SYMPOSIUM: June 13, 2025 Technische Universität Dresdenhybrid event Annual Conference of the German Society for Design Theory and Research (deu: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Designtheorie und -forschung, DGTF) The German Society for Design Theory and Research (DGTF), in collaboration with the Chair … 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
Challenging the dominant design paradigm that centers humanity in its practice, Designing for Interdependence puts forward an ecocentric mode of designing that privileges a harmonious relationship between all life forms that share our planet. This book is about the practice of designing … read more
As a humanist tradition, architecture, with all its associated professions and discourses, has developed within an anthropocentric (human-centred) thought-space. In these disciplines, ontological questions (questions about things in the world) have primarily centred around architectural objects and their human inhabitants. … read more