Contributors

Henric Benesch

Henric Benesch is an associate professor (docent) in Design at HDK-Valand – Academy of Art and Design, acting Dean at The Artistic Faculty and an associate of Centre for Critical Heritage Studies (CCHS) at the University of Gothenburg. He is an architect interested in transdisciplinary and intersectional aspects of knowledge creation within and in relation to education and built environment with a particular interest in site-based and speculative methodologies. Recent publications include “The Right to Design” (2020), “What if a 1%-rule for Public Design” (2021) and “Co-curating the city: universities and urban heritage past and future” (2022).

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Mahmoud Keshavarz

Mahmoud Keshavarz is a Senior Lecturer in Design Studies at the University of Gothenburg and a Research Associate at the Engaging Vulnerability program, Uppsala University where he holds docent in Cultural Anthropology. His research focuses widely on the politics of design and the design of politics with a particular focus on the violent yet imaginative capacities of materialities of borders and (im)mobility. He is author of The Design Politics of the Passport: Materiality, Immobility and Dissent, Co-editor-in-chief of the journal Design and Culture and founding member of Decolonizing Design.

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Onkar Kular

Onkar Kular is Professor of Design at HDK Valand, Academy of Art & Design, University of Gothenburg. His practice has been disseminated internationally through commissions, exhibitions, education and publications. He has guest-curated exhibitions for The Citizens Archive of Pakistan, Karachi, and the Crafts Council, UK. He was Stanley Picker Fellow in 2016, Artistic Director of Gothenburg Design Festival in 2017, Co-Artistic Director of Luleå Art Biennial in 2022 and curator of the sonic festival, Bass Cultures, How Low Can You Go! Falkenbergs teater, Sweden in 2023. He is the co-editor of Urgent Pedagogies Journal Issue #6, Earthed Imagination (2023) and Urgent Pedagogies Journal Issue #9, The Right to design (2024).

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Christina Zetterlund

Christina Zetterlund is craft and design historian with history writing practices where craft and design become a perspective for analysing social conditions. She is active as associate professor and researcher at Linneaus University (Växjö) and as curator for the project Re-learning the archive (Lära om arkivet, at Designarkivet Pukeberg). She continuously works with various collaborators among them is Hälsinglands museum (Hudiksvall) in forming the archive of the jewellery artist and the Roma human rights activist Rosa Taikons workshop. In 2018 she worked together with glass workers, The Glass Factory (Boda Glasbruk), and The Peoples House in Kosta to stage the exhibition project During the Lunchbreak about the workers skills and agency and how this was expressed in the ‘frigger making’, in the free-time experimentation. In 2018 she collaborated with Magnus Ericsson in curating Slöjd Stockholms craft residence Plats för det handgjorda at the Ethnographic museum in Stockholm and Husby. Konst & Hantverksförening. Christina is also active as researcher and publishes her research widely. Currently she conducts the research project ‘Design history in other geographies’ in collaboration with Ájtte Museum (Jokkmokk) writing histories from Småland and Sápmi.

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