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30.04.2025
 Conference paper “Prototyping Development from the South: Manuals of HRDU, Nairobi,” to be presented at the SAH 2025 Annual International Conference, Atalanta, Georgia, April 30-May 4. 
10.12.2024
Conference paper “Building the New Nation: Nordic University Projects in Southeast Africa,” to be presented at the 18th International Docomomo Conference, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, FADEU, Santiago, Chile, 2024, 10-14 December. 
01.12.2024
Journal article “Celestial Resistance: Norwegian World Bank Educational Project in Zambia,” a contribution to Footprint 35: “Engaging Cosmotechnical Difference in Architecture and Urbanism: Cosmologies, Technologies, Worlds” (2024). 
01.12.2024
Fellow of the Young Investigator Group Preparation Program (YIG Prep Pro), Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT),  Architecture History, Institute for Architectural Design, Art and Theory. Starting budget of 100,000 EUR.
30.10.2024
Conference paper “Contested Comforts: Nordic-Designed University Housing in East Africa,” presented at “The Architecture of Need: Collective-Use Facilities and Community Service in the Twentieth Century” Conference, Lisbon and Évora, 29-31 October. 
28.08.2024
Guest lecture “Building Welfare: Moelven and the Everyday Architecture” for AHO Master’s Urban Planning course, Fall 2024, 28 August.
01.08.2024
Book chapter “Towards a Democratic Architecture: Norwegian Experiments in Timber,” in Between Conventional and Experimental. Mass Housing and Prefabrication in Modernist Architecture (KU Leuven Press, 2024), 31-54. 
05.07.2024
Conference paper “The Architect of the Party: Torbjørn Rodahl and “Good” Norwegian Architecture,” presented at “The Challenge from Within: Progressive Architects in Capitalist Systems,” ZHAW Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland, 5-6 July.
19.06.2024
Conference paper “Nordic Agricultural Offensive in Tanzania,” presented at the bi-annual EAHN 2024 International Architectural History Network Conference, Athens, Greece, 19-23 June. 
19.06.2024
Workshop contribution “Changing Imaginaries of Urban Solidarity,” workshop “Activism! The political dimension of heritage in the post-communist world,” Eastern Europe Interest Group, 8th International Conference of European Architectural History Network (EAHN), Athens, Greece, 19-23 June.
14.06.2024
Conference paper “The Invisible Hand: Female Bureaucrats and Architecture of Foreign Aid in Post-Independence Kenya,” presented at the “Minding her Business: Women, Architecture, and Design” Conference, Dublin, Ireland, 13-15 June.
30.05.2024
Journal article “Countercultural Ujamaa: Planning Lessons from a Tanzanian Village,” a contribution to OASE 117 journal “Project Village” (2024). 
13.05.2024
Conference paper “Regimes of Goodness or Good for Business? Pragmatic Lessons from Nordic Humanitarian Design Projects in East Africa,” presented at The Future of Humanitarian Design Symposium, Geneva, Switzerland, 13-14 May. 
22.04.2024
Invited respondent to the midterm review for a Senior Project studio course led by Prof. Sarah Aziz, University of New Mexico, New Mexico, 22 April.
17.04.2024
Conference paper “Pragmatics of Care: Nordic Standardised Designs for Kenyan District Hospitals,” presented at the SAH 2024 Annual International Conference, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 17-21 April. 
11.04.2024
Conference paper “Testing Achievements Abroad: Nordic School Project in Tanzania,” presented at the International Conference on History of Modern Architecture, School Architecture, Universidad de Navarra, Spain, 11-12 April. 
09.04.2024
Invited respondent to PostDoc research presentation by James Fortuna, “Environmental Design and the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933-42” at gta ETH Zurich DocTalks session, Zurich, Switzerland, 9 April. 
07.03.2024
Invited panellist of the “Design as Translation” section, Lahore Design Summit, “Simultaneity: Building Non-extractive Global Partnerships,” RISD, MIT, Beaconhouse National University, Lahore, Pakistan, 7-9 March. 
12.12.2023
Interview on timber constructions and qualities “Jeżeli coś wygląda na drewniane, to musi być dobre?” for Autoportret 85 [4], “Ścieżki materiałów,” Warsaw, Poland.
10.12.2023
Invited internal respondent for the ETH PhD 2022 cohort, pre-final reviews of Fall 2022. 
29.11.2023
Convener of the last edition of gta invites lecture series, lecture by Prof. Dr Ijlal Muzaffar (RISD), “Dust and Belonging,” 29-30 November. 
22.11.2023
Conference paper “An Open Archive of Research,” presented at the “Architecture Archives of the Future,” Jaap Bakema Study Centre x Nieuwe Instituut, Netherlands, 22-23 November.
