Anne-Marie Hansen
Senior lecturer

Presentation

Anne-Marie works with regenerative and relational design. Through regenerative design, I want to create the conditions for nature to thrive again, and for humans to thrive together with nature as a keystone species. Through relational design, I hope to create the conditions for regenerative design by working with the relations between people, and people and nature. As an interaction designer, I focus on working with creating relations so that we can live in regenerative ways in our relations with web-of-life: the food webs that we are part of, and totally dependent upon. I abandon dualist thinking and seperation ideologies that unfortunately are still common in the modern Western world.

Through CSCW – computer supported cooperative work – I want to contribute to designing digital communication platforms with AI (machine learning algorithms) that formalize regenerative ways of relating to one another and make them mainstream. For example, I ask: how might digital communication platforms bring people into bio-circulation economies and regenerate Land? How might we work together to engage in eco-industrial symbiosis across industries and communities? How might we localize production of foods and goods, so that we can take responsibility for the surrounding eco-systems and care for them?

The kinds of design disciplines that I work inside is digital/interaction design, service design, participatory design, regenerative design, and relational design (see more about relational design in the Nordes conference 2025 where relational design was the main theme: https://nordes.org/)

I use methods such as systems oriented design to incorporate more-than-human stakeholders (https://systemsorienteddesign.net), value sensitive design (https://vase.mau.se/) that I developed through an EU Erasmus+ project with researchers from Århus University and Technical University of Eindhoven, and more-than-human perspectives in design that I also developed together with this research group: https://morethanhumandesign.eu/. I also use the Systemic Design Framework and process model developed by the British Design Council: https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/our-resources/systemic-design-framework/

My work is focused on regenerative farming, eco-communities, more-than-humans, traditional and Indigenous knowledge, decolonization, and regeneration of Land. My purpose in life is to contribute to healthy and just food systems for all (humans and other species) in the middle of the unfolding multi-crisis. I do it for my children and future generations.