'scape mosaïc

The latest issue of dutch magazine 'scape contains an article by prof. Jens Kvorning with his interesting reflections on the Øresund visions competition - and our Mosaïc::Region proposal - worth reading!

'(...) The ’mosaic’ metaphor in the proposal was given different meanings. It is about understanding and developing the region as a mosaic of many different types of areas, including different social and cultural environments. It is about employing such a sense of understanding to offer room for the very complex way in which the many sub-areas and sub-environments interact with one another. Throughout this interaction, it is about handling and creating a high degree of dynamics between areas and environments. It is about leaving room for many different players to be proactive and to make individual contributions to the dynamics, while at the same time ensuring that the development of the region does not take an undesireble or environmentally unfriendly turn.
In order to implement these initiatives, systems must be established that can accept and work with a multitude of different development forums, from which new ideas and initiatives will stem.
From a graphic standpoint, the proposal was presented as a large mosaic made up of various fields and planes where different issues and questions pertaining to many different levels were confronted with one another, in the same way as the many players and concept forums developing the region in practice, appear in the multiple physical, intellectual and political realms, all influencing one another in complex ways.
(...) (the award-winning proposal) made an attempt, in inventive and convincing ways, to handle and develop the complexity within thought-based, visualized realms as well as physical ones.'

Jens Kvorning, Professor of Urbanism at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, in 'scape 1/2008

Detour London

The Detour exhibition on the National Tourist Routes moves from Stockholm to London where it opens June 25 at 33 Portland Place. The exhibition is part of the programme of London Festival of Architecture.

Strandkanten outdoors

photos by Bjørn Jørgensen

aitim #252

Spanish magazine Aitim puts our kindergartens on the cover + in a six pages spread article in their issue #252 - we like!

o estado das coisas in das Haus der Kulturen

Anniken spent the last week in Berlin working with Gustavo Ciriaco on the performance Still - sob o estado das coisas at the performing arts festival of Haus der Kulturen der Welt.

reflections..

..of a journey:
guess where to..

(three clues would be (as on pics above): Jean Nouvel, Lacaton & Vassal and Jakob + MacFarlane in Piano & Rogers..)

Nordnorsk arkitekturpris - ur juryens vurdering:

Juryen vurderte flere prosjekter i Finnmark, Lofoten og Nordland men valgte å slutte seg til professor Knut Eirik Dahls forslag om å tildele Nordnorsk arkitekturpris for 2008 til tre prosjekter av 70°N arkitektur i Lofoten, en del av Statens turistvegprosjekt. Det er et fugltitterhus, et skur for syklister og en rasteplass, ' gitt form som henholdsvis to små tårn og et lineært felt i landskapet'. Dahl skriver videre at 'den italienske arkitekten Franco Purini skrev for mange år siden en tekst om truslene mot det italienske landskapet, og foreslo et mentalt nettverk av observasjonsposter for å hegne om dette. Lofotenprosjektene kan ses på som slike punkter. Hele vegvesenets prosjekt kan ses på som et slikt nett. Det er denne større ideen bak prosjektet som ansporer arkitektene til sitt ytterste. Det er en global appell, i vår tid, i disse forenklede konstruksjonene, som knapt er synlige, men er så til stede - på stedet.'

Juryen har bestått av Mia De Coninck fra Kirkenes og Rose-Marie Steinsvik (2007 års vinnere) og Erling Steenstrup fra Tromsø. Prisen ble delt ut i samband med NAFs årsmøte.

NNAP prize!

We have been awarded the Northern Norway Architecture Award!
(Nordnorsk arkitekturpris)
It was given to our three projects for the National Tourist Routes in Lofoten during the NAF (Northern Norway Architect Association) annual meeting June 6.
Read more in arkitektnytt.
Afterwards we all had the pleasure to hear spanish architect Juan Herreros give a lecture, and spend a really nice evening together.

Tromsø in Chicago

Arild Øvrum of Tromsø Climbing Club (from PKN Tromsø#2) participated with his 'urban adventure living' presentation at PKN Chicago #5 the day before our PKN#3 - Pecha Kucha is a global thing!
Here you can see his presentation with superb photos of the mountains surrounding Tromsø, and some of our projects to balance and contrast the vast nature with architecture..

Thank you #3!

Thanks to everybody who made yesterday's Pecha Kucha Night wonderful!
See a slide show here or at the Pecha Kucha site.

PKN#3 - the presenters!

