Social Perspectives on Architecture and Design 2006 Awarded Residencies

Residence program and platform in the borderland of architecture, design and the visual arts

The program was open for all professional practitioners in architecture, design and the visual arts, based in Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, and the autonomous territories Faroe Islands, Greenland, Åland Islands. The program is concerned with work that from a practical perspective deals with questions, such as, production methods, material, aesthetic, as well as different social and political connotations of architecture and design.

The residencies are during May-September 2006 in Copenhagen/Christiania, Helsinki, Oslo, Reykjavik, Stockholm, and are connected to local contact persons and partners working with a social perspective on architecture and design.


Awarded Residencies

The residency selection was made by an invited panel with four members, who used this opportunity to gain knowledge of the work of a multitude of practitioners in the Nordic region, interested in the relation of architecture and design to society.

For the selection panel NIFCA invited:
Markus Degerman, artist/curator, Stockholm
Helena Mattson, architect/researcher, Stockholm
Madeleine Park, artist/curator, Oslo
Tuomas Toivonen, architect/designer, Helsinki

Eleven residencies of one month each were awarded.



Denmark, Copenhagen: Fabrikken for Kunst og Design
Local contact person: Thomas Poulsen – FOS / Social Design, Copenhagen
1 month during May-June 2006

Hrafnkell Birgisson, Reykjavik, IS September



Denmark, Copenhagen/Christiania: Christiania Researcher in Residence
Local contact person: Emmerik Warburg

The selection panel made a short list from which the Christiania Researcher in Residence program made the final selection:

Vanja Larberg, Gothenburg, SE, June



Finland, Helsinki: NIFCA, Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art
Local contact person: Tuomas Toivonen, Helsinki

Carina Gunnars, Årsta, SE – Anna Kindgren, Stockholm, SE, August
Kami Petersen, Malmö, SE, September



Iceland, Reykjavik:
Local contact person: Guðfinna Mjöll Magnúsdóttir, Reykjavik
August-September 2006

Tanja Jordan, Copenhagen, DK, July
Bjørn-Kowalski Hansen, Berlin, DE/NO, September


Norway, Oslo:
Local contact partner: ROM for Kunst & Arkitektur
August-September 2006

Paola Cabrera Viancha, Helsinki, FI, August
Martin Hedenström, Stockholm, SE, September



Sweden, Stockholm: Malongen
Local contact partner: Uglycute, Stockholm
August-September 2006

Erlend Blakstad Haffner, London, UK/NO, September
Tone Hansen, Oslo, NO, August





Waiting List

Zenaath Hasan, Helsinki, FI (Oslo/Stockholm)
Tuija Asta Järvenpää, Helsinki, FI (Oslo/Stockholm)
Otto von Busch – Evren Uzer, Malmö, SE (Oslo/Reykjavik)
Magdalena Nilsson, Stockholm, SE (Copenhagen at FFKD)
Esteban Roses, Stavanger, NO (Stockholm)
Ulf Samuelsson, Hägerstensåsen, SE – Benjamin Slotteröy, Hägersten, SE – Sissi Westerberg, Stockholm, SE (Helsinki, Reykjavik)
Magnus Liistamo, Stockholm, SE (Copenhagen at FFKD)
Cecilia Dreyfert, Stockholm, SE (Helsinki/Reykjavik)
Helena Larsson, Gothenburg, SE (Copenhagen at CRR/Reykjavik)





Statistics on Awarded Applications

Awarded residencies: 10


Female: 5
Male: 5

By country:

DK: 1
FI: 1
IS: 1
NO: 3
SE: 4


Statistics on Received Applications:

Applications received: 92

Female: 51
Male: 41

By country:

DK: 8
FI: 15
IS: 4
NO: 16
SE: 33

Not eligible: 16


For more information please contact project coordinator Mitro Kaurinkoski at NIFCA.