marie-louise richards is an architect, lecturer, and researcher at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Her work explores invisibility as embodiment, a critical strategy, and a spatial category through methods of architectural and artistic practice, curatorial practice, and writing. Current work seeks to interrogate the Swedish Welfare State, colonial narratives, and the relationships of race and space. Reimagining the discipline, practice and history of architecture, through citational practices, queer, black feminist and decolonial methodologies, theories and approaches. Recent work and writings, includes: Pedagogies of Power, in the Architectural Review, Education Issue, September (2022) Rest in Public as Resistance, in the Architectural Review, Public Issue, July/August (2022) Banana-Split: a (Black) Power Walk, short-film, part of Power Walk (Air) Mossutställningar/Public Art Agency Sweden (2020) Out of Line: Erasure and vulnerability as sites of subversion in, Archifutures: “Agency” Vol. 6 (2020), Hyper-visible Invisibility: Tracing the Politics, Poetics and Affects of the Unseen, in Field Journal: Becoming a Feminist Architect, Vol. 7(2017). Together with Natália Rebelo and Rado Ištok, she is part of the collaborative research project Spaces of Care, Disobedience and Desire: Tactics of Minority Space-Making
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degrees
2008-10 KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm
Master’s in architecture
2004-07 KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm
Bachelor’s in architecture
experience
2018 - (ongoing) Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
Lecturer in Architecture the area of architecture and critical studies.
2022 - (onging) Parse Journal, Gothenburg
Co-editor for the upcoming issue ‘Citations’.
PARSE journal peer-review (2023)
2022 -23 - ArkDes, The Swedish Center for Architecture and Design, Stockholm
Guest researcher.
2021 -22 - GAHTC Fellowship. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge.
The Domestic Worldmaking of the Enslaved Research Project collaboration: Yale University, Brown University, Hunter College, Royal Institute of Art, University of Ghana.
2020 - 21 L’Internationale, Gothenburg
Co-editor for the special issue Architectural Dissonances (2021)
2018-22 Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
Spaces of Care Disobedience and Desire: Tactis of Minority Space Making discursive research platform together Rado Istok and Natalia Rebelo
2016- 18 KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm
Lecturer, KTH School of Architecture in Tensta
2015- 18 ArkDes, The Swedish Center for Architecture and Design, Stockholm.
Assistant Curator.
2017- 20 Marabouparken konsthall, Sundbyberg
Advisory board
2009 - 18 Freelance consultant
Consultant in architecture, culture, art and media.
Clients: Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, ÅF, Konstfack, KTH Arkitektur Mafioso PR mfl.
curatorial
2021 Sensing Salon, (online)
Curator. Performance by Valentina Desideri and Denise Ferreira da Silva
2018 Public Luxury, ArkDes, Stockholm
Assistant curator: Survey of the debate about public space and life in Sweden.
2018 Square meter price, Stureplan, Stockholm
Curator: Billboard artwork by Carl-Oskar Linné at Stureplan part of av Public Luxury at ArkDes.
published
Pedagogies of Power, the Architectural Review, Education Issue, September (2022)
Rest in Public as Resistance, the Architectural Review, Public Issue, July/August (2022)
Out of Line: Erasure and Vulnerability as Sites of Subversion, Archifutures: “Agency” Vol. 6 (2020)
Hyper-visible Invisibility: Tracing the Politics, Poetics and Affects of the Unseen, Field Journal: Becoming a Feminist Architect, Vol. 7 (2017). Peer-review
digital media
Banana-Split a (Black) Power Walk, short film, Mossutställningar/Public Art Agency Sweden (2020)
guest lecturer/lectures
ESALA Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, HEAD Geneva School of Architecture and Design, University of Sheffield School of Architecture, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, TUM Munich, RISD Rhode Island School of Design, Konstfack, KTH School of Architecture, UMA Umeå School of Architecture, LTH School of Lund
grants
2022 Re:Arc Intitute Grant
2022 ArkDes Fellowship
2021 Global Connections Fellowship Grant, MIT, Cambridge
2018 Artistic Research and Developing Fund Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
2015 Royal Academy Anders Mortners donations fond, Stockholm
degrees
2008-10 KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm
Master’s in architecture
2004-07 KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm
Bachelor’s in architecture
experience
2018 - (ongoing) Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
Lecturer in Architecture the area of architecture and critical studies.
2022 - (onging) Parse Journal, Gothenburg
Co-editor for the upcoming issue ‘Citations’.
PARSE journal peer-review (2023)
2022 -23 - ArkDes, The Swedish Center for Architecture and Design, Stockholm
Guest researcher.
2021 -22 - GAHTC Fellowship. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge.
The Domestic Worldmaking of the Enslaved Research Project collaboration: Yale University, Brown University, Hunter College, Royal Institute of Art, University of Ghana.
2020 - 21 L’Internationale, Gothenburg
Co-editor for the special issue Architectural Dissonances (2021)
2018-22 Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
Spaces of Care Disobedience and Desire: Tactis of Minority Space Making discursive research platform together Rado Istok and Natalia Rebelo
2016- 18 KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm
Lecturer, KTH School of Architecture in Tensta
2015- 18 ArkDes, The Swedish Center for Architecture and Design, Stockholm.
Assistant Curator.
2017- 20 Marabouparken konsthall, Sundbyberg
Advisory board
2009 - 18 Freelance consultant
Consultant in architecture, culture, art and media.
Clients: Kulturhuset Stadsteatern, ÅF, Konstfack, KTH Arkitektur Mafioso PR mfl.
curatorial
2021 Sensing Salon, (online)
Curator. Performance by Valentina Desideri and Denise Ferreira da Silva
2018 Public Luxury, ArkDes, Stockholm
Assistant curator: Survey of the debate about public space and life in Sweden.
2018 Square meter price, Stureplan, Stockholm
Curator: Billboard artwork by Carl-Oskar Linné at Stureplan part of av Public Luxury at ArkDes.
published
Pedagogies of Power, the Architectural Review, Education Issue, September (2022)
Rest in Public as Resistance, the Architectural Review, Public Issue, July/August (2022)
Out of Line: Erasure and Vulnerability as Sites of Subversion, Archifutures: “Agency” Vol. 6 (2020)
Hyper-visible Invisibility: Tracing the Politics, Poetics and Affects of the Unseen, Field Journal: Becoming a Feminist Architect, Vol. 7 (2017). Peer-review
digital media
Banana-Split a (Black) Power Walk, short film, Mossutställningar/Public Art Agency Sweden (2020)
guest lecturer/lectures
ESALA Edinburgh School of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, HEAD Geneva School of Architecture and Design, University of Sheffield School of Architecture, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, TUM Munich, RISD Rhode Island School of Design, Konstfack, KTH School of Architecture, UMA Umeå School of Architecture, LTH School of Lund
grants
2022 Re:Arc Intitute Grant
2022 ArkDes Fellowship
2021 Global Connections Fellowship Grant, MIT, Cambridge
2018 Artistic Research and Developing Fund Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm
2015 Royal Academy Anders Mortners donations fond, Stockholm