The iF Design Foundation Symposium
, held at the Pinakothek Moderne in Munich, brought together design educators and practitioners to address questions on the future of design education. Under the theme Designing Design Education, experts explored how curricula could foster positive design futures and novel approaches across academia and industry. This gathering set the stage for exploring how design’s role might evolve to meet both ecological and societal needs.
Professor Biodesign and More-than-human Perspectives Delfina Fantini van Ditmar conducted a workshop focusing on regenerative design education. In her workshop, Delfina encouraged participants to re-envision ‘industrial’ design curricula in German education by prioritizing regenerative practices and ecological integration. Workshop attendees participated in reshaping the educational framework to foster ecological design mindsets, gaining valuable insights into the role of art and design in advancing regenerative initiatives.
‘How can art and design cultivate critical expressions rooted in ethics of care and relationality to influence ecological, social, and economic structures?’
Delfina Fantini van Ditmar, PhD, focuses on ecological design and reflective practices as Professor of Biodesign and More-than-Human Perspectives. With a background in biology and design research, she explores paradigm shifts and material ethics, advancing regenerative and more-than-human perspectives
The research group Biobased Art and Design capitalises on the role of artistic practice in unlocking the unique potentials of living organisms for everyday materials and communicating these to a broader public. In doing so, the group aims to instigate and accelerate our widespread understanding, further development and usage of such materials. The group’s research approach encourages tangible interactions with the living organisms, such as algae, fungi, plants and bacteria, to explore and understand their unique qualities and constraints through diverse technical and creative methods taking artists, designers and scientists as equal and active partners in the material creation.
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