Summary
Dr. Karina Vissonova is the founding director of the Advanced Design Studies Institute and a researcher in design philosophy, specialising in future material wellbeing, sustainable societies, and the evolution of design education. With a Ph.D. in Design from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts and over 25 years of experience in research and development, her work contributes to advancing design education through transdisciplinary frameworks. She currently lectures at Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest and serves as a research fellow at the MOME Foundation, where she bridges futures studies and speculative design methodologies.
Dr. Vissonova curates interdisciplinary art-science exhibitions, and her publications include peer-reviewed papers, contributions to journal special issues on sustainable design futures, book chapters, and two books published through her institute. A member of the World Futures Studies Federation, she researches at the intersection of speculative design, sustainability studies, and design philosophy.
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Advanced Design Studies
Advanced Design Studies is an institute for a critical exploration into materiality, terraforming, and anthropocentrism. The institute conducts research into futures of sustainable societies and wellbeing.
Future Material Wellbeing research project
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FUTURE MATERIAL WELLBEING is an ongoing research project exploring possible futures of wellbeing in sustainable societies. The project investigates the material of social justice in relation to an emerging economic paradigm of sufficiency as being a possible foundation for wellbeing societies of the future. It seeks to formulate the potential of design discipline in this future.
The key concept presented in this project is reciprocal recognition (Honneth, 2012). Through a speculative design perspective, the project narrates a fictional future society where wellbeing is defined by social justice founded on principles of recognition. The project proposes a speculative model of material wellbeing, by this charting a trajectory of possible futures, reimagining social justice and reconceptualising social contracts through recognition. By extrapolating to futures societies based on social justice and sustainability, the project provokes critical thinking about present-day economic and social structures.
For enquiries regarding this project, collaboration proposals and other ideas please contact Dr. Karina Vissonova
Well Being
My research on wellbeing is specifically on Future Material Wellbeing. It focusses on revising our understanding of the interrelations between society and individuals – envisioning alternative wellbeing societies built on social justice.
