Ebba Fransén Waldhör is a designer, researcher, and lecturer specializing in textiles and scenography. She is currently head of the department Textiles – Free, Applied and Experimental Artistic Design at the University of Applied Arts Vienna.

With a background in textiles, her academic research has focused on shape-changing materials and their integration into textile architecture, as well as sustainable approaches to materiality through textile thinking. Between 2017-2021 she worked as a design researcher at the department of DXM Design Experiment Material at the at the Weißensee Academy of Art Berlin and the Cluster of Excellence Matters of Activity at Humboldt University of Berlin, researching adaptive materials in textiles and how they can be applied to an architectural context. Before that, she worked at the Design Research Lab at the Berlin University of the Arts, where her research centered on merging textiles with digital technology.

In her artistic practice, Ebba develops temporary spatial concepts and scenographies for artists, writers, and institutions, such as: Hebbel am Ufer Theater, Transmediale, Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art and Sophiensaele. Between 2016-2019 she was a part of a performance collective with artist/writer Hannah Black and musician Bonaventure, in which she created installations at MoMA PS1, New York; the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; the Chisenhale Gallery, London; and Centre d’Art Contemporain, Genève; among other places. Until 2023, she was also involved in research and teaching in the Scenography Department at the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design, focusing on collaborative forms of spatial design.

Together with Romy Kießling she founded the design collaboration wkc.