work UniGrowCity. She is the curator of “Knitting House;” shown in the exhibition “Textila underverk”, Marabouparken (2016) and Reykjavik Art Museum (2012) and “Decolonizing Architecture Rehab Camp”, Barnens Ö (2011). For Svensk Form (2000–2007) she curated shows at The National Museum of Singapore, Powerhouse Museum (Sydney), Thailand Creative & Design Center (Bangkok), Museum für Gestaltung (Zürich) and Experimentadesign05 (Lissabon). Maryam Fanni is a graphic designer who graduated from Konstfack College of Arts, Crafts and Design in 2013 with a degree project on the signage system and gentrification processes in her neighbourhood Hökarängen in Stockholm. Her writing and design practice is often collective, locally engaged and relates to public space and visual culture. She is member of the group Söderorts Institut För Andra Visioner (SIFAV) [Southern Districts’ Institute For Other Visions]. She is the graphic designer of Feminist Futures of Spatial Practice. Liza Fior is one of the founding partners of muf architecture/art. The work of the practice negotiates between the built and social fabric, between public and private through urban design, streetscapes and landscapes, buildings and strategies; unsolicited research continues to be entwined into every project. Awards for muf projects include the 2008 European Prize for Public Space for a new ‘town square’ for Barking, East London. Liza is co-author of This is What We Do: a muf manual. Since 1994 muf architecture/art has established a reputation for pioneering innovative projects that address the social, spatial and economic infrastructures of the public realm. muf authored “Villa Frankenstein”, the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale in 2010, which took Ruskin and Venice itself as a means to examine through the installation “Stadium of Close Looking” how detail can inform strategy. This was the beginning of the collaboration with Jane da Mosto and subsequent work gave rise to We are here Venice. www.muf.co.uk Hélène Frichot is Associate Professor in Critical Studies in Architecture, KTH School of Architecture
in Stockholm. Hélène is also an Adjunct Professor in the School of Architecture and Design RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, where she co- curated the Architecture+Philosophy public lecture series between 2005–2014 (architecture.testpattern. com.au). Hélène’s research examines the transdisciplinary field between architecture and philosophy, while her first discipline is architecture, she holds a PhD in philosophy from the University of Sydney (2004). She considers architecture-writing to be her mode of creative and critical practice. Recent publications include: co-edited with Catharina Gabrielsson and Jonathan Metzger, Deleuze and the City (Edinburgh University Press, 2016) and co-edited with Elizabeth Grierson, Harriet Edquist, De-Signing Design: Cartographies of Theory and Practice (Lexington Books, 2015). Katja Grillner is an architect and critic based in Stockholm, Sweden. She is the Professor of Critical Studies in Architecture and currently serves, since 2015, as the Dean of Faculty at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Grillner was the director of Architecture in Effect (2011–2015) and co-founded the feminist architecture group FATALE (Feminism Architecture Theory Analysis Laboratory Education together with Katarina Bonnevier, Brady Burroughs, Meike Schalk and Lena Villner, 2007–2012). Her research on architecture and landscape combines theoretical, historical and literary strategies for spatial exploration. Among her book publications are her PhD-dissertation Ramble, linger and gaze – philosophical dialogues in the landscape garden (Stockholm: KTH 2000), as main-editor 01-AKAD – Experimental Research in Architecture and Design (Stockholm: AxlBooks, 2005), and, as co-editor, Architecture and Authorship (London: Black Dog, 2007). Ulrika Gunnarsson-Östling holds a PhD in Planning and Decision Analysis and works as a researcher at KTH, the Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering. Her research is directed towards long-term planning and often emanates from an environmental justice perspective or a gender perspective, both of which involves looking at environmental issues Contributors 357