Qujanaq Grazie Thank you Takk Merci Tack

We are absolutely happy about the Landscapes in Change conference and grateful to our invited guests who made the day highly reflective and memorable - above from left to right: Roger Connah (UK/Canada), Alessandra Ponte (Canada), Sara Olsvig (Greenland), Berit Kristoffersen (Norway), Ellen Marie Braae (Denmark), Annika E Nilsson (Sweden), Daniel R Williams (USA), Klaus Dodds (UK) and Catharina Gabrielsson (Sweden).

Esfahan - Shiraz - Rasht - Mashad - Masuleh

Back from Iran, Berit shares some of her impressions with us.

Tipping Points

The Arctic Frontiers conference has started and you can follow it on live web-tv. Our side conference Landscapes in Change will take place Thursday at the library - where the poster is now installed.

fantastic television

Turn on your tv tonight and watch fantastic friends Håkon & Haffner blow up Bergen - to create a city from scratch..
This is the first episode out of six discussing different phenomena in architecture.

2011 blog

Keep updated about Arkitekturens År activities and events in Northern Norway at the blog!

Metropolis

The screening of Fritz Lang's iconic Metropolis during TIFF is the first Arkitekturens år event in Tromsø. This is an extraordinary opportunity to see the full length version of the film together with a live performance concert.

le Quotidien des Architectes #5 - visite de chantier

We went to see one of our projects under construction this week-end, almost finished.. ..more about it soon.

Year of Architecture - here & there & everywhere

Another article by Gisle is published in today's Nordlys, read about the Year of Architecture here. Illustration: Bjørn Hegardt: A dream woke me.

New Year in New York

We got new year greetings from Irene and a snowy New York - thanks and happy new year to you too!

Joar and Berit representing the architect association and the Year of Architecture present some of the events taking place in Tromsø and northern Norway throughout Arkitekturens År 2011 in the newspaper iTromsø January 11.

The Year of Architecture is now officially started: the prime minister has received an architecture guide to the view from his own office window from the hands of the NAL president Kjersti Nerseth, champagne toasts have been proposed at Arkitektenes hus and you can find all about it at the freshly inaugurated Arkitekturens År 2011!

president on the radio

Listen to radio P2 tomorrow Thursday 6 January at 08.05 and hear the norwegian architects' president Kjersti Nerseth present the Year of Architecture 2011.

Landscapes in Change

We are happy to present our collaboration with the annual Arctic Frontiers conference, resulting in the completely new side-conference on northern landscapes - Landscapes in Change:

This year’s Arctic Frontiers conference has the subtitle Arctic Tipping Points, which poignantly describes the actuality of the Northern regions. Several of the themes discussed during Arctic Frontiers have a shared point of departure in large global changes, but approaches the theme from different academic fields as natural science, economy and politics.

In collaboration with Nord-Norges arkitektforening, Husbanken and 70°N arkitektur Landscapes in Change is for the first time presented as a side-event to the Arctic Frontier’s main conference. This year’s debate will focus on Arctic Ecologies: connecting nature, society and ideas, and will be a venue for transversal debate bordering several academic fields. The conference has the ambition to become an annual event for discussion of the inherent vulnerability of arctic landscapes and societies.

As a consequence of the strong powers of change at work in the northern regions, the conference will direct a necessary focus on the physical vulnerability in an arctic ecology that is easily influenced and disturbed. It is equally interesting to discuss the importance of the arctic landscapes – their individual value, as nature and as global icon, or as something that has value principally as an economic resource.

Our aim is that the conference theme will create engaged discussion and will contribute to found the basis for a continued debate that will motivate architects, landscape architects and all who are occupied by the transformations that are both in the cognitive understanding of the high north, and in the physical realities of the Arctic landscapes.

Now more than ever, nature cannot be separated from culture; in order to comprehend the interactions between ecosystems, the mechanosphere and the social and individual Universes of reference, we must learn to think ‘transversally’. Félix Guattari, The Three Ecologies (1989)

Please find out all you need to know about Landscapes in Change at www.arctic-frontiers.com/landscapes, as the program or the list of speakers:
Catharina Gabrielsson (Sweden) - moderator of the debate PhD in critical theory in architecture, architect, researcher, senior lecturer.
Annika E Nilsson (Sweden) PhD in environmental science, Senior Research Fellow.
Sara Olsvig (Greenland) MSc in Anthropology, Human Rights Issues Coordinator.
Daniel R Williams (USA) PhD in forest resources, Research Social Scientist.
Berit Kristoffersen (Norway) MA in Human Geography, Research Fellow.
Alessandra Ponte (Canada) PhD in history and theory of architecture, professeure agrégée.
Klaus Dodds (UK) PhD in Geopolitics and International Relations, Professor of Geopolitics.
Roger Connah (UK / Canada) Writer, film-maker and researcher, Associate Director and Professor in Architecture and Urbanism.
Ellen Braae (Denmark) PhD in landscape architecture and urbanism, Professor in landscape architecture.

More about the Arctic Frontiers conference here.

Happy new year!

This blog apparently took some holiday but we will soon be back to tell you about all the new year's news: new people, new projects, new events and perhaps even some new 70°.. We wish you all a happy new 2011!


Tromsø fireworks pic by Ann Sissel Jenssen