Heike Derwanz is professor for textiles, material culture and textile craft education at the University of Flensburg, Germany. A cultural anthropologist and art historian specializing in textiles and metropolitan cultures, she has published an anthology on minimalism, Minimalismus: Ein Reader (2022) and edited the special issue ‘“Saving” the city: Collective low-budget organizing and urban practice' (Ephemera Vol. 15, No. 1).