The project is headed by Dr Dolf Jan Hendrik te Lintelo (Institute of Development Studies, UK).
Co-investigators:
Professor Robert Mull (University of Brighton, School of Architecture and Design, UK)
Dr Charles Watters (University of Sussex School of Social Work & Care, UK)
Dr Anandini Dar (Ambedkar University, Delhi, India)
Ms Divya Chopra (Ambedkar University, Delhi, India)
Professor Peter Hemmersam (Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway)
Dr Miika Matias Tervonen (Migration Institute of Finland)
Associate partners: Global Alliance for Urban Crises, the Norwegian Refugee Council, the Kent Refugee Action Network
Peter Hemmersam is a professor in urban design at the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape. He is trained as an architect and is a former partner in the architectural practice Transform. His main research interest lies in the field of urban design. He is currently undertaking research on Arctic cities, periurban landscapes of the Oslo region and placemaking. He directs the Oslo Centre for Urban and Landscape Studies.
Håvard Breivik-Khan is an architect (MNAL), researcher, and educator with a decade of experience from crisis response, humanitarian relief, and development efforts. Håvard has been deployed to United Nations agencies in Haiti, Nepal, North Macedonia, Hungary, and the UN HQ in New York through the Norwegian Refugee Council’s emergency standby roster, NORCAP (2010-2020). Håvard is currently responsible for the master’s course In Transit Studio at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) and as of fall 2019, a PhD fellow at AHO’s Institute of Urbanism and Landscape. He holds a master’s degree in Architecture from the same institute, with residencies in Paris (ENSAPLV) and Shanghai and Chongqing, China.
Tone Selmer-Olsen is an architect, assistant professor at the Oslo School of Architecture (AHO) and a member of the Norwegian Refugee Council’s emergency standby roster, NORCAP. She has broad experience from crisis response, humanitarian relief, and development efforts, and have been deployed to United Nations agencies in Haiti, Nepal and Macedonia. Tone is the responsible teacher for the Master’s course In Transit at the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape at AHO. Tone has worked with projects ranging from private housing to large-scale award-winning culture buildings. Tone is currently the President of the Oslo Association of Aachitects (OAT)
Morgan Alexander Ip is a Canadian architect, and his educational background covers, among other things, mapping and participatory work towards community-centered design. He has experience from several research teams – the PPS-Arctic Impacts of a Changing Treeline, as well as several highly relevant Northern projects with Lateral Office over the last years. He has very strong experience from project work and community engagement in the Canadian Arctic, and has published on these issues.
Marianne is trained as an architect, has years of experience in urban planning and urban design from amongst others; Norconsult, Asplan Viak, The City of Bergen. She was the Rector of the Bergen School of Architecture, Head of the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape at AHO, Dean of Architecture and Design at NTNU and is currently rector at the Oslo National Academy of the Arts. She is an active voice in the public debate on Norwegian urban development. She is currently working on her Ph.D. research on the urban dynamics of the peri-urban Oslo.