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Mattias Gunnarsson

Senior Lecturer

The Design Unit
Mail
mattias.gunnarsson@gu.se
Visiting address
Kristinelundsgatan 6-8
Göteborg
Postal address
Box 131
40530 Göteborg

About Mattias Gunnarsson

Mattias is a Senior Lecturer in Design at the HDK-Valand-Academy of Art and Design. He lectures, tutors, runs courses and workshops in Design at both BA- and MA-level. He has a background in spatial design, with an interest for the city and public space. The urban environment with its many layers of information and narratives are often a part of his courses, lectures, workshops and artistic practice.

He is a collaborator who engages in many different projects in different settings where the artist platform MASU and Salon de Papier are the two most in focus. MASU is a collaboration with artist Susanne Westerberg and the platform has a focus on spatial installation work and drawing, while Salon de Papier is a meeting point for artistic publishing.

Mattias also has a great interested in, and work with zines, self-publishing, publishing as artistic practice and issues revolving independent publishing, distribution, trading work, no-isbn etc He continuously publishes zines and art publications that he trades in an international network.

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For the academic year of 2024-2025 Mattias will be involved in both the BA and MA Design Programs and in the extra curricular course EAT - Food culture, Materiality and Design. He will also run artistic projects with MASU + Salon de Papier and continue to develop the HDK Zine Library.

CV and images: mattiasg.se / MASU