Innovators, ground-breakers, and inspirational leaders in politics, architecture, design, cultural production, and research whose work engages and negotiates the local impacts of challenging global issues of climate, leadership, housing, and displacement inform this season of the international public lecture series New Now Next, presented by the Irish Architecture Foundation and supported by Arup.

The Irish Architecture Foundation, supported by Arup, is delighted to present Joar Nango in conversation about his groundbreaking work.

Joar Nango works with site-specific installations and self-made publications that explore the boundary between architecture, design, and visual art. Sámi, born in 1979 in Áltá, Norway, he lives and works in Tromsø, Norway. His work relates to questions of Indigenous identity, often through investigating contemporary architecture. Joar has explored modern Sámi spaces through the self-published zine Sámi Huksendáidda: the Fanzine, the design project Sámi Shelters, and the mixtape/clothing project Land & Language. He is a founding member of the architecture collective FFB and is currently setting up a network of Sámi architects across Sápmi through the ongoing Indigenous architecture library project Girjegumpi, which was also included in the Nordic Pavilion at The Laboratory of the Future, La Biennale di Venezia, in 2023. Joar Nango in Dublin is presented in partnership with the Misleór Festival of Nomadic Cultures, an initiative of the Galway Traveller Movement.

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About New Now Next

New Now Next is a series of talks run by the Irish Architecture Foundation, supported by Arup, to inspire Dublin audiences who are interested in architecture and innovative research into people, politics and the environment. New Now Next is about disseminating NEW ideas regarding contemporary issues relevant NOW that can impact the NEXT generations. Speakers over the years have included innovators like Lacaton & Vassal, Eyal Weizman, Toni L. Griffin, Dorte Mandrup, Kunlé Adeyemi, Sou Fujimoto, Grafton Architects, Jeanne Gang, Tatiana Bilbao, and many more.

Photo by Knut Aaserud, courtesy of Joar Nango.