danielle rosales is conceptual designer, creative director and project manager of the transdisciplinary design studio visual intelligence, founded in 2020, which she runs together with her partner robin coenen. her work focuses on applied visual systems, exhibition design, information design and data visualization for social spaces of a physical and digital nature. she combines sensitive concepts with a powerful visuality that can simultaneously represent and communicate complex content.
the basis for this is an anthropological approach that assumes that designers not only act in a socially responsible manner themselves, but are also able to help shape transformation processes in the interests of sustainable development. for her, design is a craft and a form of expression that enables society to deal operationally with existing knowledge and to contribute to the active (co-)creation of living environments.
since 2017, she has been working with adeola naomi aderimi as a volunteer designer and co-founder of distinguished diva - a platform for women of the african diaspora. in 2021 she taught as a lecturer for information design at the fh bielefeld. since 2021 she has been teaching information design at universities, advising on racism-critical, diversity-sensitive visualization strategies since 2022 and giving various guest lectures, including at the museum folkwang and the annual conference of the museum association berlin 2023.
she is an active member at the civic city network and integral designers
danielle rosales is conceptual designer, creative director and project manager of the transdisciplinary design studio visual intelligence, founded in 2020, which she runs together with her partner robin coenen. her work focuses on applied visual systems, exhibition design, information design and data visualization for social spaces of a physical and digital nature. she combines sensitive concepts with a powerful visuality that can simultaneously represent and communicate complex content.
the basis for this is an anthropological approach that assumes that designers not only act in a socially responsible manner themselves, but are also able to help shape transformation processes in the interests of sustainable development. for her, design is a craft and a form of expression that enables society to deal operationally with existing knowledge and to contribute to the active (co-)creation of living environments.
since 2017, she has been working with adeola naomi aderimi as a volunteer designer and co-founder of distinguished diva - a platform for women of the african diaspora. in 2021 she taught as a lecturer for information design at the fh bielefeld. since 2021 she has been teaching information design at universities, advising on racism-critical, diversity-sensitive visualization strategies since 2022 and giving various guest lectures, including at the museum folkwang and the annual conference of the museum association berlin 2023.
she is an active member at the civic city network and integral designers