In dialogue with Gunilla Lundahl: On Sámi architecture, collective practice and feminism

On 17 November, journalist, educator, curator and editor Gunilla Lundahl, is honored at ArkDes in an evening dedicated to her long-standing contribution to architectural discourse and critical practice.

The event revisits three thematic fields that have been central throughout Lundahl’s work: Sámi architecture, collective practices, and feminism. Across these three thematics, Lundahl’s writing has consistently opened up questions of representation, authorship, and spatial justice, while also tracing alternative histories within architecture and design.

For each theme, invited guests will contribute a contemporary response. Their contributions will be grounded in readings from Lundahl’s own texts, drawn from her articles and publications, and will be followed by a conversation reflecting on how these ideas resonate, shift, or gain new urgency today.

The evening is part of a series of events during the Fall 2026 honoring Gunilla Lundahl’s legacy.

Gunilla Lundahl is a Swedish journalist, educator, curator and activist who is a key figure in the design and architecture scene in Stockholm. She was active as a writer in magazines such as Form (1965–1969) and Arkitekturtidningen (1971, 1973–1977), a teacher at Konstfack, and author of numerous books. Among other things, she organized the Scandinavian Design Students’ Organization seminars in the late 1960s, she participated in grassroot movements during the 1960s and 1970s and organized exhibitions as The Model – A Model for a Qualitative Society (1968) and ARARAT (1976) both at Moderna Museet in Stockholm. She was awarded the Swedish Architects’ Critics’ Prize in 1993.