Catharina Nord

Professor

Department of Spatial Planning, Room C 508

Nord at a glance

Catharina Nord is professor in Spatial Planning and architect SAR/MSA. For a number of years she has carried out research about care and architecture, in Sweden and oversees. She is currently the project manager for CollAGE which is a research programme on muncipality collaboration on age-freindly cities and communities. She lectures for students and professionals.

Projects & Publications

Ongoing project
CollAGE. Collaboratively developing age-friendly communities with municipality eldercare, spatial planning and Senior Citizens’ Councils
Research project in CollAGE: Co-production of local age-friendly communities. Older people as researchers: In this project, older people will be engaged as co-producers of research. They will study local interpretations of age-friendly communities with focus on older people’s perceptions of housing and care by the interviewing older people. The responsible researcher will study their work as a research project.
What places? What ageing? Ageing-in-place in contemporary African urbanities: the cases of Walvis Bay, Namibia and Jinja, Uganda. LINK TO MORE INFO.

Finished projects
The importance of architectural space for relational care for older people with great care needs. This project was a comparison of care work in extra-care housing and residential care.

Recent publications
Catharina Nord, "Family houses–building an intergenerational space in post-apartheid Namibia", Canadian Journal of African Studies, ISSN 0008-3968, EISSN 1923-3051, Vol. 56, nr 2, pp. 427 - 451, Taylor and Francis Ltd., 2022
Catharina Nord, "Institutional Traits in an African Residence for Older Adults", Journal of Aging and Environment, ISSN 2689-2618, EISSN 2689-2626, Vol. 36, nr 4, pp. 433 - 449, Routledge, 2022
Catharina Nord, "Post-colonial architecture", Journal of Architecture, ISSN 1360-2365, EISSN 1466-4410, Vol. 27, nr 1, pp. 71 - 93, Routledge, 2022
Catharina Nord, Janet Ananias, "Urbanised Ageing and Strategic Welfare Space in a Namibian Former Township", African Studies, ISSN 0002-0184, EISSN 1469-2872, Vol. 81, nr 1, pp. 45 - 69, Taylor & Francis, 2022
Catharina Nord, "Liminal space and the negotiation of care work in extra-care housing", Health and Place, ISSN 1353-8292, EISSN 1873-2054, Vol. 69, Elsevier Ltd, 2021