Roya Haupt
Design, furniture, dance, podcast
About
Roya Haupt is a designer, dancer and podcaster. She works in product design, focussing on furnitures and interiors, as well as medical design. Roya also created various fashion collections, that have been shown at guerilla shows in Berlin.
As a trained dancer, her experience in movement and bodily intelligence influence her work in all fields. She has performed at the Staatstheater Kassel, 48h Neukölln, Garbicz festival with Birdmilk and Museum of the Arts and Crafts Berlin.
She hosts a podcast, called „Hauptsache alles - Mainly everything“ about being a scanner personality - someone who has multiple passions and works on them at once.
Roya studied product design and fashion at University of the Arts Berlin and Tama Art University in Tokyo from 2019 to 2025. She has worked for different artists, such as Ai Weiwei through neugerriemenschneider gallery and Sophia Süßmilch. Roya worked in the furniture design department at MUJI in Tokyo, Japan, at Sols Japan in Akita, Japan and at Kurz + Kurz studio in Foshan, China. Her work has been exhibited in the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Berlin.
Design Philosophy
„As designers, we have the grave responsibility to shape society and peoples access to it. We have to design with everyone in mind, especially marginalized groups and more-than human entities.
When we think of great design as transparent - so good that it becomes invisible - then there is also a lack of criticism thereof. It is on us designers to build the seats at the table for everyone, not just people that look like us. We can do that by listening closely, being transparent in our process and co-designing.“
„It is on us designers to create the world we want to live in.“
Roya Haupt, Designer