Yénika Castillo Muñoz is a multidisciplinary designer with a background in industrial and interaction design. She has taught several interaction design courses at the School of Arts and Communication at Malmö University. In her professional practice, she explores methods for participatory design that facilitate democracy and co-creation in projects that approach social and environmental sustainability. […]
Saba Moini is an architect and urban researcher whose work moves through spatial practice, visual and text-based explorations, and small, often site-specific observations. She is interested in how artistic and spatial practices can open ways of sensing and being with the city beyond dominant narratives. Her work often lingers on the quiet ties between people […]
Ellinor Portinson holds a Bachelor of Arts (BA) from The Swedish school of Textiles and the Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, and Conservation. Ellinor is also trained in several crafts and techniques, and combines the field of academia with her art practices. She has worked internationally within the design field, and exhibited her artwork […]
Sara Dybris McQuaid, Associate Professor at Aarhus University. She is a contemporary historian and political scientist who works mostly across the interdisciplinary fields of peace and conflict studies and memory studies. Her research pivots around how collectives remember, forget and archive their past, particularly as part of conflict and peacebuilding processes and in the context […]
Jason Finch is Professor in the department of English Language and Literature at Åbo Akademi University, Finland. A scholar of urban humanities, mobility humanities and public humanities, Jason was trained in spatial literary studies with a focus on British modernism. He now researches literary representations of urban place, and transportation spaces as imaginative zones in […]
Jonas Jarl, born in 1965 in Sala, Sweden, is a playwright and director. Since 2011, he has exchanged traditional performing arts for an inclusive form of theatre, where all participants contribute their own story, their knowledge and the right to decide when a work is ready to meet an audience. In all of Jarl’s productions, […]
Marit Lindberg’s artistic practice involves working with video and performance to create and explore social situations connected to specific places or historical and political events. She often begins with personal memories or acts of forgetting, with the voices of participants serving as commentary on political and social issues. Lindberg’s collective approach to creation follows its […]
Line Bjerg, Ph.D., is head of Collections and Research at Malmö Museum since 2024. I’m a classical archaeologist, educated at Aarhus University, specialized in numismatics. I have previously been employed at the National Museum of Denmark specializing in treasure trove and monetary history and also worked at the Kungliga Myntkabinettet in Stockholm as an expert […]
Jacob Kimvall is an art critic and senior lecturer in art history and visual studies at the teachers’ education at Konstfack University of Arts, Crafts and Design. He has researched graffiti as a phenomenon created by various institutional agents as well as subcultural actors. In addition to formal education and research, he is involved in […]
Lina Merkord recently completed her Bachelor’s degree in Geography at Humboldt University in Berlin and is now starting her Master’s at Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main. Growing up in Germany’s Ruhrgebiet area, shaped by structural change, Lina has developed a keen interest in how post-industrial urban spaces transform. She is particularly curious about spatial […]