Dr Joanna Boehnert

Personal statement 

Dr Joanna Boehnert is a Senior Lecturer at Bath School of Design, working on two AHRC-funded projects and teaching in the Historical and Critical Studies programme.

From 2023–2026, she is working as an Innovation Scholar on the Transition Templates: Pathways to Netzero research with Livework, a service design consultancy in London. Her second research project is Enacting Gregory Bateson's Ecological Aesthetics in Architecture and Design on an AHRC-funded research project led by the University of Brighton and Bauhaus-Universität Weimar.

Joanna is also the author of the monograph Design, Ecology, Politics: Towards the Ecocene and her more recent work can be found on her blog and on Twitter.

Academic qualifications

• HEA Fellowship, Loughborough University
• HEA Associate Fellowship, University of Westminster
• PhD in Design, University of Brighton
• MA Graphic Design, London College of Communication, University of the Arts London
• BA Specialised Honours Fine Arts, University of Guelph

Professional memberships

• Design Research Society (DRS) member
• DRS Sustainability Special Interest Group
• Systemic Design Association (founding member)

Areas of expertise

• Design for sustainability
• Feminist design ecologies
• Design studies and design contexts
• Responsible design education
• Design theory and design thinking
• Systemic design (theory and practice)
• Communication design 
• Collaborative design 
• Transdisciplinary design 
• Design transitions
• Design futuring

Research supervision

I am actively seeking PhD students working in design for sustainability and other topics.