Marketa Dolejsova

@avu.cz

Head of Doctoral Research Department, Assistant Professor
The Academy of Fine Arts in Prague

Marketa Dolejsova

RESEARCH, TEACHING, or OTHER INTERESTS

Visual Arts and Performing Arts, Arts and Humanities, Multidisciplinary
29

Scopus Publications

627

Scholar Citations

14

Scholar h-index

23

Scholar i10-index

Scopus Publications

  • Edible speculations: Designing everyday oracles for food futures
    Markéta Dolejšová
    Trouble with Speculation Natures Futures Politics, 2024
    Digital food technologies carry promise for better food futures but they are often problematic in their impact on food cultures. While proponents suggest that food-tech products such as smart kitchenware or diet personalisation services can support efficient food practices, critics highlight various risks. This chapter presents our findings from Edible Speculations, a long-term design research project exploring the contested space of food-tech innovation through a series of speculative design (SD) events situated in everyday public contexts. We illustrate the opportunities and limits of eventful SD in supporting critical engagements with food-tech issues through an Edible Speculations case study called the Parlour of Food Futures. Our discussion of selected Parlour events can inform readers interested in food-tech themes as well as those keen on experimenting with eventful approaches to SD research.
  • 9 Dimensions for evaluating how art and creative practice stimulate societal transformations
    Joost Vervoort, Tara Smeenk, Iryna Zamuruieva, Lisa Reichelt, Mae van Veldhoven, Lucas Rutting, Ann Light, Lara Houston, Ruth Wolstenholme, Markéta Dolejšová, Anab Jain, Jon Ardern, Ruth Catlow, Kirsikka Vaajakallio, Zeynep Falay von Flittner, Jana Putrle-Srdić, Julia Lohmann, Carien Moossdorff, Tuuli Mattelmäki, Cristina Ampatzidou, Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Andrea Botero, Kyle Thompson, Jonas Torrens, Richard Lane, Astrid Mangnus
    Ecology and Society, 2024
    There is an urgent need to engage with deep leverage points in sustainability transformations—fundamental myths, paradigms, and systems of meaning making—to open new collective horizons for action. Art and creative practice are uniquely suited to help facilitate change in these deeper transformational leverage points. However, understandings of how creative practices contribute to sustainability transformations are lacking in practice and fragmented across theory and research. This lack of understanding shapes how creative practices are evaluated and therefore funded and supported, limiting their potential for transformative impact. This paper presents the 9 Dimensions tool, created to support reflective and evaluative dialogues about links between creative practice and sustainability transformations. It was developed in a transdisciplinary process between the potential users of this tool: researchers, creative practitioners, policy makers, and funders. It also brings disciplinary perspectives on societal change from evaluation theory, sociology, anthropology, psychology, and more in connection with each other and with sustainability transformations, opening new possibilities for research. The framework consists of three categories of change, and nine dimensions: changing meanings (embodying, learning, and imagining); changing connections (caring, organizing, and inspiring); and changing power (co-creating, empowering, and subverting). We describe how the 9 Dimensions tool was developed, and describe each dimension and the structure of the tool. We report on an application of the 9 Dimensions tool to 20 creative practice projects across the European project Creative Practices for Transformational Futures (CreaTures). We discuss user reflections on the potential and challenges of the tool, and discuss insights gained from the analysis of the 20 projects. Finally, we discuss how the 9 Dimensions can effectively act as a transdisciplinary research agenda bringing creative practice further in contact with transformation research.
  • Messy, entangled, and shapeshifting: Feral Mapping
    Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Andrea Botero, Markéta Dolejšová, Lachlan Sleight
    International Journal of Cartography, 2024
    This paper introduces the Feral Map, an open online map that brings together different creative practices questioning the dominant extractive, technocentric rendering and legitimising of particular algorithmic futures. Building on its initial development drawn upon open urban tree data, it invites people to explore and engage with their surroundings in creative, unfamiliar ways and share their experiences in the form of stories, using different kinds of media, sensory impressions, and personal expressions. These stories can be offered to existing places and local “creatures” (such as animals, ambiences, and glitches) or become new creatures on their own, emphasising mattering and entanglements: that change is the only constant in life. Through this, the map obscures the currently available – mostly quantitative – data about a place, and can help to raise questions about power, values, and structural inequalities that shape the place and its future. The Feral Map has been evolving to include such stories and creatures – or messy data – from different creative, practice-based research projects. Our paper presents the theoretical framing of the Feral Map and its design, how it has been transforming along with the involved projects, as well as our learnings from the process and possible future directions.
  • Feasting on Participatory Methodologies for Regenerative Food Transitions
    Marketa Dolejsova, Danielle Wilde, Hilary Davis, Ferran Altarriba Bertran
    ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 2022
    Food is key to our lives. It nourishes us, shapes our social interactions and, as a quintessentially more-than-human concern, connects us to other species and the planet. The ways we eat both shape and are shaped by pressing social and environmental challenges that we must attend to if we are to collectively flourish. The purpose of this workshop is to gather researchers who use participatory and co-design (PD) methods, around a hybrid (virtual and real-world) table, to explore how we approach food in our transformational design research and practice aiming to nourish regenerative -socially and ecologically just -futures. In the workshop, we will share, feast on, and digest our methodological practices and approaches, with the objective to enrich each other's work, and co-construct a firmer methodological foundation for participatory food design and research.
  • Open Forest: Data, Stories, and Walking-With
    Marketa Dolejsova, Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Andrea Botero, Cristina Ampatzidou
    ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 2022
    Open Forest is a collective, experimental inquiry into different forests and more-than-human dataflows. The project explores how forests and forest data can be produced, thought of and engaged with otherwise, in co-creative ways that consider perspectives of diverse forest creatures and reach beyond geo-engineering, techno-solutionist perspectives. In this Situated Action, we build on our previous Open Forest activities organized in different parts of the world and take an experimental, hybrid walk in a local forest area in Newcastle followed by a co-creation of forest stories. Through these engagements, we hope to entangle the existing, mostly quantitative forests datasets with more messy and abstract data to question the currently available understandings about the forest as a resource to be used. Our aim is to support collective imagination and care-full sustainability actions towards flourishing more-than-human futures.
  • Following Seals and Dogs: Experimenting with Personal Dimensions of Transformative Design
    Kirsi Hakio, Markéta Dolejšová, Tuuli Mattelmäki, Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Cristina Ampatzidou
    ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 2022
    Present eco-social crises call for transformative design practices, which include personal dimensions of transformation and self-reflection. This paper builds on ongoing discussions in participatory design about personal transformation and its impact on broader societal change. The paper presents two reflective accounts on transformative encounters with creative practices, to explore how to better understand and nurture personal transformations in participatory design. The common themes emerging from these accounts point to the importance of noticing small events that might seem subtle or mundane at first, but upon reflection, become critical in contributing to personal transformation. The paper argues that the personal dimension of transformative design plays an important role in fostering eco-social change, and that self-transformation can be nurtured by creating space for spontaneity, letting-go, shifting of perspectives and trusting into emerging elements that unfold beyond our control as designers.
  • Open Forest: Walking with Forests, Stories, Data, and Other Creatures
    Andrea Botero Cabrera, Markéta Dolejšová, Jaz Hee-jeong Choi, Cristina Ampatzidou
    Interactions, 2022
    research-article Share on Open forest: walking with forests, stories, data, and other creatures Authors: Andrea Botero Cabrera Aalto University Aalto UniversityView Profile , Markéta Dolejšová Aalto University Aalto UniversityView Profile , Jaz Hee-jeong Choi RMIT University RMIT UniversityView Profile , Cristina Ampatzidou RMIT Europe RMIT EuropeView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 29Issue 1January - February 2022 pp 48–53https://doi.org/10.1145/3501766Online:06 January 2022Publication History 1citation610DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations1Total Downloads610Last 12 Months610Last 6 weeks75 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteGet Access
  • Designing for Transformative Futures: Creative Practice, Social Change and Climate Emergency
    Markéta Dolejšová, Cristina Ampatzidou, Lara Houston, Ann Light, Andrea Botero, Jaz Choi, Danielle Wilde, Ferran Altarriba Altarriba Bertran, Hilary Davis, Felipe Gonzales Gonzales Gil, Ruth Catlow
    ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 2021
    We discuss three cases of transformative creative practice that aim to address large-scale societal issues related to the climate emergency by taking a series of interconnected, small-scale actions. Drawing on our first-hand perspectives, we reflect on how the cases address such issues by proliferating across different social contexts and supporting creative engagements of diverse stakeholders. We offer this empirical reflection at a time of rapid social and ecological change that has affected all life on the planet. Eco-social challenges and structural inequalities caused by shifts in global economic, political and technological power require new approaches and transformative actions to stabilize and restore ecosystems on which life depends. Our research shows that creative practice in art and design has a critical role to play in these processes of transformation. By discussing the opportunities and challenges encountered by our three cases within their transformative efforts and analyzing how they proliferate across diverse scales, we aim to expand the emerging scholarship on the transformative potential of creative practice.
