Svava Riesto

I am an architectural historian and heritage researcher interested in the dynamic relationship between urban landscapes and changing values, cultural imaginaries, social orders, and power. I specialize in the histories, legacies, transformation and imagined futures of 20th-century welfare states’ built environments. My research examines multiple intersecting themes, including public space, social housing, urban natures, gender, care, urban renewal, and forms of collaboration in architecture and research.

I am currently working on the project Women in Danish Architecture 1925–1975: A New History of Practice and Gender, which I co-lead with Henriette Steiner, 2021–2024. You can find films, podcasts, and short articles from the project here. 

I lead the Landscape Architecture and Urban History Research Group, and together with Luca Csepely-Knorr I am coordinator of the European Architectural History Network’s /EAHN) Interest Group for Women and Gender in Architecture, Landscape and Urban Design.

Publications and outreach

My next book is an edited volume called Diversifying Histories: Women in Architecture and Collaborative Research Methods (with Henriette Steiner, forthcoming from De Gruyter). I am author of Untold Stories: On Women, Gender and Architecture in Denmark (with Jannie R. Bendsen and Henriette Steiner, Strandberg Publishing 2023), which presents women architects’ contributions to the buildings, cities, and landscapes of Denmark’s welfare society during 1930–1980. The book shows how architecture comes into being through collaborations that cut across genders and professional disciplines.

Biography of an Industrial Landscape: Carlsberg’s Urban Spaces Retold (Amsterdam University Press 2017) examines the reinvention of the Carlsberg brewery site in Copenhagen as a city district. The book reappraises Carlsberg’s open spaces and tells the stories of how they emerged through the interplay of materials, practices, economies, and the imagination—shaped and reshaped by water, yeast, industrial working routines, and conflicting ideas about the future city.

The book Forankring i Forandring: Christiania og bevaring som ressource i byomdannelse [Rooted in Change: Christiania and Preservation as a Resource in Urban Transformation (with Anne Tietjen and Pernille Skov, Arkitektskolens Forlag) presents the squatted “free town” Christiania in Copenhagen as a laboratory for alternative conservation practices. It examines how this former military area has transformed into a very particular urban landscape, arguing that it offers a ground from which authorized heritage conservation practices can be rethought.

As part of Aktion Arkiv, I co-organize public oral history seminars,  and exhibits on contemporary social housing in Scandinavia, foregrounding actors and perspectives that do not usually make it to the archive. The exhibition Women in Architecture was shown at the Danish Architecture Centre (DAC) in 2022, and was co-curated by Jannie R. Bendsen, Henriette Steiner, Svava Riesto and the team at DAC.  The exhibition “Social housing as living heritage”  was part of the HERA-funded Public Space in European Social Housing, shown at universities and local community centers in Naples, Wrocław, Copenhagen, Bern, and Drammen in 2019–2022, and online at PuSH. 

Current teaching, supervision, and mentoring

MSc course leader, Theories and Methods of Landscape Architecture

BSc course leader, Landskabsarkitekturens historie, nutid og fremtid 

Workshops at the introductory courses for PhD fellows at the Faculty of Science, Fundamentals

MSc and BSc dissertation supervisor

Current postdoctoral and PhD supervision

Postdoctoral mentor for Heidi Svenningsen Kajita, (Im)possible Instructions: Inscribing Use-Value in the Architectural Design Process, international postdoc based at Newcastle University/University of Copenhagen, Independent Research Fund Denmark

PhD co-supervisor for Anne Pind, Eco-Feminist Spatial Practices in Sweden and Denmark at the Beginning of the 20th Century, Danish Academy, School of Architecture/University of Copenhagen

CURRICULUM VITAE, SVAVA RIESTO

Key research areas: landscape architecture history, theory and historiography; critical heritage studies; cities and landscapes of the welfare state; social housing; public space; gender, diversity and inclusion in architectural history; research methods; post-industrial urban landscapes; intersections of urban planning, landscape architecture, heritage, and climate change.           

Short bio: Svava Riesto studied art history at the Arctic University of Tromsø, Freie Universität Berlin and University of Copenhagen, where she also gained her PhD in landscape architecture and urbanism. She previously worked for several years in participatory design and community-based heritage, and she is concerned with how research and education can engage with local communities and other societal actors. 

