Tanja Beer is a stage designer and PhD candidate investigating ecological design for performance at the University of Melbourne, Australia. Her PhD seeks to re-think traditional design practices, and re-interpret materials and processes to embrace the possibilities of “ecoscenography” – a movement that integrates ecological principles into all stages of scenographic thinking and production. Tanja has more than 15 years professional experience and was recently “Activist-in-Residence” at Julie’s Bicycle (London). She has a Masters in Stage Design (KUG, Austria) and has taught Design Research, Scenography and Climate Change at the University of Melbourne. Her work was recently published in Etudes Online: www.etudesonline.com/feb2015beer.html
t.beer@student.unimelb.edu.au
http://ecoscenography.com