Talk at Sciences Po on Standardising Frozen Earth
Thank you very much to the ‘Séminaire Mondes soviétiques communistes et postcommunistes’ at
Sciences Po, Paris, for a great conversation following our presentation with Anastasiya Halauniova. We discussed
our ongoing work on the paper ‘Shifting Foundations: Standardising Frozen Earth in Soviet and Post-Soviet Siberia'.
07.11.25
Read →Paper on Hydrocarbon Extraction at UHA Los Angeles
Presented a paper ‘Hydrocarbon Extraction and a Transient Turn in Late Soviet Urbanism’ at the Eleventh Biennial Urban History Association Conference ‘Metropolitan Majorities’ in Los Angeles.
11.10.25
Read →Launching My New Course “Moving Architectures”
Excited to start teaching my new course “Moving Architectures" I have developed for the Department
of European Urban Studies at the Bauhaus-University Weimar!
11.10.25
Read →Theaterbauwissen Book Released
The Theaterbauwissen book is finally out.
Check out my chapter.
11.10.25
Read →Workshop “Disappointed Archive” at Silent Green
Co-organized a workshop with wonderful Anastasia Kolas ‘Workshop: Disappointed Archive — When a river flows straight’ at the Silent Green.
19.09.25
Read →Public Research Seminar at the CCA
Truly feels like a milestone: my public research seminar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.
31.07.25
Read →Permafrost Mediation Paper at Back to Frozen Earth
Presented a paper ‘Mediating permafrost: landscape zoning maps, building norms, and foundations of Soviet extractivism in Siberia and the Far East’ at an amazing conference ‘Back to Frozen Earth: Permafrost in Social Theory and Beyond’ conference organized by dear Anastasiya Halauniova.
17-18.06.25
Read →Workshop Participation: “Limits to Growth”
Participation in the Workshop ‘Limits to Growth. DIY Approaches in Public Space,’ Heidelberg.
12-13.06.25
Read →Guest Lecture at Ghent University’s Jokerweek
Had so much fun participating in the Faculty of Engineering and Architecture of Ghent University’s Jokerweek with a Guest Lecture on my ongoing research on mobile architecture and fly-in/fly-out urbanism in Western Siberia.
02.04.25
Read →Archival Fieldwork Begins: Riga and Latvian
State Archives
Off to archival fieldwork for my postdoctoral project Accommodating Extractivism, first stop – Riga
and the Latvian State Archives.
02.03.25
Read →Paper on Mobile Architecture at Climate
Change Adaptation
Presenting a paper ‘Acclimatising Extractivism. Mobile Architecture and Rotational Urbanism in Western Siberia (1976-1992)’ at the ‘Climate Change Adaptation’ conference at the GWZO.
27-28.02.25
Read →Presenting at the Conference on Socialist Urban Experiences
On my way to Ghent to take part in the ‘The social experiences of urban space in socialist cities of Eastern Europe’ Conference. I will be presenting a paper ‘We used to live in tents and then in railway wagons’: Visions, Experiences and Critiques of Late Soviet Extractive Urbanism in Western Siberia’.
30-31.01.25
Read →Starting My New Position at Leibniz IRS
Today I am starting my new position at the Leibniz Institute for Research on Society and Space, where, over the next two years, I will be working on my postdoctoral project ‘Accommodating Extractivism: Mobile Architecture and Fly-in Fly-out Urbanism in Western Siberia, 1980-1992’.
01.12.24
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