Editor-in-chief of Metode since 2022

Ingrid Halland (b. 1988) is associate professor in aesthetics and culture at Aarhus University and associate professor II in art history at The University of Bergen. Her work is published in Log, Journal of Design History, Architectural Histories, Aggregate and INSERT. The book Ung Uro: Unsettling Climates in Nordic Art, Architecture & Design was published in 2021.

Alison Burstein is a curator at The Kitchen in New York, where she organizes exhibitions, performances, artist residencies, archival research initiatives, publications, and digital programming. She previously served as Program Director at the nonprofit art space Recess (New York) and as a member of the education departments at MoMA, the Guggenheim Museum, and the Brooklyn Museum. She also has organized programs and exhibitions at a range of institutions across the US and in Norway as an independent curator, and her writing has appeared in publications including Tate Etc. and Stedelijk Studies Journal. 

You Nakai makes music(ians), dance(rs), haunted musical mansions, nursery rhymes, and other forms of performance as a member of No Collective [nocollective.com], and publishes experimental children’s books written by children and other literary oddities as a member of Already Not Yet [alreadynotyet.org]. As a scholar, he has been conducting extensive research on David Tudor, the results of which have been published as Reminded by the Instruments: David Tudor’s Music (Oxford University Press, 2021) [remindedbytheinstruments.info] as well as the double LP Monobirds: From Ahmedabad to Xenon (Topos, 2021). You is currently affiliated with the University of Tokyo where he engages in performative research on the notion of influence, teaches courses on Fake Western Music History and Pseudo-history of Experimental Music, hosts the Side Effects Lab Of the University of Tokyo [selout.site], and chairs the Department of Avant-garde Arts [departmentofavantgardearts.tokyo/english].

Sigbjørn Skåden (b. 1976) is a Sámi writer from Láŋtdievvá/Planterhaugen in North Norway. He writes in both indigenous Sámi language and Norwegian, and has since his debut in 2004 with the poetry collection Skuovvadeddjiid gonagas published one more book of poetry, three novels and a children’s book, in addition to writing numerous works for stage and art installation projects. Skåden has been the Young Artist Of the Year at Riddu Riđđu indigenous festival, the prologue writer for the Arctic Arts Festival and a profile author for the European poetry platform Versopolis. For his books he has among other things been nominated to the Nordic Council Literary Award, the Norwegian Broadcasting Listeners’ Award and has received the Havmann Award for best North Norwegian book of the year. Skåden has a master’s degree in English literature from the University of York and a master’s degree on Sámi poetry from the Arctic Norwegian University of Tromsø. His latest book to date is the science fiction novel Fugl from 2019. 

Yueyang/Yut-Jeong Luo/Lo(b. 2000) is an artist, a student, a potential migrant, and a Chinese female. Currently studying at the Columbia Sound Art MFA program, her work is situated in event, action and built environments, which its output resembles the form of (interactive) installation incorporating sound, moving image, and object of interest. Her recent project “untangling entanglement” is an excavation of potentiality of cables, focusing on the object as media, and the gesture of un/entanglement.

Ann Wang/以琳 王 (b. 2001) is a Malay-Chinese student/artist/media critic currently based in NYC. She holds a Bachelors of Arts in Media Studies & Sociology from Peking University and is currently pursuing her Masters Degree in Film & Media Studies at Columbia University. Ann's current research and artistic practice interest focus on zombie media, game poems, and glitch feminism. Her work has been exhibited at the Chinese Modern Art Archive and published by Lijiang Publishing House.

Ian Benjamin Callender (b. 1992) is a New York City-based artist and designer exploring the intersection of the built environment and digital technologies. He holds a Master of Architecture from Columbia University GSAPP and a Bachelor of Arts in architectural history from Brown University. His work has been presented at the European Cultural Centre / Venice Architecture Biennale (2023) as well as the International Symposium on Electronic Art (2022) and the Media Architecture Biennale (2021); recognized by the Architizer A+ Awards, the SEGD Global Design Awards, and the ADC Awards; and published in ArchDaily, Hyperallergic, and MIT’s Thresholds. He is co-editor of the volume Provocations on Media Architecture (Set Margins Press, 2023).

