Through a mix of theoretical reflection and creative experimentation, I teach courses that investigate the role of the designer and explore the space between human and non-human centred perspectives. Inviting students to question both our immediate surroundings and our greater environment. Here are some current courses that I teach.
Entangled Encounters
Materiality and Interpretation
A two-week theoretical and practical course on the transcendental materiality of three-dimensional interpretation. The course aims to provide an insight into how natural and social materiality also has intrinsic value and origin beyond the power relationship (humans/resources). A theoretical orientation on relevant artisits and phenomena where the body, space, landscape, respect, care and action is central. Inviting students to question how we relate to materials/objects, how we acknowledge them and how we can rediscover them in our everyday surroundings.
Slow experiments from a foraging and salt growing workshop
Materiality, Design
and Method
A two-week course on how to use a design method and approach to practically investigate the power that design has to inform and inspire products/services that contribute to a circular economy. A theoretical and practical course that aims to re-examine and re-imagine the students connection between resources, materials and products. This course provides insights into the basic knowledge of nature, resource, material, scarcity in relation to exploratory approaches to design, craftmanship, method and materials.
Stool prototypes made from seashells, seaweed, coffee, ashes, vegetable starch, paper and water (by Malin Sjöstedt)
Cross-Border Materiality
A split theoretical and practical course that questions the mind and body divide, suggesting that knowledge can grow out of the interactions and observation with our surroundings. This course invites the students to question these relationships and to take a curious and playful approach to making with materials.
Woven ‘Cone of Curiosity’ from rattan (by Johanna Wilk)
“Waste is the outcome of a failed relationship between consumer and product”
Jonathan Chapman