03.11.2023
Conference paper “Prefabricated Town in the Tropics,” presented at the Affordable Housing Solutions Symposium at the University of Melbourne, Australia, 3-4 November.
03.11.2023
Conference paper “Imported Urbanisms: A [Not-So-] Model Town in the Tropics,” presented at the Symposium of Urban Design History and Theory (SUDHT), Delft, Netherlands, 1-3 November.
03.11.2023
Conference paper “Outsourcing Pedagogies of Care: Nordic School Project in Zambia,” presented at the International Conference of the Architectural Humanities Research Association (AHRA), University of Portsmouth UK, 25-27 October. 
29.10.2023
Invited workshop contribution “Hot and Cold: Norwegian Architects in the Tropics,” presented at the gta workshop Architecture’s Acclimatization: Historicizing the Climate Questions, Zurich, 29 October.
13.10.2023
Conference paper “Nordic Timbers: Not So Ecological After All?” presented at EAHN x MOMA Thematic Conference in Reykjavik, Iceland, 11-13 October.
11.10.2023
Invited lecture on archival search methods and integrated knowledge systems for AHO PhD methods-school, Oslo, Norway, 11 October.
30.09.2023
Invited lecture on archival methods and note-taking systems for AHO PhD methods-school, Oslo, Norway, 30 September.
22.09.2023
Conference paper “Sites of Encounter: Nordic School-Building Project in Tanzania,” presented at the International Conference “Building for the Nation Abroad,” Academia Belgica and the Danish Academy in Rome, Italy, 21-22 September.
01.09.2023
Journal article “Creative Destructions,” a contribution to the second issue of JADH Journal of Architectural Design and History (2024).
22.06.2023
Course Lecturer at ETH Master’s Research Seminar Course “The City Lived: Architects on a Mission” focused on group research of the 1960s global architectural and design projects, Fall 2023.
15.06.2023
Conference paper “Modernisms, Mass Produced,” presented at the “Whose Modernism?” conference, the 5th Alvar Aalto Researchers’ Network Seminar, Jyväskylä, Finland, 14-15 June.
15.04.2023
Journal article “When Flexibility Became Mainstream: Norwegian Housing in the Age of Change,” for the special issue of the Journal of Architecture “Infinite Flex: Techniques and Technologies of Flexibility in Architectural Production,” [finalised, forthcoming, 2024].
15.03.2023
Research presentation lecture at the University of Queensland, School of Architecture. 
01.03.2023
Resident at Architecture, Theory, Criticism, History Research Centre at the University of Queensland, Australia. Archival research on networks of timber architecture. 
30.10.2022
ETH Postdoctoral Fellowship Award for a two-year research project entitled “The Business of Foreign Aid: Nordic Architecture in Postcolonial Africa” (240,000 CHF). 
27.10.2022
Conference paper “Marginalia: An Archive of Research,” presented at the NORDIK 2022 Association for Art Historians Conference “Collections,” University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 25-27 October.
22.08.2022
Exhibition “Marginalia,” accompanying the completion of PhD research at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Oslo, Norway, 20-30 August. 
22.08.2022
PhD Publication “Factory-Made: Everyday Architecture of Moelven Brug, 1955-1973,” CON-Text 117, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, PhD Dissertation.
18.06.2022
Conference paper “Wholesale Modularity of Moelven Brug,” presented at the 7th International Conference of European Architectural History Network (EAHN), Madrid, Spain, 15-18 June. 
15.06.2022
Contribution “Don’t Wait for Another War” to the round table discussion for the Eastern Europe Interest Group, 7th International Conference of European Architectural History Network (EAHN), Madrid, Spain, 15-18 June.
27.04.2022
Panel Chair “Large Construction Companies in a Global Context” with Davide Spina (ETH Zurich),  SAH 2022 Annual International Conference, Pittsburgh, USA, 27 April-1 May. 
09.03.2022
Conference paper “Fractured Archives of the Ordinary,” presented at the 8th Forum of Architectural Studies, “The Power of Sources in Architecture Research and Practice,” Berlin, Germany, 9-11 March.
14.12.2021
Invited respondent to a PhD research presentation by Anna Livia Vørsel, “Becoming Evident: Material Forms of Knowing,” at gta ETH Zurich DocTalks session, Zurich, Switzerland, 14 December.
05.11.2021
Lecture and workshop “Architecture, Factory-Made” for AHO Master’s Studio Course Timber Toppings, Oslo, Norway, 5 November.
29.10.2021
Invited magazine contribution on Oslo’s densification strategies and speculative housing projects, +KOTE architecture magazine, with Ute Groba and Ona Flindall. 
