NORCAP News story 'Combining urban architecture and humanitarian work'

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The In Transit Studio explores the following questions: How do mobility and migration inform the way we shape our cities? How can the design of new ways of living and social infrastructure contribute to diverse, tolerant, and inclusive neighborhoods? How can we plan for and facilitate social sustainability in our communities?

Who we are

In Transit Studio is a hub for architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism students from all over the world who devote their skills and ideas to collaborative knowledge production about displacement, urbanization and space. The Studio is dedicated to exploring the subject of mobility and migration in the age of urbanization, and to propose local, spatial and site-specific solutions to global challenges.

In Transit Studio is a master level course in architecture and urbanism created by Håvard Breivik-Khan and Tone Selmer-Olsen at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design's (AHO) Institute of Urbanism and Landscape in partnership with the Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC)/NORCAP, a global and independent humanitarian organization that helps people forced to flee. The Studio was created in 2016 to contribute new thinking to this emerging field and to educate future built environment professionals, who are ready to take on the challenges of our times.

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Håvard Breivik-Khan
Architect MNAL

Håvard Breivik-Khan is an architect, researcher, and educator with more than a decade of experience from crisis response, humanitarian relief, and development efforts. Håvard has been deployed to National authorities in Moldova and Romania, and United Nations agencies in Haiti, Nepal, North Macedonia, Hungary, and the UN HQ in New York through the Norwegian Refugee Council’s emergency standby roster, NORCAP. Håvard is the co-creator of the master’s course In Transit Studio at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO). He holds a master’s degree in Architecture from AHO’s Institute of Urbanism and Landscape, with residencies in Paris, France (ENSAPLV) and Shanghai and Chongqing, China.

Tone Selmer-Olsen
Architect MNAL

Tone Selmer-Olsen is an architect and currently the director of Lala Tøyen. She is the co-creator of the Master’s course In Transit Studio at the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape at AHO. Through her own private practice and with collaborating partners, Tone has worked with projects ranging from private housing to large-scale award-winning culture buildings. She has broad experience from crisis response, humanitarian relief, and development efforts, and been deployed to United Nations agencies in Haiti, Nepal and North Macedonia. Tone holds a master’s degree in Architecture from the Institute of Architecture at the AHO, including exchange programmes in Copenhagen (KADK), and at the AA, London.

Paul-Antoine Lucas
Architect

Paul-Antoine Lucas is an architect, designer, educator, and curator working in the intersection of art, architecture, and activism. He is the co-founder of Exutoire, an Oslo-based critical spatial practice that investigates questions of social, spatial, and material justice in architecture. Paul-Antoine joined the In Transit Studio as a teacher in 2020. He is currently a curator in residence at ROM in Oslo. He holds a masters’ degree in architecture from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) and has previously studied and worked in Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo, and Copenhagen.

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This website was supported, in part, by the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO). Design and development by Alejandro V. Rojas. Editing by Håvard Breivik-Khan & Tone Selmer-Olsen.