Research and teaching information

My research is interested in understanding the city as a set of infrastructural, ecological, and sociospatial relations, and asking how these relations are changing in a time of climate and biodiversity crisis.

These interests follow along three interrelated research tracks:

• Using feminist materialist approaches to understand the role of green infrastructures and nature-based solutions in urban climate adaptation and the sociospatial production of the city.
• Investigating urban human-nature relations, particularly the multiple values and negative dimensions (e.g., ecosystem disservices), and how to engage in these in urban planning and design.
• Developing the use of methods—from multispecies ethnography to digital technologies—for integrating the more-than-human into processes of urban planning and design.

The cross-cutting goal of these research interests is to identify ways of engaging the constitutive infrastructural, ecological, and sociospatial relations of the city to create more just and livable futures for all urban inhabitants.

I have a degree in cultural anthropology (PhD, University of Kentucky), and have worked as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Earth Institute at Columbia University and an Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture and Planning at the University of Copenhagen.

I have taught courses on urban nature planning and long-term landscape planning and design. I currently teach the course ‘IT and Green Transitions’ at ITU.