Zeenath Hasan

Zeenath Hasan is a design educator, social entrepreneur and erstwhile corporate ethnographer. In her current role as Senior Lecturer at the Design Department in Linnaeus University, she serves as part of the department leadership and helps coordinate the Bachelor and Master programmes in Design+Change.

Zeenath also leads the development of Food + Change, a platform engaging food as pedagogy in a cross-sectoral interchange with society and economy. The projects listed below are social experiments and initiatives conceived and conducted by students at the Design Department.

Making matters matter at the intersection of ecology, economy and society from an urban farm in Växjö. Hubert Gaca

Edible soil was a participatory dinner performance pertaining to the origins of food and diminishing soil due to unsustainable agricultural practices. To develop a relationship to caring with soil, participants / diners used their hands or other vegetables to scoop their food.

Concept and production: Una Hallgrimsdottir, Nada Okruhlicova, Laura Fähndrich

Featured at the Multispecies Storytelling in Intermedial Practices symposium
Växjö Konsthall
January 2019

Scenario Salad is a team building tool. Participants are provided with ingredients to compose a salad of their needs, emotions and expectations for the upcoming work year.

Deployed as a tool for a conference wrap up and for the team Drivhuset Växjö.

Concept: Nada Okruhlicova, 2019

'Eating with Chooks and Feral Fowl' is a critical, performative, storytelling of human-animal relations.

The dinner performance was featured at the Multispecies Storytelling for Intermedial Practice symposium, January 2019, Växjö

Performers: Hubert Gaca, Lacey Dams, Nada Okruhlicova, Norman Lammers, Stephanie Föhr

Feminist Farmers are a regenerative, care-based, community-minded collective exploring feminism and food.

Co-initiators: Karen Cort Nielsen, Laura Fähndrich, Una Hallgrimsdottir, Leah Ireland
In collaboration with Växjö Kommun

Since growing season 2018 onwards.
Located at Brände Udde, 10 min walk from the LNU Växjö campus.
Insta

Smoothies to Sustain is a non-profit that rescues fruits and gives it a new life in the form of smoothies providing a sustainable alternative to food production while raising awareness, inspiring and educating people about food waste.

Co-initiators: Nada Okruhlicova, Sofia Ratzinger, Lisa Shields
2017-2019 Community page

Publications

Chapter in book (Other academic)

Hasan, Z. (2019). Recipe for eating memories within Earth's limits. Oikology – Home Ecologics : A book about building and home making for permaculture and for making our home together on Earth. Växjö, Linnaeus University Press. 138-138.
Hasan, Z. (2016). Countering Malnutrition : Participatory Intervention as an Act of Revelation. Methodological Reflections on Researching Communication and Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan. 123-137.

Article in journal (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))

Hasan, Z. (2015). When we make more than we can eat. Fresh Vegan.
Hasan, Z. (2014). The Mealboxes Came a Calling. The Hidden Economies : A Seminar on Economic Possibilty.

Chapter in book (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.))

Hasan, Z. (2007). Creating a Media Platform for Sonic Socio-Cultural Exchange. LARM : from mouth cavity to laptop : the sound of nordic art : [ LARM : från munhåla till laptop : ljud i nordisk konst ]. Kabusa.