“What fascinates me as a designer is curiosity about what lies ahead, and then focussing on it.”

Evelyne Roth is a designer and a lecturer on the BA in Fashion Design, the MA Master’s Studio ICDP and the cross-institute CoCreate programme of the FHNW Academy of Art and Design. She has held posts at a number of institutions as an expert in Design Thinking and Forecasting. Questioning common processes in the fashion industry, attempting to break with them and launching products that make a contemporary statement are all part of her holistic brief as a designer. Her practice and teaching in design focus on circular design, research, conception and materiality.
She is working on her doctoral thesis entitled “Circular design processes, alteration in aesthetics, methods, and practices in fashion” as part of the MAKE/SENSE PhD programme, a collaboration between the FHNW Academy of Art and Design and the University of Arts Linz. (PhD teaser). Specifically, she is researching the relevance of repair and looking at possible design modalities in future circular processes. REPAIR!_Fashion, the title of the paper, should be viewed in the context of a systemic and structural change in fashion.
She has won the Swiss Federal Design Prize and several advancement awards from the Bern Design Foundation. She is also a recipient of the Goldene Hase award from architecture magazine Hochparterre. From 2015 to 2020, she was artistic director for the Kontext format at Swiss Textiles. She is a member of Intercolor (International and Interdisciplinary Platform of Color), an external advisor to the Forecast Board of Première Vision in Paris, and a member of the Board of Trustees and Technical Committee of the Bern Design Foundation. She has been its Vice-President since February 2022. And she is the expert jury member in the fields of fashion and textiles for the 2023/2024 cycle of the Swiss Design Awards organised by the Federal Office of Culture. Together with Gregor Steinke, a lecturer at the FHNW School of Architecture, Civil Engineering and Geomatics / Institute for Sustainability and Energy in Civil Engineering, she heads the FHNW’s Sustainability Salon, an active exchange network on key topics of sustainability for the staff of all nine of the FHNW schools, because she thinks far beyond her activities as a designer.
Evelyne Roth and her partner, the designer Daniel Ledermann, jointly run the design, consulting and forecasting office ROTHLEDERMANN.

• 2024: Jahrbuchreihe Netzwerk Mode Textil, Text und Bild Beitrag mit Dr. Heike Derwanz, Valerie Lange, Reparieren, Design, Mode: Aktuelle Forschungen zum Reparieren von Kleidung, Herausgeberinnen: Gudrun M. König und Lioba Keller-Drescher im Auftrag des netzwerk mode textil e.V. Wißner-Verlag, Augsburg 2024
• 2024: ICDP HGK FHNW Jahrespublikation, Textbeitrag mit Nils Amadeus Lange. Performativität im Entwurf - die Geste als dialogische Annäherung, Publisher HGK FHNW
• 2023 : diid disegno industrialeindustrial designDigital Special Issue 1-DSI 1, Text contribution together with Angela Grosso Giponte: You Can Never Solve Problems With the Same Mindset That Created Them. How Can We Change the How and the What We Teach to Enable Our Students to Become Truly “Terrestrial” Designers? A Proposition Following Bruno Latour`s “Terrestrial Manifesto”, Publisher Fondazione Bologna University Press
• 2023: ICDP HGK FHNW Jahrespublikation, Text und Bild Beitrag mit Danielle Harris, Jaqueline Brechbühl, François Schafter, Bachelorstudierende de 2. Semesters HS 21/22 Mode – Design, Agnes le Claire u. Joel Djakou :Design Praxis Interaktive Lernszenarien (Digitorial- Anwendung in der Designpraxis), So wie Text Beitrag mit Angela Grosso Giponte, Meret Ernst u. Markus Schwander, Eine fragt, zwei finden sich, fünf entwickeln, zehn forschen zusammen: Ein Werkstattbereich, Publisher HGK FHNW
• 2021: Doing Fashion Paper, HGK FHNW Text and Research Projects, – Doing Fashion Paper, Edition: 20th Anniversary of the Institute of Fashion Design IMD, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland HGK FHNW, Publisher Institute Fashion Design HGK FHNW
• 2020 Wild Thing, Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Text and Video Contribution to the exhibition and publication WILD THING, The Swiss Fashion Scene, Herausgeber Museum für Gestaltung Zürich, Publisher Scheidegger& Spiess
• 2019 Trendreport Textilrevue, Trend report for the autumn winter 2019/2020 season, Publisher Textilrevue
• 2018 Trendreport Textilrevue, Trend report for the spring summer 2020 season <<A Call to Action>>, Publisher Textilrevue
• 2018 Book Publication, KONTEXT insight Artistic Direction of the trend forecast for autumn/winter 2020 published by Swiss Textiles, Publisher Swiss Textiles
• 2017 Exhibition/Showing, Triennale Milano, Artistic video for the color proposal HW/19/20 – BLACKENING. In collaboration with Cyril Gfeller, Tonundbld & Martin Oberli, MO Grafik. Swiss Textiles under the creative direction of Evelyne Roth, Publisher Swiss Textiles
• 2017 Book Publication, KONTEXT insight Artistic Direction of the trend forecast for summer 2019 published by Swiss Textiles.
• 2009 Ausstellungskatalog, Kleider in Räumen, Gewerbemuseum Winterthur. Contribution Evelyne Roth u. Sabine Portenier, Herausgebende: Anne-Brigitte Schlittler, Kahtharina Tietze und Gewerbemuseum Winterthur, Publisher Alata Verlag.
• 2004, soDA # 26 surface, Text and Foto contribution: à la Mode, by  Evelyne Roth and Daniel Ledermann, soDA Verlag s.A
• 2004, soDA # 25 Illustré, die Illustrierte Illustirete, Text and Foto contribution: à la Mode, by  Evelyne Roth and Daniel Ledermann, soDA Verlag s.A
• 2004, soDA # 24 Leidenschaft Sport, Text and Foto contribution: à la Mode, by  Evelyne Roth and Daniel Ledermann, soDA Verlag s.A
• 2004, soDA # 23 What do we have in Common, Text and Foto contribution: à la Mode, by  Evelyne Roth and Daniel Ledermann, soDA Verlag s.A