Carolina Dayer (AR), PhD, is an architect and Associate Professor at Aarhus School of Architecture.

She is author and co-editor of Confabulations: Storytelling in Architecture (Routledge, 2016) and Activism in Architecture: Bright Dreams of Passive Energy Design (Routledge, 2018) and Material Imagination: Reconnecting with the Matter of Architecture (AADR, 2023). 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. During her appointment, she theme-edited two issues: A/To Project and Built. She currently works on intersections between cultures of maintenance and humor in construction details.