Michaela Büsse isa researcher interested in the interplay of material practices, technologies, and geological processes.

Currently, Michaela analyses land reclamation projects in Southeast Asia and the Netherlands and develops a performative reading of design based on sand’s granular physics. She works as Research Associate at the Institute of Cultural History and Theory and Associated Investigator at the excellence cluster “Matters of Activity. Image Space Material”, both at Humboldt University in Berlin.