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Martin Svingen Refseth

PhD Research Fellow

Martin's PhD is part of the project Urban Transformation in a Warming Arctic – The continued effects of Nordic colonialism in urban planning and development (UrbTrans). In his PhD-project Martin will look at the urban planning and development of Nuuk, the capital of Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland), focusing on the period from 1950 to around 1980.

Background

Martin has a MA in Human Geography from the University of Oslo. Between 2016-2021 he worked with architecture, building applications and urban planning in Oslo Municipality, first in the Agency of Planning and Building Services and then in the District of Sagene.

Publications

  • Huse, Tone; Andersen, Anna; Arntzen, Anna Jensine; Mayfield, Prashanti; Refseth, Martin Svingen & Stien, Hanne Hammer (2025). Collectives of Knowledge Creation: the UrbTrans project. Full text in Research Archive
  • Arntzen, Anna Jensine; Refseth, Martin Svingen & Vold, Gitt Nathalie Vivi (2025). How do we come to know what we know? Reflections on experiences from doing PhD research in Kalaallit Nunaat. Full text in Research Archive
  • Huse, Tone & Refseth, Martin Svingen (2023). An Urban Future for Sápmi?, edited by Mikkel Berg-Nordlie, Astri Dankertsen and Marte Winsvold. Nordic Journal of Urban Studies. Full text in Research Archive
  • Refseth, Martin Svingen (2023). Technologies and material arrangements of urban planning in Nuuk, 1960s-1980s. Full text in Research Archive
  • Refseth, Martin Svingen (2022). Urban Planning and Development in Nuuk, Greenland 1950-1980 - Presentation at the Institute of Culture, Language and History, Ilisimatusarfik 12.5.22. Full text in Research Archive

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