Current & Upcoming Projects
Editor-in-chief of Metode, an online publishing platform by ROM for kunst og arkitektur that publishes experimental essays in the fields of art and architecture
Principal Investigator (PI) of “How Norway Made the World Whiter”, funded by The Research Council of Norway (Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal, 2023 – 2028)
Principal Investigator (PI) of «Material Ecologies of Design» in collaboration with Kjetil Fallan, Centre for Advanced Study (CAS) funded by The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (2025 – 2026)
Co-PI of “The Materiality of White” in collaboration with Marte Johnslien, funded by The Norwegian Artistic Research Programme (2022 – 2025)
Chair of the Board of The Nordic Research School for Museums and Heritage, 2025 – 2033
Committee member in The Swedish Research Council, “HS-A: Aesthetic disciplines,” 2024 – 2026
Research exhibition “Nordmandsdalen: Art, Power and Materials in 18th Century Denmark-Norway” at KODE Museum, Bergen, 23 June 2025 – 2 January 2026
Interview about the project Material Ecology of Design, published in Arkitektur, December 2025
Short essay “Katedralurbanisme” about Kunstsilo, published in Arkitektur, December 2025
Co-written journal article “The Architectural Exhibition as Cross-Cultural Contact Zone: Op-Ed” by Nuijsink, Cathelijne, Tom Avermaete, Patricio del Real, Giovanna Borasi, Ingrid Halland, and Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen, published in Architecture and Culture, December 2025.
Convener of the symposium Radical Reuse: Aesthetics, Scale, Limits, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, 12 November 2025
PhD defence of Angela Ruth Kivle (co-supervisor), The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, 2 October 2025
Art Essay “Aesthetic Desire in the Age of Surfaces: On Lena Trydal’s TAKE OUT (2025)” for Statsbygg in relation with Lena Trydal’s exhibition TAKE OUT, September 2025
Exhibition essay “The Ethics and Aesthetics of Constraint” for Kunst.Hånd.Verk [Art.Hand.Work], The National Museum, 19 September – 1. February 2026
Conversation essay “Material Ecologies of Design and Crafts” between Ingrid Halland and Kjetil Fallan, published in Formkraft, summer 2025
Forthcoming book: Deep White: Unsettling White in Western Art History and Aesthetics. Under contract with Brill, Studies in Art & Materiality. Edited by Ingrid Halland, Tonje Haugland Sørensen, and Helene Engnes Birkeli.
Selected Past Projects
Guest lecture “World White Waste” at the symposium Colors of (Colonial) Chemistry Dye, Photography, and Architecture, ETH Collegium Helveticum, Switzerland, 13 June 2025
Journal article “The Delos Mutation: Interdisciplinary Entanglements between Biology and Architecture 1963–1975” published in Architectural Histories, Volume 12, Issue 1 (2024).
Journal article “The Surface-Process Paradox: On Chemistry, Extraction, and Aesthetics” published in INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries, issue 6 ‘Troubled Matter,’ edited by Ulrike Gerhardt and Julia Wolf, 2024
Essay “Ramverket” about ArkDes’s new exhibition architecture, published in Arkitektur – The Swedish review of Architecture, no. 1 (2025)
Public mid-term review of Alejandra Navarrete Llopis’s PhD project “Swedish Environmentalisms: Scaling up Alternative Architectural Practices from the 1970s to the 1990s”, KTH Architecture, Stockholm, 11 February 2025
Conversation Essay “The Borderland of Raw Materials” with Sissel Wathne published in Formkraft, January 2025
Journal article «Hypoxic Hypoxia: Or Error Earth, 1972» in Log 60, ‘The Sixth Sphere,’ Spring 2024
Convener of the symposium «Extraction and Aesthetics: Pasts, Currents, Futures», 12-14 September 2024 at Jøssingfjord Science Museum and Velferden Center for Contemporary Art. Keynote speakers: Karen Pinkus, Siobhan Angus, Patrick Anthony, and Stephanie O’ Rourke.
Curator of the research exhibition ‘Kampanje!’ [Campaign!] at Jøssingfjord Science Museum, 21. June – 1. December 2024. Feature article about the exhibition published by NRK.
