TALKS

2025

»Coastwork: Bioregioning the Ocean.« Symposium: Planetary Experiments: Environments by Design. Organized by:  Michaela Büsse and Johanna Mehl (TU Dresden),  Bianca Herlo and Lynn Harles (DGTF), with Lynn Harles & Thomas Pausz, German Design Council & TU Dresden (DE).


Panel co-chair with Emma Sicher »Fieldscapes - a situated approach to multispecies design.« STS-Hub '25  Conference: Diffracting the Critical, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (DE).


»333 saftige Papayas.« Reading at Lady Liberty Press, Berlin (DE).

         

Moderation and co-curation: »Symbiotic Waterscapes.« On Water Parcours, Berlin University Alliance, paneldiscussion with Prof. Dr. Robert Arlinghaus (Leibniz-Institut) & Laurin Kilbert (Symbiotic Spaces Collective), supported by: re:future lab,_matter festival, Berlin (DE).


Workshop: »What if the SPREE were a City? Collectively designing aquatic habitats.« _matter Festival, Berlin Design Week, with Marie Drouet & Freke van Rooij, re:future lab Berlin (DE).


Opening Speech:  »What if the Ocean were a City?« _matter Festival, Berlin Design Week, with Madeleine Schwinge, Sophia Gräfe, re:future lab Berlin (DE).


2024

»333 saftige Papayas.« Reading at Queer Museum Vienna (AT).


»A Whispering World. Design Research as a Tuning into Marine Environments.«

Kein Kino, Zurich University of the Arts (CH).


»333 saftige Papayas.« Reading at Leipziger Buchmesse (DE).


»A Whispering World. Words by a Silent Ocean.« Exhibition Opening and Paneldiscussion at BLUE Talk with Dr. Bernadette Pogoda (Alfred-Wegener-Institute for Polar and Marine Research), Dr. Wilfried Sanchez (Ifremer), Dr. Melania Guerra (Climate Analytics), David Enon (designer)

at French Embassy Berlin, Berlin (DE).


»333 saftige Papayas.« Book Release at Südblock Aquarium, Berlin (DE).


»333 saftige Papayas.« Reading at Frankfurter Buchmesse, Queer Gold, Frankfurter Salon, Frankfurt (DE).


»What if the Ocean were a City, and its Dwellers Fish?« Holitopia Festival, Curated by Madeleine Schwinge, re:future lab & HTW Berlin (DE).



»Coming Full Circle.« curated by Julia Hindernik, panel discussion with Sophia Guggenberger, Kim le Roux, Melanie Hammer, Architektur Kultur Stiftung,  München (DE).



»Marine Un/commons. On Why We Maybe Shouldn't Be Here.« PhD- Progress Presentation »Testing Un/Common Grounds« at Matters of Activity cluster of Excellence, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (DE).


»On the Im-Possibility of Becoming Amphibious.« Design Academy Eindhoven (online), Studio Silva Systems, Eindhoven (NL).


»Reclaiming contact zones through interspecies underwater architecture.«

Podcast with BioBAT Art Space New York, »Water Stories« with Eve Barro (Online).


»What I talk about when I talk about diving. A designer in the ocean.« Symposium: »Multispecies. More-than-human. Design after the Anthropocene.«  Curated by Claudia Banz & Lynn Harles. With: Eben Kirksey, Anja Wegner, Superflux et al. Kunstgewerbemuseum Berlin (DE):

             

»Nature's Wisdom.« Open Discussion by the Conscious Travel Foundation. (Online). Moderation: Portia Hart, Maudie Tomlinson & Olivia Cryer (USA).


»Ocean is my Method.« Symposium: Gestalterisch Forschen, Burg Halle

Giebichenstein (online) (DE).



"Breathe! Diving with the Medusa." POEM (Poets of Migration) presents: Humano Biotop II: Das Leben der Zukunftskollektive. Volksbühne Berlin, Roter Salon. Video: Henry Mex.


2023

»A Coral Garden for Tierra Bomba. A Blasted Seascape.« BBB Talk at Matters of Activity,  Cluster of Excellence. Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (DE).


»Breathe! Diving with the Medusa.« POEM (Poets of Migration) presents: Humano Biotop II: Das Leben der Zukunftskollektive. Volksbühne Berlin, Roter Salon, Berlin (DE).


