn / London
2013 -14
RCA Scholarship
London, UK
2012-14
Academic Experience
Associate Lecturer
Goldsmiths University
Design Department
London, UK
2016 - 2021
Associate Lecturer
The Open University
STEM - School of Design
since 2021
STEM, Research Assistant
The Open University
School of Environment, Earth and Ecosystem Science
2021
Visiting Critic, Department of Architecture
University of Cambridge, Camrbidge, UK
2020
Visiting Lecturer
University of Technology Sydney
Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
2019
Lecturer
London College of Communication
Contextual and Theoretical Studies
School of Design, School of Film
2014 -19
Visiting Lecturer,
University of Hertfordshire
Critical and Historical Studies
2016-19
Visiting Lecturer,
Debates & Practices
Interior Architectures
Cambridge School of Art
2016