NATALIE NOVIK

Statement /Bio:

Natalie Novik (b. 1986, Minsk) is a spatial practitioner, researcher and educator based in Sweden. Her transdisciplinary practice revolves around topics of urban commoning, collective care, otherness and belonging. Through her work she addresses a question how multiple subjectivities can be embodied in the spaces we inhabit. For several years she has worked as a urban planner and since 2018 she runs a studio that focuses on developing interactive collaborative processes and dialogues for urban planning projects, through methodology of urban curating, ficto-critical and speculative narrations and cartographies. She holds a master's degree in architecture and urban planning from Chalmers University of Technology, and currently she is conducting a PhD in artistic research at HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design in Gothenburg, where her project lies in the field of critical spatial practice. In the center of her research are independent cultural organizations and their practice of (un)fixing space. Her intention is to understand the practice of urban commoning conducted by non-architects.