Erling Björgvinsson
Om Erling Björgvinsson
Erling Björgvinsson is PARSE Professor of Design at the School of Design and Craft, Faculty of Fine Arts, Gothenburg University. Together with professors from Academy Valand and Academy of Music and Drama he runs the art-based research platform Parse, which is a publishing initiative and a biannual conference. He is also steering group member in the Centre on Global Migration at Gothenburg university.
A Central topic of research is participatory politics in design and art, in particular in relation to urban spaces and the interaction between public institutions and citizens. My research focuses thus on the dynamics of power and change and how collective life can be enriched and challenged. It engages in design and art that challenge how behaviour and processes are regulated and made regular and irregular – and thus politically charged - by how they are materially apportioned. As such I’m interested in how designed materials are used to enable, direct, restrict, manipulate humans as well as non-human materials.
Methodological topics include how socio-material configurations and orientations are negotiated when the aim is critiquing and changing present situations. Specifically, how power figures in the initial framing and subsequent reframing - as participants are orientated and giving centre – periphery positions - and how it affects what is “voiced” and materialises. Furthermore, it studies how agency is constituted in change processes, how political judgments are made when predefined rules are not in place and how new collectives emerge and are constituted through design processes.
In City Fables he researched together with the poet Ida Börjel the relationship between the political economies of urban space, narratives and counter narratives. In The Living Archives he probed, together with feminist organisations, archives and heritage institutions, the politics of making public memory. He has also researched how small literary publics can participate in shaping the future of literary publishing and the literary public sphere. Earlier research includes organizational learning and patient learning within health care.
He supervises five PhD candidates studying at HDK, Valand Academy, and Chalmers who research on children play in migration camps, Crip design, mapping and counter mapping visual and material manifestations of gentrifications, the political imaginaries of post-nationalism, and critique in dialogical urban development collaborations.
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What to practise in design research? An interview with Erling
Björgvinsson
Thomas Binder, Erling Björgvinsson
Artifact - 2021-01-01 -
Art and
Migration
Erling Björgvinsson, Nicholas De Genova, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Tintin Wulia
PARSE Journal - 2020-01-01 -
Migration: Editorial
Introduction
Erling Björgvinsson, Nicholas De Genova, Mahmoud Keshavarz, Tintin Wulia
PARSE Journal - 2020-01-01 -
Partitioning Vulnerabilities: On the Paradoxes of Participatory Design in the City of
Malmö
Erling Björgvinsson, Mahmoud Keshavarz
Vulnerability in Scandinavian Art and Culture - 2020-01-01 -
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 - 2020-01-01 -
Hip-Hop City. An Interview with Craig Wilkins by Dave Beech and Erling
Björgvinsson
Dave Beech, Erling Björgvinsson, Craig Wilkens
PARSE Journal - 2018-01-01 -
Exclusion: Editorial
Introduction
Dave Beech, Erling Björgvinsson, Kristina Hagström-Ståhl
PARSE Journal - 2018-01-01 -
Exclusion
Dave Beech, Erling Björgvinsson, Kristina Hagström-Ståhl
PARSE Journal - 2018-01-01 -
Amendments and frames: The Women Making History movement and Malmö migration
history
Erling Björgvinsson, Anders Høg Hansen
Crossings: Journal of Migration and Culture - 2018-01-01 -
Management
Erling Björgvinsson, Henric Benesch, Andrea Phillips
PARSE - 2017-01-01 -
Managing Collaborative Critique in Times of Financialisation
Capitalism
Erling Björgvinsson
PARSE - 2017-01-01 -
Introduction
Erling Björgvinsson, Henric Benesch, Andrea Phillips
PARSE - 2017-01-01 -
Hospitalisation and Spatial Vagueness: Patients’ Sense of Plasticity in a Care
Environment
Erling Björgvinsson, Gunnar Sandin
Caring Architecture: Institutions and Relational Practices - 2017-01-01 -
City Symphony Malmö: the spatial politics of non-institutional
memory
Erling Björgvinsson, Anders Høg Hansen
Journal of Media Practice - 2016-01-01 -
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
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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 - 2015-01-01 -
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.) - 2014-01-01 -
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 - 2014-01-01 -
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 - 2014-01-01 -
Collaborative Design and Grassroots Journalism: Public Controversies and Controversial
Publics
Erling Björgvinsson
Making Futures. Marginal Notes on Innovation, Design, and Democracy - 2014-01-01 -
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 - 2014-01-01 -
Design Things and Design Thinking: Contemporary Participatory Design
Challenges.
Erling Björgvinsson, Pelle Ehn, Per-Anders Hillgren
DesignIssues - 2012-01-01 -
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 - 2012-01-01 -
Mediating Memory. Strategies of interaction in public art and memorial
forms
Erling Björgvinsson, Høg Hansen, Anders
Journal of Arts & Communities - 2011-01-01