The UMA Talks are a free and accessible series of events. The series is devoted to advancing architectural discourse from both an international perspective and local perspective, and strives to enable the public, students, teachers, and researchers both within architecture and from other fields to get insight to and participate in the educational activities and academic research taking place at Umeå School of Architecture. Theorist, practitioners, artists, and other relevant guests are invited to speak or to participate in roundtable conversations or similar formats.
Read more and see the Fall Semester 2026 schedule of events here
Design Studios 2026/27
UMA 1
Finding Place / Making Space – Embodied methods of architectural explorations
UMA2
Dwelling Qualities – Exploring spatial qualities in housing architecture
UMA 3: Studio 1
Digital Craft – Bridging Computation, Making, and Form
UMA 3: Studio 2
Closing loops. Circular Architecture
UMA 3: Studio 4
e/merging encounters people/culture/place
UMA 4-5: Studio 10
Global Challenges. Urgent Pedagogy
UMA 4-5: Studio 11
Radical Domesticities – Housing from the Swedish North
UMA 4-5: Studio 12
Building Systems – The art, science and craftmanship of making buildings
UMAtalks
UMAtalks – Common Ground, Fall 2026
Student Work
Beauty through repair
Beauty through repair: community-based recovery by Moa Pechmann, Studio 10.
Remaining in place
Remaining in place by Oscar Svensson, Studio 11
Multispecies Right-to-Roam
Multispecies Right-to-Roam by Linnea Kletvang, Studio 12.
THE ANIMAL CITY
THE ANIMAL CITY: A Circular Urban Farm in Lövholmen by Matilda Östman Wernerson, Studio 2.
Under Bron
Under bron by Viggo Finn Ohlin, Studio 3
Thresholds of Return
Thresholds of Return by Camila Pallone, Studio 4.
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
Out of Sight, Out of Mind by Tilde Lehikoinen Scheja, Studio 12.
The Hub – Community Development in Motion
The Hub – Community Development in Motion by Erica Grundström. Studio 10.
The Fallacy of Architectural Speculation
The Fallacy of Architectural Speculation (Speculating on the existing) by Cornelia Kalle. Studio 11.
Architectural Memory
Architectural Memory: Mapping Narratives, Shaping Space by Anissa Berghout. Studio 10.
Weather Perspectives
Weather Perspectives (The småhus potential) by Rasmus Jonasson. Studio 11.
Remembrance with Care
Remembrance with Care: Making Hope for Displaced Memories by Tara San. Studio 10.
Home as a place for care
Home as a place for care by Gustav Marklund. Studio 11.
Caissons on the Lower Dnipro River
Caissons on the Lower Dnipro River by Artem Kosenko. Studio 10.
The Silent Shelf and The Veil
Design-built projects by students in year 2-3, Studio 2: Closing Loops, 2024
SAUNA
Design-built project by students Summer course: From Concept to Construction, 2024
Trappudden Vindbåk
Design-built project by students Summer course: From Concept to Construction, 2024
BADLANDS. A Rediscovery of a Landscape of Extraction
BADLANDS. A Rediscovery of a Landscape of Extraction by Edvin Högberg. Studio 12.
Utblick! Cinematographic Tectonics + the Deep Urban Dwelling
Utblick! Cinematographic Tectonics + the Deep Urban Dwelling by Lydia Bruhn. Studio 11.
The Servant’s Tale
The Servant’s Tale by Jonathan Andersson. Studio 11.
The Air We Breathe
The Air We Breathe by Tuvalie Juntti. Studio 12.
In defense of HOME.
In defense of HOME by Cecilia Johansson. Studio 11.
Regenerative Infrastructures: Symbiotic Waterscapes The Case of Eutrophication of the Baltic Sea
Regenerative Infrastructures by Deniss Zeile. Studio 12.
The Beastibule Bestiary
The Beastibule Bestiary by Elin Holmberg. Studio 11.
The Permanent Hotel
The Permanent Hotel by Oskar Häggström Germann. Studio 11.
Timescapes
Timescapes by Richard Lövby. Studio 10.
Together for Torbali - Designing Hope and Resilience
Together for Torbali - Designing Hope and Resilience by Ellen Moisio, Benjamin Roobol. Studio 10.
WILL LAVER LIVE?
WILL LAVER LIVE? by Fredrika Stelander
“The most exciting full-time activity of my life”
PROFILE What is like to study at the Umeå School of Architecture? What has made the strongest impression on you? And what do new students need to know? These are some of the questions Frida Block has answered. She completed her Master’s at the Umeå School of Architecture in 2023.
News
Symposium at Umeå School of Architecture. 10 – 12 June, 2026.
Architecture Programme (300 credits)
Students of the Architecture Programme
Watch and listen to students of the Architecture Programme talk about their experiences. Read about the Archtecture Programme
Events
17 September 2026
UMA Talks: Working for Tomorrow
15 September 2026
UMA Talks: Matter in Formation
1 September 2026
UMA Talks: Moving Houses
31 August 2026
UMA Talks: HouseEurope!
10 – 12 June 2026
EURAU26 Symposium: Latitudes
4 – 7 June 2026
UMA End of Year Exhibition 2026
26 February 2026
Bostadsdagen: Hållbara bostäder i norr, från principer till praktik
17 October 2025
UnFashion Show 2025
25 September 2025
UMA Talks: Warm in the Winter
UMA End of Year Exhibition
Wednesday 4 June until Saturday 7 June, 2025.
19 May 2025
Lecture: Latitude / Awareness
25 April 2025
UMA Talks: Situated Practices – Social Engagements
31 March 2025
Exhibition: Architectural solutions for autonomous living on Holmön
21 March 2025
UMA Talks: UMA Alumni – Transforming into Practice
8 November 2024
UnFashion Show 2024
16 October 2024
UMA Talks: Digital architecture – Geometry, data, fabrication
3 October 2024
UMA Talks: Medium as Material
26 September 2024
UMA Talks: Free the Map
20 September 2024
UMA Talks: Taking care – Architecture and its social role
19 September 2024
UMA Talks: Flowers, Bees and Architecture
12 September 2024
UMA Talks: How is The Built Environment Political?
2 September 2024
UMA Talks: Immateriality – the æstetics of necessity
29 May – 1 June 2024
End of Year Exhibition 2024
29 May 2024
UMA Talks: State of the Art
25 April 2024
UMA Talks: Embracing the leftovers
26 March 2024
UMA Talks: Protocols of the Ecology of Practices in Architecture
21 March 2024
UMA Talks: Revolutionary Love – The Power of Gentleness in Architecture
9 February 2024
UMA Talks: The Local is the Future
23 November 2023
UMA Talks: What's Planning got to Do with Architecture?
9 – 10 November 2023
UMA Talks: Critical Care – Building Feminist Recovery
27 October 2023
UnFashion Show 2023
14 - 15 September 2023
New European Bauhaus network meeting
28 August – 8 September 2023
Vertical Workshop
23 May - 3 June 2023
UMA 2023 End of Year Exhibition
27-28 April 2023
NBAA at UMA
16 February 2023
EU-Conference
30 November 2022
Symposium - Designing Cycles at 64° - Interior Urban Landscapes and the Water-Energy-Food Nexus
UMA supports House Europe!
HouseEurope! wants to create incentives that make renovation the new norm. This will boost the renovation market and give new value to what is already there. The goal is to preserve homes and communities, ensure a fairer and more local building industry, save energy and resources, and preserve our memories and stories. HouseEurope! need 1 million signatures for laws to protect affordable housing and the climate.
Read more at houseeurope.eu
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