Konstfack’s research platform Heritage, Culture, Community has invited the research environment Textile Heritage to organize a research seminar. Textile Heritage is a research environment led by professor Maja Gunn, funded by the Swedish Research Council for 2025–2030, which explores museum textile collections.
The research seminar transfer/translate/reconstruct: methods of exploring museum collections takes its starting point in work with museum collections and methods for conducting research on, with, and through artistic practice. The seminar is moderated by Maja Gunn and includes presentations by professor Julia Binter; artist and scholar Banji Chona; artist Matilda Dominique; and researcher Frida Hållander. The seminar concludes with a joint discussion and reflection.
Prof. Dr. Maja Gunn is professor and research leader at the Department of Crafts, Konstfack. She leads Konstfack’s research platform Heritage, Culture, Community and is also the head of the artistic research environment Textile Heritage, funded by the Swedish Research Council (2025–2030).
Prof. Dr. Julia Binter, University of Bonn, is a social anthropologist with a background in theatre, film, and media studies, specializing in material culture and critical museum and heritage studies. She works across transdisciplinary contexts and with diverse stakeholders, focusing on the colonial entanglements of museums and developing innovative ways to bring different forms of knowledge about collections into dialogue.
Scholar and artist of Zambezian Earth, Banji Chona explores relationality, ancestral continuities, and reclamation. Working through storytelling and community engagement, she challenges colonial ways of knowing and develops alternatives, centered on her methodology, Radical Zambezian Reimagination. She is currently an artist-in-residence at the research environment Textile Heritage, in collaboration with the Ethnographic Museum, Southnord, NKF, and IASPIS.
Artist Matilda Dominique is a Stockholm based weaver who’s practice touch upon spatial and bodily perception through scale, movement and collective processes in order to highlight domestic textile objects as well as the processes of making them. Her works include in-depth explorations of weave techniques as sculptural, spatial and historically layered structures as well as monumental, collaborative and site specific performances where the body and weaving tool becomes one and the same. April 2026 she was an artist-in-residence at the research environment Textile Heritage.
Dr. Frida Hållander is a researcher at Konstfack, working in the research environment Textile Heritage. In her research, she has focused particularly on crafts in relation to class, gender and labor. Within Textile Heritage, she primarily works with the collections at the Textile Museum of Sweden and the Röhsska Museum.