I'm an industrial designer MID, critically examining the role of the designer in a world where a lot of the problems we're facing, like climate change, poverty and inequity can be traced back to design decisions.
Teaching
I'm a senior lecturer at the bachelor and master Design + Change Programmes at Linnaeus University, department of design. My focus is design and sustainability and I teach design process and emerging design disciplines like metadesign, speculative design, design fiction and transdisciplinary design. I teach courses in:
Research
Petra Lilja is conducting research in the strand of Creative and critical expressions in the departments research platform Curious Design Change.
Commissions
Member of Design Management Group, Department of Design, Linnaeus University
Jury member of UNG, Svensk Form