is a PhD student and instructor in Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington with over 5 years of experience across research and design activities. Their work focuses on design interventions that practitioners can adapt to align speculative & more-than-human values within a design context, with a focus on issues of climate change & social justice. Beach holds bachelor’s degrees in HCDE and Comparative History of Ideas, both from the University of Washington.
last update: December 2021
Articles published on IXD&A:
• ‘Value Sensitive Speculative Design: Exploring More-Than-Human Relations in the Age of Climate Catastrophe’, N. 51, 2021, pp. 111 – 131, abstract, download, (https://doi.org/10.55612/s-5002-051-005), Google Scholar
"As issues of climate change become more apparent and intertwined with our daily lives, calls for action amplify. The causes and effects of anthropogenic climate change (rising temperatures and oceans,..."
"As issues of climate change become more apparent and intertwined with our daily lives, calls for action amplify. The causes and effects of anthropogenic climate change (rising temperatures and oceans,..."
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