Miriam Sentler is a contemporary artist and humanities researcher. She is currently a Doctoral Research Fellow at the University of Oslo and holds degrees in Fine Arts and Artistic Research from the Art Academy in Maastricht and the University of Amsterdam. Her interdisciplinary work emphasizes the changing of landscapes, focussing on the cultural and environmental legacy of (fossil fuel) industries and the modern era. Through interdisciplinary projects, she deals with questions of belonging, myth-making, imagination, and sacrifice in different (post)industrial and maritime contexts. Sentler founded the artistic research project Deep Time Agency together with Berlin-based artist Wouter Osterholt in 2018. Her artistic work can be found in several museum collections and exhibitions across Europe.

Martin White is an artist based in Oslo, who was born on unceded Gadigal and Dharug lands in Sydney, Australia. White works with complex archival material, contextualising it, annotating it, narrativizing it and distributing it. White invites audiences into these stories that interrogate legacies, histories, ideologies and national identity narratives. He is a current PhD fellow at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts where he also undertook his MFA (2017) and is a graduate of RMIT University in Melbourne (2014), and Victorian College of the Arts at the University of Melbourne (2003). Recent solo exhibitions include Big Science: Volume 1 at KHÅK (2024) and at UKS (2023), Is this OK? at Oslo Kunstforening (2019) and Dust Biter at Tokonoma at Melk (2018). White’s work has been included in Project Anywhere (2023), Høstutstillingen at Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (2021), Free Your Modernity at UKS, Oslo (2018) and Making Sense Together at Norsk Teknisk Museum, Oslo (2017). Prior to his life as a visual artist, White directed performance, film, and television. He also writes, alongside researching and teaching. 

martin@big-science.org 

Tarja Salmela is a researcher and writer, currently working as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Arctic University of Norway, School of Business and Economics. Her feminist research focuses on storytelling and collective processes of knowledge production with(in) more-than-human, mobile worlds. In recent years, she has been developing decolonizing storytelling practices with(in) landscapes that have been overshadowed by tourism and, especially, touring narratives (https://vanlifelandscapes.weebly.com). Salmela's work is inspired by feminist new materialisms, feminist posthumanisms, queer ecologies, and research-art collaborations. She has published in cross-disciplinary journals, including Qualitative Inquiry, Culture and Organization, Gender, Work & Organization, and Tourism Geographies. 

E-mail: tarja.t.salmela@uit.no 

Åsne Kummeneje Mellem (b. 1995) is a Kven artist based in Tromsø with a MFA from Tromsø Academy of Contemporary Arts. In her practice she investigates the intangible cultural heritage of the Kven culture where she mainly focuses on told or forgotten knowledge about techniques and materials related to Kven crafts, käsityö. Kummeneje Mellem is one of the founders of Kväänitaitheiliijat - Association of Kven Artists and she actively contributes in the revitalization and common understanding of the Kven contexts of today.

Gyrid Øyen is a researcher, currently working in Varanger museum, Norway. In her work she is interested in questions that centers around museum practices, culture politics, representation of minority cultures, and knowledge production. Her PhD takes a closer look at how the production of culture and heritage processes, in connection with the national minority Kven/Norwegian-Finnish, plays out in a Norwegian museum. She is also curious about the creation of exhibitions and exhibitions as tools for interactions, as well as an interest in the methodological aspects of collaborative research practices.

Elisabeth Brun is a visual artist, filmmaker and theorist exploring questions of form, mediation, and knowledge in the relation between human and environment. Her work takes different forms such as films, installations, 3D work and texts, engaging in dialogues between philosophy, the environmental humanities and visual art. Brun publishes academic texts across disciplines, on aesthetics, architecture and artistic research in film and media, seeking to combine artistic research and theoretical work in in new and productive ways. Her artistic work has been screened and exhibited internationally at venues such as Oberhausen International Short Film Festival (DE), Seattle Art Museum (US), Montreal Festival du Nouveaux Cinéma (CA) and Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF) (NO). Recent awards include Kings College’s Ivan Juritz Prize for Creative Experiment 2020, a special mention in the Emerging Artist Award at Mimesis Doc Fest and a Poetry by Video Artist Award at Cadence Video Poetry festival. Elisabeth Brun holds a PhD in Media Studies from the University of Oslo, 14 years of experience as a documentary filmmaker/journalist (Norwegian Public Service NRK) and a post-master’s in public art from the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. She is currently a visiting scholar at The School of Arts, Design and Media, Kristiania University College, Oslo.