We are proud to announce the list of presenters at Pecha Kucha Night #3:

Elin Haugdal - Tromsø University - Dr. Art
Arild Midtbø Kalseth - FremtidsFabrikken - designer
Kristin Eriksen Bjørn - Ferske Scener - dramatist / director
Espen Røyseland & Øystein Rø - 0047 - architects / gallerists
Luba Kuzovnikova - Pikene på broen - art director / curator
Johan Gustavsen - architect student
Åsa Sonjasdotter - Tromsø Art Academy - artist / professor
Yngve Olsen Sæbbe - photographer
Hans Petter Bjørnådal - architect
Ragnhild Dalheim Eriksen - Riddu Riđđu - festival director
DJ Herr & Fru (Per Martinsen & Aggie Frost)

June 5 at 19.30 the doors will open at Kjeller5 (øvre Mack, Storgata sør) - and the third Pecha Kucha in Tromsø will take place!

The number of tickets is limited, please make a reservation here. Remaining tickets will be sold at the entrance.

Pecha Kucha Night Tromsø is arranged by tank design and 70°N in collaboration with Mack, devised and shared by Klein Dytham architecture.

Open Akademi

Don't miss the Art Academy spring exhibition Thursday May 29 at 18.00 - print, photo, video, installation, drawing, sound, sculpture, textile + a live concert by Frost!

Mosaïc::www

A web-site for Mosaïc::Region is now up and running!

At www.mosaic-region.com you can click your way through the mosaïc; poster by poster and text by text, and you'll find our complete prize-winning proposition for the competition Øresundsvisioner 2040.

The site is under construction and will soon develop further with new material, guest comments, news etc.

Welcome into the mosaïc!

europan nine now

The Europan Norway catalogue is now available, edited by Øystein Rø and Espen Røyseland at 0047.

Buy it here and learn all about the awarded projects at norwegian sites, prize winning norwegian projects in Switzerland and the Czech Republic, and read texts by Sabine Müller, Knut Eirik Dahl, Erlend Seilskjær, Hilde Bøkestad, Espen Røyseland, Øystein Rø, Trude Lund, Maximilian Martinenghi, Kristine Jensen and others.

fantastic venice

We are happy to hear that great fantastic norway are invited by curator Aaron Betsky to participate at the 11th International Architecture Exhibition: Out There. Architecture Beyond Building.
The 11th Architecture Biennale Venice will present site-specific installations, manifestos, landscapes and scenes of an architecture beyond building. It will also exhibit experimental architecture from around the world and highlight experimental aspects of current practice.

Oulu MoNArchs

The international student group MoNArch from the Oulu school of architecture, Finland, visited us today and got a lecture and discussion with Gisle.

expo 2010

70°N in collaboration with 0047 and tank is one of five prequalified teams in the competition about the norwegian pavillion at the 2010 world exhibition in Shanghai.
Read the pressrelease here.

Mosaïc in Malmö

Thursday 15 the Øresundsvisioner exhibition will open at form/design center in Malmö. Kjerstin and Magdalena will present the Mosaïc::Region project and participate at the debate evening

inside the city

Lots of people in Strandgatakvartalet today enjoying the market, clown Johannes, music and more.. apparently this is a space where things can happen.

NAF#3

Alessandra Kosberg of Jarmund/Vigsnæs arkitekter, will give a lecture at the Architect Association this Thursday, May 8 at 19.00 at Tromskysten - everybody is welcome!

more mosaïc media

Here is Jan Carlsen's article about the competition Øresundsvisioner 2040 and our Mosaïc::Region in the latest issue of arkitektnytt (left), and the article 'Den flydende by' from the danish Weekendavisen (right), where Peter Schultz Jørgensen discusses the possible impact of the competition on today's debate and the future Øresund Region..

mondo tromso

After reviewing the art students' work-shop-work we got to visit their art shop 'mondo tromso' - here you can buy prints, publications, CDs etc - a visit is highly recommended!

Panel snapshot

A snapshot from the end discussion at the conference Architectural Inquiries in Göteborg last week, where Magdalena and Gisle presented the paper 'Openness and experiment' (downloadable here). The panel of keynote speakers and chair persons from left to right: Doina Petrescu, Michael Speaks, Abdellah Abarkan, Elisabeth Lilja, Mette Ramgaard Thomsen, Ulrika Karlsson, Espen Johnsen, Gareth Griffiths and Claes Caldenby.

academy mapping

The students at the art academy showed some mapping work today in part 1 -observation- of the architecture work-shop Magdalena is doing with them this and next week.

Architectural Inquiries

Gisle and Magdalena are going to Göteborg to present the paper 'Openness and experiment...' at the research conference Architectural Inquiries, April 24-26.
If you're interested in reading (in swedish + abstract in english) about how the open conversation becomes a theoretical platform within our practice as architects and how openness and invitation are used to find new, non-linear ways in and around conventional, hierarchic planning, using ByÅr05 and Mosaïc::Region as cases - you can download Öppenhet och experiment.

PKN#2 - thank you!

A huge thank you to all our presenters, participants, collaborators and the audience - you made Pecha Kucha Night Tromsø #2 an evening full of stories, exchange, love, music, beer, happiness, good energy and more..!

willkommen, bienvenue, welcome..

