Job description

Magdalena Haggärde is an architect and partner of 70°N arkitektur, Tromsø/Romsa, and University Lecturer in Landscape Architecture at the Art Academy, UiT – The Arctic University of Norway.

She has through her practice, research and teaching developed experimental and critical approaches to architecture and planning – in an Arctic and sub-Arcitc context, but also concerning general perspectives on landscape and urban development in the light of severe global changes. With an exploratory, participatory, research-based approach – and a special focus on land-based knowledge and artistic means – her work, methods, investigations and proposals are centred on notions of openness, encompassing issues of multiplicity and indeterminacy.

Recent publications include: ‘Re-framing Agencies: ‘Production’ of Non-human Subjects in Contested Territories: Counteracting Ecological Deprivation’ (Springer Nature, 2024), ‘Continuity and Change – consideration of urban littoral ecology’ (Faktur, 2022), ‘The Maniitsoq–Alcoa case; industrial re-colonisation or re-emergence of a conscious subjectivity’ (Actar, 2025), ‘Layered Landscapes Lofoten – understanding of complexity, otherness and change’ (Actar, 2019) and upcoming ‘Challenging the modern condition in architecture and society – a hermeneutical interpretation of indigenous landscape concepts of space, time and practice. Exploring the becoming of a new Sámi National Theatre & Sámi High School and Reindeer Herding School in Guovdageaidnu’.

Part of research project Northern Homes