Mingxin Li
- Senior Research Associate
- Environmental Architecture MA
Mingxin Li is an activist researcher focusing on trans-generational knowledge continuation and transmission with local and indigenous communities.
Li is a Senior Research Associate on the AHRC-funded Visualising Relations to Land project. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art's School of Architecture. He holds a BA Environmental Design from the School of Design, Jiangnan University (2018), and an MA Environmental Architecture from the RCA (2020).
He also currently works as an architectural researcher with the INTERPRT and the G.I.T. (Territorial Research Group).
His collective and individual works have been exhibited internationally, including at Bergen Assembly 2025, the Helsinki Biennial 2023, Galeria Municipal do Porto and Het Nieuwe Instituut.
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Research interests
Li’s research focuses on the continuation and transmission of local/indigenous knowledge through spatial, community-based and collective practices.
Practice
Li is currently completing his practice-based PhD, which focuses on the transmission of inter-generational knowledge within the Tibetan community through collective pedagogical sessions and environmental actions. His work with INTERPRT approaches socio-environmental problems through situated visual evidence production in cross-scale digital environment.
Awards
Alumni UK Climate Action Grant, British Council, 2025
Food Action Award (Emerging Practice), CLIMAVORE X Jameel at RCA, 2024
Publications, exhibitions, other outcomes
Exhibitions
(2025) Bergen Assembly 2025. Bergen, Norway. (INTRPRT and CLIMATE RIGHTS)
(2025) ØYFJELLET: From the Frontline of Land Rights in Sápmi. FUTURELAND IN 15 AND 1/2 CHAPTERS. Havremagasinet Länskonsthall Boden, Sweden. (INTERPRT and CLIMATE RIGHTS)
(2024) ØYFJELLET: From the Frontline of Land Rights in Sápmi. Stormen kunst/dájdda. (INTERPRT and CLIMATE RIGHTS)
(2024) Cyclone Pam Stories. Climate Crisis and Cultural Loss. TBA21-Ocean Space & NTU ADM Gallery. (INTERPRT)
(2023) Colonial Present: Counter-mapping the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in Sápmi. Helsinki Biennial 2023. HAM Helsinki Art Museum. (INTERPRT)
(2023) Montanha Invertida. Desejos Compulsivos. Galeria Municipal do Porto. (G.I.T.)
(2023) The Ends of The World. Desejos Compulsivos. Galeria Municipal do Porto, Porto. (Lithium Triangle Research Studio)
(2022) Towards a Symbiotic Mode of Development. Design Chongqing Biennale 2022. Chongqing.
(2020) The Ends of The World. Lithium. Het Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam. (Lithium Triangle Research Studio)
Publications
Li, Mingxin. (2023). MICRO-ORGANISMOS NO DESERTO. In: Francisco Diaz, Anastasia Kubrak and Marina Otero Verzier, ed., Lítio-Estados de Exaustão. Porto: Dafne Editora / Galeria Municipal do Porto.
Li, Mingxin. (2021). Microorganisms in the Desert. In: Francisco Diaz, Anastasia Kubrak and Marina Otero Verzier, ed., Lithium: States of Exhaustion. Rotterdam: Het Nieuwe Instituut / Ediciones ARQ.