Interview and feature article “Aesthetic transformation of landscapes” published in ArtScene Trondheim, October 2024
Public lecture “World White Waste: The Non/Toxic Surface” at UmArts, Umeå, 3. October 2024
Convener of The Exhibition as Research: Histories, Theories, Methods, PhD course at the University of Oslo/The Museum of Cultural History, 13 – 15 June 2024
Editor of Metode’s third volume, “Currents: Regenerating Pasts for the Not Yet” with Kjersti Solbakken (curator of Lofoten International Art Festival 2024). Essays by Alison Burstein, You Nakai, and Sigbjørn Skåden, May – September 2024
Guest lecture: “Research-by-display: Ethics, Aesthetics, Exhibitions” at the symposium Building Environments organized by Prof. Tulay Atak, the University of Applied Arts Vienna – Die Angewandte, 3 May 2024
Guest lecture: “Titanium Dioxide: An Arts-Based Archeology of an Unsettling Pigment” in the public lecture series The Event of Archeology organized by Prof. Ines Weizman, PhD programme at The Royal College of Art, London, UK, 29 February 2024
Book chapter “Upcycled regionalism: The Aesthetics of Geopolymer Concrete” published in Design for Rethinking Resources (Springer 2024)
Book chapter “Deep Ecology by Design: From Mining Modernism to Radical Reuse” published in Pedagogical Experiments in Architecture for a Changing Climate (Routledge, 2024)
Invited guest lecture: “Deep Surface: An Ethical Theory of Materiality” at the Architecture Institute, Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin),” 14 February 2024
Journal article “Seeds for New Beginnings? Ecological Uncertainty, Blurry Ideology, and Speculative Design at the Universitas Symposium, 1972” published in Journal of Design History, December 2023
Invited lecture “Crafting Mining Waste: Towards a Deep Surface Aesthetics” at the symposium Toxic Material(itie)s: Eco-Material Entanglements in Art at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg Cultures of Research, Aachen, Germany, 7 December 2023
Research exhibition ‘TiO2 Prøvefelt’ [trial fields] at ROM for kunst og arkitektur, 4 – 20 September 2023
Journal article “‘With-On’ White: Inconspicuous Modernity with and on Aesthetic Surfaces, 1910–1950” published by The Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative, 2023
Editor and publisher of Alf Jørgen Schnell, På sporet av den tapte fremtid: Intervensjoner i norsk urbanisme og modernisme (ROM forlag, 2023). Press and interviews in Morgenbladet and Arkitektur
Keynote lecture “Restless: Towards a New Art Ethics” at the symposium RAST Norwegian Scenic Routes 30 years anniversary, Oslo, 16 June 2023
Invited lecture “From White to Earth,” at the symposium Material Landscapes at Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), New York City, 24 March 2023
Member of the Advisory Board for the project The Nokia Design Archive, led by Anna Valtonen, funded by the Academy of Finland (2021 – 2025)
Launch of Metode volume #1 Deep Surface: thirteen experimental essays, including keynote essays by Sybille Krämer and Tim Ingold
Interview with Arkitektur about the launch of Metode volume 1 ‘Deep Surface,’ (in Norwegian), January 2023
Research exhibition, Marte Johnslien’s ‘Gaea Norvegica’ at KRAFT, 27 January – 26 March 2023. Review published in Kunstkritikk.
Interview with Kunstkritikk about the launch of Metode volume 1 ‘Deep Surface,’ (in Norwegian), January 2023
About the launch of Metode in E-flux, January 2023
Feature article in Morgenbladet about ‘How Norway Made the World Whiter’ (accessible only for subscribers), January 2023
Interview with Khrono about ‘How Norway Made the World Whiter’ (NorWhite) media attention, regarding imprecise racism focus (in Norwegian), January 2023
Article about NorWhite by Dagens Næringsliv commentator Eva Grinde (in Norwegian), January 2023
Article about NorWhite by Aftenposten commentator Andreas Slettholm (in Norwegian), January 2023
Interview with Morgenbladet about the public debate about NorWhite: “We are not claiming Norway has launched racist attitudes,” January 2023
Keynote lecture “Towards Deep Surfaces” at the symposium Living Prototypes at Aedes Architecture Forum/ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin, 9 December 2022. Watch lecture here: https://vimeo.com/765789696
Editor of Metode‘s first volume ‘Deep Surface’: Publication workshops with Sybille Krämer and Tim Ingold, August – December 2022
Interview with Arkitektnytt about the launch of Metode (in Norwegian)
Essay ‘Design in Museums 2022: Towards an Ethical Design Aesthetic‘ about Designmuseum Danmark and the National Museum of Norway published in Formkraft, August 2022
Essay “Design i utakt” about the new National Museum in Norway published in Morgenbladet, June 2022
PhD supervisor for Lisbeth Funck’s work-based PhD thesis ‘Becoming with Architecture: Making the abstracted space through works and words’, public PhD defence 8 April 2022
Keynote lecture “Material Withdraw: How Modernism Made the Surface Invisible.” A response to Tim Ingold’s keynote lecture at the seminar ‘Kunsthåndværk i en digital tid’, Statens Kunstfond/Syddansk Universitet, 20. January 2022. Report from the conference in Formkraft by Heidi Laura.
Momentum Fellow 2021-2022 at the University of Bergen
Edited book Ung Uro: Unsettling Climates in Nordic Art, Architecture & Design published by Cappelen Damm Akademisk, 2021
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