Carolina Dayer (AR) is an architect and associate professor at Aarhus School of Architecture in Denmark. In addition to her extensive teaching engagements at the master’s level, she is currently working on two research projects entitled: ‘Ingenuity and Humour: Architecture in Times of Global Crises’ and ‘Cultures of Maintenance.’

She is author and co-editor of Material Imagination: Reconnecting with the Matter of Architecture (AADR, Spurbuchverlag, 2023), Confabulations: Storytelling in Architecture (Routledge, 2016) and Activism in Architecture: Bright Dreams of Passive Energy Design (Routledge, 2018).

In 2021, she exhibited the artistic-research project: Insiders, Othered Histories at On-Site Gallery in Denmark. She was design associate editor of the Journal of Architectural Education from 2017 until 2021. She will co-chair an upcoming session at the EAHN 2024 international conference in Athens entitled: ‘Cultures of Maintenance: Upkeep and Repair.