Sophie Krier was born in 1976 in Halle (Belgium). Ever since her graduation from the Design Academy Eindhoven she works in Rotterdam. Her work is very much about the process and the ongoing search for space (to play, reflect and renew) within the assignment; a kind of editorial designing. Behind every project lies the wish to create meaningful relationships.

Sophie Krier is head of the Design Lab department of the Gerrit Rietveld Academy since 2005. (She has been teaching at the academy since 2002.) From her own design practice she researches the social dimensions of the design profession, through self-initiated projects such as Nuits Blanches (about ‘meeting’) or 5050 (about ‘teamwork’). Besides, Sophie Krier designs exhibitions (such as the Simply Droog 10+1 retrospective for Droog), writes columns and essays (for the Premsela Foundation a.o.) and moves towards making movies (see: En Garde! - a miniature epic at Asperen, the Netherlands).