Design & Posthumanism Network

Erik Sandelin is a PhD candidate in Art, Technology and Design at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. Erik is currently exploring human withdrawal through meat-allergy, sun-eating, and hypnosis. He is co-founder of Malmö-based interaction design studio Unsworn.

Åsa Ståhl is a design researcher and a senior lecturer at the Department of Design at Linnaeus University. She is one of the founding members of the Design & Posthumanism Network. Together with Kristina Lindström she runs the Un/Making Studio as part of a research project that strives to take into account that in all making there are also things and possibilities unmade. She holds a PhD in Media and Communication Studies from Malmö University. Between 2015 and 2016 she held a postdoc position at Umeå Institute of Design.

Collaborating across various disciplines, engaging a multitude of different actors, Li Jönsson has previously worked with topics such as energy and climate change as well as senior health care. More recent projects explore computational technology and the politics of participation as a ‘speculative co-design’. She holds a PhD in Design from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Design.

Kristina Lindström is a designer and Senior Lecturer at the School of Arts and Communication at Malmö University. She is a member of the Design & Posthumanism Network and the Collaborative Future-Making research platform at Malmö University. Her research aims to trouble an explore alternatives to progressivist and anthropocentric imaginaries that have been and still are central within design. She currently runs the Un/Making Studio together with Åsa Ståhl. She holds a PhD in Interaction design, from Malmö University. Between 2015 and 2016 she held a postdoc position at Umeå Institute of Design.

Petra Lilja is an industrial designer and curator. At the moment she is a doctoral candidate at the Art, Design and Technology Programme jointly run by Konstfack (University of Art, Craft & Design) and KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), Stockholm. Since graduating from Pratt Institute, New York, she has explored different ways to combine her creative driving force with her deep concern about designs negative impact on the planet. She worked as design lecturer and program director of the Design + Change Programs at Linnaeus University. For four years she ran an eponymous galley in Malmö displaying art, design and research. She is a member of the jury of the annual Young Swedish Design Award (UNG) and its equivalent in South Korea.

Thomas is senior Lecturer at HDK Valand, Gothenburg University and one of the founders of the network Design & Posthumanism. He is engaged in the cross disciplinary research field named Environmental Humanities, where there is space and need for artistic approaches and methods, in addition to the ways that Science and the Humanities together try to tackle the environmental challenges of our time.