Nancy Couling
is an architect and senior researcher and Coordinator of the MAS in Urban and Territorial Design. Nancy works as a researching architect and is associate professor of projects and planning at the Bergen School of Architecture. Inspired by frequently intangible, invisible but critical large-scale urban phenomena, she collaborated on the FCL Territories of Extended Urbanisation project with research on the North Sea, and joined Architecture of Territory in 2021 for the FCL Global project. Following architectural studies in New Zealand, she was awarded a post-grad fellowship at IUAV, Venice and worked in international practices before co-founding her own interdisciplinary agency cet-0/01 in Berlin. In 2015 she gained her PhD at the EPFL, supervised by Harry Gugger, then a post-doc Marie Curie Fellowship at the TU Delft 2017-19 with Carola Hein. She frequently lectures, exhibits and publishes—The Urbanisation of the Sea: From Concepts and Analysis to Design, with Carola Hein (2020), is the latest book. In Bergen she runs the master design course “Explorations in Ocean Space,” investigating the North and Norwegian Seas through technical, artistic, ecological, and performative spatial perspectives.