Berta Flaquer

Berta Flaquer

Berta Flaquer is an architect and ecofeminist researcher with a PhD in Architecture (LTU, Luleå University of Technology). Her 2023 doctoral thesis, ‘Urbanization as Socionatures’ Reproduction: From Territories of Extraction,’ applies an ecofeminist lens to urbanization and examines the historical intersections of capitalist, colonial, and patriarchal extraction processes from Swedish-Sápmi. In 2019, she was a visiting researcher at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. Currently, she leads Oikos Arkitekter, a practice based in Sweden dedicated to co-designing regenerative and feminist habitats and ecosystems that cultivate ecodependent and interdependent relations between people, animals, and nature, while engaging with grassroots ecological movements in Sweden.

How do we represent territories whose histories, economies, and ecologies have been shaped by centuries of extraction, yet are still often perceived as peripheral or empty? 1. Introduction In his book Norrland, journalist Po Tidholm opens with a poem that captures a long-standing reality: northern Sweden has long been a site of resource extraction— iron […]

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