The Museum of Finnish Architecture, together with Aalto University, hosts this lecture by Malin Blomqvist as part of its Architecture Speaks series. The overall theme of the talks focuses on the architect’s role and societal responsibility in the era of artificial intelligence. Activism in architecture, whether through social housing, inclusivity issues, biodiversity, new building materials, circular economy, or architectural representation, is a means to act within the profession. 

Blomqvist is a landscape architect and one of the two founding partners in MASU Planning based both in Denmark and Finland. She works with landscape architecture on all scales, especially in urban contexts with a focus on site-specific, sustainable, and long-lasting solutions. With a great love of materiality and texture, she challenges persistent, common materials, compositions, and uses, with authentic and innovative landscape spaces as a result. She operates with an open-minded approach to the premises of every site and project.