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This immersive 20-minute audio drama explores humans' relationships with changing coastal environments through treasure hunting and speculative folklore. It was exhibited during the Dreamy Place Festival in Brighton 2025 in a beach hut overlooking the English Channel. The production was supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England. Listen for free on...
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Cultural probes, in the form of postcards designed to invite visitors at heritage sites to reflect on their subjective experiences.

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Through the metaphor of the dandelion latte - a displacing innovation,

I explore how radical design principles may be applied to create references for planet-centered systems of provisioning.

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A listening experience that aims to produce a disorienting dilemma for the purpose of generating epistemic change through transformative learning.

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Anna Bertmark (she/her) is a Swedish PhD Design researcher at Lancaster University, based in Brighton, UK. Her research interests span ecoacoustics, Ecological HCI, regenerative and speculative design, and ‘More-than-human listening methods’ primarily in coastal areas. After two decades working in film post-production, she now explores how listening to the More-than-Human world can inform design for equitable futures. She was on the research team for Interspecies exhibition at MAC/CCB, Lisbon, and is also part of the 2025 Coastal Co-ART Residency initiated by PAN Shanghai in collaboration with Imagination Lancaster.
She is a member of the Design Research Society and ACM.
Exhibitions

Interspecies delves into the historic and current desire for humans to understand, connect with, and coexist with other species. Curated by Mariana Pestana and Interspecies Research Studio: Anna Bertmark, Fernanda Costa, Valentina Demarchi, Bernardo Gaeiras, Mathilde Gouin, Katerina Iglezaki, Carlos Pastor, Mariana Simões. Exhibited at MAC/CCB, Lisbon, Portugal.

RSD11 | 13-16th Oct, 2022

The exhibition at Grand Parade campus during Relating Systems Design Symposium (13-16 October) #RSD11, showcases MA Sustainable Design projects from the last three years. It emphasises how work produced on the course engages with systemic design issues and approaches.

London Design Week |
17-24th Sept, 2022

I exhibited my design research Masters outputs as part of London Design Week at the Design District in North Greenwich alongside work by my fellow students and alumni from the University of Brighton, with the purpose of stimulating conversations in the design community about the value of design research in understanding the complex and urgent issues faced locally and globally.

MA Graduate Show |
20-23rd Aug, 2022

The end-of-year MA showcase exhibition at The Ledward Centre in Brighton, celebrated radical alternative visions of collective futures and possibilities of sustainable change. The work presented a snapshot of the adventures through postgraduate study in Sustainable Design.

Publications

Tangible, Embedded and Interactive Conference, ACM | TEI '25

Collective Imagination Practice, workshops funded by Joseph Rowntree Foundation

Tangible, Embedded and Interactive Conference, ACM | TEI '25

Relating Systems Thinking & Design Conference | RSD11

Discern: International Journal of Design for Social Change, Sustainable Innovation and Entrepreneurship

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