Dr Helen Runting

Biography

Helen Rix Runting is an architectural theorist (PhD. Arch.), urban planner (B. UPD), and urban designer (PG Dip. UD, MSc. UPD). Her work insists that another world is possible, and that an affirmative biopolitics - wherein bodies, minds, and environments are set in mutually supportive relation - is achievable. Drawing on critical theory and feminist scholarship, as well as an ongoing engagement with the politics of architecture under late capitalism, Helen writes critique, essays, and analyses of our shared architectural present. Deploying artistic and practice-based research methods in architecture, she also contributes to design competitions, architectural commissions, exhibitions, installations, publications, and performances, reviews, and teaching. Her current research interests include the politics of the image and practices of commercial visualization, the production of real estate as an ideal and form, and the megaproject as an emancipatory proposition. She is a founding partner in the Stockholm-based architecture office Secretary.

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