Mathilda Rosengren
Project researcher

Presentation

I am a visual anthropologist and urban geographer with a research focus on environmental and more-than-human ethnographies of cities and urban life in the Anthropocene. My work takes inspiration from social and cultural anthropology, geography, multispecies ethnography, urban political ecology, landscape studies, and the environmental humanities.

Circling around three nodes of enquiry – multispecies spatial justice, urban time and temporalities, and more-than-human artistic practices – my research is based on an extended interest in questioning the anthropocentric vision of cities that has long dominated urban planning and design.

Between 2026 and 2029, I am heading the project "The Anthropocene City: multispecies stories of climate challenges in the Öresund region" (funded by a Formas Career Grant for Early-career Researchers). Focussing on urban climate challenges (heatwaves, floods, storms), it interrogates the encounter between multispecies lifeworlds and urban planning practices in the Öresund region (Copenhagen & Malmö) in the Anthropocene.

I hold a PhD in geography from the University of Cambridge (2020) and an MA in Visual and Media anthropology from Freie Universität Berlin (2014).