Staff
Morten Nielsen
I am a social anthropologist working in Mozambique, Scotland, USA and Denmark on socially sustainable urban development in a cultural historical perspective. And on stand-up comedy. Since November 2018 I have been based at the National Museum of Denmark where I am a research professor and head of the Research Center for Social Urban Modelling (SUMO).
Mikkel Heller
I am a Social Anthropologist from the University of Copenhagen, and hold a Master of Professional Communication from Roskilde University. I specialize in social technologies and digital communication, and have worked with co-creation processes, social entrepreneurship and project management in various NGOs. I work on several research projects in SUMO as project manager and research assistant, where I investigate art interventions, civic participation and cultural citizenship in vulnerable social housing estates. In addition to the research part, I am responsible for coordination and supervision of interns and volunteers in SUMO.
Mette My Madsen
Postdoc., National Museum of Denmark. Specialized in informal communities and the region of Denmark/Scandinavia.
I am an anthropologist specialized in the region of Denmark/Norden studying formal and informal social organization, inclusion-strategies, Velfærds-governing, friendship-formation, gender, aesthetics and knowledge epistemology. Also, I have done research in the crossfield between social coherence and individual life-strategies in both Japan and Denmark. I have longstanding experience in interdisciplinary and collaborative research beginning form doing my PhD within the large-scale Copenhagen Social Networks Studies, part of the UCPH Excellence Programme for Interdisciplinary Research.
Additional experience includes working for and with research-based consultancies, editorial work, knowledge dissemination in scientific and popular media and public talks, teaching and supervision as well as organization and coordination of international and interdisciplinary seminars and workshops.
Mathias Dolmer Rasmussen
Kristine Damgaard Henriksen
Annika Saul
Cansu Naz Tekir
Volunteer researcher at ‘Kysset/Genbrugskollektivet’ and ‘Den samskabende museum’.
I have studied architecture in Istanbul, Turkey, and Public Art in Weimar, Germany. My projects deal with the relations between people and places and how we perceive our ever-changing surroundings.
At SUMO, I’ve produced visuals and graphics for the project ‘FællesSkabet,’ along with conducting workshops and interviews with the residents of the Taastrupgaard area. Currently, I’m working in ‘Den samskabende museum,’ where I continue communicating with the younger residents. We aim to attract and involve teenagers living in Høje Taastrup area in museums and cultural history.
Interns
Silas Bilfeldt Ott
Roskilde Universitet, By og Plan
Ilinca-Maria Plugaru
Roskilde Universitet, Media Communication
Acqualuna Hvidberg-Carriere
Københavns Universitet, Moderne Kultur
Project researchers
- Modellens Kraft
Peter Andreas Toft
Nationalmuseet
Nanna Holdgaard
Nationalmuseet
Kristian Hoeck
Københavns Universitet
Anders Emil Rasmussen
Moesgaard Museum
Ella Paldam
Steno Museet
Kirsten Marie Raahauge
Det Kongelige Akademi
Suzi Pain
Det Kongelige Akademi
Kasper Støy
IT Universitetet i København
Research development team
James Holston
James Holston, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Social Apps Lab, UC Berkeley.
James Holston is a political anthropologist. His research focuses on the city as a strategic site for the emergence and erosion of citizenship, popular sovereignty, and democracy. His current work investigates new forms of direct democracy and the development of application software for democratic assembly. His published books, research articles, and software development engage these topics as critique and experiment. At the Social Apps Lab, he produces application software that addresses the terms and scales of democratic assembly, civic action, and urban knowledge. He has conducted extensive research in Brazil and is currently engaged in collaborative projects in Brazil, Denmark, Nicaragua, and the United States.
Morten Nielsen
I am a social anthropologist working in Mozambique, Scotland, USA and Denmark on socially sustainable urban development in a cultural historical perspective. And on stand-up comedy. Since November 2018 I have been based at the National Museum of Denmark where I am a research professor and head of the Research Center for Social Urban Modelling (SUMO).