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E-MAIL
jenny.overgaard@gmail.com

ABOUT
I’m an architect based in Stockholm interested in the alternative potential of the built environment on different scales. As part of exploring this potential – always with an approach informed by curiosity and joy! – some questions that interest me in my own “daily practice” and personal research as well as in projects of varying scale in collaboration with other practitioners in related fields include:

What do spatial gestures suggest, support or reinforce? How does visual representation and physical manifestation of priorities and values in space matter? What do spaces – and materials and forms and shapes in those spaces – communicate? How do they relate to different bodies? What happens if we question assumed relationships – how these are normally arranged? What role does materiality play? How does space influence its different inhabitants? What potential do we have to influence our surroundings, be active participants? Can we ignite latent potential in space? Plant seeds of change? Can architecture participate in rebuilding humans’ perspective as being part of, dependent on and inextricably linked with nature? Can it more actively participate in how humans relate to each other as well as nature? Are there norms, reproduced perspectives, present in the mass-production of space that could be challenged in relation to these questions? How could it be beneficial for the process of developing the built environment to make architectural questions a bigger part of our collective awareness and more accessible to people that do not define themselves as working within the field professionally?

I am always interested in investigating possible ways to develop engagement with these questions with the absolute conviction of the necessity to do so to the utmost degree using resources already bound up in the collection of spatial heritage we live alongside.