Website: www.elisabethbrun.com

Sol Archer is a Netherlands based artist working through collaboration with professional and non-professional groups, considering the encounter as a space of production. Frequently working with video, Sol is focused on ways individuals and communities constitute themselves through their association with collective cultural activity, and how identities and histories entwine through the performance of cultural attachment. This extends into a pedagogical practice on structures and systematizing group environments focussed on self reflexive film-making practices and the legacy of collaborative film practice in relation to ethnofiction.Currently Sol is focussed on the long haunting of the ecological imaginary by colonial image making, particularly in Dutch occupied Brazil, and the potential for reorienting representations of ecological relation through sound and music.

www.solarcher.net

Alena Beth Rieger is an architect and PhD fellow at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO). Her research examines 20th century building demolitions and material provenance. Rieger holds a Bachelor of Environmental Design from the University of Manitoba, a Masters of Architecture from AHO, and has professional experience working with exhibitions, publications, architecture, and teaching. Her writing has been published by the Canadian Centre for Architecture and Places Journal. She is co-founder of the publishing network Good in Theory. 

Jumana Manna is a visual artist and filmmaker. Her work explores how power is articulated, focusing on the body, land and materiality in relation to colonial inheritances and histories of place. Through sculpture, filmmaking, and occasional writing, Manna deals with the paradoxes of preservation practices, particularly within the fields of architecture, agriculture and law. Her practice considers the tension between the modernist traditions of categorisation and conservation and the unruliness of ruination, life and its regeneration. Jumana was raised in Jerusalem and lives in Berlin.

Drew Snyder is a curator and art historian living in Oslo. He is educated at the University of California, San Diego with a PhD in Art History, Theory and Criticism from the Department of Visual Arts. He is currently Senior Curator at KORO and from 2018 - 2021 was Programme Manager at the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA). He has worked as an independent curator on projects in Ghana, Norway, South Africa and the United States, including most recently the forthcoming exhibition and editorial project on the work of Germain Ngoma initiated by Tenthaus Oslo and opening in November 2021.

Anna Ulrikke Andersen is a filmmaker and architectural historian, and associate professor in art history at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. She has previously been postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford. She holds a PhD in architecture from the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London. As a Fellow of the Future Architecture Platform 2021, she was commissioned to curate the exhibition ‘Chronic Conditions: Body and Building’ at the Lisbon Architecture Triennale. 

Lutz Koepnick is the Max Kade Foundation Chair of German Studies and Professor of Cinema and Media Arts at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, where he also directs the joint-Ph.D. program in Comparative Media Analysis and Practice (CMAP). He received a Joint-Ph.D. in 1994 in German Studies and Humanities from Stanford University.

Koepnick has published widely on film, media theory, visual culture, new media aesthetic, and intellectual history from the nineteenth to the twenty-first century. He is the author Resonant Matter: Sound, Art, and the Promise of Hospitality (2021);  Fitzcarraldo (2019); Michael Bay: World Cinema in the Age of Populism (2018); The Long Take: Art Cinema and the Wondrous (2017); On Slowness: Toward an Aesthetic of the Contemporary (2014); Framing Attention: Windows on Modern German Culture (2007); The Dark Mirror: German Cinema between Hitler and Hollywood (2002); Walter Benjamin and the Aesthetics of Power (1999); and of Nothungs Modernität: Wagners Ring und die Poesie der Politik im neunzehnten Jahrhundert (1994). Koepnick is the co-author of Windows | Interface (2007), [Grid ‹ › Matrix]  (2006), and the co-editor of various anthologies on ambiguity in contemporary art and theory, the culture of neoliberalism, German cinema, sound culture, new media aesthetics, aesthetic theory, and questions of exile. His current projects include a book on expanded notions of listening.

Koepnick is a member of the AOI Collaboratory at Vanderbilt University. The first episode of its podcast, Art of Interference: Art and Climate Change, was released in May 2023. Art of Interference is designed to have four seasons with about ten episodes each.

