Roemer van Toorn is an architect and Professor of Architecture Theory, at UMA School of Architecture, Umeå, Sweden. He is a member of the Formas supported Strong Research Environment “Architecture in Effect” hosted by KTH in Stockholm. He has been in charge of the publication, history and theory program, and was head of the PhD research school at the Berlage Institute, the Netherlands. He was guest professor at the Technical University of Delft, and the Universität der Künste, Berlin, while at the same time pursuing a career as an international lecturer, researcher, writer and photographer. His research focuses on modernization, political theory, visual culture, as well on policy and
education in architecture. After publishing “The Invisible in Architecture” he was the editor of “Architecture in the Netherlands”, co-founded the Berlage report “Hunch”, and contributes to many journals and books on architecture. Currently he curates a lecture series at the KU Leuven “Civil Imagination as a Staging Ground for Action”, while finalizing his book on the “Society of the And”, and his research on “Aesthetics as a Form of Politics.”