LXD CONFERENCE 2025, AVEIRO, PORTUGAL
Monja Hirscher gave a presentation at the Learn X Design Conference, the conference of the educational special interest group of the DRS, in Aveiro, Portugal. The presentation referred to a statement of pedagogy observing her practice:
Outlining the Experience of a Process-Oriented Practice Towards Foregrounding Entanglements in Design Education
If design is understood in a posthumanist sense as a practice that creates encounters between human and non-human actors, it can be interesting to look at the encounters or entanglements rather than at the things that emerge, as these develop the practitioner in the form of relationships, experiences, and learnings. The text traces the author’s craft-based and process-oriented practice in candy making and observes the situated entanglements that arise in the process, which lead to a proposal of anchor points to reflect on such a practice in educational settings. The individually emerging connections to becoming, bodies, places, times, actors, and imaginations are meaningful outcomes of such processes.