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 the following selected projects, links with more info coming soon...
“Diversify Now!” Industrial post doc with Tegnestuen Vandkunsten proposing alternative collective housing models for Denmark
The Macuti House in Ilha de Moçambique: Transforming the Other Side of a World Heritage Site - Ph.D Project
Gateterminalen 1:1 community built mock-up and street level participatory planning office for new bus terminal in Ålesund, Norway
Home Space Maputo: Meanings and Perceptions of the Built Environment in a Rapidly Expanding African City
Masanga Hospital staff housing pilot project, Sierra Leone
A Textile Workshop on Sollien Farm, Norway
Full publications list and CV