Current & Upcoming Projects
Editor-in-chief of Metode, an online publishing platform by ROM for kunst og arkitektur that publishes experimental essays in the fields of art and architecture, funded by the Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Research Grant (12 million NOK) for the project “How Norway Made the World Whiter” from The Research Council of Norway (Researcher Project for Scientific Renewal, 2023 – 2028)
Research Grant (3 million NOK) for the project “The Materiality of White” from
The Norwegian Artistic Research Programme (NARP) in collaboration with Marte Johnslien (2022 – 2025)
Guest lecture: “Titanium Dioxide: An Arts-Based Archeology of an Unsettling Pigment” in the public lecture series The Event of Archeology organized by Prof. Ines Weizman, PhD programme at The Royal College of Art, London, UK, 29 February 2024
Committee member in The Swedish Research Council, “HS-A: Aesthetic disciplines,” 2024 – 2025
Editor of Metode’s third volume, “Currents: Regenerating Pasts for the Not Yet” with Kjersti Solbakken (curator of Lofoten International Art Festival 2024). Essays by Kameelah Janan Rasheed, Alison Burstein, You Nakai, and Sigbjørn Skåden, forthcoming May – September 2024
Upcoming guest lecture: “Research-by-display: Ethics, Aesthetics, Exhibitions” at the symposium Building Environments organized by Prof. Tulay Atak, the University of Applied Arts Vienna – Die Angewandte, 3 May 2024
Convener of The Exhibition as Research: Histories, Theories, Methods, PhD course at the University of Oslo/The Museum of Cultural History, 13 – 15 June 2024
Book chapter “Upcycled regionalism: The Aesthetics of Geopolymer Concert” published in Design for Rethinking Resources (Springer 2024)
Book Chapter “Deep Ecology by Design: From Mining Modernism to Radical Reuse” published in Pedagogical Experiments in Architecture for a Changing Climate (Routledge, 2024)
Invited guest lecture: “Deep Surface: An Ethical Theory of Materiality” at the Architecture Institute, Technische Universität Berlin (TU Berlin),” 14 February 2024
Journal article “Seeds for New Beginnings? Ecological Uncertainty, Blurry Ideology, and Speculative Design at the Universitas Symposium, 1972” published in Journal of Design History, December 2023
Invited lecture “Crafting Mining Waste: Towards a Deep Surface Aesthetics” at the symposium Toxic Material(itie)s: Eco-Material Entanglements in Art at the Käte Hamburger Kolleg Cultures of Research, Aachen, Germany, 7 December 2023
Research exhibition ‘TiO2 Prøvefelt’ [trial fields] at ROM for kunst og arkitektur, 4 – 20 September 2023
Journal article “‘With-On’ White: Inconspicuous Modernity with and on Aesthetic Surfaces, 1910–1950” published by The Aggregate Architectural History Collaborative, 2023
Interview contribution to the feature article “A Nordic Revolt Against ‘Ugly’ Modern Architecture” in Bloomsbury, August 2023
Editor and publisher of Alf Jørgen Schnell, På sporet av den tapte fremtid: Intervensjoner i norsk urbanisme og modernisme (ROM forlag, 2023). Press and interviews in Morgenbladet and Arkitektur
“Researchers to Watch” Interview about the upcoming research project ‘Deep Surface: Rethinking Surfaces in the Age of Technology (c. 1900 – today) with Architecture and Design’
Keynote lecture “Restless: Towards a New Art Ethics” at the symposium RAST Norwegian Scenic Routes 30 years anniversary, Oslo, 16 June 2023
Essay “Fremtidens utdanningsinstitusjon” published in Vagant, May 2023
Invited lecture “From White to Earth,” at the symposium Material Landscapes at Columbia University, Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), New York City, 24 March 2023
Member of the Advisory Board for the project The Nokia Design Archive, led by Anna Valtonen, funded by the Academy of Finland (2021 – 2025)
Selected Past Projects
Launch of Metode volume #1 Deep Surface: thirteen experimental essays, including keynote essays by Sybille Krämer and Tim Ingold
Interview with Arkitektur about the launch of Metode volume 1 ‘Deep Surface,’ (in Norwegian), January 2023
Research exhibition, Marte Johnslien’s ‘Gaea Norvegica’ at KRAFT, 27 January – 26 March 2023. Review published in Kunstkritikk.
Interview with Kunstkritikk about the launch of Metode volume 1 ‘Deep Surface,’ (in Norwegian), January 2023
About the launch of Metode in E-flux, January 2023
Feature article in Morgenbladet about ‘How Norway Made the World Whiter’ (accessible only for subscribers), January 2023
Interview with Khrono about ‘How Norway Made the World Whiter’ (NorWhite) media attention, regarding imprecise racism focus (in Norwegian), January 2023
Article about NorWhite by Dagens Næringsliv commentator Eva Grinde (in Norwegian), January 2023
Article about NorWhite by Aftenposten commentator Andreas Slettholm (in Norwegian), January 2023
Interview with Morgenbladet about the public debate about NorWhite: “We are not claiming Norway has launched racist attitudes,” January 2023
Keynote lecture “Towards Deep Surfaces” at the symposium Living Prototypes at Aedes Architecture Forum/ANCB The Aedes Metropolitan Laboratory, Berlin, 9 December 2022. Watch lecture here: https://vimeo.com/765789696
Editor of Metode‘s first volume ‘Deep Surface’: Publication workshops with Sybille Krämer and Tim Ingold, August – December 2022
Interview with Tidens Ånd about the climate protests in museums and galleries, November 2022 (in Norwegian)
Interview with Arkitektnytt about the launch of Metode (in Norwegian)
Essay ‘Design in Museums 2022: Towards an Ethical Design Aesthetic‘ about Designmuseum Danmark and the National Museum of Norway published in Formkraft, August 2022
Essay “Design i utakt” about the new National Museum in Norway published in Morgenbladet, June 2022
PhD supervisor for Lisbeth Funck’s work-based PhD thesis ‘Becoming with Architecture: Making the abstracted space through works and words’, public PhD defence 8 April 2022
Keynote lecture “Material Withdraw: How Modernism Made the Surface Invisible.” A response to Tim Ingold’s keynote lecture at the seminar ‘Kunsthåndværk i en digital tid’, Statens Kunstfond/Syddansk Universitet, 20. January 2022. Report from the conference in Formkraft by Heidi Laura.
Momentum Fellow 2021-2022 at the University of Bergen
Edited book Ung Uro: Unsettling Climates in Nordic Art, Architecture & Design published by Cappelen Damm Akademisk, 2021
Lecturer at the PhD summer school Designing for Resiliency: RE:GENERATE alpine-urban circularity (ETH Zurich, EPFL Lausanne, MonViso Institute), 5-13 June 2021
Ingrid Halland 