This is the page for all the previous housing and urban research I have been doing over the years. The continuity in my work is the persistent search for meaning in the way we inhabit the world. I have studied housing cultures in Asia, Africa and northern Europe for my whole adult life, since my first Bachelor project based on a fieldwork grant to go (back) to Nepal in 2000.
At the core of this work is a deep personal longing for home in a strange world. Starting out from a position of culture and social science, then becoming an architect and urbanist for a long time placed in a field of housing studies, the search has more recently led me out in the wider landscape, down into the ground and the conceptual and material way we world worlds. The way we build relations to the life around us and organise our entanglements of settlement and reproduction, is the way we inhabit the world and create meaning. Soil making is another chapter in the search for home, for strategies of inhabitation in an exhausted messy world.
For selected project links, images and storytelling in progress page...
All the other stuff