25.10.2021
Invited reviewer for AHO PhD school mid-term colloquium, Oslo, Norway, 25 October.
13.10.2021
Invited lecture “File Not Found” on note-taking systems and digital archiving for AHO PhD methods-school, Oslo, Norway, 13 October. 
20.09.2021
Invited lecture “Tips and Tricks” on research strategies and archival work for first year AHO PhD students, Oslo, Norway, 20 September. 
29.08.2021
Conference paper “Japanese Temporariness in Norwegian Systems Architecture,” 16th DOCOMOMO 2020(+1) International Conference “Inheritable Resilience: Sharing Values of Global Modernities” in Tokyo, Japan, 29 August-2 September.
29.08.2021
Journal Article “Narratives of Timber in 1960s Norwegian Prefabricated Architecture,” Architectural Theory Review 25 (1-2): 81-98. DOI: 10.1080/13264826.2021.1963297.
27.08.2021
Conference paper “From Workers to Operators: Labour of Moelven Brug,” presented at the 2021 Construction History Annual Conference, panel “Professionalism and the Building Trades,” Cambridge, United Kingdom, 27-29 August.
13.07.2021
Conference paper “Wooden churches, Managers and Fulbright Scholars: Glued Laminated Timber in 1950s Norway” presented at the panel “Modern Materials and Networks: The Agency and Entanglement of Things, People and Institutions”, the 7th International Congress on Construction History, Lisbon, Portugal, 12-16 July.
17.06.2021
Invited round-table contribution “Infrastructural Affections” at Bauhaus Study Rooms event “Challenging Infrastructure Modernism,” panel “Nervous Systems: Infrastructures as Assemblages,” Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany, 17-18 June.
14.06.2021
Conference paper “Norwegian Experiments in Timber: Mass Housing of Moelven Brug” presented at DOCOMOMO Israel-Germany Conference “From Conventional to Experimental—Mass Housing and Prefabrication,” EU COST-action “Middle-Class Mass Housing,” Technion Institute of Technology, Israel, 14-15 June. 
09.06.2021
Interview by Marisa Cortright for a book on architectural workers and organising in Europe, “Can this be?” VI PER Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic, 2021, 9 June. 
01.06.2021
Book chapter “A Building Manual” in Concrete for the Other Half? (Leipzig: Spector Books, 2021), 51-64.  
30.03.2021
Workshop contribution “How Things Got Made: Moelven Brug in the 1960s” presented at the Doctoral Talks graduate session, gta, ETH Zurich, Switzerland, 30 March. 
01.12.2020
Exhibition “Concrete for The Other Half?” as a result of Bauhaus Lab project research, televised discussion at Bauhaus Study Rooms ‘Habitat” round table; recorded guided exhibition tours. Bauhaus, Dessau, Germany, 1 December-10 June.
14.11.2020
Invited guest lecture “Moelven Brug and Everyday Spaces of the Norwegian Welfare State” at “Re-store Prefab” Masters Course, AHO, Oslo, Norway, 14 November.
01.12.2020
01.09.2020
Research Residency at the 2020 Global Modernism Bauhaus Lab “A Concrete for the Other Half,” Bauhaus-Dessau, Germany in collaboration with the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal, Canada. Research into material histories of sulfur concrete at the CCA archives.
30.04.2020
Conference Paper “Fabricating a New Tradition: Norwegian Timber in System-Building” presented at the SAH 2020 Annual International Conference, panel “Building with Timber: Beyond Global Material and Regional Culture.” Seattle, USA, 30 April-1 May. 
03.04.2020
Conference paper “Norwegian Systems Architecture: Prefabrication of Moelven Brug” presented at the 2020 Annual Construction History Conference (CHS), “History of Building Construction,” Queen’s College, Cambridge, United Kingdom, 3-5 April.
12.02.2020
Guest lecture and seminar “Archaeologies of Production” for KTH Master Studio on industrial prefabrication systems with Erik Stenberg, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm, Sweden, 12 February. 
25.10.2019
Colloquium contribution “Constructing the Construction History” presented at Constructing History colloquium, AHO, Oslo, Norway, 25 October. 
23.10.2019
Conference paper “Fabricating an Educated Consumer: Alternative Production Models of Moelven Brug” presented at the 2nd Urban History Conference, “Interpreting 20th Century European Urbanism,” Stockholm, Sweden, 23 October.
10.04.2019
Workshop contribution “Flexible Subjectivities of Moelven Meccano” presented at Changing Welfare workshop as a part of the Architecture and Welfare Research Network, Oslo, Norway 1-2 October 2018, and Copenhagen, Denmark, 9-10 April 2019. 
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