  • Edible speculations: Designing everyday oracles for food futures
    Markéta Dolejšová
    Global Discourse, 2021
    Digital food technologies carry promise for better food futures but they are often problematic in their impact on food cultures. While proponents suggest that food-tech products such as smart kitchenware or diet personalisation services can support efficient food practices, critics highlight various risks. This paper presents our findings from Edible Speculations, a long-term design research project exploring the contested space of food-tech innovation through a series of speculative design (SD) events situated in everyday public contexts. We illustrate the opportunities and limits of eventful SD in supporting critical engagements with food-tech issues through an Edible Speculations case study called the Parlour of Food Futures. Our discussion of selected Parlour events can inform readers interested in food-tech themes as well as those keen on experimenting with eventful approaches to SD research.
  • Feeding the futures of human-food interaction
    Markéta Dolejšová, Hilary Davis, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Danielle Wilde
    Interactions, 2020
    column Share on Feeding the futures of human-food interaction Authors: Markéta Dolejšová Charles University Charles UniversityView Profile , Hilary Davis Swinburne University Swinburne UniversityView Profile , Ferran Altarriba Bertran University of California, Santa Cruz University of California, Santa CruzView Profile , Danielle Wilde University of Southern Denmark University of Southern DenmarkView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 27Issue 5September - October 2020 pp 34–39https://doi.org/10.1145/3414471Published:01 September 2020Publication History 0citation744DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations0Total Downloads744Last 12 Months183Last 6 weeks19 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteGet Access
  • Fantastic(e)ating food futures: Reimagining human food interaction
    Hilary Davis, Danielle Wilde, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Markéta Dolejšová
    DIS 2020 Companion Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2020
  • Designing with More-than-Human Food Practices for Climate-Resilience
    Markéta Dolejšová, Sjef van Gaalen, Danielle Wilde, Paul Graham Raven, Sara Heitlinger, Ann Light
    DIS 2020 Companion Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2020
  • Disrupting (More-than-) human-food interaction: Experimental design, tangibles and food-tech futures
    Markéta Dolejšová, Danielle Wilde, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Hilary Davis
    DIS 2020 Proceedings of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2020
  • Crafting and tasting issues in everyday human-food interactions
    Markéta Dolejšová, Ferran Altarriba Bertran, Danielle Wilde, Hilary Davis
    DIS 2019 Companion Companion Publication of the 2019 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2019
  • Parlour of food futures:future food forecasting as tarot prophecies
    Markéta Dolejšová
    ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 2018
  • On and off the table: Re-imagining food and wine interactions
    Hilary Davis, Jeni Paay, Jesper Kjeldskov, Markéta Dolejšová
    ACM International Conference Proceeding Series, 2018
  • Edible Speculations in the Parlour of Food Futures
    Marketa Dolejsova
    Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings, 2018
  • Designing recipes for digital food futures
    Markéta Dolejšová, Rohit Ashok Khot, Hilary Davis, Hasan Shahid Ferdous, Andrew Quitmeyer
    Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings, 2018
  • Street sauce: Nurturing speculation in service design
    Markéta Dolejšová, Tereza Lišková
    Interactions, 2017
  • Welcome to microbites of innovation!
    C and C 2017 Proceedings of the 2017 ACM Sigchi Conference on Creativity and Cognition, 2017
  • Future of food in the digital realm
    Rohit Ashok Khot, Deborah Lupton, Markéta Dolejšová, Florian 'Floyd' Mueller
    Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings, 2017
  • Digital health & self-experimentation: Design challenges & provocations
    Marketa Dolejsova, Denisa Kera, Cristiano Storni, Rohit Ashok Khot, Ivan John Clement, Inka Pavelka, Puneet Kishor
    Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings, 2017
  • Soylent diet self-experimentation: Design challenges in extreme citizen science projects
    Markéta Dolejšová, Denisa Kera
    Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work CSCW, 2017
  • The fermentation GutHub project and the internet of microbes
    Marketa Dolejsova, Denisa Kera
    Enriching Urban Spaces with Ambient Computing the Internet of Things and Smart City Design, 2016
  • Deciphering a meal through open source standards: Soylent and the rise of diet hackers
    Marketa Dolejšová
    Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings, 2016
  • Squat & Grow: Designing Smart Human-Food Interactions in Singapore
    Markéta Dolejšová, Cindy Lin Kaiying
    Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings, 2016
  • Fermentation GutHub: Designing for food sustainability in Singapore
    Markéta Dolejšová, Denisa Kera
    Proceedings of Chiuxid 2016 the 2nd International Human Computer Interaction and User Experience Conference in Indonesia Bridging the Gaps in the Hci and Ux World, 2016
  • Squat & grow: Designing smart human-food interactions in Singapore
    International Series on Information Systems and Management in Creative Emedia, 2016
  • StreetSauce: Taste interaction and empathy with homeless people
    Markéta Dolejšová, Tereza Lišková
    Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Proceedings, 2015

