Researchers

Eduardo Cassina (UiA)

Seconded from the University of Agder (Norway) to RMIT University (Australia)

Eduardo Cassina (he/they) is an urban planner, residency organizer, and gong player. Their research explores the development and co-creation of experimental new tools for participatory planning within the framework of artist residencies.

Their background is in architecture and urban sociology. From 2014 to 2020, they co-directed an urbanism practice, METASITU, based in Kyiv working with different actors in post-industrial shrinking cities in Ukraine. Until 2022, they were a design instructor and the Year 2 Coordinator at INDA, Chulalongkorn University, in Bangkok. Currently, they are Ph.D. Research Fellow at the University of Agder, in Norway. They are working in the municipality of Giehtavuotna/Kvæfjord in Sápmi (Troms- Northern Norway) developing an artist residency program to identify and address power obduracy embedded in the landscape(s), build trans*ecological solidarity, and include more-than-human perspectives in planning.