Mgr. Markéta Dolejšová, Ph.D.

Markéta Dolejšová is a practice-based researcher working with multispecies ecologies and feral methodologies, at the intersections of art, design, and environmental inquiry. Her research draws on everyday materials and occasions – such as food, DIY technologies, foraged matter, fermented cultures, and forest walks – as sites where human and other-than-human ways of knowing meet, collide, and sometimes transform each other. Rather than producing objects, she develops processes and stages situations in which different species, materials, and sensory registers come into contact, opening space for unexpected shifts in understanding. Her work asks what forms of attention and responsibility become possible when research stays with the lively, unpredictable dynamics of multispecies encounter.At AVU she serves as Assistant Professor, lecturer, and Head of the Doctoral Research Department where she oversees the methodological development of all doctoral study programmes. Since 2025 she has coordinated the AVU Research Groups and leads the Multispecies Ecologies and Practices group. Alongside this work, she continues to develop her practice-based research on multispecies entanglements and ferality through long-term collaboration with the art-research collectives Uroboros and Open Forest Collective, and with her dog Chewie. Together with Uroboros she facilitates and curates the Ars Biologica Independent Studies (ABIS), an international art-science programme connecting ecology, technology, and living systems research.Before joining AVU, she held a postdoctoral fellowship at Aalto University (Finland), where she collaborated on the research project CreaTures – Creative Practices for Transformational Futures, exploring the possible roles of art in the context of eco-social transformations.