Emma Nilsson is a professor in architecture and rector for Bergen School of Architecture. Author of Arkitekturens kroppslighet. Staden som terräng (thesis) which is a study on parkour and how architecture makes and shapes different bodies and urban body cultures. She has a special interest in how the architecture discipline imagines different bodies and thereby conceptualize different ’users’. Her latest book field; scope; site is the result of an artistic research project investigating how architecture photography can be developed to better capture the roles of architecture as a lived experience, and how photography can be used as part of architectural design processes.

Pauline Shongov is a filmmaker and PhD candidate in Film and Visual Studies at Harvard University with a secondary field in Critical Media Practice. Her research employs media archaeological and visual ethnographic approaches to material, oral, affective, and archival histories of place. She is particularly interested in ruination studies on the Balkans as well as environmental humanities, new materialism, global cinema, experimental film, historical memory, and cultural mythology. Her work is supported by the Harvard Presidential Scholarship, Harvard Film Study Center, Sensory Ethnography Lab, Harvard Mellon Urban Initiative, Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and the Cornell Council of the Arts. She is also the co-founder of the practice-based research initiative Off-site.

David Turner is the founder of the Lunar Poetry Podcasts series (now archived by the British Library), and is one half of collaborative print, text and sound collective You Don’t Know. He now spends a lot of time reading and responding to texts about boxing on his blog Writers on Boxing. He has a City & Guilds certificate in Bench Joinery along with the accompanying scars, is known to the Bristol, Kristiansand and Southwark Community Mental Health Teams as a ‘service user’ and has represented Norway in snow sculpting competitions. Widely unpublished. Working-class. David’s first full collection Contained was published by Hesterglock Press in February 2020 . 

Jakub Węgrzynowicz is a Polish-born architect and researcher currently based in Vienna, where he is pursuing a master's degree in architecture at the University of Applied Arts. He previously studied at the Technical University of Munich and the Technical University of Warsaw, where he earned his bachelor's degree. His thesis, titled "Place of Inhabitation of an Interspecies Commune," was awarded Poland's top environmentally conscious diploma in 2022. Jakub collaborates with the Vienna-based research platform Dusts Institute and the Urban-Wilding Initiative Miastozdziczenie in Warsaw. Rooted in his commitment to nonhuman rights, he examines the dynamics of multi-genre cohabitation, aiming to create narratives and spaces that promote bio*diversity and inclusion.

Júlia Ayerbe works in the field of contemporary art with subjects related to disability, feminisms, and editorial practices. In Brazil, she worked as the senior editor at the museum Pinacoteca de São Paulo (2010-2016). She also collaborated with institutions such as Casa do Povo, Sesc, Prêmio Indústria Nacional Marcantônio Vilaça, and Museu da Imagem e do Som, among others. She was a founding member of the independent publishing house Edições Aurora / Publication Studio São Paulo (2014-2018). Since living in Madrid (2017), she has developed projects for European institutions like CA2M, Galerias Municipais de Lisboa, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Sophiensaele, Tabakalera. She has published essays in cultural magazines such as Utopia Revista de Crítica Cultural, A*Desk, and Nossa Voz. She is a PhD student at Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM) with a grant from La Caixa Foundation working on the intersection between contemporary Latin American art and disability. She is a disability justice activist in the collective Sickness Affinity Group (SAG).

Jeremy Sharma is an artist based in Singapore. He currently works with painting and moving images.  He received his BA (Fine Art) from the RMIT (2003) and an MA (Fine Art) from the Open University (2006). Career highlights include solo exhibitions and presentations ‘Spectrum Version 2.2’ with Sullivan+Strumpf Gallery (2017), ‘Orbiter and Sonata’ with Michael Janssen Gallery, Berlin (2016), and ‘Apropos’ at the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore (2012); the Busan Biennale (2014) and the Singapore Biennale (2013). Academic contributions include ‘What can we draw from digitality?’ (2023) with the journal, Drawing: Research, Theory, Practice, ‘Abstraction As: Object, Process, Rhythm, Force’ at the Singapore Tyler Print Institute (2019), and the Journal of Contemporary Painting (Vol 1 2015) on ‘The influence of cinema on painting’. He is set to release an artist book entitled ‘Slander!—An investigation into auto-theory through six Malayan films’ in 2024 with publisher Set Margins (The Netherlands).  He teaches at the LASALLE College of the Arts and runs bulanujung, an experimental curatorial platform.

