INVITED LECTURES and TALKS,
VIDEO RECORDS and PODCASTS
2023
November 6, 2023
Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Lecture:
Post-Metaverse Spatial Experiences: About the Significance of Physical Interior in the Digital Era
October 13, 2023
podcast OM STIL med Ida Eritsland, Oslo, Norway
Arkitekt og Professor Vésma Kontere McQuillan
Architect and professor Vesma Kontere McQuillan talks about the concept of Fashion Spaces - straight from Paris Fashion Week.
listen: here
May 25, 2023
International Journal of Fashion Studies Workshop for the
Special Issue “B(l)ending Research Methods in Fashion Scholarship”
at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA),
the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Panel 2: Researching Fashion Space, Digital Archives, and The Body
Key Note:
Removing Clothes: A Different Fashion Review
2022
December, 2022
FRAME Award 2022 GRAND JURY, Amsterdam, Netherlands
recorded talks
watch on YOUTUBE:
FRAME Awards' Window Display of the Year
This winning retail project ‘puts the concept of a window display upside down’
FRAME Awards-winning Fatface Coffee pop-up
Coffee and beer culture collide in this winning pop-up store
FRAME Awards 2022 Set Design of the Year
This dance set uses technology and nature to create an emotional space
November 29, 2022
Symposium Opening of International Library of Fashion Research, Oslo, Norway
Talk:
Formafantasma, Vésma Kontere McQuillan, Wickie Engstrom in Conversation with Dal Chodha:
Fashion Spaces for Fashion Research
2021
March 19, 2021
Symposium Distorted Identities/ New Dilemmas, Oslo, Norway
Lecture:
Navigating Politics of The Front Row and Academia: A New Identity of a Fashion Researcher
watch the video record of the talk here
2020
April- May, 2020
Trentini Talk Show , the First Talk Show for Architects on Zoom
The Host of Season 1
Recorded 8 episodes:
April 9, Episode1
Isolation: a Time For Reinvention
April 16, Episode 2
Global versus Local, with Germans Ermics of German Ermics
April 23, Episode 3
Culture and Consumption, with Sebastian Herkner of Studio Sebastian Herkner
April 30, Episode 4
The Future of Retail Architecture, with Carl-Andres Aspelund of Snøhetta
May 7, Episode 5
Architecture as a Medium, with Thomas Willemeit of Graft
May 14, Episode 6
14/05 Public versus Domestic, with Boris Uborevich-Borovskiy of ub.design
May 21, Episode 7
New Luxury, with Mark Sadler of Marc Sadler Studio
May 7, Episode 8
The Future of Architectural Publishing, with Omar Sosa of Apartamento Magazine
February 19, 2020
Lecture and Panel Program Euroshop 2020, Premium City, Hall 7, Düsseldorf, Germany
Lecture:
From Brandscapes to Fashion Spaces: When Architecture finds Fashion
Lecture:
Past, Preset and Future of Fashion Spaces, or What to Learn from Gen Z
2019
December 13, 2019
podcast Krumsvik&Co, Oslo, Norway
Vésma Kontere on Prada, Fashion Spaces, and Streetwear
listen here:
Oktober 26, 2019
The Berlage Center for Advanced Studies in Architecture and Urban Design, Delft, Netherlands
Lecture:
When Architecture Found Fashion: Prada + OMA/AMO
watch the video record of the lecture here
October 16, 2019
Symposium THE FUTURE OF RETAIL, Westerdals Kristiania, SALT Art & Music, Oslo, Norway
Moderator
Fashion Spaces/The Pioneers
September 26, 2019
44th International Conference for Visual Marketing & Retail design, VMM, Berlin, Germany
Lecture:
The Phygital Retail Experience: The Truth or The Myth?
June 12, 2019
Labor in The Creative Industries: the Case of Fashion, Oslo Met, Oslo, Norway
Lecture:
Five looks from Lotta Volkova. Or: how Post-Soviet Union- Bred Russian Aesthetics democratised the Stying of French High-Fashion
May 23, 2019
Elisava Barcelona. School of design and Engineering, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Lecture:
From Brandscapes to Fashion spaces: Transformation of Retail Space in the Digital Age
January 14, 2019
Istituto Marangoni The School of Fashion, Milan, Italy
Lecture:
Nordic Fashion Stories. A Norwegian Perspective
December 12, 2018
Business seminar about digitalisation, MAD, Brussels, Belgium
Lecture:
Let’s talk about Digital Strategies
2018
October 25 - 26, 2018
During RIGA FASHION WEEK, a seminar and a workshop organized by the Baltic Fashion Federation within the framework of the international project "United Fashion" on topic "Digitization. Brand Management", Riga, Latvia
Lecture:
What to learn from Norway: “Scandinavian cool” in the Baltic context
Workshop:
Can we create “Baltic cool”?