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EDUCATION

January 2012 PhD in landscape architecture and planning, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Life Sciences

December 2001 Mag. Art. in art history, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Humanities

June 1997 BA in art history, Arctic University of Tromsø, Faculty of Humanities

August 1995 – August 1996 Erasmus student in art history, ethnology and history, Freie Universität Berlin

APPOINTMENTS AND EMPLOYMENT

August 2015 – present Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Landscape Architecture and Planning

February 2012 – July 2015 Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Copenhagen, Landscape Architecture and Planning

December 2007 – January 2012 PhD Fellow, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Life Sciences

May 2006 – January 2011 Co-Funding Partner, Ekstrakt

January 2005 – May 2006 Head of Communications, SLA Landscape Architecture

May 2004 – May 2006 Art Historian, SLA Landscape Architecture

Maternity and family leave periods: 2003 (12 months), 2013 (10 months), 2018–22 (12 months total)

LEADERSHIP EXPERIENCE

Since spring 2023 leader of the research group Landscape Architecture and Urban History.

2023-3024 leader of Frem i Lyset./Celebrating diversity in 20th century Danish architecture, reserach dissemination project, The Dreyer Foundation.

2021–23 Co-leader (with Henriette Steiner) of international research network Where Are the Women in Scandinavian Landscape Architecture?, Independent Research Fund Denmark

2020–23 Co-PI (with Henriette Steiner) on research project Women in Danish Architecture 1925–1975: A New History of Gender and Practice, Realdania, Dreyer Foundation, Danish Arts Foundation, Karin og Georg Boyes Fond, National Building Fund, University of Copenhagen

2019–22 Co-leader (with Henriette Steiner) of Theory Working Group, and member of management committee (chair Klaske Havik), EU COST action Writing Urban Places

2019–22 Work package leader and steering committee member, EU HERA project PuSH: Public Space in European Social Housing (PI Ellen Braae), European Commission

2019–22 Academic host and mentor for Heidi Svenningsen Kajita, (Im)possible Instructions: Inscribing Use-Value in the Architectural Design Process, international postdoc project, Danish Independent Research Fund

2017–22 Subproject leader, Reconfiguring Welfare Landscapes (PI Ellen Braae), Danish Independent Research Fund Humanities

2006–9 Partner in Ekstrakt urban consultancy: participatory urban planning, co-design strategies etc; leader of multiple urban planning and co-design projects

2005–6 Head of Communications for SLA Landscape Architects: leader of multiple strategic communications projects

2003–7 Co-PI (with Anne Tietjen) on research project Towards Preservation Strategies for a Different Urban Space: Christiania, University of Copenhagen, Nationalbankens Jubilæumsfond, Politiken Foundation

FUNDING AND SCHOLARSHIPS

2023 Grant for the project Frem i Lyset/Bring to Light, Dreyer Foundation

2022 Publication grant for monograph Women in Danish Architecture, Ny Carlsberg Foundation, co-applicant with Henriette Steiner

2022 Guest professorship grant for Despina Stratigakos, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Science, co-applicant with Henriette Steiner

2022 PhD course grant for Landscape, Architecture and Gender

2021 Realdania funding for Sea Level Rise and Cultural Heritage Research Practice Report

2021 PhD course grant for Landscape, Architecture and Gender

2020 PhD course grant for Landscape, Architecture and Gender

2020 Realdania, Independent Research Fund Denmark, National Building Foundation, Danish Arts Foundation, Dreyer Foundation and Karin & Georg Boyes Fond funding for research project Women in Danish Architecture 1925–1975, co-PI with Henriette Steiner

2020 Sweco Stiftelse för Forskning og Utbildning grant for research network A Response to the Ghetto Plan, co-applicant with Meike Schalk (main applicant), Heidi Svenningsen Kajita, Helena Mattson and Jennifer Mack

2019–22 EU HERA funding for European research project PuSH: Public Space in European Social Housing, with Ellen Braae (PI), Anne Tietjen, Marie Glaser, Inger-Lise Saglie, Henriette Steiner and Laura Lieto

2019–21 Danish Independent Research Fund international postdoc scholarship funding for Heidi Svenningsen Kajita, (Im)possible Instructions: Inscribing Use-Value in the Architectural Design Process, academic host and mentor at University of Copenhagen, in collaboration with Newcastle University

2017–21 Danish Independent Research Fund funding for research project Reconfiguring Welfare Landscapes, with Ellen Braae (PI), Henriette Steiner and Anne Tietjen

2015 Tuborg Foundation publication grant for Value Laden Stories

2015 Velux Foundation guest professorship grant for Tom Avermaete, co-applicant with Ellen Braae and Henriette Steiner

2014 Centre for Strategic Urban Research guest professorship grant for Andrea Kahn, co-applicant with Anne Tietjen

2014 Centre for Strategic Urban Research publication grant for special issue of Nordic Journal of Architecture Research, co-applicant with Ellen Braae, Henriette Steiner and Anne Tietjen

