ECAM

PhD-Projects

Here you will find some PhD-Projects from ECAM`s PhD-candidates who started their studies in 2017.

Felipe Castelblanco

Cartographies of The Unseen: Tracing Planetary Entanglement and Exploring New Frontiers of Public Spaces.
This research project examines issues concerning planetary entanglement and how these developments have transformed notions of publicness, the scope of public spaces and belonging. Through practice-based research, this project explores the potential of spacethinking as an instrument for aesthetic inquiry into new frontiers of public space, relating to a v...

Kambiz Shafei

Displaced Sites
Since the invention of photography the relation of images and reality has gone through many developments. A photograph as an optical document of the outside world has always been associated with notions like translation, reality, manipulation, memory, absence, presence, invention and ultimately death. This research project investigates the relationship of architecture and images and the ways they construct and deconstruct one another. The con...

Michaela Büsse

Analysing design through the lens of human-material entanglementsThe Anthropocene discourse, also referred to as Anthropo-scene, brings together many different readings and practices which aim at entangling relationships between human and environment in order to find more just and sustainable ways of “living in the ruins”. Post-anthropocentric design practices are at the core of these endeavours with their attempt to overcome the human-centeredness i...

Karolina Sobecka

Owning the Weather in 2020How aesthetic knowledge claims influence social transformation during an energy transition The current environmental crisis is not just a physical problem, but a political and social one, and requires an urgent re-examination of the cultural practices through which we interact with the materiality of the planet. My project is an exploration of these practices and how they influence social transformation accompanying the energy transit...

Tena Kelemen

Seeing with Hands, Touching with Eyes Providing new experiences with integration of Visual and Tactile Perception
The development of digital media in the twentieth centuries onwards, has made people lose their connection with their sense of touch. The more we stare at screens and use touch interfaces, the more we stop training our haptic perception. Hence, people are losing the awareness with their sense of touch. The technology today is influencing our visi...

Joseph Popper

Missions to the Outer Fringes, imagining as a way of knowing.
‘Fiction is a means of capturing the real.’ Pierre Huyghe "Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world … " Albert Einstein This project concerns imagination as a means of generating knowledge , how imagining can be a way of thinking about reality, possibility and alterity. I am interested in how meaning can be mad...