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Public defence of Petra Lilja's "Mineral Matterings: Diffractive Practices of Design"
Welcome to the public defence of Petra Lilja's doctoral thesis, Friday 29 November at 13.30 in Mandelgren at Konstfack and/or on Zoom: https://konstfack-se.zoom.us/j/63502413639
This dissertation, Mineral Matterings: Diffractive Practices of Design, makes design perceptible as a source of concern, part of the extractivist logic. Through two projects, “Walking with Minerals” and “Critical Clay,” Lilja has invited participants to encounter mineral matter in more nuanced ways rather than just as passive resources to be exploited. Drawing from the feminist posthumanities, geology, and agential realism, Lilja introduces "diffractive practices of design"—a relational approach examining mineral matter and materials’ complex entanglements that extend beyond human-centered perspectives.
Petra Lilja has been a doctoral student at Konstfack and KTH 2019-2024. Coming from an industrial design education, her practice sits in the borderlands of art, craft and technology with a focus on exploring design’s role in reconfiguring ethical and material relationships in shared processes of more-than-human world-making.
Faculty Opponent: Prof. Helen Pritchard – FHNW University of Applied Sciences and Arts Northwestern Switzerland
Examining committee: Prof. Nicolas Cheng – Akademie der Bildenden Künste München, Dr. Lena Håkansson – Independent researcher, Dr. Simon Ceder – Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts and Design and Dr. Janna Holmstedt – National Historical Museums in Sweden, and The Posthumanities Hub, Linköping University
Supervisors: Prof. Martín Ávila – Konstfack, University of Arts, Crafts and Design, Docent Meike Schalk – KTH, Royal Institute of Technology and Prof. Ola Ståhl – Linnaeus University
Chair: Docent Catharina Gabrielsson – KTH, Royal Institute of Technology
Konstfack, LM Ericssons väg 14, subway station Telefonplan, Stockholm
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Konstfack is Sweden’s largest university for arts, crafts and design. Since 1844, we have educated a diverse range of professionals within these fields as well as art and sloyd teachers. We conduct both artistic and scientific education/research and currently have about 1000 students and 200 employees. www.konstfack.se
