Student project

Shaped by the Sea

Designer
Maximilian Schmidauer
Education
Master
Subject area
Industrial Design
Focus area
Design for Planet
Year
2025
Background
Mapping rising sea levels as an agency for actors

Shaped by the Sea

The Master’s Thesis “Shaped by the Sea - Mapping rising sea levels as an agency for actors” fosters the Map as a tool for the relational designer to map subjective stories in regards to rising sea levels. I emphasise asking decision-makers to “be-in-the-world” rather than just looking down at it (like a map) to see the full picture of what we might face in terms of climate change. The relational designer would use a map to act with the world and asks: “How can the map be an agency for actors to address rising sea levels?”