Namik Mačkić

Namik Mačkić studies interactions between landscape and urbanization from a global perspective: specifically, the ways that different mechanisms that produce the living environment—from earth systems governing regional patterns of matter expression to models of technocapitalist urbanization—enmesh and condition the developmental horizons of human cultures and societies. He is a design educator, artist, and cultural producer whose career also includes cultural and education policy development for the Norwegian government and environmental communications for WWF. Mačkić is a graduate of Harvard University Graduate School of Design, University of Oslo, and Norwegian Academy of Music. He was previously Assistant Professor at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, visiting instructor at MIT School of Architecture + Planning, and guest critic at Rhode Island School of Design’s Architecture Department. Mačkić’s artistic productions and collaborations have been presented in arenas such as Black Box Teater and Podium (Oslo, NO), PACT Zollverein (Essen, DE), and Kunstenfestivaldesarts (Brussels, BE). At SCI-Arc, Mačkić teaches seminars in urban and environmental theory and contemporary design discourse and coordinates the Institute’s research and innovation projects.