5 October 2023
Ludwig Weh - “Environmental Futures— towards critical-transformative perspectives”
Ludwig Weh is a research fellow in the “Futures and Innovation Unit“ at the Fraunhofer Center for International Management and Knowledge Economy IMW. He has been focusing on aspects of praxis relevance, participation and democratization of research processes, on transformative research and education as well as on science ethics and knowledge discourse at science-society interfaces.
Rooted in his thesis on ‘Future scenarios as tools of participatory science communication’ in sustainability research, Ludwig has developed epistemic and methodical premises for investigating environmental futures and human-nature relationships from a strongly interdisciplinary perspective.
1 June 2023
Peter Spillmann - Cohabitation: A Manifesto for the Solidarity of Animals and Humans in Urban Space
Peter Spillmann (1961) is an artist, curator and lecturer who lives and works in Berlin. At the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts, he teaches and researches in the Master of Arts in Fine Arts. As co-founder of self-organised platforms such as Labor k3000 or CPKC Center for Post-Colonial Knowledge and Culture, he develops projects and exhibitions in interdisciplinary contexts, such as the exhibition and event project Cohabitation - A Manifesto for Animal and Human Solidarity in Urban Space in collaboration with ARCHplus from 2020-2022.
4 May 2023
Lynn Harles - Between extinct species and speculative artifacts: How science communication and public engagement on socio-ecological issues can benefit from design research
Lynn Harles is a design researcher at the
Museum für Naturkunde - Berlin School of Public Engagement and Open Science in Berlin and a PhD candidate at Bauhaus-University Weimar. In her work, she examines the potential of critical and participatory design approaches for Science Communication and Public Engagement on complex social-ecological challenges in natural sciences.
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6 April 2023
Shashank Mehta – Sustainability: Context and Design
Shashank Mehta is a principal faculty in Industrial Design at the National Institute of Design (NID) Ahmedabad. Shashank has extensively worked in the area of technology and Design fusion, sustainability and indigenous innovations. He has authored various articles and research papers and has widely lectured on these subjects. His recent publication Design at the Doorstep: Design Approaches for MSMEs brings to the fore the typical characteristics and concerns of the Indian MSMEs and scope for design intervention in this crucial sector of the economy.
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2 March 2023
Serkan Bayraktaroğlu - The nature of innovation in craft-design collaborations aiming to foster sustainable development in rural areas: The edge effects.
Serkan Bayraktaroğlu is an assistant professor for Industrial Design at Istanbul University and worked as lecturer and assistant professor at Kadir Has University. In 2015, he earned his Ph.D. in Industrial Design from Istanbul Technical University on the topic of Investigating Design for Social Innovation through Business Models in Rural India: A Model Proposal for Developing Countries and completed the Industrial Design and Manufacturing Master’s Programme at TU Dortmund and Twente University. Serkan teaches Design for Social Innovation and conducts research in design for repair, circular design, and design for social innovation.
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2 February 2023
John Thackara – Designing for Shared Aliveness
John Thackara - author, curator, and professor - is developing the “agenda of designing for life”. He curated the celebrated Doors of Perception conference for 20 years in Amsterdam and India. He was commissioner of the UK social innovation biennial Dott 07, and the French Design biennial City Eco LabA. In 2019, he curated the Urban-Rural Expo in Shanghai. John is a Visiting Professor at Tongji University in Shanghai and Politecnico di Milano, and Senior Fellow at the Royal College of Art. He was a 2022 Design for Planet Fellow at the British Design Council. His last book How to Thrive in the Next Economy: Designing Tomorrow’s World Today was recently translated into Chinese.
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1 December 2022
Rebecca Reubens – To Craft, by Design, for Sustainability: Paradigms between the Global North and South.
Rebecca Reubens is a sustainability design consultant with expertise in design for and with craft and aligning sustainable products with the creative economy. She is a visiting faculty member at the National Institute of Design (NID) Ahmedabad and did her Ph.D. on the intersection between craft, design, and sustainability at Delft University. With her company Rhizome and as an ambassador for the World Bamboo Organization, she is committed to fostering sustainable design. Rebecca is the author of the books Holistic Sustainability Through Craft-Design Collaboration (Routledge, 2019) and Bamboo: From Green Design to Sustainable Design (Promilla & Co, 2012).
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1 November 2022
Daniela Marzavan – Why Are You Designers Still Asleep? Don’t You Know the Global Sustainable Development Goals are Explicitly Asking for Your Action?
Daniela Marzavan runs a Berlin-based internationally acting innovation agency. Her team helps foster creativity and innovation for German and international public sector institutions and infuses Design Thinking as a management practice with corporate clients. She teaches, researches, and operates within the disciplines of Design Thinking, innovation management and organizational change. She works interculturally and across sectors, building her own approaches and processes.
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