Pia Palo

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I am an architect and urban designer, currently working as a PhD researcher at Umeå School of Architecture (UMA).  My interests lie at the intersection between the social and the physical, in understanding lived experiences and realities, and in how experimental and artistic processes can be used to think and talk about how and for whom we build our cities. In addition to research work, I teach at both BA and MA levels.

My ongoing PhD research is in critical studies of architecture and urbanism, and focuses on just urban transitions in the context of northern Sweden. I explore how spatial practice (and practitioners) can take on a transformative and productive role in imagining radical and inclusive futures beyond growth through theoretical and practical engagements with ideas of care and relationality.

Detail of the graphical manifesto for “Displace”


Graphical Manifestoes

GRAPHIC DESIGN / CRITICAL PERSPECTIVES

Year: 2018 - ongoing
By: Pia Palo
Starting point and anchor. The graphical manifesto is a tool to ask questions and speculate about what a project might be. It is a way to delimit the interests that a project will engage with and enables intentionality about the whys of the practice/design work.


Graphical manifesto for “Displace”, p. 1
Graphical manifesto for “Displace”, p. 2
Graphical manifesto for “Displace”, physical version
Graphical manifesto for “Displace”, physical version
Graphical manifesto for “Experiments, imaginaries, desires”
Graphical manifesto for “Commons”