Architectures of Governance is a Master’s architecture studio at KTH exploring how architecture operates within — and can intervene in — the systems that govern the built environment. The studio brings architectural practice into direct contact with questions of housing, ownership, regulation, maintenance, public responsibility and the everyday consequences of how our cities are governed. During the autumn, the studio has been working through Architecture as Witness, investigating contemporary cases of housing neglect and contested property management across Stockholm. Studio members have been using the tools of architectural practice — surveys, drawings, models, photography, mapping, interviews and documentary research — to examine buildings not simply as objects, but as material witnesses to wider systems of ownership, regulation, care and neglect. The event at Färgfabriken will bring together studio members, architects, researchers, public authorities, housing organisations and others working within and around these questions. Through presentations, discussion and the studio’s ongoing work, we want to open a conversation around what architecture can contribute when existing systems cease to function as intended.

Architectures of Governance

is a Master’s architecture studio at KTH exploring how architecture operates within — and can intervene in — the systems that govern the built environment. The studio brings architectural practice into direct contact with questions of housing, ownership, regulation, maintenance, public responsibility and the everyday consequences of how our cities are governed.

Current studio members

Bojan Boriç
Janek Ozmin
Nour Alzahrawi - Mold in Cabin
Sofia Andrew - Rats and Waste
Alexander Ek - Double Trouble

Julius Franzen - The Angry Landlord
Anceline Grandjean - Staircase as Home
Liam Cosimo Hättenschwiler - Wondijon
Hanako Inger - Not my house
Mikaela Johansson - I love My Home
Leo Julin - Radon

Evan Le Flem - Test Me
Elias Lindqvist Hareide - I love My Laundry
Miranda Lishajko - It’s so Cold
Mattias Myrberg - Mold in My City
Lucas Nordmark - Let me In
William Östberg - This is Okey

Klara Rosander - Camera
Fredrik Svendgård - Familjehotel
Elis Thermaenius - Explosion
Hugo Thoor - Hello Hello!
Hilda von Bahr - Stockholm As a City
Hampus Wärme - Fire In My Arm Pit
Ella Zackrisson - Hostel

Events

Architectures of Governance is a Master’s architecture studio at KTH exploring how architecture operates within — and can intervene in — the systems that govern the built environment. The studio brings architectural practice into direct contact with questions of housing, ownership, regulation, maintenance, public responsibility and the everyday consequences of how our cities are governed.

During the autumn, the studio has been working through Architecture as Witness, investigating contemporary cases of housing neglect and contested property management across Stockholm. Studio members have been using the tools of architectural practice — surveys, drawings, models, photography, mapping, interviews and documentary research — to examine buildings not simply as objects, but as material witnesses to wider systems of ownership, regulation, care and neglect. The event at Färgfabriken will bring together studio members, architects, researchers, public authorities, housing organisations and others working within and around these questions.

Through presentations, discussion and the studio’s ongoing work, we want to open a conversation around what architecture can contribute when existing systems cease to function as intended.

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