Roman Kirschner

Roman Kirschner is the Co-PI of "Interfacing the Ocean: Towards a Sea Change in Design". He is a designer, artist, researcher and writer working across disciplines and Reader of Interaction Design at ZHdK. After studies of philosophy, art history and audiovisual art, he completed a PhD on „The paradigm of material activity in the plastic arts“ at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne. He was the project leader of the arts-based research project „Liquid Things“ at the University of Applied Arts Vienna. His works were shown internationally in e.g. Arko Art Center Seoul (ROK), Kunsthalle and Künstlerhaus Vienna (AT), Cornerhouse Manchester (UK), Tokyo Museum of Photography (JP), Itaú Cultural (BR). His current research interests revolve around metabolism and ecologies, interactions with environmental microbiomes, transformative materials, spatial strategies, research methods and the mutual influence of material, imagination and epistemology.