We are happy to welcome Svein Ingvoll Pedersen as the new curator for Tromsø Kunstforening! We've said it before but at tonight's exhibition opening it was marked officially.. we're looking forwards to follow your work for art..!

photographing with Ivan

Ivan came to Tromsø to shoot Brinken Terrasse, which of course included som climbing again - this time the antenna tower.. - thank you Ivan and see you soon again!

Pecha Kucha - tonight!

Copenhagen sessions

Presentations, discussions, debate, meetings, dinner - with the judge committé, our fellow prize-winners and interested, interesting people at DAC.

planning for the games

The meeting organized by NAF (Northern Norway's Architects Association) with a debate between representatives for the city, Tromsø 2018 and the architecture and planning milieu lead by Gisle, turned into a constructive discussion on the future of the city, with or without the olympic games in 2018..

Øresund debate and work-shop #1

We will participate at the first open debate and work-shop around Øresundsvisioner 2040 and our Mosaïc::Region, this wednesday April 16 at DAC, København.

Omväg Stockholm

Omveg/Umweg/Detour/Omväg - the exhibition has now moved to Stockholm where it will stay almost two months at the architecture museum, April 15 - June 8.

PKN#2 - the presenters!

The presenters at Pecha Kucha Night Tromsø #2:
Arild Øvrum - Tromsø Klatreklubb - urban adventure living
Tom Eirik Tobiassen - brunsame - gründer
Martha Otte - Tromsø International Film Festival - festival director
Svein Ingvoll Pedersen - Tromsø Kunstforening - curator
Øyvind Hilmarsen - Center for Remote Technology - cand.scient.
Anniken Romuld - 70°N arkitektur - architect
Tim Haus - globetreter - biking globetrotter
Matilda Carlid – artist
Ivan Brodey - photographer
Jarle Aarbakke - Tromsø University - rector
Ola Rokkones - No Siesta, Fiesta! - musician + festival director
DJ: Tusj

April 17 at 19.30 the doors will open at Kjeller5 (øvre Mack, Storgata sør) - and the second Pecha Kucha in Tromsø will take place!

The number of tickets is limited, please make a reservation here. Remaining tickets will be sold at the entrance.

Pecha Kucha Night Tromsø is arranged by tank design and 70°N in collaboration with Mack.

Mosaïc::Region - here it is

Here you can download:
Full presentation board (20 MB)
Collage (9 MB)
Authors
Mosaïc texts
En dialog mellan handlingsrum

70° at the academy

This thursday, April 10 at 15.00, Magdalena gives a lecture at the Art Academy in their series of open lectures.

Debating Øresund

Øresundsvisioner 2040 - the exhibition - with the 15 projects from part 2 of the competition will be shown at Gamle Dok / DAC until May 4. We will also participate in debates taking place at DAC April 16 (open) and 21 (with the region's mayors).

(Exhibition pics by Esben Knudsen)

mosaïc::media

To read what Bladet Tromsø, Nordlys and Dagens Næringsliv write about us winning Øresundsvisioner click on the articles, left and below.
Or see RealDania, byplanlab (where you, with a bit of patience, can down-load our project), arkitektnytt, Tromsø's web-TV.
We will update you on the project, our excellent collaborators, the Copenhagen-trip and the continuation - with images, links etc very soon!

mosaïc::team

A big thank you to the Mosaïc::Team of experts!
Some of you were able to join us for a lunch and great discussions at excellent noma in København, we were really happy to meet you - we hope to see the rest of you really soon:
Espen Røyseland & Øystein Rø, architects, 0047
Peter Sylwan, journalist
Reinhold Fieler & Lars-Henrik Larsen, aqua culture researchers, Akvaplan-niva
Johannes Molander Pedersen, Morten Rask Gregersen and Tue Kappel, architects, NORD
Peter Löwendahl-Nyrén, journalist
Bengt Olle Nilsson, photographer Österlenbild
Nils Mjaaland, architect/photographer, blå arkitektur landskap
Thomas Barfoed Randrup, prof. Park Management & Urban Greening, Skov & Landskab
Carola Wingren, landscape architect and professor, SLU
Jørgen Primdahl, prof. landscape planning, Skov & Landskab
Odd Are Berkaak, prof. social antropology, Oslo University
Åsa Sonjasdotter, artist and professor, Tromsø Art Academy

+ a long list of important and generous discussion partners: Maike Knol, Roy T. Eriksen, Svein Jentoft, Tom Nielsen, Rikke Munck, Trine Holm, Ola Bettum...

1st prize - Øresundsvisioner 2040!

We have been awarded 1st prize in the competition arranged by RealDania about ideas for the future in the Øresund region! The project is a collaboration with Dahl&Uhre, and the concept MOSAÏC::REGION includes inviting a broad panel of guest experts who all did an extraordinary job putting their expertise into the project. On the picture we've just received the prize at Gamle Dok / DAC in Copenhagen, today.... ..more info soon..