2014 Centre for Strategic Urban Research publication grant for Value Laden Stories, main applicant

2014 Dreyers Foundation grant for World in Denmark Conference 10: Nordic Encounters, co-applicant with Bettina Lamm

2013 Centre for Strategic Urban Research guest professorship grant for Andrea Kahn, main applicant

2011 Realdania postdoc grant for Preservation of Large-Scale Urban Areas (PI Ellen Braae)

2011 Dreyers Foundation grant for World in Denmark Conference As Found, co-applicant with Ellen Braae

2009 Refolana research school grant for PhD colloquium Urban Transformation and the Need for New Histories, main applicant

2006 Realdania publication funding for Forankring i forandring, co-applicant with Anne Tietjen

2006 Dreyer Foundation publication funding for Forankring i forandring, co-applicant with Anne Tietjen

2006 Politiken Foundation publication funding for Forankring i forandring, co-applicant with Anne Tietjen

2005 Danish Art Foundation exhibition funding for Wunderstadt, co-applicant with PI Stig Andersson

2005 Danmarks Nationalbanks Jubilæumsfond af 1968 funding for exhibition Wunderstadt, co-applicant with PI Stig Andersson

2001 Danish-Greenlandic Culture study trip grant

2000 Letterstadska Foreningen study trip grant

2000 Politiken Foundation study trip grant

LEADERSHIP TRAINING

Since 2020 Leadership development programme, Thea Mikkelsen, coaching to develop forms of co-leadership

2021 Conflict management course, Puk Scharbau, University of Copenhagen

2019–21 Mentoring sessions on research leadership with Mette Hjort, Dean of Arts and Chair Professor at Hong Kong Baptist University

2019 Media training course, Sune Bjørnvig, University of Copenhagen/Fridays Communications

2006 Project management course, Ideus

2006 Leading creative employees course, Thea Mikkelsen

AWARDS AND HONOURS

2024 Award for reserach dissemination, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Science.

2023-2024 UCPH Forward. Talent Programme for Excellence in Research

2023 Nominated for the Diversity Award by the Foundation for Entrepreneurship

2023 IGN Award for science communication of the year.

2015 City of Copenhagen Building Award for Statens Museum for Kunst’s new entrance and garden (my role: site analysis, historical consultancy for Karres et Brands/Polyform)

2014 Eslargart Honorary Scholarship for ‘research in the history of Danish garden art, its transformation and preservation’

2013–14 First prize in invited design competition for Statens Museum for Kunst’s new entrance and garden (my role: site analysis, historical consultancy for Karres et Brands/Polyform)

2010 Haastrup Honorary Scholarship for ‘outstanding contribution’ to the ‘success and internationalisation of the scientific conference World in Denmark 2010’, titled As Found.

2005 First prize awarded to SLA (my then employer) in invited design competition for development plan for Valby Idrætspark (my role: site analysis, programming, design critique)

EDITORIAL WORK, SCIENTIFIC PUBLICATIONS

2023 Editor (with Henriette Steiner) of book Diversifying Histories, DeGruyter (publication planned for 2024)

2022-2023 Guest editor (with Eliana Perrotti and Katia Frey) of Architectural Histories special issue on 'Exhibitions by women architects in the 20^th Century'. (publication spring 2024)

2021 Guest editor (with Ellen Braae, Henriette Steiner and Anne Tietjen) of Landscape Research special issue ‘European Mass Housing Landscapes’

2016 Guest editor (with Martin Søberg and Markus Bogisch) of Periskop: Forum for kunsthistorisk Debat special issue ‘Arkitektur og Kvantitet’

2015 Guest editor (with Signe Boeggild, Henriette Steiner, and Anne Tietjen) of Nordic Journal of Architectural Research special issue ‘Nordic Encounters’

2010 Guest editor (with Ellen Braae) of Nordic Journal of Architecture special (launch) issue ‘As Found’

2007 Editor of peer reviewed book Forankring i Forandring. Christiania og bevaring som ressource i byomdannelse, Arkitektskolens Forlag. With Anne Tietjen and Pernille Skov.

2001 Editor of European Cities in a Global Era: Urban Identities and Regional Development  academic and policy report published by Danish Town Planning Institute together with Danish Ministry of the Environment as a special initiative under Denmark’s EU presidency, published in English, French and Danish editions.

Reviewer for the following:

• Journal of Landscape Architecture
• Landscape Research
• Periskop: Forum for Kunsthistorisk Debat
• Spool
• Nordic Journal of Housing and Settlement History
• Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie
• Nordic Journal of Architecture
• Nordic Journal of Architecture Research
• Dimensions of Architectural Knowledge
• Writingplace
• CIDADES, Comunidades e Territórios
• Journal of Architecture
• International Journal of Heritage Studies
• Various books on cultural heritage and landscape for Ashgate/Routledge
• The Danish Architectural Press

POSITIONS OF TRUST, COMMITTEES, ACADEMIC BOARDS

Editorial board, Dansk Arkitekturhistorie, Strandberg Publishing.

