Maria Hellström Reimer, Professor in Design in Theory and Practice at Malmö University, School of Arts and Communication. Trained as an artist with significant professional experience, Hellström Reimer holds a PhD and Readership in landscape architecture with a specialization in theoretical and applied aesthetics. Her research is interdisciplinary, concerning aesthetic agency, including questions of knowledge, value, and social change. Recent writing includes “Subjecthood Adrift” (in Vanucchi et.al. (eds.) Design Research for Uncertain Futures, 2026), and “Stories from third space — A case and considerations of design research education from a Swedish vantage point” (in Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 2024). She served as Director of D! (2014-2015) the national PhD school in design; as Scientific Adviser in artistic research at the Swedish Research Council (2021-2024), and as articles editor for JoLA/Journal of Landscape Architecture. She has been a visiting scholar in several design research environments in Europe and beyond, and since 2014, she is an affiliate of Université de Paris 8 Vincennes-Saint-Denis.