Michelle Westerlaken
doktorand

Taking a critical approach to our current treatment of animals in society, I am researching how the design of artefacts that mediate playful, joyful, or surprising encounters between animals and humans can inspire us to imagine alternative - non-speciesist - futures.

My research draws from theories from fields including interaction design, game design, posthumanism, and critical animal studies.

For more info see: my personal website and my publications