Elín Margot is a designer, researcher & educator. She is a PhD candidate in Design History at the University of Oslo within the project deXmat.

Her design work is characterised by a strong advocacy and constant research in involving the public-user in the design of our near-future day-to-day lives. Through the design of objects, events, or experiences, she creates situations that challenge the current status quo and offer glimpses into potential futures. Leveraging the narrative power of objects, she confronts users with disruptive ideologies and immerse them in prospective tomorrows. Her work has been developing toward (re)designing mundane things such as forks and knives with a behavioural and/or technological twist that points toward more sustainable ways of being.

Design work

2024 & up-coming

Trash Feast, for Listahátíð, Reykjavík (IS).

Super Futures, curation of a student exhibition in collaboration with Krónan, Reykjavík (IS).

2023

Fró(u)n, self-initiated project, Reykjavík (IS).

Click’work, project for “Handverk” groupshow at Designmarch, Reykjavík (IS).

2022

Waste Feast, self-initiated project in collaboration with Mata, Reykjavík (IS).

Carnal Dinner, self-initiated project, Reykjavík (IS).

2021

RUSL FEST, self-initiated project in collaboration with various companies, institutions designers and artists, Reykjavík (IS).

MÁL/TÍÐ, event series for Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík (IS).

Read The Room, event series, Flæði gallery, Reykjavík (IS).

This tale carries its beginning in a bag for Walking Landscape, Performance Festival, Metropolis Aarhus (DK).

Hooch: fermenting communities workshop for Food Sharing, Aarhus (DK).

Lots of trouble, lots of kin to be going on with for the group show “I am thinking about sitting down on the ground -Tales of/on/with MotherLands,” Midpunkt gallery, Kópavogur (IS).

The end of me, the beginning of you for the group show “Yes, a falling tree makes a sound (and it has a lot to say),” Kling og Bang gallery, Reykjavík (IS).

Interspecies Mothering workshop for “Yes, a falling tree makes a sound (and it has a lot to say),” Kling og Bang gallery, Reykjavík (IS).

2020

Carnal Appetite self-initiated research project, Reykjavík (IS).

Money Shot, installation for Plan B art festival, Borgarnes (IS).

2019

Arc-en-ciel, design of public infrastructure, for Manosque town with La Rallonge Design Studio, Manosque (FR).

PastaData, Useful Fictions symposium, École Polytechnique, Institut Polytechnique de Paris (FR).

Deb[eat]e, food event series, several locations, Reykjavík (IS).

2018

Care4u, performance for “Forms of Life” group exhibition, The Nordic House, Reykjavík (IS).

Du corps_ à l’ouvrage, research and graduation project from the DSAA Service Design (FR).

Teaching & Academic work

2025-2028
PhD Candidate
in Design History within the project DeXmat
Dpt. of Philosophy, Classics, History of Arts and Ideas, Oslo University.

2022-2024
Programme Director
at the Icelandic University of the
Arts for the BA Product Design with occasional teaching in the MA Design, BA Product Design, BA Fine Art and MA Fine Art.

2020-2025
Guest Teacher
at the Icelandic University of the Arts within the BA Product Design and MA Design program.

2017
Fablab Facilitator/Educator
at Strasbourg’s Fablab within a self-initiated collaborative project including Strasbourg’s hospital.

Education

2025-2028
PhD Candidate
in Design History within the project DeXmat
Dpt. of Philosophy, Classics, History of Arts and Ideas, Oslo University.

2017-2019
MA Exploration & Translation
Iceland University of the Arts, Reykjavík, IS.

2015-2017
DSAA Public Service Design
In Situ Lab, Strasbourg, FR. 2013-2015

2013-2015
BTS Product Design
Burgundy Applied Art Superior School (ÉSAAB), Nevers, FR.

2010-2013
Applied Art Baccalaureate
René Descartes Highschool, Cournon d’Auvergne, FR.

ELÍN MARGOT

PROJECTS ABOUT CONTACT

2021

Food Fiction(s)

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