- Residency period: Winter 2023
- Neringa Forest Architecture Residency
Toms Kokins is Latvian born architect currently based in Umeå, Sweden where he teaches at Umeå School of Architecture. Kokins is participating in NFA residency program where he pursues his research on resource driven colonisation in the context of Baltic Sea region and timber industry. Through built experiments and interventions Kokins explores how built form can serve as a spatial articulation revealing hidden power structures and amplifying untold narratives of local craft, labour an ecologies.
Etching by an unknown artist according to picture of W. Busch, 1895
Vecekrugas dune afforestation, circa 1902, author unknown.
Nida by Toms Kokins.
Courtesy of Toms Kokins
Courtesy of Toms Kokins
Image: Nida Art Colony
Courtesy of Toms Kokins
Courtesy of Toms Kokins
Funded by the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture
