CHANSE Call Partner Search Tool

General Information

• Project title: Designing Transitions in the Polycrisis
• Type: Project looking for partner
• Organisation: Bath Spa University
• Country: United Kingdom (UK)

Research area

• Call theme: Crisis - Perspectives from the Humanities
• Keywords:

  environmental change climate change polycrisis

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  We invite researchers in transitions to sustainability, environmental humanities, STS, anthropology, and other ecologically engaged academics with an interest design to contact us. We are four partners looking for only one more partner who located in south, eastern, and/or smaller European countries.

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  Central to the concept of designing in response to polycrisis is the need to challenge and extend current design knowledge and practice. In times of emergency, we often seek to rebuild what is familiar and tested. The overshoot of ecological boundaries means that this is no longer a viable approach. The appropriation of the sustainability agenda by those who will not enact urgently needed transformative change is a danger in design research, education, and practice. Our research is part of a process of connection and reconstruction that promotes the value of creative, academic rigour in developing transformative new narratives, material, and infrastructures for the sustainment of human and non-human co-existence on our beautiful planet.

Dr. Joanna Boehnert

• Organisation: Bath Spa University
• Position: Senior Lecturer in Design
• E-mail: j.boehnert@bathspa.ac.uk
• Phone: 07725551550