Advisory Board (Fachlicher Beirat) the German-wide WiA Women in Architecture Festival 2025.

Academic selection committee for international fellowships 2024, die DAS Design Academy Saaleck , Germany

External examinator at the ART Education Aarhus University, Arkæologi, Oldtids- og Kulturarvsstudier/Archaeology, Antiquity- and Heritage Studies (since 2022)

Member of editorial advisory board of the journal Nordic Journal of Settlement History (since 2016)

2023 Committee for Interim evaluation of tenure-track assistant professor in urban design, University of Copenhagen.

2022-2023 Elected board member, Havehistorisk Selskab (Danish association for garden history) 

2023 Reviewer, CIVIS3i Postdoctoral Fellowships Programme, Aix-Marseille Université 

2023 Reviewer for Research project proposal, The National Science Centre, Poland, Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences

2022 Elected representative of associate professors, reorganisation process, University of Copenhagen, Geosciences and Natural Resource Management (IGN)

2022 Assessment committee member, appointment of associate professor for urban mobilities and transformation, Aalborg University

2022 Reviewer, for the position of a PhD project Heritage and Participatory Spatial Development: Connecting the Past, Present and Future of Self-Sufficient Communities in the Dutch Colonies of Benevolence, Wageningen University

2021 Assessment committee member, appointment of PhD candidate for Research on Building Cultures in the Arctic, Oslo School of Architecture

2020 Assessment committee member, appointment of senior lecturer in landscape architecture, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

2020 Assessment committee member, appointment of associate professor of urban design, Aalborg University

2020 Employment committee member, appointment of associate professor of landscape architecture, University of Copenhagen, IGN

2019 – 2021 Invited expert on cultural heritage and its role in facing climate change, Byerne og det Stigende Havvand Philanthropic Association, Realdania and Danish Board of Technology in partnership with Danish Coastal Authority and Danish Ministry of the Environment

2019 Employment committee member, tenure track assistant professor of urban design and landscape architecture, University of Copenhagen, IGN

2016–20 Member of expert committee on post-1945 architecture, for NGO appointed by Ministry of Culture to submit buildings, built environments and gardens for national heritage protection (Landsforeningen for bygnings- og landskabskultur). Results: expanding the discourse on listing, challenging the legal framework, citizen engagement and several new listings.

2016 Invited expert for Vardø Restored, workshop with invited international researchers, Arctic University of Tromsø students, and representatives from the local community to co-create a strategic urban plan in the face of population decline and historic decay

2015 Scientific consultant for international triennial and book Landscape Architecture Europe, awarding significant new landscape architectural projects across Europe

2014 Scientific committee member for Nordic Encounters, World in Denmark international academic conference series, University of Copenhagen

2012–15 Invited expert for Bygningskultur 2015, national network of all Danish municipalities, chaired by Realdania and the Ministry of Culture (contributing to various conferences, panels, publications etc. as an expert on large-scale urban preservation and the pitfalls of using cultural heritage as an asset for urban development)

2012 Advisory board member for Hedehusene: Industrikulturens grænseløse kulturarv i byfornyelsen, Høje Tåstrup municipality/Danish Ministery of Cities, Housing and Rural Areas.

2012 Scientific committee member for City Plantastic, World in Denmark international academic conference series, University of Copenhagen

2011 Scientific committee member for Fear of Nature, World in Denmark international academic conference series, University of Copenhagen

2010 Scientific committee member for As Found, World in Denmark international academic conference series, University of Copenhagen

2008 Member of Copenhagen X, expert panel on urban development, Danish Centre for Architecture

2008 Expert panel member, Heritage and Future Development of Christiania, organised in the context of discussions about the potential listing of Christiania’s buildings and planning for its densification

2001 Secretary to expert board for EU project European Cities in a Global Era: Urban Identities and Regional Development, Danish Ministry of the Environment under Denmark’s EU presidency

Current postdoctoral and PhD supervision

Postdoctoral mentor for Heidi Svenningsen Kajita, (Im)possible Instructions: Inscribing Use-Value in the Architectural Design Process, international postdoc based at Newcastle University, funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark, 2019–2024

PhD co-supervisor for Anne Pind, Eco-Feminist Spatial Practices: Sweden and Denmark at the Beginning of the 20th Century, Danish Academy, School of Architecture

Supervision of PhD projects to completion

Co-supervisor for Nicole De Lalouviere, Irrigation Systems of Canton Valais: Transformations in Material Culture and the Resilience of Landscape Commons, ETH Zürich, completed 2023

