Mattias Fredrik Josefsson

• Josefsson, Mattias F.; Müller, Sabine & Quintanilla, Miguel Hernandez (2026). Hydropolis: Designing at Eye-Level; Encompassing the Messiness of Ecology in Scenographic Models. OASE : tijdschrift voor architectuur. ISSN 0169-6238. 122 / 123, p. 210–216. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In architectural discourse, models are crucial for exploring and articulating the atmospheric qualities of spaces, from interiors to construction details. However, capturing the complexity of landscapes—spanning territorial, urban, and park scales—while maintaining eye-level perspectives is challenging. Ecological conditions must be considered across all scales, yet the focus often remains on the planning scale hindering students' engagement with spatial experiences. A methodological framework that bridges these scales allows students to engage with the connectivity, spatiality and materiality of ecological landscape projects concurrently.

• Josefsson, Mattias F. (2025). Sophia Vol. 10 No. 1 (2025): Landscapes of Repair: The Role of Photography and Film in Documenting the Legacy of Modern and Contemporary Architecture and Public Spaces. Sophia (Porto. Em linha). ISSN 2183-8976. 10(1), p. 158–171. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Making Temporal Landscapes: A Visual Essay on Snow, Site, and Seeing explores the relationship between landscape, perception, and the physical act of engagement through a process developed at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) since 2019. In these workshops, first year landscape and architecture students are introduced to an extended form of fieldwork that aims to expand their initial reading of public space. The workshop highlights the value of fieldwork in design education. By working directly on site, students learn to understand landscape through both action and reflection. The process moves them beyond a first person perspective into a position where space can be observed from the outside. Through images, the body becomes an instrument for measuring and framing. The temporary nature of the interventions, both as photographs and spatial forms, opens a discussion about the relationship between what is constructed, what is left behind, and what continues to change in the landscape.

• Josefsson, Mattias Fredrik (2025). Integrating Site Actions as an Apparatus in Understanding Public Spaces. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Fieldwork in architecture education is often framed through observation and representation, yet these modes risk reducing the city to a fixed object of study. This contribution introduces kropplegging (bodymapping), a performative practice of embodied registration, as an apparatus for understanding public space and landscape. By situating bodily actions within the discourse of mapping, pedagogy and fieldwork, the method adds to visual abstraction and analysis while fostering plural and collective readings of site.

• Josefsson, Mattias Fredrik; Hovland, Lars; Cabo, David Eladio Hugo & Østgaard, Nicolai Ramm (2024). Finalist in the museum competition - Astruptunet. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  One of four finalist in the international competition of a new museum building for the art of the acclaimed Norwegian artist Nicolai Astrup in Jølster Norway

• Josefsson, Mattias Fredrik (2024). Teaching Future Landscapes - Integrating Performative Engagement in Landscape Architecture Pedagogy. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This paper contributes to the discourse of landscape architecture teaching by discussing design exercises that foster a relational and collective understanding, through performative engagement on-site. This first landing seeks to transcend individual and subjective perspectives and challenge the notion of single authorship, which traditionally characterizes the training of landscape architecture students in Norway. The objective is to describe an interdisciplinary and performative method, approach, and tool that will effectively and productively prepare students for engaging in dialogue with dynamic landscapes in rapid transformation. The research builds on teaching experience in a course for first-year landscape architecture students developed over several years. The course aims to train their initial comprehension of space, form, and scale through various performative exercises and draws inspiration from the Open Form pedagogy pioneered by the late architect, artist, and educator Oskar Hansen. Over the span of more than three decades, he contributed to (school xxx) curriculum that cultivated an educational environment that encouraged open-ended exploration and innovation through on-site registrations and interventions. However, his work has not yet been thoroughly explored and theoretically discussed in the landscape architectural field.

• Josefsson, Mattias F. (2023). FieldOffice Workshop Site Visit 2023. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  In connection with Workshop 01 of the Field Office conference and workshop series, held in London in October 2023, Mattias F. Josefsson produced a short video reflecting on fieldwork as a pedagogical and design practice. The workshop took place at the Royal College of Art and UCL Bartlett, and brought together participants from universities across Europe and beyond to discuss fieldwork methods.

• Josefsson, Mattias Fredrik (2023). Where is the starting point and the finish line of a Tree? Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  This lecture reflects on how trees are understood and used in landscape architecture through their multiple cultural, historical, ecological, and symbolic meanings. Starting from the question of where a tree “begins” and “ends”, biologically, socially, and spatially, the lecture traces how trees function as historical markers, religious symbols, family references (such as the farm tree), and recurring motifs in art and landscape architecture.

• Furunes, Alexander Eriksson; Josefsson, Mattias F.; Jr, Sudarshan V. Khadka; Iwase, Ryoko; Kadowaki, Kozo & Kiuchi, Toshikatsu [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2022). Sletteløkka Yatai. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Sletteløkka Yatai is a mobile coffee cart and ladder built from materials salvaged from a former Japanese house, originally dismantled in Tokyo and exhibited at the Japanese Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2021. Following the exhibition, the remaining materials were repurposed to create this yatai—a traditional Japanese mobile food cart—fostering dialogue on reuse, identity and shared space in Sletteløkka, Bydel Bjerke.

• Furunes, Alexander; Josefsson, Mattias F.; Årthun, Maria & Brekke, Aurora (2019). Sletteløkka Grendehus. Full text in Research Archive Show summary

  Sletteløkka Grendehus is a long term, community driven project developed and run by the collective Dugnad Days. The project is based on participatory design and collective building practices, where local residents, volunteers, and interdisciplinary collaborators work together to create and maintain shared spaces.

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