Team

Meet the people behind the Triennale

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    Line Ramstad

    Director

    Line has a practical approach to architecture and a strong interest in collaborations and how the built environment impacts people and nature. She has spent her career exploring how inclusive and culturally adapted processes and a deliberate attitude to the environment can foster sustainable architecture and urban/rural development. This is evident through Gyaw Gyaw, which she founded together with refugees on the border between Thailand and Burma. For 15 years the organisation has utilized sustainable architecture as a tool, using participatory democratic processes as a guiding principle to raise education and quality of life in marginalized communities. Line is a landscape architect, educated at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, in combination with anthropology, geography and environmental studies from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. From 2023-24, she was a Loeb Fellow at the Harvard Graduate School of Design

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    Alexandra Cruz

    Head of Programme and International Relations

    Alexandra is coordinating the programme with various local and international partners. She has developed a variety of projects in the intersections between architecture, design and arts. She has worked at the Arts Institute from the Ministry of Culture of Portugal, with Portuguese representations in biennales of Venice in 2004 and São Paulo in 2005. Alexandra is educated in Architecture from Lisbon School of Architecture and in Scenography from Central Saint Martins, College of Arts and Design, London.

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    Thomas Cook

    Head of Development

    Thomas coordinates different professional collaborations and partnerships, programme and development activities, also having an editorial role. He has previously worked with urban spaces for the Agency for City Environment in Oslo, as an advisor for the City Architect in Bergen, and is co-founder and former owner of the neighbourhood café Nobel Bopel. Thomas is a freelance writer, and regularly writes about architecture, urban development and urban culture. He has a master's degree in Architecture History and a bachelor's degree in Social Geography from the University of Bergen as well as a master's degree in Urbanism at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, where he currently also teaches.