Pascal Zißler has worked as a teaching associate at the Chair for Designing Landscapes in the Anthropocene from 2023 until 2025. After a vocational training as a landscape gardener in Bavaria, he studied landscape architecture (B.A. & M.A.) at TU Berlin and is continuing to study Philosophy (B.A) as a second subject. His work and reasoning as a landscape architect is centered around the question, how deeply and radically the Anthropocene questions and changes our way of designing, which he also practices and has evolved since 2017 as a part of the competition team of Atelier Loidl landscape architects in Berlin.

In his master’s thesis, written at the chair in 2022, he discusses the role of dependency relationships as a possible new focus of design in the Anthropocene. He takes a broad perspective on the topic, ranging from the examination of popular narratives about the future to the rethinking of responsibilities, motivational psychology, and growth-critical economic perspectives to theories of interdependence design. At its core, the question is whether and how we can use new design approaches (encompassing ecological and social relations) to create attractiveness for ways of life that are in good relation with our shared dependencies, which in turn form the basis for a prosperous life.