Petra Lilja
Design Studio
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Education & Pedagogy

Petra Lilja has been lecturing and tutoring at the design programs of Malmö University, IKDC, Lund University, KADK, Copenhagen, HDK, Steneby, Gothenburg University and Linnaeus University and she's also frequently visiting Österlenskolan för Konst & Design as guest examiner, lecturer and workshop leader. Since 2013 she has divided her time between her freelance design work and the department of design at Linnaeus University. As senior design lecturer and program coordinator of the cutting edge Design + Change Programme and updating the Design Master Programme, she’s got valuable experience in running design programs on Bachelor as well as Master level. In her teaching, focus lays in emerging design disciplines like critical design, speculative design and metadesign as well as design and sustainability, design process, curatorial work and exhibition design. Petra Lilja taught her first university course in 2010 on the topic Design and sustainability and has since then integrated her design practice with her academic career as coordinator, lecturer and researcher.

 Petra Lilja has taught and coordinated over 20 different design courses at graduate and undergraduate levels, held numerous lectures and workshops at for example HDK/Steneby, KADK (DK), Kolding Designskole (DK) and Österlensskolan för Konst och Design in addition to Lund University and Linnaeus University (SE).

From 2017-19 she was involved with the Design + Change course for the Greenhouse stand at Stockholm Furniture Fair. For example the award winning concept in 2018 Hurry up before we collapse, designed by Design + Change second year students 2018.

She has been invited guest curator and tutor for HDK/Steneby's exhibition at the Stockholm Furniture Fair 2016.

For more information please contact design@petralilja.com 

Some examples of lectures, workshops and courses, undergraduate or graduate level design programs:

Invisibilities in Design is a workshop where  lectures are interwoven with workshops introducing sustainability to design students. It is taught in the versions basic and advanced depending on graduate level. Staring by pouring a pile of garbage in the center of the room the workshop develops into a hands-on practical experience for the students gaining knowledge how to analyze the material components, origins and life cycles of the waste. The students conduct research and develop a design project where they visualize the controversies found, in a chosen manner. A varied way of teaching, with an element of surprise! Taught at  the Industrial Design, IKDC, Lund University

Transdisciplinary Design and Sustainability Together with colleague Ola Ståhl at LNU, Petra Lilja developed a pilot course in transdisciplinary design and sustainability to explore ways for designers to work successfully cross-disciplines in order to understand and act upon the complexity of many sustainability issues. Transdisciplinarity, in our definition of the term, is an attempt to create spaces for thought and action. Taught at the Design + Change Master Programme, Linnaeus University

Småland is a 10 week long course where the design students work within the local context, with its stakeholders and its relationships between the urban and the rural. The aim is to develop a design proposal in cooperation with regional actors where design is an agent for sustainable change. It can be a proposal for a product, service or system, which connects a selection of stakeholders in order to provide new values or them, and the region. Taught at Design + Change, Linnaeus University, developed in collaboration with Åsa Ståhl.

Design Relay is a 7,5 credit course introducing bachelor design students to a vast amount of design methods in a relay mode where all groups of students are collectively working and reworking each others projects. A fun and intense journey! Taught at Design + Change BA, Linnaeus University