Leopold Slenczka is a Product Design Student at Bauhaus-University Weimar.
He is interested in Transformational and Socially Responsible Design approaches. He tries to explore different ways to tackle inequity and injustice in efficient and effective ways through design.
Born in a family of protestant priests, he was confronted with those topics from an early age on and tried to always raise his voice in any way he could.
The Designer. Don’t look too close, his tongue is peaking. Oops!
Education
2022-current: Bauhaus-University Weimar, Bachelor of Arts in Product Design
2024: erasmus-exchange at Akademia Sztuk Pięknych im. Jana Matejki w Krakowie, Industrial Design
2021-2022: Technical University of Applied Sciences Rosenheim, studies in Bachelor of Arts, Interior Design
2020: Highschool Diploma at Berthold-Gymnasium Freiburg
Jobs/Influences
2024-current: part of university committees: part of student council of the faculty of Art and Design, part of faculty council
since 2025: chair of student council
2025: part of the selection committee of the new website for Bauhaus-University
2025: organization of a university-wide workshop to improve democratic exchange between students, staff and professors
2024-2025: swimming trainer for the competition team of Bauhaus-University
2024: administration of the textile workshop of Bauhaus-University
2023-2025: coordination of the material archive of the faculty of Art and Design, part of the chair of Transformational Design
2022: student assistant at the family office of the Technical University of Applied Sciences Rosenheim
2021: Federal Volunteer Service at Bahnhofsmission Leipzig, social work around the train station in Leipzig
2020, repeatedly until 2025: support jobs at Kurswerkstatt Freiburg, woodwork
Codex: 10 Theses for valuable design
Together with David Leucht, Leopold Slenczka developed a codex that provides a frame for his work:
1. Designers always bear responsibility for their design and their work.
2. Design with the sole purpose of increasing and preserving wealth has no value.
3. The smallest possible negative impact on the environment must be the highest priority.
4. The protection of human rights and the improvement of their enforcement must be taken into account in every design.
5. The most vulnerable members of society must always be considered when designing.
6. A project begins before production and does not end with it.
7. Any design must give users the opportunity to adopt and adapt it to their needs.
9. Any Design must be developed in consultation with as many parties as possible.
8. Design is alway political; it comments on, criticises and/or resolves circumstances.
10. Is it valuable?