Marie-Louise Richards

Marie-Louise Richards is an architect, lecturer and researcher at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm. Her work explores invisibility as embodiment, critical strategy and spatial category through methods of architectural and artistic practice, curatorial practice and writing. Current work seeks to imagine the discipline, practice and history of architecture “otherwise”, through citational practices, queer, Black feminist and decolonial methodologies, theories and approaches. Recent work includes “Pedagogies of Power” (September 2022) and “Rest in Public as Resistance” (July–August 2022), in the Architectural Review; Banana-Split a (Black) Power Walk, short film, Mossutställningar/Public Art Agency Sweden (2020); “Out of Line: Erasure and Vulnerability as Sites of Subversion”, in Archifutures: “Agency”, Vol. 6 (2020); “Hyper-visible Invisibility: Tracing the Politics, Poetics and Affects of the Unseen”, Field Journal: Becoming a Feminist Architect, Vol. 7 (2017).