Main supervisor for Lærke Sophie Keil, Microhistories of Landscape Elements in Albertslund Syd: Plant Beds, a Canal and Garden Fences of Welfare, University of Copenhagen, completed 2022

Main supervisor for Ann-Charlott Erichsen, Into the Green Facades: On the Values Ascribed to a Popular Cultural Phenomenon in Contemporary Urban Development, University of Copenhagen, completed 2019

Previous postdoctoral supervision

Co-supervisor for Jannie Rosenberg Bendsen, Women in Danish Architecture, funded by Realdania, Danish Arts Foundation, National Building Fund, Dreyer’s Foundation, and Karin and Georg Boye’s Foundation, 2020–2023

PHD ASSESSMENT

2024 Asseessment committeee member for Berit Rønsen's PhD Thesis 'Norsk hagekunst mot et moderne samfunn – 1930-50. Intensjoner og idealer i en brytningstid'. Norwegian University of Life Sciences.

2024 Assessment committee chair, PhD thesis, Johanne Heesche 'Transformation of young industrial landscapes – emphasising reuse, porosity, re-naturing and open-endedness through landscape-based transformation', University of Copenhagen

2024 Assessment commitee, Marilena Mela, 'Learning With Islands. Heritage, Sustainability, Planning, and Action in four Archipelagoes around Europe', Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

2023 External examinor Viva for Claire Downey 'Dark Potential. Navigating Spatial Possibility in the Paris Night', University of Limerick.

2023 (May) External respondent, 50% seminar for Chero Elassi's PhD, KTH Stockholm

2022 External respondent, Go/No-Go seminar for Elena Perez Guembe’s thesis Architectures of Care: From Zapotecs to the Cosmos, TU Delft

2021 Chair, final thesis assessment committee, Tonguyn Du, Societal Impacts of Urban Renewal, University of Copenhagen

2018 Main opponent, mid-term seminar for Elin Tanding Sørensen’s PhD project Den urbane fjæresonens opplevelseslandskap, Norwegian University of Agricultural Sciences

2017 Main opponent, Vibeke Sjøvoll’s mid-term seminar Product Design: Playful Experiments, University of South-Eastern Norway

2016 Member, final thesis assessment committee, Alice Labadini’s PhD thesis Immaterial Landscapes, Oslo School of Architecture

2015 Member, assessment committee, Nina Marie Andersen’s PhD thesis Criticism and the Work: A Reflection of the Conception of Landscape Architecture as Aesthetic Activity in the Journal Havekunst, Norwegian University of Agricultural Sciences

PHD COURSES  - DEVELOPING, CONVENING, TEACHING

2024 Conducting workshop at the introductory course for new PhD students at the UCPH Faculty of Science

2022 Landscape, Architecture and Gender, University of Copenhagen (co-convener with Henriette Steiner)

2022 Situating Research: Approaches, Ethics, Collaborations, Writing, Architecture and Civil Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, and part of the Swedish Research School ResArc (guest-teacher)

2021 Landscape, Architecture and Gender, University of Copenhagen (co-convener with Henriette Steiner)

2020 Landscape, Architecture and Gender, University of Copenhagen (co-convener with Henriette Steiner)

2019 Writing a Wrap in Humanities and Design Dissertations, University of Copenhagen, one-day seminar on paper-based theses – what they entail, how they are evaluated, the options for tailoring the dissertation to your research, experiences etc. (convener)

2017 New Materialism, Royal Danish Academy School of Architecture and University of Copenhagen, course on theoretical approaches with special focus on architecture and archaeology (guest teacher)

2016 Constructing Criticism, University of Copenhagen, course on experimental methodologies in design research, with invited teachers Laura Lieto from Federico II University and Tom Avermaete from ETH Zürich (co-convener with Anne Tietjen and Henriette Steiner)

2014 Academic Writing, University of Copenhagen, course on writing methodologies and techniques and formulation of research questions, with invited teacher Andrea Kahn from Columbia University (convener)

2012 Urban Transformation and the Need for New Histories, Refolana/University of Copenhagen, course on historiographical methodologies and marginalised heritage in historical research (convener)

2011 Afhandlingsbooster, University of Copenhagen/Aarhus School of Architecture, course on creating a dissertation – formulating research questions, methods section and conclusions (co-convener with Ellen Braae)

KEYNOTES AND INVITED LECTURES (SELECTION SINCE 2018)

2024 'Landscape Biography and Inclusivity' Leiden University, Lorenz Centre

2023 Untold Stories on Women, Gender and Architecture in Denmark. Lecture held at the University at Buffalo, The University of Massachusetts Amherst, The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Columbia University.

