NetHouse: Community-powered futures
I am a multidisciplinary artist and designer whose practice combines landscape architecture, communication-based research, and socially engaged art. Participating in the UNIDEE program for socially engaged artists at Cittadellarte, Italy, was pivotal, grounding my work in art as a tool for social transformation and collaborative knowledge production.
My research has taken me to diverse contexts. In Norway, I worked with the Saami community to understand indigenous spatial relationships and cultural identity. In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, I researched vernacular architecture, focusing on local building traditions, materials, and community-driven construction. These experiences deepened my appreciation for place-based knowledge and non-Western spatial logics.
Returning to Europe, I examined the housing crisis in Berlin through research and created a participatory board game to engage local communities in dialogue about housing justice and collective action. This playful, interactive method reveals structural issues and empowers community agency.
More recently, I collaborated with the Bauhaus Earth Institute in Berlin, exploring sustainable building materials and regenerative construction. This work connects ecological knowledge with artistic research, emphasizing architecture’s materiality as integral to social and environmental justice.
Playful interaction is central to my approach, using games to make complex social and spatial problems accessible, inviting public engagement and collective discussion on housing inequality and ecological sustainability.
My practice combines artistic research, spatial inquiry, and collaboration to explore alternative modes of living. I aim to amplify situated knowledge, foster translocal exchange, and develop tools supporting regenerative futures.
NetHouse began as an artistic inquiry into housing justice and sustainability amid global climate and housing crises. It addresses the fragmentation among intentional communities experimenting with alternative living models, whose diverse practices and governance often remain invisible beyond local networks. Many innovate independently but lack accessible, co-created platforms to share lived knowledge and practical tools.
NetHouse is a dynamic, living network of European communities co-creating knowledge for sustainable, collective, and regenerative living. It prioritizes situated knowledge, peer exchange, and relational learning through artistic research, participatory interviews, and peer-led digital seminars that foster horizontal knowledge-sharing rooted in care and respect. The project connects diverse communities across regions, amplifying grassroots voices.
Alongside knowledge exchange, NetHouse offers simple, modular housing design options using local sustainable materials. The platform supports experimentation with spatial and material practices, enabling adaptable, low-impact housing prototypes grounded in community needs and ecological contexts.
By focusing on co-authored, non-extractive processes, NetHouse challenges dominant knowledge economies shaped by capital and institutions. It explores how ecological building methods intersect with governance, collective labor, and social dynamics.
Through LINA, I seek to collaborate with spatial practitioners committed to ecological justice and pluralism, exploring digital infrastructures for equitable spatial cultures. NetHouse envisions fostering sustainable, inclusive futures that reclaim housing as a commons beyond market logic.