I’m an architect from the north of Sweden, currently based in-between Norway and Sweden, that is working on the borderland between architecture, art, craft and research.
My projects are carried out in performative and exploratory manners that combine hands-on making with relational and collaborative processes, that often emanate from personal and intimate relations to people, places and materials.
News
2022: Interview in Infra Magazine 'In motion with Erika Henriksson'
5 nov 2022: Architekuros Fondas' Forum -Shaping learning environments, Discussion about Experimentation in Education
8-9 oct 2022: Building workshop at 'Unfolding dreams', Folkets hus Mustadfors, Dals Långed, Sweden
7 oct 2022: Lecture 'Joining what already exist', at seminar, 'Unfolding dreams', Folkets hus Mustadfors, Dals Långed, Sweden
2022: RURAL MOVEMENTS: Chorographical architectures / Architectonical choreographies, Östra Ämtevik, Sweden
2022: Interview in Arterritory, 'Towards an architecture of caring ecologies'
2021: Interview about concept and practice of Architherapy, in the Estonian culture newspaper Sirp
CV
EDUCATION (program)
2014-2022: PhD- candidate (Artistic research / practice-based research in architecture) NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
2011-2013: Laboratory of Immediate Architectural Intervention (master program) Umeå School of Architecture, Umeå, Sweden
2010-2011: Outreach Program: 20K-project (post-graduate), Rural Studios, US, Alabama
2005-2009: Architecture program (bachelor program), KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
EDUCATION (courses)
2019: Communications (PhD-course 7.5p)
2018: PHILOSOPHIES: ENVIRONMENT-WORLDS/THINGS/ THINKABLES (PhD-course 7.5p)
2017: Wood carving course (Leader: Göte Eriksson)
2016: Cordwood construction course (Leader: Ulf Henningsson)
2014-2015: Exploring fieldwork: A critical consideration of empirical methods in design research (PhD- course 7.5p)
2010: Social anthropology (15 p), Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sverige
EXHIBITION
2021: ‘Art in the periphery -hot or not?’, Rena, Norway
2020: MENDABLE -climate and environment in contemporary art practices, House of Foundation, Moss
2018: 'We live in cities of sites', theatre-performance, Svartlamon Trondheim
2016: Trondheim Open, Trondheim, Norway
FELLOWSHIP
2021: Fellow at Future Architecture program with 'Architherapy'
LECTURE / PRESENTATION
2022: Lecture 'Joining what already exist', at seminar, 'Unfolding dreams', Folkets hus Mustadfors, Dals Långed, Sweden
2022: Presentation 'Building Relations' via AES, Färgfabriken, Stockholm, Sweden
2021: Lecture 'Architherapy' at The Faculty of Architecture of the Estonian Academy of Arts, Tallin, Estonia
2021: Presentation: 'Making-with', at VI PER gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2020: Artis talk at seminar for ‘MENDABLE -climate and environment in contemporary art practices’, House of Foundation, Moss, Norway
2018: Presentation ‘Exploring Architecture’ at Architecture and Anthropology conference, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018: Presentation ‘Architherapy’ Ca2Re, Conference for Artistic and Architectural (Doctoral) Research, Berlin, Germany
2016: Lecture ‘Activist in movementt’ for master course NTNU, Trondheim
2015: Presentation ‘What it means to make present’ at Practice Research Conference
KU Leuven, Brussels, Belgium
2013: Lecture ‘Activist in movementt’ for bachelor course NTNU, Trondheim
RESIDENCY
2022: RURAL MOVEMENTS: Chorographical architectures / Architectonical choreographies, Östra Ämtevik, Sweden (May)
2021: Artist in Residence at Kunstarena, Rena, Norway (July - September)
PUBLICATIONS
2022: The essay: ‘A wall is a wall is a wall -a careful movement through sites of relational possibilities’ in the book: ‘Forest, Body, City, Flow. Landscapes of Care’. Yue Mao, Naomi van Dijck, Radha Smith – NOMAOS (eds.), dpr-barcelona
2013: ’Activists in Movement: Unaccompanied Minor Refugees and the Formal and Informal Approaches to Life’, LiAi UMA
TEACHING
2022: Lecturer in Design with a focus on spatial design, at HDK-Valand- Academy of Art and Design, Göteborg
2022: Mentor in the educational program 'Experiments platform'
2016: Building workshop for architecture students at NTNU, collaboration together w. Andrew Freear & Elena Bathel from Rural Studios and Sebastian Østlie, NTNU
2016: Bachelor course architecture, NTNU, Trondheim
2016: Bachelor course architecture, NTNU, Trondheim
2013: Master course architecture, NTNU, Trondheim
OTHER RELEVANT WORK EXPERIENCES
2022: Evaluator for art / architecture applications, Kulturbryggan, Sweden
2013 -2016: Researchassistant, ”What buildings do” - The Effect of the Physical Environment on Quality of Life of Asylum Seekers, NTNU, Trondheim, Norge
2008-2010: SIMKA, Stockholm, Sweden (landscape architecture, scenography and art practice)
2007-2008: Vegesack Arkitekter, Stockholm, Sweden
COMMISSION OF TRUST
2021-2022: Board member and cash administrator at Women’s Building Organization (Kvinnors Byggforum), Stockholm, Sweden
ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT
2017: Extension of summer house, Kalix, Sweden
2013: Remodulation, villa Levanger, Norway. Collaboration w. Diana Espinosa Albornoz
2011: Designing and building Joanne’s House, collaboration w. Eric Schmidt, Jacob Beebe & Sandra Yubero