Camilla Groth
Camilla Groth is Associate Professor in Design and Materiality. Her research explores the relationships between materials, making, knowledge, and design practice. Working across design and craft research, she is particularly interested in how engagement with materials contributes to thinking, learning, and behavioral change.
With a professional background in ceramics and design, Groth brings perspectives from both practice and research to her work. She is a one of the initiators of the Biennial International Conference for the Craft Sciences (BICCS) and co-convenor of the Design Research Society's Special Interest Group on Experiential Knowledge (Eksig). She has authored and edited several books and publications on Embodied cognition in crafts and design, Embodied learning, Arts education for sustainable change and Experiential knowledge.
Her current research is increasingly concerned with sustainability and the role of human-material relationships. She investigates how a reflective stance towards materials can support more sustainable ways of designing, making, using, and valuing material resources.
Research interests
- Materiality and human-material interaction
- Material and practice-led research
- Embodied, tacit, and experiential knowledge
- Sensory and aesthetic dimensions of material experience
- Interdisciplinary approaches to materials research
- Sustainable material development and material practices
- Sustainability, circularity, and regenerative material futures
- Design and craft education, experiential learning