About me
Sergio Montero Bravo, MFA in Design and Senior Lecturer at Konstfack, University of Art, Craft and Design, born 1980 in Northern Chile. In 1986 his parents immigrated to Sweden where he lives today. For as long as he can remember he has found joy in the art of making. After some basic art and design studies in Florence, Italy, he completed a bachelor’s degree in architectural design in Rome. During these years he was employed in different architecture offices in Rome and, among other things, became involved in the design of the new Metro station Manzoni and The Pontifical Lateran University Library. 2008 he pursued his master’s degree in Interior Architecture & Furniture Design at Konstfack University of Art, Craft and Design, Stockholm. At the Royal Academy of Fine Art in Stockholm he completed 2009 a regional planning post graduate course with focus on sustainable development. Since then, he has pursued a practice that combines teaching, communal projects and practice-based research and as a member of INLAND various art projects internationally.
As an architect his work evolves around communal projects, pedagogy, art and design. The main focus are the many ways in which social and ecological perspectives transforms how we feel, think and make. This runs through all of his works today, exemplified in his current research Territorial, Art, Design and Architecture at Konstfack. The research operates on the basis of unfolding a place-sensible practice concerned with peri-urban and rural living environments. With collaborators, students and stakeholders he explores territorialization of space and place where there is less human intervention, as means to feel different and change mindset. The research unfolds through communal projects in peri-urban and rural locations, relational to species and systems made invisible through urban ecologies.
Methods to actively include stakeholders and communities in the design process are of great importance in many of his projects.Through communal projects with municipalities, organizations, artists, crafts, researchers and industries, together with students and collaborators, solutions to current challenges are explored. Examples of courses where he has used practice-based research with students includes the planning and construction of a training centre for Ebola treatment simulation, at Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm. Another example is a design course in southern Italy where he explored public design and architecture in the rural together with his students. In close collaboration with INLAND and a local cooperative they built on-site architecture for animals using natural degradable materials. In one of his latest courses, Master students collaborated, through Vandalorum art centre in Småland, with different industries in the region. The industrial waste material became new materiality when the students explored circular economy. Most recently ha has designed and built apiary and shepherd structures as part of communal projects and is currently working with timber craft practitioners in his research on territorial art, design and architecture.
Education
2017 | Course on global migration, Tensta Konsthall, Tensta, Stockholm
2016 | International Product Development - Sätergläntan Institute for crafts, project with
practical Lab in cooperation with ASARBOLSEM, El Alto in Bolivia)
2015 | Konstfack, Stockholm, Basic Course in Higher Art Education
2009 | Royal College of Art, Stockholm, Postgraduate course in sustainable urban planning, Resources 09 - Beyond desire, Los
Angeles - Resources 08 Beyond oil, Shanghai
2008 | Konstfack, Univeristy of Art, Craft & Design in Stockholm, Master in fine arts at the program of Spatial design, Interior
Architecture & Furniture Design
2002 | L´Accademia Italiana, Florence, Italy, Foundation year in Art, Design and Architecture
1999 | Ebersteinska, Technical Science High school in Norrköping, Sweden
Work
2019 - Research Project Territorial Art, Design and Architecture
2018 - Elected as member of Konstfack Education and Research board
2016 - 2019 | Head of Bachelor program at Konstfack, Interior Architecture & Furniture Design
2013 - Senior Lecturer - Konstfack, Interior Architecture & Furniture Design
2012 - Member of INLAND.org
2011 - 2013 | The Architecture School, Folkuniversitetet. Teaching in a foundation year in Architecture and Design
2012-2013 | SIDA project with the foundation IOU Design in Hanoi, Vietnam Coordinates a design collaboration between the
Foundation IOU design for charity Organization X-Cons and their partners in Vietnam, focusing on co-design with pottery and
rattan crafts
