Christoph Matt

The workshop presents co-designed methods developed through ongoing collaboration in design and posthumanism, focusing on human and more-than-human entanglements. Through a noticing walk and critical mapping, participants work in pairs to explore seasonal environmental processes often beyond human-centered perception, using field recordings (photo, video, sound, writing, drawing). Practical exercises support experimentation and translation of these encounters, combining making and reflection to strengthen relational thinking. Emphasising trial and error over fixed outcomes, the workshop concludes with a guided feedback session and open discussion on how such eco-social design practices and perspectives can be pragmatically applied amid ecological, social, and economic challenges.

Please bring your own camera/smartphone and earphones for the workshop.

About Christoph Matt

Christoph Matt is an Austrian eco-social designer and interdisciplinary creative director currently based in Vienna and Vorarlberg. His work explores the relationship between nature and humans through design, art, culture, and the natural sciences.

Studio Matt | Eco-Social Design was founded over 10 years ago to effectively address ecological and social questions in our society through the lens of design. For over a decade, the studio has gathered national and international recognition for its strong commitment.

Christoph is also one of the co-founders of the European artist collective Sympoietic Society and the international artist duo Dear Deer, and serves on the board and as an editor of the Design + Posthumanism network.