Ilse Svortevik Hviding is an architect working across research, practice, and material innovation. She is a partner in RÅ Materialer, which develops building components and construction methods from surplus geo-based materials, and a member of Earth Collective (NO). She is affiliated with the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) as a research assistant in the Circular Architecture and Material Flows (CA) research group, where she explores circular building technologies in relation to current Norwegian standards. She also works with Strategisk by- og stedsledelse, an executive education programme at AHO for municipal directors. Ilse holds a Master of Architecture from the Aarhus School of Architecture and she has previously worked with AHO, the Oslo Architecture Triennale, Gamle Munch adaptive reuse project for Oslo municipality, Studio Batna (co-founder), Effekt Architects in Copenhagen, Edit Landscape and Architecture Office in Oslo, and Arkitektur magazine. 

Under Oslo arkitekturtriennale er hun en av initiativtakerne og arrangørene bak The Sofienberg Naturalization Bureau, en interaktiv workshop som undersøker hvordan forestillinger om det «naturlige» kommer til uttrykk i blant annet materialer, arkitektur og hverdagsliv.