Erika Henriksson
+46703617156
Political, poetic, playful
I’m an architect from Kalix in the north of Sweden, currently living in Trondheim, Norway.
Through an altering practice of architecture, influenced by feminist ethics and values, I work 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.
At the moment I’m working on finalizing my PhD-thesis, Performing Architherapy -About crafting a building practice for caring relations.
CV
EDUCATION (program)
2014-2021: PhD- candidate (practice-based research architecture) NTNU, Trondheim, Norway
2018: PHILOSOPHIES: ENVIRONMENT-WORLDS/THINGS/ THINKABLES (PhD-kurs 7.5p)
2014-2015:Exploring fieldwork: A critical consideration of empirical methods in design research (PhD-kurs7.5p)
2011-2013: Laboratory of Immediate Architectural Intervention (master program) School of Architecture, Umeå, Sweden
2010-2011: Outreach Program: 20K-project, Rural Studios, US, Alabama
2010:Socialanthropologi (15p), Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sverige
2005-2009: Architecture program (bachelor), KTH, Stockholm, Sweden
EXHIBITION / PRESENTATION
2020: MENDABLE -climate and environment in contemporary art practices, House of Foundation, Moss
2018:Architecture and Anthropology conference, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018:Ca2Re, Conference for Artistic and Architectural (Doctoral) Research, Berlin, Germany
2018: 'We live in cities of sites', theatre-performance, Svartlamon Trondheim
2016: Table, Trondheim Open, Trondheim, Norway
2015: presentation: What it means to make present, Brussels
2013: lecture: Activist in movement, NTNU, Trondheim
2013: Bildmuseet, Umeå (master exhibition)
ARCHITECTURAL PROJECT:
2017: Extension of summer house, Kalix, Sweden
2013: Remodulation, villa Levanger, Norway. Collaboration w. Diana Espinosa Albornoz
TEACHING (architecture):
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
WORK FOR OTHERS:
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