(she/her) is a designer and master carpenter. She works on projects at the intersection of design and urban planning. As a designer, she is interested in the processual both in social interaction and in the production of spaces. Her work takes shape in spaces, exhibitions, publications, archives, as well as workshop and discussion formats.
Since 2019, she has been part of the project ‘PARKS’ – a process of collaborative design and care for an urban open space at the old recycling center in Hammerbrook, Hamburg.
Johanna Padges works in project conception, development and management. She focuses on methods from the fields of design, moderation and organizational development in order to facilitate joint design processes and mediate between different positions. In the structural implementation, she is interested in creating moments of participation and knowledge transfer and responding to spatial and social conditions in terms of design.
In her teaching practice at universities and schools, she deals with topics of everyday culture and phenomena, social transformation and participatory practice in public space. She holds a Master of Fine Arts from the Hochschule für bildende Künste ‘HFBK’ Hamburg and was an artistic assistant at the ‘Burg Giebichenstein’ Hochschule für Kunst und Design Halle.
Johanna Padge has worked with the ‘International Building Exhibition Thuringia’, the ‘Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg’, the ‘Kulturstiftung des Bundes’, the ‘Behörde für Umwelt und Energie Hamburg’, ‘HafenCity Universität Hamburg’ and the ‘Kompetenzzentrum Soziale Innovation Sachsen-Anhalt’, as well as in projects of cultural organizations such as ‘auf weiter flur e.V.’, ‘Hallo: e.V.’, ‘Werkleitz Gesellschaft e.V.’, ‘Artas Foundation’ and ‘Tbilisi Architecture Biennial’.
As a master carpenter, she has worked in socially committed educational projects in various European and African countries such as France, Germany, Mali and Mozambique.