Steffie de Gaetano (she/her) is a Dutch-Italian interdisciplinary researcher and PhD candidate at the Faculty of Architecture and Arts, UHasselt, Belgium. Her art-led design research practice focuses on bridging the present polycrisis breakdown to colonial and modern legacies by tracing material systems, matter flows and beyond-human indices. Her doctoral research investigates the mutation of naturecultures produced by fossil fuel industries through the conjunction of (sub)surface landscapes of extraction, while envisioning collective futuring ways forward through the re-enchantment with the underground by art-led practices of counterprospecting. Her works have been exhibited at Rotterdam Art Week, Van Abbemuseum, TAC, SEAfoundation, SEARTgroup, the Dutch Design Week and Archiprix NL, has presented her research at conferences at EPFL (2022), AHRA (2023), the Post Mining Network (2023) and RGS (2024), and is a 2022 dieDAS fellow.
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Doctoraatsbursaal
Mevrouw Steffie DE GAETANO
Onderzoek
Disciplinecodes: Kunststudies en -wetenschappen niet elders geclassificeerd (06040399), Andere antropologie niet elders geclassificeerd (05109999), Postkoloniale studies (05100111), Architectuur niet elders geclassificeerd (06040299), Duurzaam design (06040107)
Andere onderzoeksactiviteiten
Congressen en voordrachten
Titel voordracht: Tipping points: shape-shifting naturecultures and terres-ils in the Campine coal basin
Plaats: University of Portsmouth
Titel congres: AHRA 2023 - SITUATED ECOLOGIES OF CARE: Lixiviated Soils
Titel voordracht: Gut Feelings. (Self-) Pedagogies for Embodied Knowledge.
Plaats: University of Portsmouth
Titel congres: AHRA 2023 - SITUATED ECOLOGIES OF CARE: Dirty Pedagogies: Caring for a Polluted World
Titel voordracht: Geologic Architecture and its Extraction Landscapes
Plaats: perspective.brussels
Instelling - Congres: DS2BE
Titel voordracht: Permeance: Unearthing Traces of Geologic Architecture in Landscapes of Extraction
Plaats: EPFL (École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne), Habitat Research Center
Titel congres: Post-extraction territories in transition
Titel voordracht: Tipping points: the Campine coal basin
Plaats: ’Ecole nationale supérieure d’Architecture et de Paysage de Lille (ENSAPL)
Instelling - Congres: International Post Mining Network