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Erling Björgvinsson
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Enheten för DesignOm Erling Björgvinsson
My research focuses on participatory politics in design and art. In particular, the dynamics of power and change as they are imagined and carried out in art and design through historical and material practices that enable, direct, and restrict ways of being and imagining.
Currently I head a six-year long practice-based research project titled Imaginaries of Value: Site and Mobility in Globalised Art and Design Practices Through Their Creative and Administrative Uses of Paper. Fellow researchers are Dave Beech, Marina Vishmidt, and Elena Raviola.
The project’s presupposition is that we now live in a time of what Anne Ring Petersen (2017) calls globalisation-from-above of art and design, in the form of institutional and discursive curatorial ideal that favour global international art events, as argued by Lotte Philipsen (2008) and Noël Carroll (2007) where trustworthy themes circulate between large globalised art and design scenes. The norms, ideas, and values of such practices and their visual and material culture are in need of being analysed by paying attention to the local and detailed aspects on transcultural intersections and dispersion of such work. This follows Arjun Appadurai’s (2013) exhortation to look at both the circulation of forms and the forms of circulation – in our case through paper - by analytically and methodologically paying attention to how matter and ideas produce imaginaries of value. In particular, how materials, space and time demarcate, discriminate, and orient who can say, make, hear, and do what, where and when, at specific historical and geographical conjunctions. Specifically, this will be done through the themes site and mobility. The theme “Site” deals with practices focused on site-specificity, such as art and design carried out through HQs, hubs, communal spaces, studio as community amenities, galleries as meeting place, and living labs. The theme “Mobility” deals with cases of transcultural engagements in art and in humanitarian design.
Previous practice-based research projects include City Fables and The Living Archives. In City Fables I researched, together with the poet Ida Börjel, the relationship between the narratives of political economies of urban space and the possibility of producing counter narratives. In The Living Archives I explored, together with Parvin Ardalan, feminist organisations, archives and heritage institutions, the politics of making public memory through the project Women Making History. I have also researched how small literary publics can participate in shaping the future of literary publishing and the literary public sphere. I have also conducted research on learning between health care professionals and patient learning within health care.
I supervises six PhD candidates studying at The HDK-Valand Academy and The Academy of Music and Drama.
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What to practise in design research? An interview with Erling
Björgvinsson
Thomas Binder, Erling Björgvinsson
Artifact - 2021 -
Migration
Erling Björgvinsson, Nicholas De Genova, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Tintin Wulia
PARSE Journal - 2020 -
Partitioning Vulnerabilities: On the Paradoxes of Participatory Design in the City of
Malmö
Erling Björgvinsson, Mahmoud Keshavarz
Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture - 2020 -
Migration: Editorial
Introduction
Erling Björgvinsson, Nicholas De Genova, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Tintin Wulia
PARSE Journal - 2020 -
A Dialogue on Absence
Between Aleksander Motturi, Kitso Lelliott, Martina Tazzioli and William Walters, based on questions provided by Erling Björgvinsson and Nicholas De
Genova
Erling Björgvinsson, Nicholas De Genova, Aleksander Motturi, Kitso Lelliott, Martina Tazzioli, William Walters
PARSE Journal - 2020 -
Hip-Hop City. An Interview with Craig Wilkins by Dave Beech and Erling
Björgvinsson
Dave Beech, Erling Björgvinsson, Craig Wilkens
PARSE Journal - 2018 -
Exclusion: Editorial
Introduction
Dave Beech, Erling Björgvinsson, Kristina Hagström-Ståhl
PARSE Journal - 2018 -
Exclusion
Dave Beech, Erling Björgvinsson, Kristina Hagström-Ståhl
PARSE Journal - 2018 -
Amendments and frames: The Women Making History movement and Malmö migration
history
Erling Björgvinsson, Anders Høg Hansen
Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture - 2018 -
Management
Erling Björgvinsson, Henric Benesch, Andrea Phillips
PARSE - 2017 -
Managing Collaborative Critique in Times of Financialisation
Capitalism
Erling Björgvinsson
PARSE - 2017 -
Introduction
Erling Björgvinsson, Henric Benesch, Andrea Phillips
PARSE - 2017 -
Hospitalisation and Spatial Vagueness: Patients’ Sense of Plasticity in a Care
Environment
Erling Björgvinsson, Gunnar Sandin
Caring Architecture: Institutions and Relational Practices - 2017 -
City Symphony Malmö: the spatial politics of non-institutional
memory
Erling Björgvinsson, Anders Høg Hansen
Journal of Media Practice - 2016 -
WOMEN MAKING HISTORY: 100 YEARS OF IMMIGRANT WOMEN’S LIVES AND WORK IN
MALMÖ
Erling Björgvinsson, Parvin Ardalan, Mamak Babak-Rad, Fredrik Elg, Sofi Jansson, Karolina Jeppson
2016 -
Patients Making Place. A Photography-based intervention about appropriation of hospital
spaces
Erling Björgvinsson, Gunnar Sandin
ARCH 14 - International Conference on Research on Health Care Architecture - November 19-21, 2014, Espoo, Finland - Conference Proceedings - 2015 -
Weaving Audience Engagement: Classical Music, Design, and
Democracy.
Erling Björgvinsson
How the Lion Learned to Moonwalk And Other Stories on How to Design for Classical Music Experiences. Richard Topgaard (red.) - 2014 -
Space Oddities. Music and the Making of Living
Archives.
Erling Björgvinsson, Anders Hög Hög
In Memory on Trial: Media, Citizenship and Social Justice edited by Anders Høg Hansen, Oscar Hemer, and Thomas Tufte - 2014 -
Creative Class
Struggles
Erling Björgvinsson, Pernilla Severson
Making Futures: Marginal Notes on Innovation, Design and Democracy. Edited by Pelle Ehn, Elisabet Nilsson, and Richard Topgaard - 2014 -
Collaborative Design and Grassroots Journalism: Public Controversies and Controversial
Publics
Erling Björgvinsson
Making Futures. Marginal Notes on Innovation, Design, and Democracy - 2014 -
The Making of Cultural Commons: Nasty Old Film Distribution and
Funding
Erling Björgvinsson
Making Futures: Marginal Notes on Innovation, Design and Democracy. Edited by Pelle Ehn, Elisabet Nilsson, and Richard Topgaard - 2014 -
Design Things and Design Thinking: Contemporary Participatory Design
Challenges.
Erling Björgvinsson, Pelle Ehn, Per-Anders Hillgren
DesignIssues - 2012 -
Agonistic Participatory Design – working with marginalized social
movements
Erling Björgvinsson, Pelle Ehn, Per-Anders Hillgren
CoDesign International Journal of CoCreation in Design and the Arts - 2012 -
Mediating Memory. Strategies of interaction in public art and memorial
forms
Erling Björgvinsson, Høg Hansen, Anders
Journal of Arts & Communities - 2011