Tim Ingold, CBE, FBA, FRSE is Professor Emeritus of Social Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. He has carried out fieldwork among Saami and Finnish people in Lapland, and has written on environment, technology and social organisation in the circumpolar North, on animals in human society, and on human ecology and evolutionary theory. His more recent work explores environmental perception and skilled practice. Ingold’s current interests lie on the interface between anthropology, archaeology, art and architecture. His recent books include The Perception of the Environment (2000), Lines (2007), Being Alive (2011), Making (2013), The Life of Lines (2015), Anthropology and/as Education (2018), Anthropology: Why it Matters (2018), Correspondences (2020) and Imagining for Real (2022).  Ingold is a Fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Edinburgh. In 2022 he was made a CBE for services to Anthropology.

Sybille Krämer was Full Professor for Philosophy at the Free University in Berlin; since retirement guest professor Institute Cultures and Aesthetics of Digital Media, Leuphana University Lueneburg. Previously a member of the German ‘Scientific Council’ (2000-2006), of the European Research Council (2007-2014)); member of the ‘Senat’ of the ‘German Research Foundation’  (2009-2015), ‘Permanent Fellow’ at the ‘Wissenschaftskolleg’ zu Berlin (2005-2008). Several International Visiting Professorships and Fellowships; 2016 Honorary Doctorate by Linköping University/Sweden.  

Research Areas:  Mathematics and philosophy in 17^th century; Philosophy of Language and Writing; Performative Studies, Media and Cultural Techniques; Digitality and History of Computation; Testimony and Witnessing.

Nick Walkley is a PhD fellow at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. Previously, Walkley completed his BA(hons) and his BArch at the Manchester School of Architecture, followed by an MA at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and subsequently held positions within architectural profession and as a professional musician. He returned toacademia in 2021 with interests in preservation, recording, rediscovery, renewal and reinterpretation of cultural heritage through digital technologies. His ongoing PhD dissertation takes the continuing trajectory of the Urnes Stave Church Portal as starting point for the investigation of ornamental architectural components, their study through reproduction and their projection into a digital future.

E-mail: Nick.Walkley@aho.no

Jakob Oredsson is an artist, architect and scenographer, currently Artistic Research Fellow at Norwegian Theatre Academy with the project Scenography as Symbiosis, 2020-2023, which seeks to outline an ontology of scenography, exploring how scenography exists. After receiving a BA in scenography from NTA, Jakob studied architecture at The Cooper Union and The Pratt Institute in New York and received an MA in Architecture from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen. Oredsson has realized works in public, gallery and theatre contexts. Works which seek to queer binaries such as art-context, active-passive and culture-nature, accentuating ambiguity and embracing flat ontology.

E-mail: mail@jakoboredsson.com

Beatrice Zaidenberg is a trained art historian working at the intersection of art and science. She is part of the Dusts Institut in Vienna and the artist-research collective LIMB. Currently, she is a curatorial trainee at the ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe where she co-curated e.g. the exhibition “BioMedia,” which provides insights into possible forms of coexistence between organic life and artificial agents. 

E-mail: bzaidenberg@gmail.com

Adam Hudec is a researcher, architect and activist, currently a PhD student at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna. His research is based on the intersection of science, art and architecture, where interdisciplinarity has become a tool to explore hidden or ignored anomalies of the environment. His projects have been published internationally in various exhibitions including the Bi-City Biennale in Shenzhen, the BIO26 Biennial in Ljubljana and Venice Biennale 2022. Since 2019, Adam Hudec's activities are represented by Dust Institute, a research platform in Vienna that he co-founded. 

E-mail: a.hudeca@gmail.com

Marius Moldvær is a visual artist, writer and educator with a BFA from The National Academy of Art, Department of Photography, Bergen, Norway, and a Master ́s degree in Critical Theory and Creative Research from The Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR. His work is conducted on the intersection between practice and theory through mediums such as textile, photography, sculpture and writing, and formats such as exhibitions, lectures, and publications. Between the different parts that make up his practice there are no set boundaries or constraint, but the different mediums and formats blend into each other to construct paradigms that cut cross multiple disciplines and ideas. Both through, and within these paradigms Moldvaer interfere with, or disrupt linear narratives and set history, where knowledge, experience, and landscape continually osculates between personal stories, history, and collective memory.

