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Svava Riesto's research explores how people interact with urban landscapes in the context of spatial planning, design and heritage making. She specializes in 20th and 21st century architecture, cities and landscapes. 

Svava is educated as an art historian at the Arctic University of Tromsø, Norway, the Freie Universität Berlin and Copenhagen University, from where she has a Phd in landscape architecture. She has more than 10 years experience from landscape architecture, cultural heritage and participatory planning practice. 

Current 

I will be chairing the session Revisiting public landscapes of post-war cities at the Association of Critical Heritage Studies' (ACHS) conference in Hangzhou, September 2018, together with Catharina Nolin. http://www.2018achs.com/#/session/theme

Re:Scape Colloquium Constructing Biographies of Welfare Landscapes, Clue +, Vrije University Amsterdam/University of Copenhagen/TU Delft, 7. June  2018.  https://www.clue.vu.nl/en/activities/Colloquia/re-scape/index.aspx 

Sub-project leader of Practicing Welfare Landscapes. Biographical perspectives on Danish post-war social housing estates, which is part of of the interdisciplinary research project "Reconfiguring Welfare Landscapes" (2017-2020), funded by The Danish Council for Independent Research, Humanities. 

https://ign.ku.dk/english/research/landscape-architecture-planning/landscape-architecture-urbanism/research-project-1/

Publications

Author of numerous articles and books, including Biography of an Industrial Landscape. Carlsberg's Urban Spaces Retold (Amsterdam University Press 2018) and Forankring i Forandring. Christiania og bevaring som ressource i byudvikling (ed. with A. Tietjen, P. Skov, Arkitektskolens Forlag 2007).

Themed journal issues, e.g. As Found (Nordic Journal of Architecture 2011, with E. Braae) and Arkitektur og Kvantitet (Periskop, with M. Søberg and M. Bogish, 2016). Exhibitions on historical and contempoary urbanism, e.g. Wunderstadt - SLA (Galerie Aedes Berlin).

Engagements

Funding organizer of the Öresund Design Research Seminars 

Member of the organizing committee Copenhagen Landscape Lectures. www.landscapelectures.dk

Member of the heritage board Nyere Tids Arkitektur, Landsforeningen Bygnings- og Landskabskultur 

Association of Critical Heritage Studies, Norwegian Chapter.

Phd supervision

Ann-Charlott Eriksen: Green facades as boundary-crossing objects. Main supervisor since 2017. 

Lærke Keil: Practicing Welfare Landscapes: A biographical exploration of post-war affordable housing . Main supervisor since 2017.

Teaching varoious Phd Courses, in average one pr. year since 2013. 

Teaching

Course responsible for the MSc course Theories and Methods of Landscape Architecture, https://kurser.ku.dk/course/LNAK10054U.

Supervision of Msc and Bsc theses

Svava Riesto has been guest-teacher in various contexts, including Sheffield University's School of Architecture, the Technical University Delft's Faculty of Architecture and the Oslo School of Architecture.