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 This project investigates alternative territorial models from the Global South, seeking to reveal entanglements (or the territory as system of relations) across obscured layers of occupation and governance, both above, over and below the ground. A central case in the project is the study of eco-social relations extending through a vertical axis of a contested indigenous territory in the Colombian Pan-Amazon region between the departments ...

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 entanglements.
The 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 inhe...

Karolina Sobecka

Carbon ecologies In the environmental collapse, carbon emerges as the medium and object of governance, mobilized as the fulcrum of world’s brokenness - and repair. The emerging ecologies of carbon are poised to challenge the current economic, political, and power arrangements, even as the technocratic regimes race to name, contain and operationalise carbon in its infinite fungibility, through carbon markets, carbon debt, and myriads of carbon capture and utiliza...

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 Missions to the Outer Fringes explores the imagining of outer space and the shaping of outer space imaginaries. The research focuses on the production and narration of outer space, the nature of popular visions for space futures, and the relation of human activities in outer space to Earthbound issues. The primary interest is human spaceflight as a technological project inseparably entangled with the social, where historical precedent...