Tuning the Labbing
Collaborative repair of tenant–estate management dialogues
We will open the Spring 2026 Research Seminars in Architecture on Friday, the 6th of February, with a presentation by Emilio Brandao, who will present a chapter from his PhD project:, Tuning the Labbing: Collaborative Repair of Tenant–Estate Management Dialogues.
Tid: Fr 2026-02-06 kl 13.15 - 16.00
Plats: Conference Room, Room A608, 6th Floor of the Architecture School
The opponent for the seminar will be PhD Candidate Sara Brolund de Carvalho.
Bios
Emilio Brandao is an architect and PhD-student at KTH School of Architecture, within the project CoNECT: Collective Networks of Everyday Community Resilience and Ecological Transition. And for the last 12 years he has been a lecturer in design activism at Chalmers University of Technology. Both his research and awarded teaching experience (UIA Innovation in Architectural Education Award 2022-2023) are interested in urban practices and pedagogies for social inclusion and community resilience. Emilio works with collaborative methodologies of co-creation, and design and build, together with multiple local actors. His work engages with contexts highly challenged by diverse socioeconomic inequalities and urban injustices, both locally in Sweden and internationally, and built on experience from architectural practice, action-based teaching and research, and active engagement in NGOs.
Sara Brolund de Carvalho is an architect, educator and Ph.D candidate. Her practice is situated in the borderland between architecture/urban planning and art. In her writing, she often addresses concepts such as spatial care and community building. Sara is a co-founder of the research group Aktion Arkiv.