ava xia research + design



PROFILE



Ava Xia is a Manchu-Han Chinese environmental researcher, designer, and multimedia cartographer based in London. 

Recent projects explore and challenge the notion of the moving, the bordering, and the fielding across nomadic and planetary landscape. These investigations span social, territorial, technological, sonic, and ecological architectures, tracing the circulatory relationships between human and non-human collectives.

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, across Traditional Ecological Knowledge system and Forensics studies.



CONTACT

avaxia.25@gmail.com
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EXHIBITION

Milano Design Week 2026 - The Static Between Us



By Anastrophes Collective
(Ava Xia, Aya El Khouri, Isabel Palacios-Macedo Aguilar,Tima Rabbat)

















Practices





Nomandic Bodies and Their Mobility - Chalk Streams

since 2026

Ava Xia

This project explores chalk streams through the movements of bodies, stories, and water, fostering local climate action by recognising these waterways as living socio-ecological infrastructures rather than passive landscapes.


Anastrophes Podcast Series

since 2025

Team:
Ava Xia
Aya El Khouri
Christie Swallow
Marie Lehman

If a catastrophe is things falling apart, then each episode of Anastrophe is a convergence — a moment of coming together. Through these walking conversations, we collect stories of key moments of changes in their practice, each one a marker of where our guests have been and where they’re heading next.







Lo—TEK Office Social Campaign Series

2026

Directors: Julia Watson + Charlene Smith
Researcher + Designer: Ava Xia + Liuyun Wang








Last Updated 24.10.31
Research-design Projects






1. Research Project

Radioactivity, Radio Waves, and Resistance.

Exhibition, 2025
Prints + Sound Installation
Ava Xia

In the central Sahara, amid the climate crisis,
countless border regimes, and multi-scalar
radioactive legacies, Tuareg communities face
exile, dispersion, and sedentarization. This is a
state-driven dysfunction—not bodily failure—that
enforces structural immobilization.

Tutors: Kamil Dalkir + Veronika Varga + Maïa Tellit Hawad





2. Design Thesis
Porous Edges: Redefined Moss Park

Exhibition, 2024
Prints + Models

The project is situated within downtown Toronto, specifically in the Moss Park neighbourhood, where is
struggling with safety concerns, reflecting from high crime rate and protective measures everywhere, and encountering huge population dynamics and wealth disparities due to gentrification. Amidst this transformation, Moss Park stands as a pivotal public space, uniquely positioned at the intersection of these dynamic socio-economic forces. 




3. Public Art/Installation
‘LABLE’

2023
Prints + Models
Digital Work

Behind the scenes of the Fast Fashion industry lies the intricate interplay of Feminism, Environmentalism, and Capitalism oppressions. The series design of pocket parks, showcased during Nuit Blanche in Toronto, Canada— a celebration in a city of diversity, to broadly convey those messages through building up platform by architecture.





4. Urban Planning

Neons On- Blue& Green Belt


2024
Location: Las Vegas Wash, Las Vegas, US
Digital Work

This project challenges that divide by proposing an adaptive, community-centered approach to urban resilience and environmental justice.





5. Spatial Design
The End Times


2022
Location: Ashrafi Esfahani Park, District 2,Tehran, Iran
Digital Work





6. Media Study
Branching Within the Boundaries


Exhibition,2025
4.1 x 5.8 inches x 21pages concertina
RCA,London,UK






7. Sustainability Design
CARDINALFISH Island


2021
Location: Tinakin Laut + Banggai Town, Banggai Island, Indonesia
Digital work



8. Modelsview


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