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.
I’m interested in social and material relations, power structures and different ways to shape and organize life, and through my practice I search to construct paths away from dominant and hegemonic forces of efficiency, categorization and economic value by making openings for alternative values and states of being and doing.
2022
8-9 oct: Building workshop at 'Unfolding dreams', Folkets hus Mustadfors, Dals Långed, Sweden
7 oct: Lecture 'Joining what already exist', at seminar, 'Unfolding dreams', Folkets hus Mustadfors, Dals Långed, Sweden
Lecturer in Design with a focus on spatial design, at HDK-Valand- Academy of Art and Design, Göteborg
Mentor in the educational program 'Experiments platform'
RURAL MOVEMENTS: Chorographical architectures / Architectonical choreographies, Östra Ämtevik, Sweden
Interview in Arterritory, 'Towards an architecture of caring ecologies'
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