Participatory Design Workshop - Gianna LedermannWorkshop ETH Zürich

Early on in the semester Gianna Ledermann joined us for an input and participatory design workshop. The workshop outlined the different roles of teams, focusing on student’s strengths in different areas and interview techniques which put interviewees at ease when doing fieldwork with stakeholders.

Gianna Ledermann is an architect (BSc & MSc Arch ETH Zurich) and currently a doctoral researcher at EPF Lausanne (since 2021), where she received the Robert Gnehm Fund in 2024. Previously, she worked as a scientific assistant at ETH Zurich with Prof. Christian Kerez (2015-2019), during which she was awarded the Rector’s Input Fund for the innovative teaching format Studio Panorama (2019, during the sabbatical of Prof. Kerez). Her current research employs an ecofeminist subsistence perspective to examine spatial forms of resistance on peasant-agroecological farms against the industrialization and commodification of agriculture. The focus of her research is on the one hand strongly motivated by her queer-feminist, radical teaching practice (collective DRAG(UE) ENAC Projeter Ensemble EPFL, since 2022) and her institutional activism within the DRAGlab (IA EPFL 2020-2023), and on the other side by her engagement in peasant farmer movements as founding and board member of the agroecological cooperative Koopernikus (since 2021), and her work within the Coalition Terre (Uniterre, Association des petits paysans, Longo Maï, MAPC, Le Lombric, Le Radis Noir, militant researchers, since 2023), which aims to create legal and political structures for collective access to agricultural land in Switzerland.