Nicole Guetl was born in Bavaria in 1983. After various internships in the restoration of old buildings in Dresden and Weimar, she trained as a milliner in Berlin. In addition to study visits in biology, physics, art and French in Berlin, Leipzig and Lyon, she worked at the Leipzig Opera in the tailoring department and came back to Berlin in 2009 to study fashion design at the UdK. Her global curiosity about science was sparked by Space Nights on Bayern3 television and the physics experiments on the Knoff Hoff shows. An interest in narrative materials and things and how they function in the real world and in a sociological context drove her to apply to work in interactive textiles at the Design Research Lab.