Practice · 01
Her research focuses on how design tools enable communication, empathy, and collaboration among diverse stakeholders in urban and institutional contexts. Working across design, urban studies, and social innovation, she develops methods that make complex processes more relational, accessible, and dialogic.
PhD · in progress
NTNU Department of Design. Exploring the role of facilitators who work alongside communities, and developing tools and a conceptual framework to embed an ethics of care in participatory design.
Research Fellow
Applied research on urban futures, ecological transition, and participatory practices for institutional transformation.
Selected publications
2026
Hurtig, M. (2026). Reflexive Facilitation: Crafting Spaces of Care in Participatory Design. CoDesign(under revision)
Hurtig, M., Nielsen, B. F., & König, T. (2026). Facilitating with care: reimagining participatory design through feminist ethics. CoDesign. https://doi.org/10.1080/15710882.2026.2616030
Hurtig, M. (2026). Designing for Relational Public Space: Feminist Reflexivity in Urban Co-Creation. PDC 2026, Milan
Hurtig, M., Mosquera, J., Habibi, R., & Szabó, Á. (2026). From Participation to Relational Infrastructuring. Cities Journal(under revision)
Bösker, S., Hurtig, M., et al. (2026). Caring for Donaukanal: Activating an inner-city waterfront for locals(book chapter)
2025
Inclusive City Consortium (2025). Inclusive Placemaking Inspirational Cookbook. DUT Partnership
De Rosa, A., Hurtig, M., & Finardi, M. A. (2025). An exploration on relationality and decoloniality in participatory design based on care. NORDES
2024
Hurtig, M., & Fladvad Nielsen, B. (2024). Relational workshop for urban planning: materializing intangibles. Designa
Hurtig, M. & Fladvad Nielsen, B. (2024). Relational workshopping. DRS 2024
2023
Hurtig, M. (2023). Co-designing for whom? IASDR 2023, Milan. https://doi.org/10.21606/iasdr.2023.224
2022
Falú, A., Hurtig, M., & Herrera, V. (2022). Gender-sensitive planning in the Global South. In Resilient Public Spaces, JOVIS Verlag Berlin
Hurtig, M. (2022). Exploring the links between creative methods and feminist geographies. Urban Femina Handbook, Copenhagen University
2021
Tijera & Hurtig (2021). Masscaring: Explorando la ciudad cuidadora. ETSAM
Conferences