New Now Next: Joar Nango

The Irish Architecture Foundation, supported by Arup, is delighted to present Joar Nango in conversation about his groundbreaking work.

Joar Nango works with site-specific installations and self-made publications that explore the boundary between architecture, design, and visual art. Sámi, born in 1979 in Áltá, Norway, he lives and works in Tromsø, Norway. His work relates to questions of Indigenous identity, often through investigating contemporary architecture. Joar has explored modern Sámi spaces through the self-published zine Sámi Huksendáidda: the Fanzine, the design project Sámi Shelters, and the mixtape/clothing project Land & Language. He is a founding member of the architecture collective FFB and is currently setting up a network of Sámi architects across Sápmi through the ongoing Indigenous architecture library project Girjegumpi, which was also included in the Nordic Pavilion at The Laboratory of the Future, La Biennale di Venezia, in 2023. Joar Nango in Dublin is presented in partnership with the Misleór Festival of Nomadic Cultures, an initiative of the Galway Traveller Movement.