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Julia Lohmann
Julia Lohmann, designer, researcher and educator, investigates and critiques the ethical and material value systems underpinning our relationship with nature. She is a Professor of Design Practice at Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland. Julia is passionate about eco literacy and ocean protection. In 2013, she founded the Department of Seaweed, a transdisciplinary community of practice exploring the sustainable development of seaweed as a material for making. Julia Lohmann believes that any exploration of biomaterials needs to be based on amplifying their regenerative eco-systemic impact. In her practice and teaching she promotes an empathic, more than human-centric mindset and views design as a way of connecting knowing, caring and acting across disciplines and different levels of complexity. Julia is contributing to research consortia relating to design, biomaterials, science and ecology. She holds a PhD from the Royal College of Art and her work is part of major public and private collections worldwide.
Country affiliation: Germany, Finland
Image Credits: Mikko Raaskinen, Aalto University
Julia Lohmann in front of the Hidaka Ohmu, a pavillon made from Algae, at Aalto University, Finland.
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Richard Bellerby
Richard Bellerby is Chief Scientist for Climate and Oceans at the Norwegian Institute for Water Research (NIVA) and Director of the SKLEC-NIVA Centre for Marine and Coastal Research at ECNU, Shanghai, China. His research is towards climate-smart ocean solutions and optimising the interface between science and policy. A regular speaker at international fora including COP, UN Decade and the Arctic Council, he promotes the codesign and coproduction of scientific knowledge towards informed management of coastal and marine ecosystems under climate change.
His current focus in Norway is promoting climate-smart management and investments towards sustainable, productive kelp forests. He co-leads, with Bioregion Institute, the Byhav project around the regeneration of urban coastal systems; greening the grey seawalls, nature-inclusive harvesting and circularity through the design of novel material streams.
