Petra Lilja's design research is both academic and practice based, and currently she’s a PhD student at the University of Arts, Crafts and Design (Konstfack) and the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm, Sweden.
Previously, her research was conducted within the fields of Creative Critical Expressions, merging her work at Linnaeus University and her studio work.
The paradigm of human exceptionality has set in motion a machinery of global effects of which design, by adding to mass-production and consumption, can be argued to be one principal cog. In my work I explore ways to critically examine the role of the designer. One aim is to disrupt human-centeredness and open up for reconfigurations of design practices to better engage with troubled presents where a myriad of other species is overlooked and becoming extinct. I'm interested in unpacking these unequal power hierarchies created by human activity, and my research project will explore multispecies-inclusive narratives and strategies for engaging and empowering scales of actors and knowledges otherwise unaddressed.
Link to PhD research profile at Konstfack.
Papers:
Cultivating Caring Coexistence, Researchgate
Research presentations:
Konstfack Research Week, January 2020
Nordes, June 2019
Konstfack Research Week , January 2019
The 17th Nordcode Seminar, November 2018 (with research group Det Dolda)
The Swedish Research Council’s Annual Conference on Artistic Research, November 2018
(with research group Det Dolda)The 16th Nordcode Seminar, November 2017
For more information, please contact Petra.Lilja@konstfack.se
