Laura Deschl is a social designer and artistic researcher with a background in fashion and textiles. She holds a Master of Fine Arts and Design from the Design Academy Eindhoven.
Through her interdisciplinary approach, she creates a discourse between fields that usually have little overlap. Her current research focuses on the field of therapeutic textiles and dissects complex social issues around the field of mental health through the exploration of the interactive relationship between subject and object stemming from her curiosity about psychology and how objects can initiate, regulate and influence human emotions.