Natalie Blom
Natalie is an architect, artist, and researcher based in Gothenburg, Sweden. Her work addresses contemporary socio-ecological challenges by examining concepts of co-existence She is interested in design strategies that fosters care and intimacy with local ecologies, extending these principles to strengthen human relationships.

She is a co-founder of Garden Loops, a collective of architects and artists operating through Gothenburg and Sydney. The collective’s practice investigates local ecologies and food systems through a more-than-human perspective. Garden Loops employs workshops as a platform for open, shared learning, aiming to establish collaborative networks and promote interdisciplinary dialogue.

Natalie holds a postmaster from the Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm, where she participated in the program Of Public Interest (OPI) Lab 2023-2024.

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education

(2025-2026) Feral Writing, postmaster programme, Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm (2023-2024) Of Public Interest (OPI) Lab, postmaster programme, Royal Academy of Arts in Stockholm (2018-2020) Master’s degree in architecture and urban design, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg (2018-2019)Master’s programme in architecture, Seoul National University, Seoul (2013-2016) Bachelor degree in Architecture, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg

selected exhibitions and public presentations

(2026) Exhibition: (em)Bodied Animal Training, Spazio Volta, Bergamo, Italy. (2025) Lecture + Workshop: ”Climate Hopes” a two-day event at Skövde Konstmuseet, Skövde, Sweden
(2025) Exhibition: ”Making Kin” group exhibition, exhibiting a sculptural installation with video-piece, in collaboration with Federico Godino, BASE, Milan, Italy
(2025) Exhibition: ”Rubble is a Seed so Red” sculpture and sound-piece, collaboration with Garden Loops, Bergrummet, Konstepidemien, Gothenburg, Sweden
(2025) Exhibition: ”The Ruderal Garden” an experimental garden exploring ruderal species, Färgfabriken konsthall.

01 Tavolo in Terra

Tavolo in Terra

 A participatory resarch and design project

Carried out at the residency Hybridizing Cultural Spaces,

Hosted by Fate Lab 

San Potito Sannitico, Italy

(2024)
Fate Lab invited artists to explore ways to hybridize rural everyday life with the cultural space of le Cupole in San Potito Sannitico. The small town, located in a valley of the mountainous inlands of southern Italy, has a dual character of old agricultural land and urban architectural ideals of the Roman Empire, making the separation between the villagers and the farmers very prominent, both geographically and socially. This project became about finding new connections to the landscape through exploring the soil itself.


By digging, mapping, and analysing the soil around San Potito the project explored geological, ancient, industrial as well as contemporary (hi-)stories. By talking to locals I could find traces of old waterways that had been redirected, where I found suitable soil to build a series of earthen tables through the vernacular building technique rammed earth. 


The table’s case was constructed using leftover concrete casts donated by a neighbouring construction site. The ramming tools, essential to the process, were designed and welded by local residents Riccardo Di Muccio and Linuccio Di Muccio. The soil itself carries a story—repurposed from discarded excavation material from a nearby building site, brought to the community centre, the domes, where it was rammed into four tables by workshop participants. “Tavolo in Terra” reflects the intention of creating a design process nurtured by collaboration and sustainability, where every part tells a story of resourcefulness and community effort.


Parallel to this I interviewed locals about wild plants and herbs in the mountains, discovering that the older generations in the town carried a lot of knowledge and stories about the wild growth. It interests me how this knowledge and practices allows for another type of relationship to the landscape. A relationship not based on profit and extraction, but on reciprocity, gratitude and wonder. 


The residency ended with a pot-luck where I invited the town to bring locally grown food and eat together around the earth-tables.

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