Berta Flaquer
Architect SAR/MSA, PhD
Academic background
2025 | Permakultur PDC. Holma Folkhögskola
2024 -2025 | Regenerativt lantbruk & holistic management. Bäckedals Folkhögskola
2018 - 2023 | PhD in Architecture. Thesis title: Urbanization as socionatures’ reproduction: from territories of extraction
2019 | PhD visiting student AHO
2017 | Postgraduate in rehabilitation. Escola Sert COAC
2015 | Architect ETSAV UPC BarcelonaTECH
2011 | Exchange Programm Tongji University
Teaching
2024 | Municipal assistant supervisor, bachelor thesis in Energy and Environmental Engineering from KTH
2019 | Lecture, "Urban, countervisualizations", LTU
2018 | Course, Urban Design, 3rd year design studio course at LTU
2018 | Course, Sustainable Urban Development, 5th year design studio course at LTU
2018 | Course, Planning Methods, 5th year design studio course at LTU
2018 | Tutor, graduate master thesis in Architecture Enginnering at LTU
Seminar
2022 | Archives of the Planetary Mine: Culture, Nature Extraction, and Energy Across the Americas. Stockholm University, Sweden
2019 | Extractive Economies and Urbanization. Seminar. Kiruna-Abisko, Sweden
2018 | Habitats In Time. Mapping Palimpsest Horizons. PhD Seminar. EPFL, Switzerland
2017 | U&U Urbanism and Urbanization. PhD Seminar. Ghent University, Belgium
Conference
2019 | Arctic Arts Summit, Rovaniemi, Finland
2019 | China-Nordic Arctic Cooperation Symposium CNARC 2019, Shanghai, China
2018 | Arctic Circle, Reykjavík, Iceland
Lectures / Presentations
2025 | Webinar series: Greening the economy? – Critical dialogues on energy transitions in the Bothnia region, Umeå School of Economics, Hanken School of Economics, Sweden-Finland (online).
2024 | Genusforskardagar. Forum for gender research, Östersund, Sweden
2023 | The Landscape Approach, webinar
2022 | Mineral Extraction in the Age of the Green Transformation. From Chile to Sweden, ABF Huset, Stockholm, Sweden
Events organised
2019 | “Voices from the North. Exploring research on resource extraction, local communities and built environments in Northern Sweden”, Luleå, Sweden
Workshop
2013 | "AA Visiting School Enological Metabolism", Barcelona
2012 | “After the Project”, european research network Eco-Rehab, Krakow
2010 | “Locus” Let’s Open Cities for Us, Ibiza
Scholarship
2013 | Caixa d'enginyers "AA Visiting School Enological Metabolism", Barcelona
2011 | Architecture Exchange Program | Tongi University, Shanghai
2009 - 2011, 2014 | ETSAV UPC, Architectural Design Department, Barcelona
Professional experience
masswerk architekten, Luzern, Zürich
nyx architectes, Zürich
SLIK architekten, Zürich
Josep Llinas arquitecte, Barcelona
Florian Busch architects, Tokyo
Lluis Tobella arquitecte, Barcelona
EMBT architects, Shanghai
Geskes&hack landschaftsarchitekten, Berlin
ARC architekturkonzept, Magdeburg
Languages
Catalan, Spanish, English, German, Swedish
Research member
2023| Nätverket för Feministisk Stadsplanering
2020 | INURA International Network for Urban Research and Action
https://www.inura.org
2018 | ARCUM Arctic Research Center at Umeå University
http://www.arcum.umu.se
2018 | APECS Association of Polar Early Career Scientists Sweden
http://www.apecssweden.se
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