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Martin Avila
Professor
Email
Martin.Avila@konstfack.se
Phone
073-151 7681
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Organisation
Department of Design, Interior Architecture and Visual Communication / Industrial Design
Description
Martín Ávila is a designer, researcher, and Professor of Design at Konstfack, the University of Arts, Crafts and Design in Stockholm, Sweden, where he is artistic leader for Design and responsible for the MA Design Ecologies. His PhD work (Devices. On Hospitality, Hostility and Design), was awarded the 2012 prize for design research by The Swedish Faculty for Design Research and Research Education. His postdoctoral project Symbiotic tactics (2013-2016) has been the first of its kind to be financed by the Swedish Research Council. Martin’s research is design-driven and addresses tensions in interspecies cohabitation. He is currently working on a collaborative project entitled “Material Cultures for Interspecies Cohabitation”, also financed by the Swedish Research Council (2023-2026). His latest book Designing for Interdependence: A Poetics of Relating was published by Bloomsbury in October 2022.
Homepage
www.martinavila.com
Publications, artistic output and conference papers
2024
Conference admissions
Unrefereed
Ávila, M. (2024). Designing for Interdependence - A Poetics of Relating.
Konstfack Research Week 2024
Stockholm: Konstfack, p. 21-21.
2023
Articles and book chapters
Unrefereed
Ávila, M. (2023). (De)signs as response. In Ivica Mitrović, Mia Roth, Tonči Čerina (ed.).
Designing in coexistence : reflections on systemic change
Zagreb: Croatian Architect's Association p. 143-153.
2022
Books
Refereed
Ávila, M. (2022).
Designing for Interdependence - A Poetics of Relating.
London: Bloomsbury Academic
Articles and book chapters
Unrefereed
Ávila, M. (2022). Alter-natives - Designing as a poetics of relating. In Alastair Fuad-Luke (ed.).
Post-normal design : Emergent approaches towards plural worlds
ed. (1). Portugal: esad-idea p. 65-72.
Conference admissions
Refereed
Ávila, M. (2022). Designing for Interdependence - A Poetics of Relating. In M. Mortensen Steagal, S. Nesteriuk (ed.).
Proceedings of LINK 2022 : 4th Edition of the International Conference of Practice and Research in Design & Global South
Auckland: AUT - Auckland University of Technology School of Art & Design,, p. 21-24.
Åsberg, C., Radomska, M., Fredengren, C., Peterson, J., Holmstedt, J., Klingborg Elgh, C., Gunnarsson Östling, U., & Ávila, M. (2022). More-than-human feminisms across arts and sciences. In Cecilia Åsberg (ed.).
G22 Conference - Shaping Hopeful Futures in Times of Uncertainty : The Challenges and Possibilities of Gender Studies
G22 SHAPING HOPEFUL FUTURES IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY: THE CHALLENGES AND POSSIBILITIES OF GENDER STUDIES, Karlstad, Sweden, 26-28 October, 2022
2021
Articles and book chapters
Unrefereed
Ávila, M. (2021). Ecologizing Design. In Jenny Nachtigall, Marietta Kesting, Susanne Witzgall, Maria Muhle (ed.).
Hybrid Ecologies
Berlin: Diaphanes Verlag p. 228-240.
2020
Articles and book chapters
Refereed
Ávila, M. (2020). (De)sign responses as response diversity.
Biosemiotics
(13), p. 41-62.
Unrefereed
Ávila, M. (2020). Die Ökologisierung des Designs. In Susanne Witzgall, Marietta Kesting, Maria Muhle, Jenny Nachtigall (ed.).
Hybride Ökologien
p. 248-260.
Ávila, M. (2020). Togetherness. In Staszowski, E. and Tassinari, V. (ed.).
Designing in Dark times : An Arendtian Lexicon
ed. (1). New York: Bloomsbury Visual Arts p. 306-309.
2019
Articles and book chapters
Refereed
Avila, M., & Ernstson, H. (2019). Realms of Exposure - On Design, Material Agency, and Political Ecologies in Córdoba. In Ernstson, Henrik and Sörlin, Sverker (ed.).
Grounding Urban Natures : Histories and Futures of Urban Ecologies
Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press p. 137-166.
Conference admissions
Refereed
Avila, M. (2019). Three Ecologies Diffracted - Intersectionality for Ecological Caring.
Proceedings of the 8th Bi-Annual Nordic Design Research Society Conference - Who Cares? 2-4th of June 2019 Finland
NORDES 2019: Who Cares? 2-4th of June 2019 Espoo, Finland
2018
Conference admissions
Unrefereed
Avila, M. (2018). Responding through design. In Silver Rattasepp (ed.).
Semotics of Hybrid Natures : Anthropogenic Ecosystems, Multimodalities, Transformed Umwelts
Semiotics of Hybrid Natures, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia, 8–10.11.2018
, p. 14-15.
2017
Conference admissions
Refereed
Avila, M. (2017). Ecologizing, Decolonizing - An Artefactual Perspective.
NORDES 2017 : DESIGN + POWER
NORDES 2017, 7th Nordic Design Research Conference, 15 - 17 June 2017, AHO · Oslo, Norway
Unrefereed
Avila, M. (2017). Design responses as response diversity. In Perig Pitrou (ed.).
La Vie À L'Oeuvre / Life at Work : Nouvelles Écologies, Bioart, Biodesign / Towards New Ecologies
La Vie À L'Oeuvre / Life at Work, Monday 16 and Tuesday, October 17, 2017, from 9am to 18pm, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris
2015
Articles and book chapters
Unrefereed
Ávila, M. (2015). Causes of evil (and wonder). A design enquiry. In Maria Lantz, Staffan Lundgren (ed.).
Radical Re Re Re Re Re Rethinking
1 uppl. Stockholm: Konstfack p. 108-115.
2012
Books
Unrefereed
Ávila, M. (2012).
Devices - On Hospitality, Hostility and Design.
Diss. Göteborg: University of Gothenburg
2010
Conference admissions
Refereed
Avila, M., Carpenter, J., & Mazé, R. (2010). 3Ecologies - Visualizing Sustainability Factors and Futures.
LeNS conference 'Sustainability in Design: Now. 29 Sept - 1 Oct 2010, Bangalore
, p. 382-395.
Updated: 11 November 2024
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