Feral Hacking for Climate Regeneration
Hosted by Critical Media Lab
With Unbox India & Pro Helvetia
Delhi and Goa, India
2025-
Hosted by Critical Media Lab
With Unbox India & Pro Helvetia
Delhi and Goa, India
2025-
Feral Hacking for Climate Regeneration is an ongoing community research project which explores how multispecies communities on the frontlines of climate emergency are applying hacking, making and other experimental platforms for material participation, in ways that transcend the limits of human-centered design. Launched in collaboration with Critical Media Lab, the project draws seed inspiration from community developments ongoing in India, the world’s most populous nation and one of its most climate vulnerable, whose peoples aim to reach net zero by 2070.
Our collaboration started with a research residency funded by the Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council in collaboration with Unbox Cultural Futures. We met in Delhi, where I convened the sold-out community mapping workshop ‘Calling all hackers & makers for climate <3’ at the What Design Can Do festival. Here, participants were invited to build a map that visualised where they saw feral futures emerging across India. The map was full within the hour, the stories many - illustrating the dynamism of a nation in rapid transformation. I also exchanged with The Design Village, a university in the industrial heart of Delhi with a focus on social impact and sustainability, where we opened the doors to a student exchange programme with HGK FHNW Academy of Art & Design in Basel.
Our collaborations in Delhi were followed by field research along the shorelines of Goa, where I visited local makerspaces like Makers Asylum(pictured above) and cultural institutions like Museum of Goa, learning about ancestral technologies like Khazan fishing systems, and meeting local community leaders working on climate solutions at a roundtable hosted by Sadhana Dell’Arte in Panjim. I shared insights from these encounters at a public lecture for the Next Nature Museum conference Bio Design edition in Eindhoven, NL.
These seeds are tilling rich soil for further hatchings - please get in touch if you are interested in collaborating.
Our collaboration started with a research residency funded by the Pro Helvetia Swiss Arts Council in collaboration with Unbox Cultural Futures. We met in Delhi, where I convened the sold-out community mapping workshop ‘Calling all hackers & makers for climate <3’ at the What Design Can Do festival. Here, participants were invited to build a map that visualised where they saw feral futures emerging across India. The map was full within the hour, the stories many - illustrating the dynamism of a nation in rapid transformation. I also exchanged with The Design Village, a university in the industrial heart of Delhi with a focus on social impact and sustainability, where we opened the doors to a student exchange programme with HGK FHNW Academy of Art & Design in Basel.
Our collaborations in Delhi were followed by field research along the shorelines of Goa, where I visited local makerspaces like Makers Asylum(pictured above) and cultural institutions like Museum of Goa, learning about ancestral technologies like Khazan fishing systems, and meeting local community leaders working on climate solutions at a roundtable hosted by Sadhana Dell’Arte in Panjim. I shared insights from these encounters at a public lecture for the Next Nature Museum conference Bio Design edition in Eindhoven, NL.
These seeds are tilling rich soil for further hatchings - please get in touch if you are interested in collaborating.