E-mail: marimold@khio.no

Julie Barfod is a trained architect. She works at the intersection of performing- and visual arts with installation, sculpture, and text. She is inspired by ideas and literature from feminist and intersectional theory and practice, with a particular interest in gender in creative processes.

E-mail: julie.barfod@gmail.com

Loukia Tsafoulia is a registered architect, educator and researcher. Together with Severino Alfonso, she has founded PLB studio design and research practice. Tsafoulia is Assistant Professor at the College of Architecture and the Built Environment, Thomas Jefferson University, where she co-direct the Synesthetic Research and Design Lab.

Tsafoulia received her diploma in Architecture Engineering from the National Polytechnic School of Athens where she is a Ph.D. candidate. She is the editor of the book publication titled “Transient Spaces” and editor of the upcoming book “KatOikia, Housing in the Age of Rapid Globalization, Ubiquitous Technologies, and Information”. She has collaborated with Studio Dror, LEESER Architecture, and Jorge Otero Pailos in New York, and with K+T Architecture and the NTUUrban Environment Lab in Athens.

E-mail: Loukia.Tsafoulia@jefferson.edu

Severino Alfonso is a registered architect, educator and researcher. Together with Loukia Tsafoulia, he has founded PLB studio design and research practice. Alfonso is Assistant Professor at the College of Architecture and the Built Environment, Thomas Jefferson University where he and Tsafoulia co-direct the Synesthetic Research and Design Lab.

Alfonso holds two MS in Urban Design and Advanced Architecture respectively from the school of architecture in Madrid (ETSAM) where he is currently a Ph.D. candidate. He has worked with international architectural studios such as Carme Pinos, Angel Fernandez Alba and Federico Soriano in Spain, Lomar Arkitekter in Sweden and Per-forma Studio, KDF Architecture and Natalie Jeremijenko in the United States. 

E-mail: Severino.Alfonso@jefferson.edu

Gustav Jørgen Pedersen (b. 1989) is an art historian with a PhD in aesthetics and philosophy from the University of Oslo. He has previously been a senior advisor in the research department at Kulturtanken and Head of Department at the Department of Language and Culture at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. From 2022, he is the leader of the Edvard Munch Center for Advanced Studies (EMCAS) at the Munch Museum. Pedersen has published several research articles on contemporary art and philosophy.

Benjamin Blackwell is a Lecturer in Architecture at the University of Manchester. After completing his BA (hons) and MArch in architecture at Manchester School of Architecture, and spending time in architectural practice, he completed his PhD in Architecture at the University of Manchester, which was completed in 2022. His research explores the infrastructures of knowledge creation and dissemination, looking both at buildings of scientific and technological research and development, and, more recently, at the design and use of secondary school buildings.

E-mail: benjamin.blackwell@manchester.ac.uk

Jenny Perlin makes 16mm films, videos, and animations. Her films work with and against the documentary tradition, incorporating innovative stylistic techniques to emphasize issues of truth, misunderstanding, and personal history. Her projects look closely at ways in which social machinations are reflected in the fragments of daily life. She is a research fellow at the Oslo National Academy of Art and director of The Hoosac Institute, an interdisciplinary platform for the arts.

E-mail: jennperl@khio.no

Andreas Ervik (b. 1987) is a Norwegian artist, with a PhD from the Department of Media and Communication, University of Oslo. As an artist, Ervik’s practice is multimodal, ranging from image and music production to site-specific installations and workshops. Ervik’s research is an extension of his artistic practice, applying creative methods to examine media technologies, platforms and content. In his artistic practice and academic research, Ervik is interested in how contemporary culture is formed by ecosystems and evolutionary dynamics. In 2022 his debut book, Becoming Human Amid Diversions, is published by Palgrave Macmillan.

E-mail: hei@andreaservik.com

Neda Genova is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies at the University of Warwick. She works at the intersection of cultural, media and post-communist studies, by focusing on spatial and temporal transformations in Bulgaria’s post-1989 context. She is especially interested in thinking about surfaces as dynamic, material-semiotic sites of political enunciation. Neda holds a PhD in Cultural Studies from Goldsmiths, University of London, and has taught at Goldsmiths, University of Winchester, London South Bank, and Regent’s Universities in the UK as well as at the Henrich Heine University of Düsseldorf, Germany. She is a member of the editorial collective of the Bulgarian-language journal dVERSIA.

