Swedish Environmentalisms
Scaling up Alternative Architectural Practices from the 1970s to the 1990s
This Tuesday, the 11th of February, at the Research Seminars in Architecture, the PhD candidate Alejandra Navarrete Llopis will be presenting her project, Swedish Environmentalisms: Scaling up Alternative Architectural Practices from the 1970s to the 1990s.
The opponent will be architecture historian and art critic Prof. Ingrid Halland, Aarhus University, Denmark.
Time: Tue 2025-02-11 13.15 - 16.00
Location: A608
For a copy of the manuscript, please contact Alejandra Navarrete Llopis at alejnl@kth.se
Bio
Alejandra Navarrete Llopis is an architectural designer, researcher, and educator based in Stockholm, where she is currently a lecturer and PhD candidate in Architectural History, Theory, and Critical Studies at the School of Architecture, KTH. Her research and curatorial work has been granted by the VR-Swedish Research Council, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the Graham Foundation. Together with the After Belonging Agency, she was Chief Curator of the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016 and editor of the book After Belonging: The Objects, Spaces and Territories of the Ways We Stay in Transit (Zurich, 2016), which has received the FAD Thought and Criticism Award. She also has extensive experience in teaching seminars and design studios at KTH, Columbia University GSAPP, Pratt Institute, and ETSAM Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, among other academic institutions.
Opponent
Ingrid Halland is an architecture historian and art critic. She is associate professor in aesthetics and culture at Aarhus University, Denmark. She also holds the position as associate professor II in art history at the University of Bergen. From 2020 – 2024 she held the position as associate professor II at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design where she taught and supervised at the PhD programme.
Halland is the Principal Investigator of the research project «How Norway Made the World Whiter» funded by The Research Council of Norway, and Co-Principal Investigator of the research project «The Materiality of White», funded by Norwegian Artistic Research Programme. Together with Kjetil Fallan, she is Principal Investigator of the project 'Material Ecologies of Design,' which has received the CAS Research Grant 2025 - 2026, at the Centre for Advanced Study (CAS), the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters.
Halland is founder and editor-in-chief of Metode, a publishing platform by ROM for kunst og arkitektur. Her academic work is published in journals such as Architectural Histories, Aggregate, Log, Journal of Design History, INSERT, Arkitektur, Kunst og kultur, and The Journal of Nordic Museology.
The book Deep White: Unsettling White in Western Art History and Aesthetics (under contract with Brill) will be published in 2025.