RECENT SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • How to talk of and evaluate relationality in design research and practice?
    T Mattelmäki, A Light, A Botero, JH Choi, M Dolejšová
    2025
  • Feral Mapping
    JH Choi, A Botero, M Dolejšová
    2025
  • Salarakas: The Feral Issue,# 50
    G Lauterbach, M Dolejšová
    2024
  • Edible speculations: designing everyday oracles for food futures
    M Dolejšová
    The Trouble with Speculation, 145-168 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 11
  • Session details: Art, Dissensus and other Sensibilities
    M Dolejšová
    Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference , 2024
    2024
  • Feral Fields Sympoiesium: Practicing with More-than-Human Vartiosaari
    G Lauterbach, M Dolejšová
    Feral Fields: Practicing with More-than-Human Vartiosaari , 2024
    2024
  • Messy, entangled, and shapeshifting: Feral Mapping
    JH Choi, A Botero, M Dolejšová, L Sleight
    International Journal of Cartography 10 (2), 144-166 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 4
  • Feral Experiments in CreaTures Co-Laboratory
    M Dolejšová, A Botero, JH Choi, M Mitro, A Pokrywka, C Škubánek, ...
    Research in Arts and Education 2024 (1), 25-40 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 6
  • Messy, entangled, and shapeshifting
    A Botero, M Dolejšová, L Sleight
    Hogeschool van Amsterdam , 2024
    2024
  • Feral Ways of Making Sense with More-than-human Worlds
    M Dolejšová, HJ Choi
    Society of Artistic Research–15th International Conference on Artistic Research , 2024
    2024
  • 9 Dimensions for evaluating how art and creative practice stimulate societal transformations
    JM Vervoort, T Smeenk, I Zamuruieva, LL Reichelt, M Van Veldhoven, ...
    Ecology and Society 29 (1) , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 56
  • Performing Feral AI Aesthetics
    JH Choi, M Dolejšová
    Uroboros Festival , 2023
    2023
  • Feral Helsinki: Making Sense With More-than-Human Urban Ecologies, video installation
    M Dolejšová
    Uroboros Festival , 2023
    2023
  • Weaving the Feral–Cabinet of Feral Data Curiosities: Uroboros Festival
    M Dolejšová, A Botero, JH Choi
    Uroboros Festival , 2023
    2023
  • Uroboros Festival: Feral Bodies, Synthetic Rituals (curator)
    M Dolejšová, L Hamosova, M Kucerak, E Encinas
    Uroboros Festival , 2023
    2023
  • Feral Fragments of Lonjsko Polje
    M Dolejšová, HJ Choi
    18th International Architecture Exhibition-La Biennale di Venezia , 2023
    2023
  • Weaving the Feral–Cabinet of Feral Data Curiosities: Living-with Feral Ecologies festival
    A Botero, M Dolejšová, J Hee-jeong Choi
    Hogeschool van Amsterdam , 2023
    2023
  • Living-with Feral Ecologies (curator)
    G Lauterbach, M Dolejšová
    Helsinki Design Week: Designs for a Cooler Planet , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 1
  • Weaving the Feral–A Drift
    A Botero, M Dolejšová, JH jeong Choi
    Living with Feral Ecologies , 2023
    2023
  • Living-with Feral Ecologies. A Festival.
    G Lauterbach, M Dolejšová
    Helsinki Design Week: Designs for a Cooler Planet , 2023
    2023

