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Rolighedsvej 23
1958 Frederiksberg C
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I am associate professor of landscape architecture, and leader of the Research Group Landscape Architecture and Urban History. My work is driven by a long-standing interest in the relationship between the built environment and cultural values, ideas and social change. I specialise in the housing, landscapes and cities of the 20th-century welfare states, and spatial practices ranging from do-it-yourself initiatives and activism to professional planning, design, preservation, maintanance and policies. My writings examine how we can create heritage futures with the legacy from the 20th century urbanisation while developing more socially just and ecologically resillient ways of inhabiting the earth.
I currently co-lead the European Architecture History Network's (EAHN) Interest Group for Women and Gender in Architecture and act as member of the advisory board of the Germany-wide festival WiA on Women and Diversity in Architecture. Since 2022, I have been part of the research collective Aktion Arkiv, and you can see our projects here.
Dialogue with students, local communities and wider publics are key to my work, for example through research-based exhibitions. Most recently as co-curator of Women in Architecture at the Danish Architecture Center, and the HERA-funded exhibition series PuSH Public Space in European Social Housing.
Current research
I currently work 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 publications from the project here.
Publications
My next book is an edited volume called Women in Scandinavian Landscape Architecture: Building Collaborative and Transnational Feminist Histories (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 examines Carlsberg’s industrial open spaces, which were left largely undescript during the urban transformation project. It tells new stories these spaces and how they emerged through the interplay of materials, practices, economies, and the imagination—by water, yeast, industrial working routines — and builds concepts and approaches that can grasp existing spatial qualities during the transformation of industrial landscapes.
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.
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
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 20th 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:
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
Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Communication
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Research output: Book/Report › Report › Commissioned › peer-review
Research output: Other contribution › Net publication - Internet publication › Communication
Research output: Book/Report › Report › Research
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
Jannie Rosenberg Bendsen (Organizer), Liv Løvetand (Organizer), Svava Riesto (Organizer) & Henriette Steiner (Organizer)
Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
Svava Riesto (Visiting researcher)
Activity: Visiting an external institution types › Visiting an external academic institution
Anne Tietjen (Organizer), Svava Riesto (Organizer) & Henriette Steiner (Organizer)
Activity: Participating in an event - types › Participation in workshop, seminar, course
Svava Riesto (Board member)
Activity: Membership types › Membership in committee, council, board
Svava Riesto (Speaker)
Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
Svava Riesto (Speaker)
Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
Svava Riesto (Peer reviewer)
Activity: Peer-review and editorial work types › Peer review of manuscripts › Research
Svava Riesto (Speaker)
Activity: Participating in an event - types › Organisation of and participation in conference
15/11/2018
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
12/08/2018
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
03/12/2015
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
09/10/2015
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
Riesto, Svava (Recipient), Mar 2010
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions
Riesto, Svava (Recipient), 1 May 2014
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions
Riesto, Svava (Recipient), Jan 2023
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions
Riesto, Svava (Recipient) & Steiner, Henriette (Recipient), Nov 2023
Prize: Prizes, scholarships, distinctions