2011 | SIDA workshop in Durban, South Africa. Workshop organized by Tibro Training center http://www.tibro.se/ttc/ in order to
develop products with local wood producers in South Africa
2011 | City Development in Fuxin, Collaboration with Professor Bob Lee in idea making of sustainable urban development in
Fuxin, China
2009-2012 | SADA, Shanghai Academy of Art, guest lecturer and workshop leader in sustainable design of public furniture for
bachelor students of product design
2005-2006 | Architect Carlo Lococo - Rome, Italy, Full-time Employed as designer
2003-2005 | Kingroselli Architecture- Rome, Italy, Trainee and part-time as an architect and designer
Commissions
2020 | Public design commission of stable for shepperds in Casa De Campo, Madrid
2020 | Centerpieces, node during Konstfack Research Week 2020
2019 | Lets get in tune with the Planet, Research Festival at Konstfack
2019 | Territorial Art, Design & Architecture, Konstfack artistic design research project
2019 | Many Little Hands Workshop with Inland, Apiary Architecture in Asturia, Spain
2019 | Invited workshop leader China Academy of Art, Territorail Identity
2019 | Installing a Greenhouse Parastructure, collaboration with Luis Berríos-Negrón
2018 | Exhibition Design of Tensta Museum in ArkDes Public Luxury Exhibition, commissioned by Maria Lind
2018 | Animali Mundi Lab, place based installations of conviviality bewteen livestock and the community, collaboration with Casa delle Agriculture and Inland
2017 | Collaboration between jagvillhabostad.nu and Svenska Bostäder, investigative evaluation and proposals for improvement
2017 | Workshop commission and ongoing collaboration between The Free Home University, Casa delle argriculture and Inland in studying the relationship between art, animals and agriculture in the small village Castiglione, Lecce in Italy.
2017 | Collaboration with Stockholm Stad, developing TECH10STA, new youth maker space center in Tensta, Stockholm. A pilot project in collaboration with the municipality of Stockholm
2017 | Workshop commission, International Open Elective at NID Ahemedabad, India
2016 | Design commission, visual communication design - Hjärta Norsjö, documentary film
2016 | New garden pavillions in Hjulsta, Stockholm, collaboration with students from Konstfack, Hjulsta eco-farming and Inland
2015 | Exhibition Design for workshops held by INLAND at the Istanbul Art Biennial 2015
2015 | Public design in Fornhöjden, Collaboration with Sodertälje Municipality and Foundation IOU Design
2015 | Collaboration with Tensta Konsthall, pop up public design school for children
2015 | Exhibition, Maretopia at the exhibition Stockholm Experimenting in Färgfabriken
2015 | Maretopia, Art project in collaboration with artist Jens Evald Andersson and students from Konstfack
2014 | Ebola simulation center, design comission in collaboration with students from Konstfack and colleague Jenny Althoff
2014 | Hotel Fridhemsplan, project to reconfigure a building into Hotel with restaurant, bar & café
2014 | Architecture comission, villa project in Saltsjö-Boo
2013 | Candy King Shop, design commission Stockholm train Station
2013 | Loft apartment project, Architecture commission, Stockholm
2013 | Apartment adjustment, Architecture & design commission, Värtavägen 6, Stockholm
2013 | Development of a new range of garden furniture, IOU Design for Charity, design commission
2013 | Exhibition, Milan Furniture Fair, Iou Design for Charity
2012 | Adaptation design of 1800 villa, Architecture comission in Gustavsberg, Mariagatan 3
2010 | Apartment adaptation, design comission, Hökens gata 1, Stockholm
2010 | Adaptation of communal outdoor gardening spaces, design comission for elderlycare in Edsätra, Stockholm
2009 | Exhibition, Gallery Mejan, The Fifth Ecology, Los Angeles, Beyond Desire
2009 | KAVAT Ecological Showroom, design comission in Stockholm Skohus, Nacka Strand Klarabergsgatan 33, Stockholm
2008 | Concept development for “Grönatåget” - research project “green train”, financed by Banverket and Bombardier
2005 | Subway Station, design commission of design concept, furniture design and planning of new layout for the Metro A line in Rome. Concept first developed in the Manzoni station, opening 2008 under the employment at Carlo Lococo Architetti
2004 | Concept development of Laterano University Libray in Rome, Italy, design commission during internship with King Roselli Architetti
http://www.planering.org/plan-blog/2015/9/8/intervju-sergio-montero-bravo
https://sverigesradio.se/sida/artikel.aspx?programid=1650&artikel=6135931
https://www.fhu.art/the-ability-to-move
http://stockholm.konstframjandet.se/projekt/maretopia/
