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Mattias Participated in the Technlogies of Memory conference at the National Library in Oslo, 9 December. Very much appreciated the talks by Wolfgang Ernst, Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, and Trond Lundemo. Well organised!
Mattias Enjoyed an interesting seminar at the National Museum Architecture in Oslo on 10 October about so-called permanent exhibitions of architecture. A great selection of speakers introducing us to the challenges of institutions like V&A, Musée des monum... more
Mattias Enjoyed an interesting seminar at the National Museum Architecture in Oslo on 10 October about so-called permanent exhibitions of architecture. A great selection of speakers introducing us to the ch... more
Oslo School of Architecture & Design
Graduate Student, Institute of Form, Theory and History
Doctoral Research Fellow
Thesis Title: Edifice of Memory
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Professor Thordis Arrhenius
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About
Mattias is doctoral research fellow at the Institute of Form, Theory and History at Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO). His Ph.D. project, ‘Edifice of Memory’, investigates the significance of the built environment for societal memory practice. The interdisciplinary study provides a critical reading of Maurice Halbwachs’s term spatial framework, a sub concept of the collective memory, by drawing on theories from memory studies in the humanities but also in the social and natural sciences. Mattias has presented work from his project at several international conferences and three book chapters will appear in print in 2011 and 2012.
Mattias teaches on undergraduate and diploma levels at AHO and is affiliated with The Oslo Centre for Critical Architectural Studies (OCCAS), a humanities-based research centre for advanced studies in the field of architecture. He received his diploma in architecture from The Architectural Association (AA) in 2004 and previously studied theatre and aesthetics at Gothenburg University and Humboldt University. He practiced as an architect at award–winning Norwegian architecture offices before embarking on the PhD.
Publications
2012 In-press: ‘Edifice of stories and knowledge’ in The Museum Beyond the Nation edited by Johan Hegardt and Fredrik Svanberg. The Museum of National
Antiquities Studies.
2011 In-press: ‘Remembering Home. Displacement, Return, and Spatial Frameworks of Memory’. Chapter in Defining and Re-Defining Diaspora: From Theory to Reality edited by Marianne David and Javier Muñoz-Basols . Rodopi.
2011 In-press: ‘Architecture for the Nation’s Memory. History, Art, and the Halls of Norway’s National Gallery’. Chapter in Museum Making edited by Suzanne Macleod, Laura Hanks, and Jonathan Hale. Routledge.
Participation in conferences, symposia, seminars
2011 Making the Historical Contemporary, National Museum – Architecture, Oslo
2011 People, Places, Stories, Linneaus Univ., Kalmar
2011 ISCH: History, Memory, Myth: Re-presenting the past, Oslo
2011 Contested Spaces, Copenhagen
2011 Questions of Representations in Architecture, Copenhagen
2010 Urban Images International Symposium, Oslo
2010 Diasporas: Exploring Critical Issues, Oxford
2010 Narrative Space, Leicester
2009 ADGD: The Multiple Faces of Identity in the Designed Environment, Nottingham
2009 RAW workshop: Creating Spaces for Writing a Dissertation, Östersund
2009 ISEA, Belfast & Coleraine
2007 Telling Places, Slade, London. Collaboration with Kathrine Næss
Professional appointments
2008 - 2012 Doctoral Research Fellow at Oslo School of Architecture and Design
2005 - 2008 Architect at a-lab
2001 - 2005 Architect and architect student intership at Stein Halvorsen
2000 - 2001 Architect student internship at Lund Hagem
Education
2001 - 2004 Diploma in Architecture at the Architectural Association, London
1996 - 2001 Bachelor in Architecture at Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg
1997 - 1998 Theatre studies at Humboldt University, Berlin
1995 - 1998 Theatre studies at Gothenburg University, Gothenburg
