Laura Kemmer

Laura Kemmer holds the DAAD Martius Chair Germany-Brazil for Humanities Research on Sustainable Development at University of São Paulo. Her research interests include urban forms of collectivity, modes of un/relating and more-than-human theories. As part of the Berlin University Alliance project “Re-Scaling Global Health”, her research concentrates on practices of planetary healing, as emerging from residents’ relations to elements such as water and soil. Together with Jamie Baxter, she coordinates the project “Designing with the Planet. Connecting riparian zones of struggle in São Paulo, Jakarta and Berlin” (Governing through Design – South Designs initiative).