»Of Other Reefs – Designing Habitats in Marine Environments.« Conference:  Biocalibrated: Tools and Techniques for Biodesign practices Symposium, Central Saint Martins UAL, London (UK).


»Interfacing the Ocean.« Anthea Oestreicher & Rasa Weber, Social Science & Humanities Konsortium Deutsche Meeresforschung Strategy Group, Helmholz-Zentrum HEREON, Geesthacht (DE).


»Impurity by Design. A Queer Ecological Journey.« Climate Care Festival. Floating   University.  Workshop with Klaas Kuitenbrouwer (Het Nieuwe Instituut & Zoönomic Institute): How to Zoöp?, Berlin (DE).


»Sympoietic Design in the Ocean.« Matters of Activity cluster of excellence (Humboldt Universität zu Berlin) and Center of Excellence (STIM, University of Split). Shared event with Cluster PIs Prof. Dr. Horst Bredekamp & Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schäffner, STIM Split (HVR).


»Of Other Reefs - designing marine habitats in aquatic ruins.« Matters of Activity, cluster of excellence, PhD Progress Presentation, Humboldt Universität  Berlin, DE.


»A Sympoietic Ocean. Design research with/in the marine holobiont.« ISEA 23 Conference »Symbiosis«, Forum des Images, Paris (FR).           


»PhD in Design.« MA Industrial Design, Prof. Ineke Hans, University of the Arts, Berlin (DE). 


»Design with/in Troubled Waters.« Critical Ecologies Group, Prof. Dr. Patricia Ribault, École des Beaux-Arts de Paris (FR).    


»Neue Werkstoffe – ist die Industrie bereit für die Nachwuchsziele der Gen Z?« Panel discussion, curated by German Design Council, at Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Design Weeks, Frankfurt, DE.  


»Aquatory Entwerfen?« Lecture series: »Tief im Ozean Tauchgänge in Aquatische Wissens- und Imaginationsräume.« Department of Cultural Studies, Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (DE).      


»Serious Games. Playing with/in Material Ecologies.«  Lecture Series. Department: Product design, Prof. Axel Kufus, University of the Arts, Berlin (DE).



2022

»Bye Bye Extractivism? On the exploitation, collaboration & co-creation of biomaterials.« Dr Delfina Fantini van Ditmar, MA Innovation Design, Royal College of Art London (UK).       


»Collaborations as Environmental Interactions.« With Karmen Franinović, TAP Transdiciplinary Artistic Conference, Zurich University of the Arts (CH).

             

»Getting Attuned to the Ocean. Underwater field methods between marine biology and design research", Co-author: Anja Wegner, Jordan Lab, Max Planck Institute Animal Behavior, Symposium: Counterparts: Exploring Design Beyond the Human. Swiss Design Networks Conference, Zurich University of the Arts (CH).


»Circular Design. Why Materials Matter.« Panel Discussion: The Visions, curated by German Design Council, at K22, Düsseldorf (DE). 


»+ - Zero.« Symposium: Situiert im Globalen: Konflikte, Kosten, Atmosphären. Curated by Karin Harrasser and Thomas Macho IfK Vienna, public discussion with Gloria Meynen, University of Arts and Design Linz (AT).


»Symbio-Design Futures – ein neues Entwurfsparadigma für materielles Wachstum in/mit mehr-als-menschlichen ökologischen Systemen." Summer School: Mitten in der Zukunft ­– Entwürfe für nachhaltiges Denken und Handeln. Muthesius Kunsthochschule  Kiel (DE).


»Minus Zero. Interspecies Design in Underwater Environments.« PhD Progress Presentation, Matters of Activity, cluster of

excellence. Humboldt University of Berlin, (DE).


»From Mining to Growing. Biochemical explorations of designing in / with marine ecologies.« Symposium »Creative Science: a collaborative journey through Design and Chemistry.«, ASCUS Creative Producer (UK).


»Symbio-Design. Towards sympoietic materials research in the ocean.« Deutsche Gesellschaft für Designforschung. Symposium: Design X Sustainability, Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel (DE).


»Designing (in/through/with) the Ocean.« Sustainability Science Dialogue ZHdK with Akademie der Naturwissenschaften SNCAT, Zurich University of the Arts (CH).


»Algae Futures.« Speculative Futures, Ellery Studio, Berlin (DE).