Researcher 8: Andy Peruccon: Reworlding communities: enacting regenerative worlds across different European contexts // Malmö University

This position works across countries to explore participatory design and regeneration through cultural interventions, using and developing such methods as Theatre of the Oppressed and working with cultural organisations to learn how festivals can create transformations towards more liveable futures. It will draw on arts and embed a more-than-human perspective, developing the field of Participatory Design by contributing to understandings of cultural transformation and applying relational theory. During the first three years, there will be secondments outside Sweden to two organisations forming part of the Reworlding consortium: University of Trento and Landscape Choreography, Italy.

PhD candidate: Andy Peruccon 

I am a design researcher with a BSc in Product and Visual Communication Design from the Polytechnic University of Turin (Italy) and an MSc in Service Systems Design from Aalborg University in Copenhagen (Denmark). Over the years, I have worked on various projects, leveraging methods and tools from critical and speculative design, as well as service systems and transition for social innovation. My focus has been developing strategies, pedagogies, and methodologies to address complex and multifaceted issues impacting our societies.

Currently, I work at Malmö University, where I explore the cultural dimensions of socio-ecological challenges. Specifically, I research the transformative potential of festivals, rituals, and events as vessels for cultural regeneration and world-making. Merging post-humanist philosophies, speculative design and performative arts, I am trying to engage in different contexts across Sweden and Italy to establish new ways of understanding multiple worldviews within humans and beyond-human beings.