Markéta Dolejšová is a practice-based researcher experimenting with co-creative, embodied and sensory experiences in multispecies contexts. Her recent focus has been on ferality and feral eco-systems, exploring what relations, intuitions, and ways of knowing can emerge in the liminal spaces between the wild and the domesticated, the familiar and unknown, the serendipitous and intentional.

At AVU, she acts as the Head of Doctoral Research Department and oversees the methodological development of the four PhD programmes at the Academy. Her role involves bringing together doctoral students engaged in both artistic and theoretical research and fostering an environment for interdisciplinary exchnage. As Assistant Professor she develops her artistic inquiry into multispecies relationalities, often in collaboration with (more-than-)human collectives such as the Prague-based Uroboros festival or the international Open Forest Collective.

Before joining AVU, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the Aalto University in Finland, where she worked with the CreaTures – Creative Practices for Transformational Futures project and co-researched the role of the arts in fostering eco-social change. In 2018, she completed her doctoral studies at the National University of Singapore with the dissertation project Edible Speculations: Designing for Human-Food Interaction.

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