2023 "Where are the women in Danish Architecture?" Society of Architectural historians- SAH Connects. Online lecture with Henriette Steiner

2023 Researching Women in Architecture - historiographical reflections. Centre for interior studies, The Royal Danish Academy, School of Architecture

2003 "What is significant here? Situating art in urban transformation" lecture at the seminar Situating Art in Architecture, organized by post-doc Ditte Vilstrup Holm, CBS/KØS, Ny Carlsberg Foundation/Dreyers Fond. Lecture together with Bettina Lamm.

2022 ‘Gendered Norms and Alternatives: The Exhibition Alternative Architecture, Copenhagen 1977’, special interest group on Women in Architecture, European Architectural History Network (EAHN) conference, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

2022 ‘Where Are the Women in Architectural History? Stories About Gender and Practice, Denmark 1930s–1970s’, TU Delft, Chair of Methods of Analysis and Imagination

2021 ‘Alternative Architecture: Susanne Ussing’s Practice Revisited’, Zürich Horchschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften: Architektur, Gestaltung und Bauingenieurwesen, Institut Urban Landscape, scientific seminar The Art of Display – Ausstellungsentwürfe und Schaukonzepte von Architektinnen, Planerinnen und Designerinnen – Schweizer und Dänische Forschung im Dialog, Swiss National Science Foundation

2021 ‘Kvinder i dansk arkitektur’, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen Architecture Festival: Women in Danish Architecture

2021 ‘Researching Gender and Architecture: Historical Perspectives’, University of Lisbon, Interdisciplinary Centre for Gender Studies special session of the scientific conference Action! Architecture and Gender on Feminism and the Spatialisation of Resistances

2019 , ‘Landscape Biographies as Research Strategy: The Carlsberg Breweries Transformation’, TU Delft, Chair of Methods and Analysis, Faculty of Architecture

2019 ‘Practising Welfare Landscapes’, ETH Zürich, Chair of History and Theory of Urban Design

2019 Invited lecture, ‘Carlsberg: Urban Development and the Financial Crisis’, Royal Danish Academy School of Architecture

2018 , ‘Biographies of Welfare Landscapes’, Re:Scape Colloquium, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Faculty of the Humanities

2018 Invited presentation, ‘Welfare Landscapes: Theories, Methods and Concepts’, TU Delft, Chair of Methods and Analysis, Faculty of Architecture

CHAIRING AND ORGANISATION OF SCIENTIFIC SEMINARS (SELECTION)

2024 Organiser of roundtable and workshop at the European Architecture History Network (EAHN) Special Interest Group for Women and Gender in Architecture, Landscape Architecture and Urban Design. With Luca Csepely-Knorr.

2023 Co-organizer 'Visions of Welfare', Liverpool University/The London Garden Museum, Together with Elizabeth Darling, Luca Csepely-Knorr and Henriette Steiner.

2022 Session chair, ‘(De)constructing Gender Identities’, Masculinities in Design: Objects, Identities and Practices symposium, Masculinities conference, University of Applied Arts Vienna, supported by Austrian Science Fund

2022 Co-chair (with Henriette Steiner), international research network workshop Where Are the Women in Scandinavian Landscape Architecture?, University of Copenhagen/ Danish Architecture Centre (DAC)

2021 Co-chair (with Henriette Steiner), interdisciplinary seminar Celebrating Women in Architecture, with 500+ participants and speakers from universities in Beirut, Manchester, Pennsylvania and Copenhagen

2020 Co-chair (with Henriette Steiner), interdisciplinary roundtable panel Gender and Design Education, with speakers from Stockholm University, ETH Zürich and the design studio Jordan, open to the public and part of the PhD course Landscape, Architecture and Gender, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Science

2020 Session co-chair (with Marie Glaser), Social Housing as an Emerging Form of Heritage, Association for Critical Heritage Studies conference, London

2019 Organiser and co-host, scientific seminar on living heritage for researchers, part of EU HERA project PuSH: Public Space in Social Housing, in collaboration with Danish Association for Social Housing and Danish Immigrant Museum

2019–20 Co-chair (with Henriette Steiner) of Theories Working Group, three or four annual interdisciplinary workshops and scientific seminars, EU COST action Writing Urban Places

2018 Session co-chair (with Catharina Nolin), Public Landscapes of the Post-War City, Association for Critical Heritage Studies conference, Hangzhou

2015–21 Co-chair (with Rikke Munck Petersen, Anne Wagner and Natalie Gulsrud), international public lecture series Copenhagen Landscape Lectures, two to four annual events, University of Copenhagen, Section of Landscape Architecture in association with Scandiafoundation, Erasmus+ and other foundations

2014–19 Founding chair and co-organiser (with Lisa Diedrich), Öresund Design Research Seminars (ÖDRS), University of Copenhagen and Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences

TEACHING AND DEVELOPMENT OF UNIVERSITY COURSES

2021 – present BSc course co-leader (with Henriette Steiner and Richard Hare), Landskabsarkitekturens fortid, nutid og fremtid, 7.5 ECTS points, University of Copenhagen, IGN. This new history course received positive student feedback.

