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