Dr. Selena Savić

Selena Savić is a researcher and trained architect. She joined the FHNW Academy of Art and Design in Basel in 2018, where she is currently head of the Make/Sense PhD programme and lecturer at the Institute of Experimental Design and Media Cultures.

She holds a joint PhD from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Lisbon, having previously completed her studies of media design in Rotterdam and architecture in Belgrade. She was a guest lecturer and an SNSF-funded postdoc fellow at the Department for Architecture Theory and Philosophy of Technics (ATTP) at the TU Vienna in 2017 and 2018. She co-founded Contour, a journal for interdisciplinary research in architecture, in 2013 and is on the board of Technics Journal since 2020. She edited two books (Ghosts of Transparency, 2019 and Unpleasant Design, 2013).

Selena Savić established a hybrid design practice and a research agenda that address materiality of data, code and communication. She researches and writes about computational modeling, feminist hacking, and posthuman networks in the context of design and architecture.

Edited Volumes

• Doyle, M., Savić, S., Bühlmann, V. (eds.) (2019) Ghosts of Transparency. Shadows Cast and Shadows Cast Out, Berlin, Basel: Birkhäuser; ISBN 978-3-0356-1917-1 https://www.degruyter.com/view/product/522983
  
• Savić, S., Savičić, G., (eds.) (2013) Unpleasant Design, Belgrade, GLORIA, ISBN  978-8691091118

Peer-reviewed Articles

• Savić, S., Bedö, V., Büsse, M., Martins, Y., Miyazaki, S., (2020) Toys for Conviviality. Situating Commoning, Computation and Modelling, in Open Cultural Studies, 4 (1), pp. 143-153 https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/culture-2020-0015/html
  
• Savić, S., Wuschitz, S., (2018) Feminist Hackerspace as a Place of Infrastructure Production, Ada: A Journal of Gender, New Media, and Technology, 13 https://adanewmedia.org/2018/05/issue13-savic-wuschitz/
  
• Savić, S. Magarshack, L., Huang, J., (2018) Landscape of Connectivity. Measuring and Representing Fluctuations in Wireless Network Traffic in Space, Automation in Construction, 89, pp. 275–291. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.autcon.2018.02.010
  
• Savić, S. (2017). Designing for Connectivity: Rethinking the Interaction with the Built Environment and Wireless Communication Infrastructure. Interaction Design and Architecture(s) Journal – IxD&A, Special issue on: The Future of Human-Building Interaction: An HCI Perspective(32), pp. 48–67. http://www.mifav.uniroma2.it/inevent/events/idea2010/doc/32_4.pdf

Book Chapters and other Articles

• Savić, S., Savičić, G., (2021), Es wird ungemütlich, Der Architekt, 21/1 Mittendrin außen vor. Obdachlosigkeit in der Stadt, BDA, Berlin
• Savić, S., Martins, Y. P., (2021) Telling Stories on Commoning with Design of Models and Simulations, in Botta, M., Junginger, S., (eds) Design as Common Good. Framing Design through Pluralism and Social Values Conference Proceedings (pp 614-627), Swiss Design Network
• Savić, S. (2020) Politics and the City: Introduction to Special Issue, Contour Journal, Politics and The City http://contourjournal.org/index.php/contour/article/view/issue-6-introduction/199
• Savić, S., (2020) Thinking Toys for Commoning, in Future Sense, Christoph Merian Verlag, Basel, ISBN 978-3-85616-929-9
• Savić, S., (2020) Delegating management, augmenting the mind: What could be the role for technology in commoning practices?, free/libre Technologies, Arts and the Commons Unconference Proceedings, University of Nicosia Research Foundation, Nicosia
• Savić, S., (2019) Travelling on Planets of Resonating Concepts, in Doyle, M. (Ed.), Savić, S. (Ed.) & Bühlmann, V. (Ed.) (2019). Ghosts of Transparency. Shadows Cast and Shadows Cast Out, ISBN. pp. 249-260, Berlin, Basel: Birkhäuser; ISBN 978-3-0356-1917-1
• Savić, S., (2019) Future of Classroom: On Bringing Light and Information in Buildings (or Doing Away with Buildings Altogether), Digicult Journal
• Savic S. (2018) Measuring Scarcity or Balancing Abundance: Some Reflections on Human-Building Interaction Paradigms from an Architectural Perspective. In: Streitz N., Konomi S. (eds) Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions: Understanding Humans. DAPI 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10921. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91125-0_23
• Savić, S. and Bühlmann, V. (2017) ‘Digital Literacy in Architecture: How Space is Organized by Computation’, in Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. (pp. 2909–2914). ACM Press, http://doi.org/10.1145/3027063.3053237
  
• Savić, S., & Heitor, T. (2014). Probing the Network: Architecturality of Wireless Infrastructure. In Proceedings of the Media Architecture Biennale Conference: World Cities (pp. 69–78). Aarhus, Denmark: ACM. http://doi.org/10.1145/2682884.2682889
  
• Savić, S., & Huang, J. (2014). Research Through Design: What Does it Mean for a Design Artifact to be Developed in the Scientific Context? In Coletta, C., Colombo, S., Magaudda, P., Mattozzi, A., Parolin L., and Rampino, L., (eds) A Matter of Design (pp. 409–423). Milan: STS Italia Publishing
• Savičić, G., & Savić, S. (2014). Unpleasant Design. Designing Out Unwanted Behaviour. In Coletta, C., Colombo, S., Magaudda, P., Mattozzi, A., Parolin L., and Rampino, L., (eds) A Matter of Design (pp. 975–988). Milan: STS Italia Publishing