Roswitha Hoerder

Roswitha Hoerder has been a qualified occupational therapist since 1993 and later obtained an international M.sc. in occupational therapy. She has worked in various settings, many of them in the USA. Her work focuses on creating living environments that are geared towards the needs of clients and enable them to be independent and participate in social life. In her work at the ZHAW, Roswitha Hoerder integrates knowledge from various fields in order to develop innovative and comprehensive, community-oriented solutions for users in an interdisciplinary manner. As a guest of the Universal Design Forum e.V., she aims to highlight synergies between occupational therapy and design.