E-mail: Neda.Genova@warwick.ac.uk

Marte Danielsen Jølbo is a curator, writer, and Director at Hå Gamle Prestegård, Norway. She is co-founder of Another Space, a project space for art and architecture based in Copenhagen and Oslo. Jølbo is also co-founder and editor of the web journal Contemporary Art Stavanger, and is the author and editor of several essays and art publications. Jølbo holds an MA in Modern Culture and Cultural Communication from the University of Copenhagen, and a BA in Comparative Literature. Recent curatorial projects include “We are the Places” Vestlandsutstillingen (2019) and several projects for KORO.

E-mail: mjolbo@gmail.com

Ingrid Halland is an art and architectural historian and art critic, based in Oslo and Bergen, Norway. She is associate professor in modern and contemporary art and architecture history at the University of Bergen and associate professor II at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, where she teaches in the PhD program. Halland is editor in chief of Metode, and responsible editor for Metode vol. 1 Deep Surface

Ylva Frid is an architect and architectural critic working in Stockholm. She currently works as an architect at Arkitektstudio Witte and has regularly contributed as a writer and critic in the professional and daily press, discussing architecture and urban development. Frid has also participated in international exhibition projects, including as co-curator of the exhibition "Nordic ID".

Gaute Brochman has a BA in Film and Film Theory from the International Film School Wales (2005) and an MA / Diploma from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (2011). After his studies, he worked as a practicing architect at MAD Architects. Has been editor of, among others, Billedkunst and Arkitektnytt and has written regularly in magazines such as Natt & Dag, Dagens Næringsliv and NRK Ytring. Brochman is currently editor-in-chief of Arkitektur N and a regular architecture critic in Morgenbladet.

Sara Ettrup is a practicing architect at the design studio JJW in Copenhagen and an active voice in the Danish architecture debate. She is a former editor of the blog section at Arkitektens Forlag and contributes regularly with critical considerations and reviews in the professional magazine Arkitekten and other media. In addition, she teaches at the Institute of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape at the Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation (KADK).

Tina Lam (b. 1989) is an urban planner working in A-lab. She has an MA in urban and regional planning from the Norwegian University of Life Sciences. From 2015 - 2021 she was a communication assistant at ROM for kunst og arkitektur. Lam was born and raised in Norway, while her parents came to Norway as refugees from Vietnam.

Gyrid Øyen (b. 1987) is an art historian and a PhD Fellow at UiT The Arctic University of Norway, where she is engaged in museum practices. Øyen is interested in research practices relating to heritage processes, cultural revitalization and knowledge production in Sápmi, Ruija, Northern-Norway, with a particular emphasis on the contemporary Kven culture.

Mari Hvattum is professor of architectural history at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. She holds a degree in architecture from NTNU and a PhD in architectural history from the University of Cambridge. Hvattum has published Gottfried Semper and the Problem of Historicism (Cambridge University Press 2004), Heinrich Ernst Schirmer. Kosmopolittenes arkitekt (Pax 2014), and Hva er arkitektur (Universitetsforlaget 2015).

Martin Søberg is an architectural historian (M.Sc., Ph.D.) specializing in the theory and history of architecture, forms of representation and poetics, especially in the 20th and 21st centuries. He works as an associate professor of architectural history at the Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation(KADK), with a current research project on the Danish architect Kay Fisker.

Rasmus Wærn has been architect at Wingårdhs since 2004. Teacher of architectural history at KTH during 2004–2010. Editor of the journal Arkitektur 1996–2004. Commissar for the exhibition "Architektur im 20. Jahrhunderet: Schweden" at the Deutsches Architekturmuseum in Frankfurt am Main 1998.

Tord Øyen (b. 1993) is educated as an architect from Bergen School of Architecture (BAS) and during 2020-2021 worked as an advisor at the City Architect in Bergen municipality with focus on culture, the living city and wooden architecture. He has a special interest for the architectural role in local place-making processes.

The Editorial Board of Metode for 2024 - 2025 consists of Ingrid Halland (editor-in-chief), Victoria Bugge Øye, Gustav Jørgen Pedersen, Anna Ulrikke Andersen, Petrine Vinje, Gunhild Mathea Husvik-Olaussen, Wolfgang Hottner, Malin Graesse, and Hanne Hammer Stien.