Education
& Talks
_education
Design Academy Eindhoven
TUTOR PRE-MASTER
since 2023
_education
Design Academy Eindhoven
CRITICAL REVIEWER & TUTOR ASSISTANT
Information Design MA
since 09/22
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FFEMINIST DJ WORKSHOPS
min./max. 2 participants
_panel discussion
ECOLOGICAL DOMINATION
@Dutch Design Week 2022
with Jessica den Outer, Hannah Kansy, Brogen Berwick and Monja Simon
_workshop
THE ECOLOGICAL GLITCH: LATEX AND LEAFES
@By Design or by Disaster, on Radical Care
MA Eco-Social Design Free University of Bozen-Bolzan, Italy
#panel talk
DESIGN AS PROVOCATION
for THE AFTER MONUMENT event
@Dutch Design Week 2021
with Sergi Casera, Anastasia Kubrak, Simon Davies
Film, Motion
& Storytelling
BOTANICAL ROLE PLAY
@Dutch Design Week 2022, Milan Design Week 2023
with my garden
2022
_short documentary
PORTO’S BOOKBINDER: SENOR CARVALHO
with Katrin Dittmayer, Louisa Wolf, Alessandra Hofmann, Joao Pereira
2020
_film
EXTINCTION REBELLION CAMP BERLIN
‘Part of ‘The Golden Age of Resonance’
with Lina Nißlbeck
2021
_podcast _webdesign
THE FOOD COSMOS
Exhibtited during Dutch Design Week 2021
Streamed @RaRaRdio Eindhoven
with Pedro Lorbo, John Carrillo, Anna Perugini
#motion design, sounddesign
FREEDOM OF THE INTERNET
Nominee Eyes & Eares New Talents 2019*
_video campagne
MARINE MEMORIAL
#money raised for Swakopmund Genocide Museum: 600€
With and for Laidlaw Peringanda
_trailer
for Information Design Year 1
2020
_radio station
created by Information Design class
Workshop conducted by Good Times Bad Times Radio
2020
Graphic Design
& Exhibitions
_artistic residency
BOTANICAL ROLE PLAY
@MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2023, BASE I.D.E.A.
supported by Goethe Insitute Mailand
@Dutch Design Week 2022, Microtuin
with my garden
_graphic design
THE ECOLOGICAL GLITCH
@Design Academy Eindhoven
plant extinction, eco feminis, queer theories, philosophy
GOLDEN AGE OF RESONANCE
German Design Award Nominee 2022
www.resonanz-zeitalter.com
with Linda Nißlbeck
_sound installation _graphic design
BEYOND BINARIES
Seating objects by Beatrice Maione
_graphic design
PLANTS AS ALIENS?
2022
_graphic design
MISUNDERSTOOD:
AN UNPERMITTED LOOK INTO THE WORLD OF THE HELLS ANGELS
2020
© 2024 by Studio Loba
The Ecological Glitch
started with the pressing aspect of the global biodiversity crises that humans endanger one in five plant species worldwide. Using my garden as a case study, this auto-theoretical thesis investigates why I overlook and devalue plants and how plant-human relationships can be challenged.
My lack of care for plants is imbedded in a human-centric belief that humans are not animals, but a superior species. It is reinforced by the binary concept of Nature versus Culture. Fundamental differences between plants and animals make identifi- cation and empathy difficult. I push plants into roles and use cases. Neither science nor educational institutions challenge my dominant perception, but reinforce separation, categori- zation, and oppression. Instead of looking at core parts of plants such as leaves and roots, I get distracted by the plant's reproductive organ - the flower. Looking at plants through a queer, feminist, and philosophical lens piques my interest. My relationship with plants is unexpectedly political, as I found parallels in other oppressive structures. Dualisms within gender, race, ableism, or class are also based on exclusion and control. Instead of feminizing Nature and emphasizing the female closeness to Nature, this concept must be dissolved in order to liberate any gender of their normative roles. Respectful interactions with the vegetal realm are collaborative. What I learn from plants is the valuation of hybridity, dysfunction, gender fluidity, non-normativity, and radical interdependence. Plants are queer, though their representation has to be queered to disrupt normativity. As a designer, it's my responsibility to replace these patterns.
THE ECOLOGICAL GLITCH: FIELD GUIDE INTO QUEER ECOLOGIES
Master Thesis M.A. Information Design 2022, Design Academy Eindhoven
Tutors: Joost Grootens, Simon Davies, Gert Staal, Irene Stracuzzi, Dimitri Jeannotat
Contributions: Margret Grebowicz, Eden Kinkaid, Neeraj Tiwari, Janina Höllrigl Jonathan Meares
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The Ecological Glitch: Leafes and Latex
@By Design or by disaster 2022 Conference, Italy
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The Ecological Glitch: Leafes & Latex
is a workshop that spices up the often undervalued perception of organic matter through the usage of latex. The results are highly detailed plant imprints as sensual goods and new perspectives on dynamics of dominance within the plant - human relationships.
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