2012 – present MSc course co-leader (with Ellen Braae), Theories and Methods in Landscape Architecture, mandatory, 15 ECTS points, University of Copenhagen, IGN. Evaluation: A-level.
This constantly refreshed and updated course benefits from teaching contributions by externally funded international experts such as Catharina Nolin from Stockholm University (2019, Erasmus+), Linde Egberts from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (2019, Erasmus+), Tom Avermaete from TU Delft (2018, Velux Visiting Professor) and Andrea Kahn from Columbia University (2016 and 2015, Centre for Strategic Urban Research). Strong, positive student feedback during every year of teaching.

2003–7 Master of Art History course co-developer (with Anne Tietjen), By, hukommelse og identitet, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Humanities, interdisciplinary course with participants from Faculty of Science, IT University, Royal Academy School of Architecture and others. Strong, positive student feedback.

2001–5 Bachelor in Art History course co-developer (with Markus Bogisch), Rumanalyse, equivalent to half a year full-time, University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Humanities, interdisciplinary course with participants from Faculty of Science, IT University, Royal Academy School of Architecture and others. Strong, positive student feedback.

Invited guest teacher at several universities and architecture schools, such as the University at Buffalo, Sheffield University, TU Delft, University of Jyväskylä, Oslo School of Architecture, ETH Zürich, Chalmers Technical University, The Norwegian University of Life Sciences.

EXHIBITIONS

May – October 2022 Co-curator (with Jannie Rosenberg Bendsen, Liv Løvtand Rabek, Henriette Steiner) Women in Architecture, Danish Architecture Centre. We curated the historical part of this exhibition called ‘the archive’.

October 2021 Co-curator, student exhibition, Copenhagen Architecture Festival Care for Plans event

2020–2022 Co-curator, living heritage section, exhibition series Public Space in European Social Housing, University of Copenhagen. This travelling exhibition has been displayed at the:

-University of Copenhagen 2020

-Federico II University Naples 2020

-Tscharnergut Gemeindezentrum (community centre), Bern, 2021

-Copenhagen Architecture Festival exhibition 2022

-Hilton conference centre, Wroclaw, 2022

2014 Curator, Revisit 1960s–1970s Suburbia, display of University of Copenhagen MA student projects, plus publication of catalogue

2012 Co-curator, Albertslunds Grønne Øhav, Albertslund Town Hall in collaboration with Kroppedal Museum

2006 Curator, Wunderstadt, Galerie Aedes Berlin

SOCIETAL IMPACT, COMMUNITY WORK, LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE PRACTICE

2024 Masterclass on leadership and what we can learn from history, Fonden for Entreprenørskab

2022 Invited speaker, seminar on climate change, Association of Danish Municipalities (Kommunernes Landsforbund)

2022 Invited speaker, workshop on climate change and coastal cities, CONCITO green think tank

2022 Tour guide to the Women in Architecture exhibition for Danish Association of Landscape Architects, Danish Association of Art Historians, Danish Association of Landscape Architects and others

2022 Co-organiser (with Heidi Kajita Svenningsen, Meike Schalk, Helena Mattson, Jennifer Mack, Maryam Fanni), seminar in Huseby, Stockholm, on the Swedish policy on ‘volunerable housing areas’ and their effects on planning and architecture, with invited speakers from affected housing areas.

2022 Dissemination of research through podcast series (6 episodes), De glemte arkitekter, Realdania/Immersive Stories/Niels Bjørn with Women in Danish Architecture research team

2021 Co-organiser (with Heidi Kajita Svenningsen, Meike Schalk, Helena Mattson, Jennifer Mack, Maryam Fanni and Lundtoftegade residents), seminar in Lundtoftegade, Copenhagen on the Ghetto Plan’s effects on planning and architecture, with invited speakers from affected housing areas, and various exhibitions including one by students on the Theories and Methods in Landscape Architecture master’s course

2020 Co-organiser (with Bettina Lamm), polyvocal public tour and workshop on community spaces in Farum Midtpunkt’s social housing, in collaboration with Copenhagen Architecture Festival, Danish Association of Social Housing and EU HERA research project PuSH: Public Space in Social Housing

