contested landscapes

This year's Arctic Frontiers Landscape conference Contested Landscapes - Lost Ecologies brought excellent lectures and interesting discussions.

Some pics from the final discussion with, from left to right: Janike Kampevold Larsen, Siri Hermansen, Kari Anne Bråthen, Kjartan Fløgstad,William L Fox, Julia Martin and Gisle Løkken.
At the top: Michael Bravo and Julia Martin during their talks.

contested landscapes - lost ecologies

Arctic Frontiers 2013 - side event / 24 January, 0900 - 1700 / University of Tromsø, UB 132

The intention of the conference is to be a counter-force to the prevailing forces and to encourage a holistic approach to Circumpolar landscapes

Welcome
09.00 - Janike Kampevold Larsen (Norway) - Future North


Session I
09.30 - William L. Fox (USA) - The Art of the Anthropocene
10.15 - Kjartan Fløgstad (Norway) - Abandoned Utopias - Mining Towns at the End of the World

Coffee break - 11.00

11.15 - Mattias Åhrén (Sweden/Norway) - ‘Arctic Frontiers’
- A biased title revealing that the Arctic landscape is viewed through a non-Arctic lens
12.00 - Julia Martin (Germany/UK) - Revealing human-nonhuman ecologies through artistic fieldwork, speculative documentation, and the hyperextension of objects. Two case studies from West Greenland and East Iceland

Lunch - 12.45

Session II
13.45 - Michael Bravo (UK) - The Freedoms of Navigation in the Archaic and the Modern
14.30 - Kari Anne Bråthen (Norway) - Tundra landscapes - pristine or cultural?
15.15 - Siri Hermansen (Norway) - The Economy of Survival

Coffee break - 16.00

Concluding discussion - 16.15
moderator Gisle Løkken

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More information at The Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) and Arctic Frontiers. Concept and organization: Janike Kampevold Larsen (AHO) & Gisle Løkken (70°N arkitektur)

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