The event takes place every first Thursday of the month during the semester from September through December and from February through June and is open to PhD students at the Lucerne School of Design, Film and Art (HSLU), the National Institute of Design (NID), and other interested guests and PhD students from other universities.
Upcoming Event
Daniel Christian Wahl – Design for bioregional regeneration and regenerative cultures
Thursday, 6th of February 2025
12:00 - 13:15 (CEST / Central Europe)
4:30 pm - 5:45 pm (IST / India)
"How to fit a species arrogant enough to call itself Homo sapiens on a planet with a biosphere, is a design problem." This design brief offered by Professor David Orr in conversation in 2002 has been informing Daniels Christian Wahls work as a designer, educator, consultant and activist over the last two decades. In conversation with Daniel we will learn how he came to understand 'regenerative bioregioning' as our species long-term evolutionary survival pattern and 'regenerative cultures' as our species birth-right. 4D regenerative design literacy can inform designers how to take an active part in the social, ecological and economic regenerations of the bioregions they dwell in, and help them to explore the underlying worldview and value (meta-design) changes that support such design practice.
Daniel Christian Wahl is one of the catalysts of the rising reGeneration and the author of Designing Regenerative Cultures. He works as a consultant, educator and activist with NGOs, businesses, governments and global change agents. With degrees in biology and holistic science, and a PhD in Design for Human and Planetary Health, his work has influenced the emerging fields of regenerative design and salutogenic design.
If you have any questions regarding the lecture series or the PhD programme please share them by mail to
esi@hslu.ch.
