Current & Upcoming Projects
Teaching spring 2022 at the University of Bergen: “KUN106 Art, Architecture and Visual Culture 1750-1950” (15 ECTS). Teaching spring 2022 at the PhD Programme at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design: “Apparatus: Reading, Writing, Framing” (15 ECTS)
Research Grant (3 million NOK) for the research project “The Materiality of White” from
The Norwegian Artistic Research Programme (NARP) in collaboration with Marte Johnslien
Editor-in-chief of Metode, an online publishing platform by ROM for kunst og arkitketur that publishes experimental essays in the fields of art and architecture, funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Interview with Arkitektnytt about the launch of Metode (in Norwegian)
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
Edited book Ung Uro: Unsettling Climates in Nordic Art, Architecture & Design published by Cappelen Damm Akademisk, 2021
Recipient of the FORART research grant 2021 with Marte Johnslien
Momentum Fellow 2021-2022 at the University of Bergen
Book launch conversation with Anna Ulrikke Andersen at ROM for kunst og arkitektur, 30. mars 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.
Member of the Advisory Board for the project The Nokia Design Archive, led by Anna Valtonen, funded by the Academy of Finland (2021 – 2025)
The Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative, essay as part of the Aggregate “Toxics” Project, with Marte Johnslien
Editorial Board Member of the Libelli series by Cappelen Damm Akademisk
Selected Past Projects
Public lecture “How Norway Made the World Whiter” at Oslo School of Environmental Humanities Lunchtime Seminar, 1 December 2021
Public lecture “Er byen en hjerne? Kybernetikk, globalisering og urbanisme ca. 1970” at the seminar Urban Ecologies, ROM for Art and Architecture, 31 August 2021
Co-organizer of the public debate “De gamle må ut!”, 31 august 2021
Lecturer at the PhD summer school Designing for Resiliency: RE:GENERATE alpine-urban circularity (ETH Zurich, EPFL Lausanne, MonViso Institute), 5-13 June 2021
Conference paper: “From White Walls to Human Cells: The Surface Sustainability of Titanium Dioxide, 1916-Present” in the session New Material Histories of Architecture, The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual Conference, 14-18 April, 2021
Journal article “Being Plastic” published in Log 47
Editor of the essay series ‘Kunsthistorisk kritikk’ at ArtScene Trondheim
Guest lesture “Are We Plastic? Art and Thinking After Plastic” at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Environmental Humanities Center, 18 November 2019 and at University of Groningen, Research Centre for Arts in Society, 19 November
Recipient of the George R. Collins Fellowship 2019 from The Society of Architectural Historians
Conference paper: “The Universitas 1972: ‘Radical Left’ and ‘Right-Wing Technocrats.'” The Society of Architectural Historians (SAH) Annual Conference, Providence, USA, 24 – 27 April 2019
Book chapter: “Origo: Quantum Field Theory, Deep Ecology, Touch” in A Square on a Sphere: Marte Johnslien (Oslo: Uten tittel, 2018)
Convener of Lurid Space: Ecology Beyond Organisms, PhD course at University of Oslo, 1 – 2 November 2018
Book chapter “(V)endepunkt: Plastikk og plastisitet i 1972/3072” in Kollaps: På randen av fremtiden (Oslo: Dreyer forlag, 2018)
Curator and Art Consultant at International Corporate Art, 2013-2014