MOST CITED SCHOLAR PUBLICATIONS

  • Disrupting (more-than-) human-food interaction: experimental design, tangibles and food-tech futures
    M Dolejšová, D Wilde, F Altarriba Bertran, H Davis
    proceedings of the 2020 ACM designing interactive systems conference, 993-1004 , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 71
  • 9 Dimensions for evaluating how art and creative practice stimulate societal transformations
    JM Vervoort, T Smeenk, I Zamuruieva, LL Reichelt, M Van Veldhoven, ...
    Ecology and Society 29 (1) , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 56
  • Soylent diet self-experimentation: Design challenges in extreme citizen science projects
    M Dolejšová, D Kera
    Proceedings of the 2017 ACM conference on computer supported cooperative … , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 41
  • Designing with More-than-Human Food Practices for Climate-Resilience
    M Dolejšová, S Van Gaalen, D Wilde, PG Raven, S Heitlinger, A Light
    Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems … , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 37
  • Designing recipes for digital food futures
    M Dolejšová, RA Khot, H Davis, HS Ferdous, A Quitmeyer
    Extended Abstracts of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing … , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 33
  • Designing for transformative futures: creative practice, social change and climate emergency
    M Dolejšová, C Ampatzidou, L Houston, A Light, A Botero, J Choi, D Wilde, ...
    Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Creativity and Cognition, 1-9 , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 30
  • Edible speculations in the parlour of food futures
    M Dolejsova
    extended abstracts of the 2018 CHI conference on human factors in computing … , 2018
    2018
    Citations: 30
  • Future of food in the digital realm
    RA Khot, D Lupton, M Dolejšová, FF Mueller
    Proceedings of the 2017 CHI conference extended abstracts on human factors … , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 27
  • Troubling the impact of food future imaginaries
    D Wilde, M Dolejsova, S van Gaalen, FA Bertran, H Davis, PG Raven
    Nordes 1 (9) , 2021
    2021
    Citations: 23
  • Open forest: walking with forests, stories, data, and other creatures
    AB Cabrera, M Dolejšová, JH Choi, C Ampatzidou
    Interactions 29 (1), 48-53 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 22
  • Fantastic (e) ating food futures: Reimagining human food interaction
    H Davis, D Wilde, F Altarriba Bertran, M Dolejšová
    Companion Publication of the 2020 ACM Designing Interactive Systems … , 2020
    2020
    Citations: 17
  • Crafting and tasting issues in everyday human-food interactions
    M Dolejšová, F Altarriba Bertran, D Wilde, H Davis
    Companion Publication of the 2019 on Designing Interactive Systems … , 2019
    2019
    Citations: 17
  • Open forest: Data, stories, and walking-with
    M Dolejsova, JH Choi, A Botero, C Ampatzidou
    Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2022-Volume 2, 309-312 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 14
  • Deciphering a meal through open source standards: Soylent and the rise of diet hackers
    M Dolejšová
    Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors … , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 14
  • Open Forest: Walking-with Feral Stories, Creatures, Data
    M Dolejsova, A Botero, JH Choi, Chewie
    Proceedings of 21st European Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative … , 2023
    2023
    Citations: 13
  • Fermentation GutHub: Designing for food sustainability in Singapore
    M Dolejšová, D Kera
    Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference in HCI and UX Indonesia 2016 … , 2016
    2016
    Citations: 13
  • Digital health & self-experimentation: design challenges & provocations
    M Dolejsova, D Kera, C Storni, RA Khot, IJ Clement, I Pavelka, P Kishor
    Proceedings of the 2017 CHI conference extended abstracts on human factors … , 2017
    2017
    Citations: 12
  • Edible speculations: designing everyday oracles for food futures
    M Dolejšová
    The Trouble with Speculation, 145-168 , 2024
    2024
    Citations: 11
  • Following seals and dogs: experimenting with personal dimensions of transformative design
    K Hakio, M Dolejšová, T Mattelmäki, JH Choi, C Ampatzidou
    Proceedings of the Participatory Design Conference 2022-Volume 2, 167-172 , 2022
    2022
    Citations: 11
  • StreetSauce: Taste interaction and empathy with homeless people
    M Dolejšová, T Lišková
    Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference Extended Abstracts on Human … , 2015
    2015
    Citations: 11