Clara Blum
Clara Blum
Student / Programme Doctorate at D-BAUG
ETH Zürich
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Within the Innosuisse flagship initiative Think Earth (TP6), her focus lies on developing a standardized digital ID system for regenerative materials like wood and clay to enable lifecycle tracking, promote circular economy models, and facilitate sustainable resource management and reuse in Swiss supply chains.
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Clara is a Computational Designer from Germany. She obtained a B.Sc in Architecture at TU Berlin and graduated with a M.Sc in Integrative Technologies and Architectural Design Research (ITECH) at the University of Stuttgart. She also studied Civil Engineering for three semesters at the Technical University of Dresden, aiming to expand to interdisciplinary collaboration.
In 2024, Clara finalised her master’s with her thesis entitled: “Reclaimed Design: An Availability-Oriented Design Methodology for Reclaimed Lumber ”(Clara Blum, Laura Marsillo, Gonzalo Muñoz Guerrero, 2024). During her studies, she worked as a Research Assistant at the Institute of Computational Design (ICD) on the robotic fabrication of the Large-Scale Construction Robotics Laboratory (LCRL), the DesFab Design-to-Fabrication-Framework and on conducting user studies with the industry partner Müller Blaustein for AR-based Human-Robot Collaboration.
Clara has been socially involved in reconstructing a school in Nepal and a collaborative university project on waste management in Uganda.