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My work focuses on the construction of place through storytelling;
specifically examining narratives of the domestic. Through writing,
video and temporal interventions I locate my architectural practice
in the social constructs that determine the built environment.

 


CV
Joanna Zawieja
b.1978 Szczecin, Poland
mail@joannazawieja.com


Selected projects/ work

2010
2010 (ongoing)
2010 (ongoing)

2009
2009
2008
2007
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2007
2007-09
2006

Collaborating with ifau.
Developing a rebuilding proposal for Fylkingen.
Invited to participate in She: re, a project run by artist and professor Hinrich Sachs.

The Stockholm style
Compact conversations, scenography for choreographer Björn Säfsten at Dansens Hus, Oslo, Norway.
Cuatro estaciones, scenography for choreographer Björn Säfsten at Dansens Hus, Stockholm.
Papaver Rhoeas, temporary landscape construction at the Polish Institute in Stockholm
In trembling space, scenography at Dansens Hus for choreographer Björn Säfsten.
Collaborating with Fantastic Norway on several building proposals in Norway.
Employed at Wilhelmson Arkitekter.
Biblioteksgatan, video for the Swedish Arts grants committee.

 

 

Public screenings/ exhibitions

2010 (upcoming)
2009
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2010 (upcoming)

2009

2009
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2010
2009

2009
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2005

 


2010
2009
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2007
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2007
2005-06
2002-04
1997

Fun Palace: the play, play reading at Commerce of Thinking, Basel
Imagine a House
presented at the conference Narrascape, University of Cambridge

Imagine a House
screened at 195 Mare Street, London
Imagine a House presented at the conference Constructing Knowledge, RWTH, Aachen
The Stockholm style
presented at Iaspis Open House, Stockholm
Imagine a House screened at the festival TINAG, London
Proposal 2012-2018 exhibited at K1, Kulturhuset, Stockholm
Imagine a House, lecture and screening at the Swedish Museum of Architecture
Imagine a House and Barcelona exhibited at the Swedish Museum of Architecture
Video HagsätraSkanstull screened at the Onedotzero festival, Stockholm.


Publications

Houses, to be published in Candide, Journal for Architectural Knowledge, RWTH Aachen.

Fabrikationer, essay for the yearbook of the Swedish Museum of Architecture,
with Linnea Holmberg, Ylva K Rosvall and Ylva Åborg.
Building Stories, essay about place making and film. Published by Myrdle Court Press.
The House at the end of the Middle Way, published by Iaspis
Hur gör man, article on architectural methodology,
with Ylva Åborg in Kritik, Analysförlag.
Vykort från Kalmar, article in Kritik, Analysförlag.
Discussion on Swedish housing policies, segregation and gentrification
in Arena, Arenagruppen.
Några goda råd, an essay on domesticity, mass media and gender, published by Atlas.
Article in Forum AID on the architectural profession and mass media.


Lectures/ teaching

Fourth year critic at the School of Architecture (teacher Ana Betancour), Stockholm.
Imagine a House,
presentation at the Architecture Theory History course (teacher Meike Shalk), the School of Architecture, Stockholm.
Fourth year critic at the School of Architecture (teacher Leif Brodersen), Stockholm.
Future urbanism, lecture at Svensk Byggtjänst with Ylva Åberg.
Fourth year critic at the School
of Architecture (teacher Tor Lindstrand), Stockholm.
Imagine a House, lecture at the School of Architecture (teacher Tor Lindstrand), Stockholm.
Imagine a House, screening at the School of Architecture (teacher Katarina Bonnevier), Stockholm.
Fourth year critic at the School
of Architecture (teacher Ana Betancour), Stockholm.
Architecture and animation, lecture at the School of Architecture (teacher Ana Betancour), Stockholm.


Grants, Residencies and Prizes
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Stiftelsen Jenny Linds Stipendium
Residency at IASPIS, the International Artists Studio Program in Sweden.
Helgostipendiet.
Helge Ax:son Johnsons stiftelse.
Anders Mortners arkitektfond.
Sundahls fond KTH.
Helgostipendiet.
Stiftelsen AAA.
Gålöstiftelsen.
3rd price in JMs competition about the future of Stockholm, with Jonas Torsvall.


Education

Master of Architecture. Graduated from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm.
Studies at the Bartlett, UCL, London. Diploma Architecture.
Art school Idun Lovén, Stockholm.
History of ideas, Stockholm University.