This design project explores the complexity of witchcraft, focusing on the socio-cultural and ecological levels. The project’s transdisciplinarity bridges the historical facts of witchcraft, folktales, culture, and natural science practice with speculative design. It studies how, in the past, witchcraft was used against women as a patriarchal system of oppression and the ways in which it has been reclaimed through feminism in the present. It also looks into how women’s scientific participation and contributions have been partly and entirely erased or wrongly credited to men. Through practice-based research and multispecies collaboration, this project aims to empower women to learn and experiment with natural science through an ecofeminist lens and framework. The project offers a speculative design exploration of how today's witches can contribute to environmental restorative practices, through a communicational tool with the incredible mycorrhizal network found underground. This is directed toward young women who represent the future of environmental science and justice.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:lnu-115242 |
| Date | January 2022 |
| Creators | Smaranda, Sirbu |
| Publisher | Linnéuniversitetet, Institutionen för design (DE) |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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