Transforming Giron-Kiruna

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Bio Elisa Maria López is a postdoctoral researcher in Architecture, Culture, and Environment at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, School of Architecture who earned her PhD in anthropology from Uppsala University in 2021. She came to KTH in Fall 2022 as postdoctoral research on the VR-funded project, “Utopia 2.0: ‘Nature-Thinking’ in Nordic New Towns of the Past, Present, and Future” together with Associate Professor Jennifer Mack (PI) and PhD candidate Alejandra Navarrete Llopis. Since Fall 2024, her postdoctoral work has also been supported by the Lars Erik Lundberg Foundation. An environmental anthropologist with a historical orientation, her research spans themes of urban and environmental history, resource-society relations, and colonial forms of knowledge production to architectural, urban planning, and design practices with a regional focus on the Nordic Arctic/Sápmi.

Opponent Seren Dincel is a practising lighting designer trained in interior design and architectural lighting. She is currently a doctoral student in Architectural Design, Technology and Representation at KTH School of Architecture. She holds master’s degrees in Architectural Lighting Design from Hochschule Wismar and Interior Architecture and Environmental Design from the Sapienza University of Rome and a bachelor’s degree from Bahcesehir University of Istanbul. Her work in practice concerns urban lighting design projects in Sweden and the Middle East. In the doctoral project, she investigates ways of integrating spatial, ecological and technological systems into after-dark planning with a focus on accommodating multispecies in urban green areas. The doctoral project is part of the transdisciplinary research consortium NorDark funded by NordForsk and the Swedish Energy Agency.