Key areas of research:
Social, cultural, and political dimensions of use; design-led approaches to prefiguration, direct action, collective organising, and diversity of tactics; social critiques of individualism and processes of individuation; speculative and critical design methods; experimental somatic practices, modes of study, and pedagogies; traditions of Black radicalism; affect studies; globalisation, critical logistics, and border studies.
Published work:
- Marmont, G. (2025). A Studious Use: Designing from the undercommons. New York, Wivenhoe: Autonomedia / Minor Compositions.
- Chapman, J. and G. Marmont. (2024, with a new Preface). ‘The Temporal Fallacy: Design and Emotional Obsolescence’, in The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design, 2nd Edition, ed. R.B. Egenhoefer. New York: Routledge.
- Martin, C., and G. Marmont (2023). ‘Global Commodity Circuits’, in Research Handbook on the Sociology of Globalization, eds. D. Hofäcker and C. Karner, 45-59. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar.
- Marmont, G. (2022). ‘Another Use, Another Sociality: Some reflections on Giorgio Agamben’s radicalisation of use’, Design and Culture 14, Issue 2 (June 2022): 185-203.
- Marmont, G. and G.E. Primera (2020). ‘Propositions for Inoperative Life’, Journal of Italian Philosophy 3: 9-21.
- Marmont, G. and G.E. Primera, eds. (2020). ‘The Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Inoperativity’, Journal of Italian Philosophy 3 (December 2020).
- Chapman, J. and G. Marmont. (2018). ‘The Temporal Fallacy: Design and Emotional Obsolescence’, in The Routledge Handbook of Sustainable Design, ed. R.B. Egenhoefer, 348-56. New York: Routledge.
- Marmont, G. (2017). ‘Acts of Use From Gestell to Gelassenheit: Calculative thinking and exploratory doing’, in Sociotechnical Environments, eds. S. Crabu, P. Giardullo, F. Miele, M. Turrini, 743-54. Trento: STS Italia
Publishing.
Practice-based work and exhibition:
- COLLECT Project Space – Crafts Council England (9-12.05.2014) Saatchi Gallery, London [exhibition]
- Project Space in Conversation with Grant Gibson (Crafts Magazine) (12.05.2014) Saatchi Gallery, London [interview / public talk]
- Material Narratives at Convoi Exceptionnel (19-27.10.2013) Dutch Design Week, Eindhoven (NL) [exhibition]
- Designersblock 16th Edition (19-22.09.2013) Southbank Centre, London [exhibition]
- ‘Wave Form, Soundscapes Materialised’ at Supersonix Conference (22.06.2012) V&A Museum, London [exhibition and public presentation]