Zsófia Szonja Illés DLA
doctoral student
Doctoral School
doctoral student

Zsófia Szonja Illés is a researcher and lecturer at MOME MAG placemaking and ecological design. She graduated from the Master of Environmental Design course at the Glasgow School of Art, where she continued her studies as a teaching assistant and researcher. She is an external lecturer at the GSA, the Open University and KISD. She is studying for a DLA in Applied Arts at MOME.

Fields of education
ecological design
more-than-human design
research-development-innovation
landscape use
Fields of research
land research
placemaking design
more-than-human design

Biography

Zsófia is a multidisciplinary designer and researcher. She works with participatory design and participatory methodologies, mainly in the fields of placemaking and ecological design. She graduated from the Master of Environmental Design course at the Glasgow School of Art, where she continued her studies as a teacher and researcher till 2021. She is a lecturer at The Glasgow School of Art Innovation School, The Open University and KISD university in Cologne. She works as a researcher and lecturer on the MAG project at MOME. Her design and art work, as well as her ongoing doctoral research at MOME, explore the relationship between people and ecology and propose creative participatory methods to involve not only people, but also other parts of the ecosystem in the research and design process. Her current work focuses on sensory mapping of wetlands.

Professional works

‘Landscape Futuring’ research

Short Course and Talk at KISD, Cologne

Awards, recognition

Cooperative Doctoral Scholarship, KDP, 2022

Sounds of our Cities - Creative Europe Programme (2020-2021)

i-Portunus Artist Mobility

School of Civic Imagination, CCI: Center of Contemporary Art, 2019-2020

Publications

Publication title
Illés, Z. S., & Nita, M. (2022). Ritualized art: cultural innovation and greening at festivals and protestivals
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