Ava Xia Design

Ava X. Design

PROFILE

Researcher, designer, and practitioner engaged in Environmental Architecture, Forensic Architecture, and Landscape Architecture. Explores hybrid drawing and sonic investigation as design tools.

Recent work focuses on border landscapes, Indigenous knowledge, sustainability, extractivism, and environmental justice.

CONTACT

avaxia.25@gmail.com
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Education

Royal College of Art
[Environmental Architecture]
2024/2025

OCAD University
[Environmental Design]
2020-2024

Employment

Fall Intern [remote]
Lo—TEK Office for Intercultural Urbanism Inc.
NYC, U.S.
2025

Creative Development Manager [remote]
U.S.-China Connection Foundation Maryland, U.S.
2025

Student Ambassador
Royal College of Art
London, UK
2025

Assistant Researcher [remote] iCity2.0 Lab
Toronto, Canada
2024-2025

Assitance Landscape Architect UNBOUNDED Landscape Architecture Studio, CCTC
Beijing,China
2023

Web Designer Freelancer
Toronto, Canada
2022

Referrals

Kamil Dalkir
Associate Lecturer
Royal College of Art
kamil.dalkir@rca.ac.uk

Veronika Varga
Associate Lecturer
veronivarga@gmail.com

Christina Geros
Head of Program
Royal College of Art
christina.geros@rca.ac.uk

Godofredo Pereira
Head of Program
Royal College of Art
godofredo.pereira@rca.ac.uk

Sara Diamond
Lead/ President Emerita
iCity Lab/ OCAD University
sdiamond@ocadu.ca

Eric Nay
Associate Professor, Tenured
OCAD University
enay@ocadu.ca

Kourosh Mahvash
Instructor
OCAD University
kmahvash@ocadu.ca

Skills

Design Tools
• Rhino
• Grasshopper
• Revit
• Blender
• Unreal
• AutoCAD
• Adobe Suite
• Figma

Analytical Tools
• ArcGIS
• QGIS

Sonic Tool
• Ableton

Exhibitions

RCA2025
Royal College of Art
2025

GradEx 109
OCAD University
2024

Awards

Esri Canada Scholarship
2024

OCAD University Scholarship 2022&2023

ARCHITECT Finalist
2022

Last Updated 24.10.31

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. Models

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