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.