Personal profile
Biography
My research focuses on the complex systemic relations between ecological questions and questions concerning technology within the architectural and design context. I am interested in histories, theories, methods that emerge from design's encounters with other disciplines that engage with complex living systems (particularly cybernetics, systems sciences, process philosophies) and how the social and political aspects of these encounters keep influencing our present-day knowledge and practice models. My current research is organized around two main trajectories. The first involves a critical historical mapping of these interdisciplinary encounters between design, ecology, technology and systems theory. The second consists in contributing to a reflexive research and practice framework that promotes designerly ways of engaging systemic complexity (beyond providing technological fixes), which is beneficial for designers and others who deal with multiple crises of the present. I was awarded the Heinz von Foerster award (2021) for my emerging work on developing such a reflexive framework. As the co-principle investigator of the DFG(Germany)-AHRC(UK) funded collaborative research project Enacting Gregory Bateson’s Ecological Aesthetics in Architecture and design (2023-2025), I explore what an ecological theory of action could mean within such a reflexive framework.
Since 2025 i run a research group on Critical Ecological Imagination and Practices (CEIP), open to all.