October 17, 2018
Symposium THE FUTURE OF RETAIL, Westerdals Høyskole Kristiania, Oslo, Norway
Moderator
Fashion Spaces, Norwegian Context: Rom på moten
October 11, 2018
Komunikāciju aģentūra/Edelman Affiliate, Riga, Latvia
Lecture:
Aesthetics. Communication. Strategy
September 17, 2018
Elisava Barcelona. School of design and Engineering, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain
Lecture for MA level:
Introduction in Trend Analyses and Forecasting for Retail Design students
June 11, 2018
Seminar FASHION AND COMMUNICATION, Art Academy Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Lecture:
Narratives of Contemporary Norwegian Fashion
March 1, 2018
For Trentini Group in collaboration with NATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS OF LATVIA 2018, Riga, Latvia
Lecture:
Don’t Follow Trends, Create Them
2017
November 13 - 17, 2017
Project week, University Collaboration Düsseldorf with Adidas, HSD, Düsseldorf, Germany
Lecture course, workshop and tutoring for BA and MA level:
Creating a Vision for Adidas Retail 2027
August 23, 2017
Symposium THE FUTURE OF RETAIL, Westerdals Oslo ACT, Oslo, Norway
Moderator
Between the Physical and the Virtual: Storytelling.
August 23, 2017
Symposium THE FUTURE OF RETAIL, Westerdals Oslo ACT, Oslo, Norway
Lecture:
How architecture became a medium. The AMO case
July 21, 2017
NATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS OF LATVIA 2018, Riga, Latvia
Pop-up lecture:
Ziblekcija par to kā paredzēt dizaina tendences
While creating the neology “ZIBLEKCIJA” in Latvian:
https://nra.lv/latvija/217130-radies-latviesu-valodas-jaunvards-kas-apzime-peksnu-lekciju.htm
June 3, 2017
Seminar FASHION PROCESS, Art Academy of Latvia, Riga, Latvia
Lecture:
Introduction in Trend Analyses and Forecasting for fashion Designers
March 3, 2017
NATIONAL DESIGN AWARDS OF LATVIA 2017, Riga, Latvia
Lecture:
Design is a Verb
2016
November 23, 2016
Symposium THE FUTURE OF RETAIL, Westerdals Oslo ACT, Oslo, Norway
Moderator
Holistic Retail Design
2015
October 28, 2015
Symposium THE FUTURE OF RETAIL, Westerdals Oslo ACT, Oslo, Norway
Moderator
Beyond Sales
March 16, 2015
NEEDLEWORK &TECHNOLOGY 2015. Fashion Exchange- Powered by PechaKutcha. Oslo, Norway
PetchaKutcha:
A Case Study OMA/AMO with/for Prada/Miu Miu
2014
November 5, 2014
Symposium THE FUTURE OF RETAIL, Westerdals Oslo ACT, Oslo, Norway
Moderator
October 3, 2014
Seminar WINDOW DISPLAYS IN RIGA at Riga City Council, Riga, Latvia
Lecture:
10 strategies for making a modern window display
September 27, 2014
THE FUTURE OF RETAIL, HACKATHON 2014
Westerdals Oslo School of Arts, Communication, and Technology and Copenhagen Business School,
Copenhagen, Denmark
Responsible for Hackathon:
Touch-point innovation: which task to work with?
March 25 - 28, 2014
IADE’s 8th International Week «WAR and PEACE: Diplomacy and culture for economic development», IADE Creative University, Lisbon, Portugal
Lecture:
WAR and PEACE: Fashion Film
February 6, 2014
Oslo Trend Film Festival, Scandinavia’s Fashion Film Festival, Oslo, Norway
Lecture:
Key Future Trends in Branding. Fashion Film
2013
April 24, 2013
Trend Reports Westerdals 2012+13, Oslo, Norway
Trend Report:
From Milan Furniture fair (Milan, Italy)
March 13, 2013
Symposium THE FUTURE OF RETAIL, Westerdals School of Communication Oslo, Norway
Moderator
February 6, 2013
Trend Reports Westerdals 2012+13, Oslo, Norway
Trend Report:
From Maison et Objet (Paris, France)
2012
November 7, 2012
Trend Reports Westerdals 2012+13, Oslo, Norway
Trend Report:
From Interior 2012 (Kortrijk, Belgium)
October 10, 2012
Trend Reports Westerdals 2012+13, Oslo, Norway
Trend Report:
From 100% Design and Designersblock (London, UK)
2004
October 6 - 7, 2004
KUNO in Copenhagen, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark
MA-level workshop:
On Search of Different Time and Space
2002
September 12 - 14, 2002
Nordic - Baltic Architectural Triennial, Tallinn, Estonia
Lecture:
How Much of the Light Do We Need?