EUniWell Citizen Science Talks: Earth Logic Design Agency – practical and paradigmatic ripples of citizen science
A close connection between universities and their local communities is central to EUniWell. The EUniWell Citizen Science Programme supports new ways of involving people and technology in research, by drawing on knowledge and experiences that exist outside academia.
The programme highlights initiatives across EUniWell universities where civic participation plays a key role in both research and education – with the aim of promoting well-being and social engagement.
One of these initiatives is EUniWell Citizen Science Talks – an open lecture series exploring how citizen science can help us better understand and respond to societal challenges.
During autumn 2025 and spring 2026 EUniWell Citizen Science Programme will launch a series of seminars, Citizen Science Talks, on the theme "Citizen Science". Experts from universities in the EUniWell strategic co-operation (European University for Wellbeing) share their perspectives on citizen science across different areas of society.
About the lecture: The Earth Logic Design Agency is a speculative and prefigurative design agency. It explores what it can mean to research and practice design from a paradigm that prioritises the survival and health of earth and all its species, including human – earth logic.
The exhibition was curated by Mathilda Tham and Åsa Ståhl, in collaboration with The Cultural University and Linnaeus University. At the heart of Earth Logic Design Agency is co-creation. It involves citizens, organisations, companies, knowledge institutions, media, as well as more than human species.
This attempt at authentic and complex co-creation illuminates treacherous, joyous, surprising dimensions of citizen science. These include the tender trade-off between participation and control, the time consuming nature of building trusting relationships, and the inbuilt epistemological hierarchies in the university. These hierarchies carry firm and often silent legacies of the scientific revolution, which may not be fit to meet the entangled crises humanity faces.
About the lecturers: Matilda Tham is Professor of Design at Linnaeus University and affiliated with Goldsmiths, University of London. Her metadesign research develops uncompromisingly systemic and holistic approaches to sustainability, including new ways to meet around the infected forest issue, rituals to integrate different generations, recipes for making homes within Earth’s limits, professional designer roles, policy and media initiatives. She is co-creator of + Change education and research environment, co-author of the Earth Logic Research Plan and co-founder of Union of Concerned Researchers in Fashion.
Åsa Ståhl is a design researcher and a senior lecturer in design at Linnaeus University, Sweden. Her work combines participatory design with feminist technoscience and environmental posthumanities in explorations and speculations of how to make and know liveable worlds. Her work is collaborative and co-creative. Ståhl leads the research project Holding Surplus House and the 6-year research environment Design after Progress: Reimagining Design Histories and Futures together with Kristina Lindström and Li Jönsson. Ståhl and Lindström started the Un/Making. The studio is built on two decades of collaborations between the two of them and others. Ståhl is also part of the research team in the Earth Logic Design project, led by Mathilda Tham.
Organised by: Linnaeus University
Lectures are open to everyone who want to learn more about how countries work with citizen science in different areas.
Location: Zoom
Duration: 60 minutes, including time for questions.
Registration: No registration required.
More information on upcoming lectures in the seminar series will be published on a regular basis on Medarbetare.
Further information:
- To the EUniWell Citizen Science Talks overview page with more information about upcoming lectures.
- To EUniWell’s website for more information about the EUniWell Citizen Science Programme.
- Read more about EUniWell – the European University for Well-Being – on EUniWell’s website.