Variants without Hangouts// Species Without Spaces
In this lecture Thomas Pausz will present recent design projects linking ecology, design, and digital media: Species Without Spaces, a series of designed arts and film installations inspired by a beach ecosystem expanded at Festival Interstices (France); and Haunted Ecologies, a dialogue with a urban river for which he was awarded the Stanley Picker fellowship in Design.
Thomas Pausz is a critical designer and researcher born in Paris and based in Reykjavík. He is an Associate professor at the Iceland University of the Arts, and senior tutor at the MA Design & New Environment. Thomas prophecies new forms of environmental storytelling and interspecies relations. Blending documentary field work, design fiction, and digital creation, Pausz uses design and digital media to give a voice to endangered landscapes.