Citizen Science Talks: Earth Logic Design Agency – practical and paradigmatic ripples of citizen science
03/12/2025
Lecturers: Prof. Matilda Tham & Dr. Åsa Ståhl, Department of Design, Linnaeus University
About this lecture:
The Earth Logic Design Agency is a speculative and prefigurative design agency exploring what it can mean to research and practice design from a paradigm that prioritises the survival and health of earth and all its species, including human – earth logic. The exhibition was curated by Mathilda Tham and Åsa Ståhl in collaboration with The Cultural University, Linnaeus University. At the heart of Earth Logic Design Agency is co-creation – with citizens, organisations, companies, knowledge institutions, media, as well as with more than human species. This attempt at authentic and complex co-creation illuminates treacherous, joyous, surprising dimensions of citizen science; such as the tender trade-off between participation and control, the time consuming nature of building trusting relationships, as well as the inbuilt epistemological hierarches in the university, with firm and often silent legacies of the scientific revolution, which may not be fit to meet the entangled crises humanity faces.
About the lecturers:
Mathilda Tham is Professor of Design at Linnaeus University and affiliated with Goldsmiths, University of London. Her metadesign research develops uncompromisingly systemic and holistic approaches to sustainability, including new ways to meet around the infected forest issue, rituals to integrate different generations, recipes for making homes within Earth’s limits, professional designer roles, policy and media initiatives. She is co-creator of + Change education and research environment, co-author of the Earth Logic Research Plan and co-founder of Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion.
Åsa Ståhl is a design researcher and a senior lecturer in design at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Her work combines participatory design with feminist technoscience and environmental posthumanities in explorations and speculations of how to make and know liveable worlds. Her work is collaborative and co-creative. Ståhl leads the research project Holding Surplus House and the 6-year research environment Design after Progress: Reimagining Design Histories and Futures together with Kristina Lindström and Li Jönsson. Ståhl and Lindström started the Un/Making. The studio is built on two decades of collaborations between the two of them and others. Ståhl is also part of the research team in the Earth Logic Design project, led by Mathilda Tham.
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