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_{My research investigates the spatial politics of contemporary urban life. Situated at the intersection of architecture, art, and critical urban studies, it examines the socio-spatial production of urban marginality and the right to the city. Through the investigation of space as a socially produced, negotiated, and contested construct, I employ micro-scale, site-specific research to investigate broader socio-cultural dynamics and engage critically with discourses of urban renewal, development, integration, and security. Grounded in spatial, feminist, and critical urban theory, my work bridges theoretical inquiry with artistic practice through a model I position as Urban Praxis. An approach that cyclically integrates theory, site-based ethnography, and practice-based outputs. The epistemic artefacts that result—temporary public art interventions, photography, video, and critical mapping—direct and materialise the theoretical research, promoting critically awareness and foregrounding questions of access, representation, and participation.}

_{I have served as a guest critic at the Royal Danish Academy (2022) and as an Artistic Research Fellow at Cranbrook Academy of Art and Architecture (2025), where I developed and led Urban Praxis, a graduate course combining critical theory with fieldwork across Detroit. I also curate Critical Praxis, a para-academic platform for dialogue at the intersection of art and architecture. My professional experience spans diverse spatial and architectural practices, including work as an architect with Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects in Copenhagen (2022–2024) and as a spatial designer with the art collective N55 (2021–2022).}

_{My forthcoming monograph, Aesthetic Regimes of Equity with Routledge, Critical Urbanism and the City Studies series, extends this trajectory by examining public art as an expanded architectural practice in Copenhagen and Detroit through a practice-based lens. My research and artistic work have been supported by Statens Kunstfond, Dreyers Fond, Augustinus Foundation, and the Obel Family Foundation and are held in the Irish Office of Public Works Collection.}

^{info@conorkcoughlan.com@Conor K. Coughlan@Critical Praxis}

CV

PUBLIC ARTWORKS

_{• Three Magnets}

^{Copenhagen, Denmark (forthcoming)}

^{Supported by Dreyers Fond}

_{• Emergency Sonic Relief Station}

^{Various public spaces, Copenhagen, Denmark (2025)}

_{• Mimesis}

^{Mjølnerparken, Copenhagen, Denmark (2025)}

_{• Disco Dome}

^{Various public spaces, Copenhagen, Denmark (2024)}

_{• Unveiling the Soundscape of Exclusion}

^{Vanløse Station, Copenhagen, Denmark (2024)}

_{• Vores hjem er ikke til salg}

^{Mjølnerparken, Copenhagen, Denmark (2024)}

_{• Shelter Village}

^{In collaboration with N55 and Anne Romme, Davinde, Denmark (2023)}

_{• Traffic-Men}

^{Nørrebroparken, Copenhagen, Denmark (2022)}

_{• N55 Cargo Office}

^{In collaboration with N55 and XYZ Cargo, Ekenäs, Finland (2022)}

_{• Petrify}

^{Blågårds Plads, Copenhagen, Denmark (2019)}

_{• Reframed}

^{Various public spaces, Dublin, Ireland (2016)}

PUBLICATIONS

^{• Coughlan, C. K. (in press). Aesthetic Regimes of Equity: Public Art, Benevolent Aesthetics, and Socio-Spatial Justice. Routledge. (Sole-authored monograph, forthcoming in the Critical Studies in Urbanism and the City series)}

^{• Coughlan, C. K. (n.d.). The Aesthetics of Exclusion. Manuscript in preparation.}

^{• Coughlan, C. K. (2019). Before, Between, and After Architecture. Independent publication accompanying the Three Magnets project.}

^{• Coughlan, C. K. (2018). Reframing Urban Surfaces. 1815, (5).}

^{• Coughlan, C. K. (2016). Contextualising Artistic Practices in Urban Space. In-Place.}

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

_{• Artistic Research Fellowship – Supported by Statens Kunstfond}

_{Cranbrook Academy of Art | Detroit, USA (forthcoming, September 2025)}

_{• Artist in Residence – Supported by Augustinus Foundation and the Obel Family Foundation}

^{Fabrikken for Kunst og Design Atelierprogram | Copenhagen, Denmark (2024–Present)}

_{• Architect}

_{Schmidt Hammer Lassen Architects | Copenhagen, Denmark (2022–2024)}

_{• Guest Tutor}

^{Royal Danish Academy of Architecture | Copenhagen, Denmark (2022)}

_{• Spatial Designer}

^{N55 | Copenhagen, Denmark (2021–2022)}

_{• Goldsmith}

^{CatBird | New York, USA (2017–2018)}

_{• Goldsmith}

^{Alan Ardiff | Dublin, Ireland (2015–2017)}

EDUCATION

_{• Master of Arts in Design}

^{Major in Spatial Design, Royal Danish Academy | Copenhagen, Denmark (2019–2021)}

_{• Bachelor of Arts in Design}

^{Major in Jewellery and Metalwork, NCAD | Dublin, Ireland (2013–2016)}

_{• Art Foundation}

^{Stillorgan College of Further Education | Dublin, Ireland (2012–2013)}

PAST FUNDING

_{• Statens Kunstfond – Artistic Research Fellowship}

^{Cranbrook Academy of Art | Detroit, USA (forthcoming, September 2025)}

_{• Dreyers Fond – Production Grant for Three Magnets}

^{Copenhagen, Denmark (forthcoming, 2025)}

_{• Statens Kunstfond – Research Trip for Naples Courtyards}

^{Naples, Italy (2021)}

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

_{• Free All Ages Art Workshop}

^{Supported by Drips CPH at Back Yart Arts Center, Hervlev, Denmark (2023)}

_{• Solutions}

^{Group show at the Royal Danish Academy, Copenhagen, Denmark (2021)}

_{• The Space Between}

^{Group show of the Office of Public Works collection at Stormont Estate, Belfast, Northern Ireland (2018)}

_{• NUA}

^{Group show at Fumbally Exchange, Dublin, Ireland (2018)}

_{• Inplace}

^{Group show at Tara Building, Dublin, Ireland (2016)}

MEMBERSHIPS

^{• Visual Artists Ireland}

^{• Fabrikken for Art and Design}

^{• In-Place Artist Collective}