Martin Avila

Professor

Martin Avila
Email
Martin.Avila@konstfack.se
Phone
073-151 7681
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.

Publications, artistic output and conference papers

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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
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