ava xia research + design + curation

BIO

Ava Xia is an environmental researcher and designer based in London.

Her research explores the cosmological and planetary relationships between Indigenous practices and landscapes, questioning extractivism and colonial legacies. Through counter-cartography, participatory mapping, and sonic documentation, she develops creative and alternative ways of engaging with landscapes, fostering resilience and imagining collective futures grounded in solidarity.

She engages in professional works at Lo—TEK Office for Intercultural Urbanism, INTERPRT Studio, and GIT| Territorial Investigation Group where her practice continues to engage with alternative ways of understanding and representing landscapes and knowledge it produces.

In parallel, she initiated LORE, a collective spatial practice centred on lore as living ecological knowledge. Her practice investigates cultural memory, ecological relationships, and environmental justice through analogue, embodied, sonic, and performative forms of counter-cartography, collective imagination, and landscape-based interventions under climate crisis.

CONTACT

avaxia.25@gmail.com
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EXHIBITIONS

SOS2026 ‘In Dialogue’ @ The Koppel Project
- Lore-log: Chalky Matters
By Ava Xia
Cohorts:Tireni Adeniji, Olena Geda, Jolene Liam, Lars Oschman, Paayal Patel, Jonathan Reichental, Nyahalo Tucker, Spencer Yu

Photo by Ava Xia

Milan Design Week 2026 ‘Helloe Darkness’ @ BASE
- The Static Between Us
By Anastrophes Collective
(Ava Xia, Aya El Khouri, Isabel Palacios-Macedo Aguilar,Tima Rabbat)

Render by Ava Xia

‘FUTURE FORWARD’ @ FUGUE Gallery @ RCA
- Radioactivity, Radio Waves, and Resistance

Photo by Ava Xia