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Interested in what we do, or want to collaborate? We’d love to hear from you — don’t hesitate to reach out.

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PEOPLE

Nicolai Jæger-Larasse
NORWAY

Architect and artist who designs caring, playful spaces and installations to strengthen the dialogue between people, landscape, culture, and nature. In his practice, he is especially interested in uniting the aesthetic and the technical with sustainable materials to create quality and buildings that can endure over time. He often explores through hands-on building and has extensive experience working with wood. Co-owner and managing director of KINICO AS.

Contact: nicolai@riftcollective.com

Kine Jæger-Larasse
NORWAY

Architect and artist – with a background in immersive art and theatre experiences. For the municipality of Ål, she has developed housing typologies in close dialogue with both retirees and young people wishing to relocate there. Her work is characterised by a focus on emotional presence and engagement. She brings this experience into RIFT to explore how the project can interact with the world around it, evoke emotion, and inspire meaningful conversations. Co-owner and chair of the board at KINICO AS.

Contact: kine@riftcollective.com

RIFT-scouts

Lennart Dose - DENMARK

Architect and artist focused on preserving and renewing the existing building stock. His work explores how materials, techniques, and traditions can evolve in dialogue with their surroundings. With a cross-disciplinary approach, he engages with reuse, biobased resources, and traditional craft to develop architectural solutions inspired by nature’s principles – from self-regulating structures to materials that transform over time. His experience spans from restoring 17th-century heritage buildings to contemporary extensions, new constructions, and concept development. Through Architects Without Borders he has worked with regenerative building materials in Tanzania, and in interdisciplinary teams he has developed visions for societal challenges – including coastal protection using mussel shells as a hydraulic binder.

Jóhan Martin Christiansen - FAROE ISLANDS

Jóhan Martin was born in the Faroe Islands in 1987, is an artist based in Copenhagen, where he runs the art gallery Bonne Espérance. His practice explores the physical, emotional, and philosophical dimensions of materials through installation, plaster reliefs, printmaking, and video. Within RIFT, he investigates the local resources of the Faroe Islands, along with the traditional methods, techniques, symbolism, and mythology connected to these materials.

Lúdika - ICELAND

Lúdika is a young Reykjavík-based design and architecture studio, founded on many years of practice in London, Reykjavík and Cairo. Our background covers small and large scale residential, commercial, educational and cultural uses. We understand the process and know what makes a good project: be it for one or for the many. We look at this simply: to make places that respect their past, play in the present and look to the future. Places where people and thus the environment are at the core. We play for the good.

Collaboratorio - FINLAND

Collaboratorio is an international architecture studio based in Helsinki, founded in 2016 by architects Kristiina Kuusiluoma and Martino De Rossi. Their practice challenges the conventions of contemporary building by returning to what architecture has always been about: people, place, and the materials of the earth. For Collaboratorio, architecture is not an abstract pursuit but a profoundly human one. They design homes, schools, public spaces, and objects that are tactile, ecological, and deeply connected to their surroundings. “Our goal is simple: more beauty, more communality, more affordability, more humanity,” say the founders.

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