2019 Invited expert panellist, grassroots urban initiative Folkemøde Sydhavn, on valuation of cultural and natural qualities at the margins of established evaluation systems in the context of controversial plans to build new housing on the protected natural landscape and former fishing settlement of Stejlepladsen

2018 Invited expert panellist and participation in film, grassroots urban initiative Industrikulturen i Nordvest, on potential of using industrial heritage as a tool to create more inclusive, diverse and locally grounded modes of urban renewal, Nordvest Lokalråd, Copenhagen municipality

2018 Expert evaluator, official proposal to list Boesdal Kalkbrud og Pyramide as an industrial landscape and process complex, submitted to Ministry of Culture by Udvalget for Nyere tids arkitektur, Landsforeningen for bygnings- og landskabskultur

2017 Invited lecture, ‘C.Th. Sørensen and the Canon’, General Assembly of Danish Association for Landscape Architects

2015 Public lecture on co-creation and living heritage, Bygningskulturens Hus

2014 Chair of yearly Høstdebat, on the question ‘Can you list things that are growing? On national heritage protection and landscape architecture’, Danish Association for Landscape Architects

2013–14 Prequalified and selected for second phase of Frederiksværk Stålsatte Byrum Design competition by invitation for heritage-based strategy to revitalise an industrial town through urban space renewal, cultural planning and citizen-driven strategic initiative
Team: LIW Planning, Entasis Architects and 2-1 Ideas Agency
My role: site analysis, design critique, strategy for heritage definition, participatory strategic development and communication plan

2013 Pilot project competition for Horbelev fra Skole til Kulturgård, project to transform derelict rural schools into cultural centres for Lokale- og Anlægsfonden (project realised 2015)
Team: Polyform
My role: site analysis, design critique, programme analysis, dialogue workshops with users

2012–13 First prize in architecture competition by invitation, Statens Museum for Kunst’s new entrance and garden (realised 2014)
Team: Karres et Brands/Polyform
My role (as consultant): historical site analysis, design critique, communication

2012 Prequalified for architecture competition by invitation, Kommunikationslinjen, urban space renewal Svendborg
Team: Effect/Masu Planning
My role (as consultant): site analysis, design critique, communication

2012 Curator, Albertslunds Grønne Øhav exhibition, Albertslund Town Hall, collaboration between University of Copenhagen, Kroppedal Museum and Albertslund municipality

2012 First prize, architecture competition by invitation, New Rock Museum, Roskilde, Musicon
Team: Cobe/MVRDV/LIW Planning
My role: communication consultant for LIW Planning

2010 Prequalified and selected for second phase, architecture competition by invitation for the strategic development of Køge Southern Harbour and town centre
Team: Gromtij, Polyform, 2+1, Ekstrakt
My role: user involvement

2007 Public meetings and vision plan for strategic development of Køge Southern Harbour and town centre, commissioned by Køge municipality
My role: consultation on formulation of shared vision among stakeholders, municipal departments etc., which I then helped them to write (with Karen Margrethe Krogh from Ekstrakt)

2006 Densification of Greve’s single-family housing areas, user involvement strategy and vision plan in collaboration with planners, politicians and local residents, commissioned by Greve municipality
My role: workshops and dialogue platforms, producing scenarios in collaboration with Barbara Wandall and Karen Margrethe Krogh from Ekstrakt

2006 Prequalified for architecture competition by invitation, Superkilen, urban space design
Team: Spektrum
My role: site analysis, user involvement strategy, programming, participation in concept development, communication (with Karen Margrethe Krogh and Barbara Wandall from Ekstrakt)

2006 User involvement strategy for urban square revitalisation of Toftegårds Plads, commissioned by Copenhagen municipality
My role: conceptualising and conducting targeted user involvement workshops with various user groups (with Barbara Wandall from Ekstrakt)

2005–6 Curator, Wunderstadt, solo exhibition, SLA landscape architecture, urban space and planning, Galerie Aedes Berlin

2005 Prequalified and selected for second phase, open architecture competition, Park am Gleisdreieck, Berlin
Team: SLA
My role: site analysis, design critique, programming, workshops with users

2005 First prize, architecture competition by invitation, Valby Idrætspark
Team: SLA
My role: programming, design critique participation in concept development, communication

2004 Recommended by professional jurors, architecture competition, Mølleparken Århus
Team: SLA
My role: site analysis, preservation strategy, co-developing concept, communication

2003 Open architecture competition, Alexanderplatz open space renewal
Team: SLA
My role: site analysis, design critique, text

2002 Selected for second round, open architecture competition, Die Sünderstaffel, Stuttgart – Friedhof der Zukunft
Design team: with Stine Poulsen and Anne Tietjen
My role: site analysis, programming, participation in concept development, text