Back to Earth: Tracing the Roots

What does design look like when it begins from a position of ecological responsibility? What does designing with and for the non-human mean? Host Victoria Sin is joined by Rebecca Lewin, Curator of Exhibitions and Design, together they dive into everything from eco-design led exhibition making, to asking questions about the future of design education and ecological practices. Lewin is joined by Formafantasma, Dunne & Raby and sound works from Black Quantum Futurism. Formafantasma talk about their exhibition at the Serpentine Galleries, Cambio, and the ways in which the project will be intertwined with the Masters course they are initiating at the Design Academy Eindhoven in 2020. Dunne & Raby explore about their relationship to speculative design, the importance of teaching in their practice as designers and the role of museums to communicate radical design thinking. Black Quantum Futurism's sound work Temporal Technologies is part of a series seeking strategies for survival for marginalised peoples in a "high-tech" and oppressive, linear space-time. Image: Formafantasma, still from Quercus, 2020, Video, colour, sound, courtesy of Formafantasma.

Back to Earth is supported by Outset Partners' Grant.

This episode was produced by Katie Callin at Reduced Listening.