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Hélène Frichot is an Associate Professor and Docent in Critical Studies in Architecture, School of Architecture and the Built Environment, Royal Institue of Technology, KTH, Stockholm, Sweden, where she is the director of Critical Studies in Architecture. Her 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). Recent publications include: co-editor with Catharina Gabrielsson, Jonathan Metzger, Deleuze and the City (Edinburgh University Press, 2016); co-editor with Elizabeth Grierson and Harriet Edquist, De-Signing Design: Cartographies of Theory and Practice (Lexington Books, 2015).
Catharina Gabrielsson is Docent in Architecture and an Associate Professor in Urban Theory at the School of Architecture KTH, Stockholm. Her research employs writing as a means for exploration, bridging across aesthetics, politics and economics and combining fieldwork operations with archival studies to generate material for conceptual analysis. With Hélène Frichot and Jonathan Metzger, she is editor of Deleuze and the City (Edinburgh University Press, 2016), guest co-editor, with Helena Mattsson, of 'Architecture and Capitalism: Solids and Flows' (Architecture and Culture 5:2, 2017) and, with Helena Mattsson and Kenny Cupers, editor of the forthcoming volume Neoliberalism: An Architectural History (University of Pittsburgh Press). She is the director of the doctoral programme Art, Technology and Design.
Helen Runting is an urban planner (B.UPD; University of Melbourne) and urban designer (PG.Dip UD, University of Melbourne; MSc.UPD, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm), and a PhD candidate within Critical Studies in Architecture at KTH. Her research is situated within the field of architectural theory and addresses the images, politics, property relations, and aesthetics of the "unbuilt environment" of Sweden's architectural present. Helen is a founding member of the architecture collective Svensk Standard (2008-), and the architectural practice Secretary (2017-).
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