Zeenath Hasan

An erstwhile corporate ethnographer and social entrepreneur, I currently am Senior Lecturer at the Design Department in Linnaeus University. I serve as Head of Department and as Programme Coordinator for the Design+Change master programme. 

Undervisning

I teach holistic, performative and critical articulations of design practice to undergraduates and graduates, and supervises master thesis projects in the + Change programmes. My learning activities generate services and initiatives conceived and conducted by students at the Design Department. 

Forskning

In my artistic research, I explore food as material for knowledge production. I lead the development of Food + Change, a platform engaging food as pedagogy in a cross-sectoral interchange with society and economy. 

From two generative work sites, comprising the Food Lab on campus and an urban farm called TheDirt off-campus, students and staff conduct research explorations, socio-economic initiatives and immersive, participatory experiences in collaboration with fellow actors like the Växjö Kommun, bees, urine and the stinging nettle.

Student-initiated and student-lead projects include (in chronological order) Smoothies to Sustain, Food Sharing Växjö, Feminist Farmers, TheDirt, VXO FARMLab, Power/Harvest, From Flax to Yarn and more.

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