Janek Ozmin

Janek Ozmin is an architect, researcher, educator, and artistic practitioner based in Stockholm. He works at the intersection of architecture, urbanism, and practice-based research, with a focus on how everyday spatial arrangements reflect power, governance, and changing forms of domestic and civic life.

He holds a PhD in Architecture from KTH Royal Institute of Technology, where his practice-based doctoral project GO LO GO HI traced the development of masculine domesticities from the garage to the penthouse through architectural analysis, installations, film, and experimental writing. His research is characterised by multi-modal methods that combine spatial analysis, archival work, 1:1 prototypes, pedagogical formats, and situated artistic practice.

Janek’s current research develops two interconnected strands: architectures of governance—including forced neglect, informal power, and institutional failure in housing and urban systems—and ecological domesticities, drawing on historical and contemporary off-grid and resilience architectures in Sweden. His work engages with policy, planning, and lived experience, often in collaboration with community actors, NGOs, and cultural institutions.

Alongside his research practice, Janek is an experienced architecture educator and Director of Studies for the Master Programs in Architecture, working with the school’s four divisions, with a focus on curriculum development, pedagogical frameworks, assessment practices, and the cultivation of constructive staff–student relations. He is particularly interested in teaching as a form of practice-based research, and in creating educational structures that support critical reflection, collective authorship, and long-term institutional responsibility. He also coordinates the Research Seminars in Architecture Series, a platform for critical exchange, early-stage research, and advanced scholarly discussion.

His practice spans writing, spatial installations, fictive propositions, photography, and exhibition-based research. Through these formats, he investigates how architectural knowledge is produced, communicated, and contested—both inside and outside academic institutions.