My name is Monja Simon, an alumna of Social Design from Design Academy Eindhoven, and I am an interdisciplinary spatial practitioner challenging human-centered notions through a critical feminist lens. Using embodied methods like fermenting with microbial bodies, my practice critiques and expands traditional spatial design, creating fluid boundaries between spaces and bodies. Through storytelling, I uncover the often-invisible interspecies care structures that sustain life, revealing how materials and organisms shape one another. My work includes future food research, participatory fermentation workshops, performative dinners, and activism. The project Fermentors exemplifies my community work by building a queer feminist network of human and microbial connections that emphasizes mutual nourishment and coexistence.
Monja Simon
