What impact can design skills have in transdisciplinary contexts fostering political transformation? And how to question and change global issues by working with and from inside your local community? In the current episode of the Hurra Hurra Podcast Christian Zöllner and Bianca Elzenbaumer, Co-founder of the design collective Brave New Alps, discuss ways to practice design as an attitude when it comes to working conditions as well as the skills that design students need in order to act responsibly in the labour market.

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Bianca Elzenbaumer is a design researcher based in the Italian Alps. She is a member and co-founder of the design collective Brave New Alps. She co-produces participatory design projects that engage people in reconfiguring the politics of social and environmental issues. She combines design research methods with feminist pedagogy, feral approaches to community economies and lots of DIY making and collective organising. Bianca Elzenbaumer currently also works as a Marie Skłododwska-Curie Fellow at the Institute for Regional Development at Eurac Research (IT) and is the co-president of Cipra International, the international commission for the protection of the Alps.

Related links:

→ Burg Giebichenstein Kunsthochschule Halle

→ Hurra Hurra Festival

→ BRAVE NEW ALPS idt.

→ Alpine Community Economies

→ Comunfare

→ La Foresta

→ Communità Frizzante

→ Precarity Pilot

→ Long Nights Google Form

→ Åbäke

→ Kris Krois

→ Jennifer Gabrys

→ Kathrin Böhm