about
My name is Emmy Laura Pérez Fjalland. I was born in 1987 in Bogotá (Colombia), grew up in Denmark and am based in Copenhagen. My mother has lived in Spain for more than 15 years, meaning this is also a place that I am closely connected to.
I am significantly interested in heritage landscapes and environmental futures, and the cultural significance of working with environmental transformation within the fields of landscape architecture and planning.
I hold a ph.d in geography and planning studies, and currently work as a postdoctoral researcher at Fuglsang Art Museum and the Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resource Management at University of Copenhagen. Since defending my PhD in 2019, I have partly been able to continue my research as a postdoctoral fellow, partly experiment with practice-based research within studio huma.
studio huma was initiated in 2019 as I had defended my PhD, and emerge from a ‘curious practice’ of geography and critical ecological thinking. studio huma works with research, writing, curating, and consulting, focuses on landscape histories and environmental storytelling, and seeks to bring attention to more-than-human world-making, ecosocial landscaping, and place imaginaries.
I have an interdisciplinary background in humanities crossing philosophy, history, arts, and cultural studies. I have a Master of Arts (2013) and PhD (2019) in geography and planning studies. My research is mainly based in working with ethnographic, collaborative, and situated methodologies of geography and planning. Adressing the environmental issues is at the center of my work, and with a basis in place and landscape my main research areas focus on I) co-creation and coexistence II) histories and storytelling, III) mobilities, movements, migrations.
I have been associated with Roskilde University (Dept. of People & Technology, DK), the Royal Danish Academy of Architecture (Institute for Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape, DK), Aarhus University (Department for Cultural Studies and Archaeology, DK), and University of Copenhagen (Section for Landscape Architecture and Planning, DK). And have worked as resarch assistant at Gehl Architects, researcher and project manager at The Danish Architecture Centre, and as senior consultant at Carlberg/Christensen.
Check out engagements for specific projects and works.
Grants
NordForsk, ROOTS (2026-2029), Aarhus University – link.
New Carlsberg Foundation, postdoctoral project ‘Co-curating Topographic Imaginaries’ at Fuglsang Art Museum and Copenhagen University, Section for Landscape Architecture and Planning (2025-2028) - link.
The Danish Arts Foundation’s architecture project grant (2025)
The Danish Arts Foundation’s architecture working grant (2024)
The Danish Arts Foundation’s architecture working grant (2023)
A project grant from DREYERS foundation (2022)
A resarch project grant from CoroLab (2021)
A PhD scholarship with means partly from the foundation Realdania through The Danish Architecture Centre, partly from Roskilde University (2014-2019).
Member of networks, groups, jurys, boards
2021 / Member of Art Hub’s ‘Jury’, sustainability expert, in relation to the programme ‘Repairing the Present’ (2021-2022) is a project under S+T+ARTS, an initiative funded by the European Union and aimed at connecting science, technology, and the arts.
2021-2022 / Member of Art Hub’s ‘Local Expert Group’, sustainability expert, in relation to the programme ‘Repairing the Present’ (2021-2022) is a project under S+T+ARTS network, an initiative funded by the European Union and aimed at connecting science, technology, and the arts.
2016-2020 / Board member of the international Cosmobilties Research Network.
