Chero Eliassi Sarzeli

With a Master degree in Landscape Architecture from the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (2019) and a PhD in Architectural Theory and History from KTH Royal Institute of Technology (2025), Chero Eliassi’s research explores the historical transformations of Sweden’s Million Program landscapes. In the dissertation Diasporic Welfare Landscapes: Transformative Histories of the Million Programme, Eliassi examines how the outdoor environments of the Million Program housing were shaped, inhabited, and transformed during and after the record years (1961–1975). The research also investigates how these environments can be understood as cultural landscapes and as part of Sweden’s cultural heritage.

Eliassi’s broader research interests include cultivation practices in multicultural landscapes, the transformation of neighborhood parks, densification processes of neighborhood centers, and diasporic cultural practices within Swedish welfare landscapes.

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