Mattias Fredrik Josefsson

• Josefsson, Mattias Fredrik (2025). Integrating Site Actions as an Apparatus in Understanding Public Spaces. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  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. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  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. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  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. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  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? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  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 [Vis alle 9 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2022). Sletteløkka Yatai. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  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. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  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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