Engaging with the future through design: projects, reflections, and studies that explore new ways of living and making within our local landscapes.

 

Writing

2024

Odd New Spring: Towards Evolving Landscapes and a Reorientation in Design Practice

PhD Project in Artistic Research, University of Bergen, Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design (KMD), Department of Design: Research Catalogue, doi: https://doi.org/10.22501/kmd-ar.3105348

 

2023

Fieldnotes from the Forbidden Garden

Essay for book: BioColours, Aalto University Press

 

2022

Plants out of place? A design-driven investigation of colour and material possibilities within a group of “invasive alien plant species” in a Norwegian context.

Paper for XVII Color Conference, Florence: Colour and Colorimetry. Multidisciplinary Contributions. Vol. XVII A ISBN 978-88-99513-18-4, published by Gruppo del Colore - Associazione Italiana Colore, as part of the Research Culture And Science Books series (RCASB). doi: https://doi.org/10.23738/RCASB.006

 

Artistic Research

2022

Streetwalk fibres

A material research into local plant fibres.

2019

Re-interpreting Fallopia Japonica

Itadori means “the strong one”: a case study into a new kind of plant relation with Japanese Knotweed, Fallopia japonica /Reynoutria japonica.

2022

Mapping a local colour palette for textiles

A colour mapping of roots, leaves, twigs and flowers.

 

Teaching

2025

Course leader MA1

2025

Course leader and exhibition coordinator

Master exhibition in design at KODE.