Design needs to do more than serve humans. It needs to heal, and regenerate. That is why Lotte Nystrup Lund, founder of futurista.dk initiated the creation of a new design manifesto, in cooperation with the Danish association of design professionals, Designdenmark. … read more
PETRA LILJA: PUBLIC DEFENSE OF DOCTORAL DISSERTATION This dissertation, Mineral Matterings: Diffractive Practices of Design makes design perceptible as a source of concern, part of the extractivist logic. Through two projects, “Walking with Minerals” and “Critical Clay,” Lilja have invited … read more
Coincident with the development of human civilization was the emergence of a new type of critter: one not domesticated, not beloved, but similar to us in so many aspects that they abound in our environments—the urban rat. This urban critter … read more
Erik Sandelin defends his doctoral thesis “Design and Grace – An Ahuman Odyssey”. In a world where human activities often violently constrict the lives of others, how can designers cultivate creative acts of withdrawal, foreclosure and leaving be? Design is … read more
We cannot separate human needs from those of other organisms in our environment. Many organisms, including humans, benefit from considering design spaces as holistic and relational. More-than-human design focuses on this mutual interdependence. More-than-human design resists binaries and blurs notions … read more
This paper describes architecture as a form of cosmotechnics (Hui) which currently manifests a Western-Christian worldview globally. This worldview is entangled with the assumption of a God-given right to control and subordinate nonhuman nature (anthropocentrism). The text looks at the … read more
Five months have passed since successfully defending my PhD dissertation titled “Leaving Dry Land: Water, Heritage and Imaginary Agency” at the University of Gothenburg’s Centre for Critical Heritage Studies. When I embarked on my PhD journey, I did not realise … read more
The Nature Design Camp (NDC) pitched its tents for the second time in the UNESCO Biosphere Reserve Großes Walsertal and presented an international program on the topic of water. Experts from near and far from the interdisciplinary fields of crafts, … read more
A significant part of my work has focused on the relationship of humans to nature, which I see as fundamental to approaching current global social and environmental challenges. Key to this is considering how we relate to more than humans, … read more
Matters of Politics in Design Education, Research, Practice Open Access Publication Available HERE If “design” is the lens through which we glimpse into possible futures, this volume asks: What are the futures we are capable of imagining? As a subject … read more