Michelle Heising

Sustainable Product & Spatial Designer

Michelle Heising, is a sustainable product & spatial designer, based in Berlin/Stockholm. She creates designs that enhance the health of our ecosystems.

Lakes are heavily impacted by human activity, including wastewater discharge, littering, and industrial pollution. By experimenting with fungi and microbial systems, we have the opportunity to develop entirely natural water filters. By placing functional design objects in the public realm is increasing the aesthetics of it's enviorment and well-being of it's enhabitants. – She says.

Her product design within the Lakescape project Is a Microbial Filter. New materials meet traditional craft in a collection of natural water purifiers that work with fungi microbes, inspired by traditional Swedish craft of basket weaving and fish trap making.

She is working with new materials like Mycelium foam combined with the technology of bioremediation of fungi microbes to filter polluted water, collaborating with people that do traditional basket or fish trap craft.