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Invitation to public defense: Oscar Lara

Street comedians Koki, Kelvin, and Cholo Victor in the illegal mining area of La Pampa, 108 km Interoceanic Highway, Madre de Dios, Peru, 2018

Welcome to Oscar Laras public defence at Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus, Friday May 16, 2025, from 1 pm.

Respondent

  • Oscar Lara

Documented artistic research project (doctoral thesis): Mining Life – An exploration in three acts into the potential of socially engaged art practices to instigate social changes

Link to the material.

Opponent

  • Associate Professor, Meike Schalk, KTH, Royal Institute of Technology

Examination Committee

  • Professor, Gunnar Sandin, Department of Architecture and Built Environment, Lund University
  • Paulo Tavares, Visiting Assistant Professor, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation (GSAPP), also teaching at University of Brasília
  • Behzad Khorsravi Noori, Researcher, Konstfack University College of Art, Craft and Design 

Main Supervisor

  • Professor, Alessandro Petti, Royal Institute of Art

Second Supervisor

  • Professor, Nina Möntmann, University of Cologne

Venue: Royal Institute of Art c/o Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus, Riksdalervägen 2, 129 32 Hägersten

Register attendance to: asa.andersson@kkh.se

It is possible to participate in person or digitally via Zoom.

The PhD education runs in collaboration between the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm, and the Faculty of Fine and Performing Arts in Malmö, Lund University.