Anders Riel Müller
Førsteamanuensis
Kontakt
Telefon: 51831048
E-post: anders.riel@uis.no
Rom: KE C-327
Organisasjonsenhet
Det teknisk- naturvitenskapelige fakultet
Institutt for sikkerhet, økonomi og planlegging
Kort om meg
My original name is Song Yeon Jun/송연준. I am Associate Professor in Urban and Regional Planning.
Teaching profile:
I teach and supervise in the Urban and Regional Planning programme at the Department of Economics, Safety and Planning. I am currently responsible for the following course(s):
BYG285 is a course on the bachelors level where students are introduced to aspects of resilience with a focus on Safe-To-Fail, adaptive planning, and post-human planning. BYG610 is a graduate course focused on strategic regional planning, futures literacy, and futures scenario methods such as forecasting, backcasting, exploratory, and normative approaches. Both courses are open to non-degree students as a single-course offerings (subject to capacity).
I am also a regular guest lecturer in the following courses:
- Selected Topics in Ciy and Regional Planning (BYG640)
- Energy and Environmental Politics (BST210)
- Bærekraft og grønn omstilling (SV100)
- Sustainable Future Foods (BIO600)
Research profile:
My research focuses on the Cultural Political Economy (CPE) of urban and regional transformations, economic development, land use politics, energy, and food with an emphasis on aspects of justice, democracy, and alternative economies. I am also engaged in questions of colonialism, post-colonialism, imperialism, and deimperialisation. My geographical areas of expertise are mainly East Asia and Scandinavia.
I am a member of the The Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities and co-founder of the research collective Ghosts of Empire in the North Sea - an international and interdisciplinary research initiative that examines the afterlives of imperialism in the North Sea. I am also participating in two research groups at UiS: Sustainable urban development, planning and design and Social and Spatial Justice. I am co-host of the podcast Challenging Nordic Innocence where we explore social, spatial, and environmental justice in the Nordic region. The podcast is a collaboration between the Social and Spatial Justice research group here at UiS and the Centre for Sustainable Futures at Copenhagen University.
I was previously PI for the NFR Capacity Lift project Future Energy Hub (2022 - 2025) aimed at strenghening research and regional competences for sustainable buildings and neighborhoods. I was also the project lead for the Research Network for Smart Sustainable Cities, an interdisciplinary and cross-faculty initiative at the University of Stavanger from 2019 - 2025.
Current Projects
Just Futures and Green Transitions - Department of Media and Social Sciences
Keep the City Ticking: Architectures of Fulfilment and the Infrastructures of Migration and Labour - Independent Research Fund Denmark
Ghosts of Empire in the North Sea
ULALABS: University Lab of Labs for Transformative Societal Innovation - Erasmus+
Empowered Governance - NetZero Cities
Past projects
Research Network for Smart Sustainable Cities (Lead) - Universitetsfondet
Future Energy Hub (PI) - Research Council of Norway
New European Bauhaus Stavanger (NEB-Star) - Horizon Europe
Tested in Rogaland (PI) - Regionalt Forskningsfond Rogaland
The North Sea: Europe's Energy Frontier - UiS Seed Funding - Green Transition
The ECIU University Research Institute for SMART European Regions (Task 4.2 Lead)
ECIU Urban Transformation Collaboratory - ECIU Seed Funding Grant
Academic Development through bilateral peer-learning activities on mission-oriented innovation for Climate Neutral and Smart Cities (Local Lead) - EEA Norway Grant
Building bilateral research network towards resilient, smart and sustainable cities and regions - EEA Norway Grant
Youth Marginalisation in Urban Areas (Seoul, Shanghai, Copenhagen) - Danish Ministry of Higher Education and Science International Network Programme
The Nordplus Network Global & Intercultural competence through practicum in the global south (GIPS) - Nordplus
Professional Experience
I have worked with regional economic development planning in Northern and Eastern Europe and the US within the areas of renewable energy, urban agriculture, and climate change adaptation. Before returning to academia in 2011 to pursue a PhD, I worked 5 years in Silicon Valley/San Francisco where I also founded a non-profit tech start-up in 2009 developing geo-spatial visualisation tools (GIS, Augmented Reality, Virtual Reality) for climate change mitigation and adaptation in partnership with UN Habitat among others. I founded an organic urban farm in Denmark back in 2005 focused on preserving older non-commercial, but genetically and culturally important, vegetable varieties with financial support from the EU Social Fund. I have also co-founded two political organisations in the US and Denmark respectively and worked with numerous other organisations and movements around the world advocating for food sovereignty, land rights, and environmental justice.
Dette forsker jeg på
- Arealpolitikk og arealkonflikter/Land use politics and land use conflicts
- Energiomstilling/Energy transitions
- Naturressurser/Natural ressources
- Mat og matpolitikk / Agro-food studies
- Regional økonomisk utvikling/Regional economic development
- Demokrati og byutvikling/Democracy and urban development
- Smarte byer/Smart cities
- Imperialisme og kolonialisme/Imperialism and colonialism
Akademisk bakgrunn
Ph.d. International Development Studies from Roskilde University (2015)
M.Sc. in Business Studies and Technological, Socio-economic, and Environmental Planning from Roskilde University (2003)
B.Sc. Business Studies from Roskilde University (2000)
I have been a visiting researcher at
University of Manchester, Department of Geography (2014)
Yonsei University, Department of Cultural Anthropology (2012)
Concordia University/Université Concordia, Department of Religion (2002/2003)