Seminar by Larissa Pschetz – Designing Temporal Ecologies: Rethinking Technology, Data and Time
Event Details
Date: Wednesday 30th September 2026, 1pm
Location: Jack Cole Building, [room to be confirmed]
Abstract
This seminar introduces the notion of Temporal Ecologies as a design framework for understanding relationships between human and more-than-human temporalities, and explores how sensing, data, and interactive technologies might be reimagined to make these temporal relationships visible and actionable. It asks how technologies might move beyond accelerating and optimising human-productive activity towards supporting more ecologically attuned ways of engaging with multiple timescales.
Biography
Larissa Pschetz is a Senior Lecturer in Design Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. With particular focus on temporality, ecologies and inclusive technologies, her work investigates the impacts of socio-technical narratives and how they can influence and be shaped by design practice.
