Åsa Sonjasdotter gives a lecture today, Thursday April 30, 15.00, at Kunstakademiet:
The presentation “A Potato Perspective on: The Order of Potatoes” is a rearrangement and actualisation of different presentations I’ve made on the subject over the last few years. In the presentation I will make available potato varieties that are prohibited for commercial circulation within the EU and present material on the historical journey that has led to this state of order.
The potatoes’ journey through Europe, from its first appearance as loot from Spanish Conquistadores’ raids in South America in the 1500s to its position today as genetically regulated plant material, contains many surprising details and conjunctions with major historical, political and economic transformations. Becoming an important foodstuff during industrialisation, the potato is one of the basic threads woven through the story of modern societal transformation.
Cultivated potato varieties are living historical material; they are carriers of information and knowledge from the past. Throughout history, the tubers have been bred to cater to our varying needs and desires, be it those of home-gardeners, small-scale farmers or corporate life sciences researchers. Some of this living history will be available during the exhibition since it takes place very appropriately during the potato-planting season; it will be possible for visitors to collect samples of potato varieties that still exist but have been outlawed for commercial circulation, planting or further distribution.
The handing-out of marginalized potato varieties is an act that increases, in real terms, the genetic diversity that is currently kept locked away in gene banks. It can at the same time be understood as a symbolic distribution, highlighting a matter of urgent importance to Europe: The marginalisation and criminalisation of what capital interests define as ‘disturbing elements’.
More about the project at: potatoperspective.
2009/04/30
The Order of Potatoes
2009/04/28
cold science
Tromsø is hosting the conference Melting Ice: Regional Dramas, Global Wake-Up Call today April 28, and the Arctic Council's Ministerial Meeting tomorrow, so the city is full of ministers and scientists - and Al Gore.
Parts of the Melting Ice conference can be followed on web-TV.
2009/04/24
c'est la töff!
Excellent Kurant invites to une fête trusöxuelle this Saturday!
Performance, film, music and surprises!
2009/04/22
coastal express
Gisle gives a guest lecture on openness and experiment today at the Network Colloquium: Multidisciplinary Perspectives at NTNU.
Tomorrow he'll lecture on the same theme at
BAS, and present the studio we'll be teaching this autumn.
2009/04/17
hot inauguration
Our rodeca research project (remember?) was inaugurated during Easter - yes, it's a sauna, on wheels on the terrace.
Blue light, hot steam, fresh snow and cold beer turned out to be a good combination - so this is where you might find us this week-end as well..!
2009/04/15
allotmentplot
Spring is coming - join the allotment plot and do some urban agriculture - or why not rural agriculture, si tu préfères..
The idea is that with The Allotment Plot inspire and encourage people to use unplanned or unused areas close to where they live to grow what will become locally produced organically grown vegetables.
Plant a square of vegetable wherever you find the space for it. Grow organically, local and easy. Then publish pictures at our website to inspire more people to plant a square of vegetable wherever they find the space for it.
2009/04/14
play all day
Our kindergartens are presented in the
Play all day book about designs, concepts and diy ideas for children - cute!
2009/04/12
God Påske!
Easter is cabin season - here's from today's VG, and yes, this is where we've spent some of the week..
2009/04/03
2009/03/31
Landscape Architecture Day
Magdalena gives a lecture at Landscape Architecture Day tomorrow, April 1st. Other speakers during the day will be landscape architect and artist Monika Gora, architect and inventor Anders Wilhelmson, textile designer Sara Klein Svensson and light designer Martin Hellberg.
We really enjoy how the poster is matching this blog!
2009/03/30
Cold Comfort
In Monocle issue 22 April 2009:
Norwegian practice 70°N arkitektur proves that living inside the Arctic Circle can be done in comfort.
2009/03/28
curators and mayor
Luba (of pikene), Arild (mayor of Tromsø), Espen and Øystein (of 0047) in front of testbedstudio's Iron Trails during the opening of
Pan-Barentz - thanks for nice sushi dinner company and a great exhibition!
2009/03/27
¡Viva!
Another great spanish magazine arrived - Arquitectura Viva. In this issue #122 the xbo is presented in the context of la casa asequible - a very ambitious article series and project presentation on prefab and modular architecture.
2009/03/26
Pan-Barentz going north
The Pan-Barentz exhibition curated by 0047 and pikene på broen has traveled to Tromsø Kunstforening. Containing works by interesting artists and architects as
Testbedstudio,
NORD,
BuroMoscow and with a really impressive and interesting catalogue/publication -
Northern Experiments - containing the exhibited projects and texts by several reflective people, for instance The Olympic Dream - a spatial paradox and a possible new paradigm by Gisle..
Opening March 27 at 20.00 at Tromsø Kunstforening - see you
there!
PKN#60
PechaKucha founder and organiser Astrid Klein of KDa with the spring-greetings-from-Tromsø film we sent to Tokyo for their PechaKucha Night #60 yesterday - congratulations from PKN Tromsø! (planning for #6 soon..)
..and yes - that first cherry blossom sequence is only a clin d'œil to japanese spring, the rest of the film contains images of Tromsø spring..
2009/03/25
Pasajes Diseño
The kindergartens are presented in Pasajes Diseño #11 - a spanish magazine well worth to take a look at.
2009/03/22
2009/03/21
2009/03/19
Lectures - Mosaïc::Dynamic Scandinavian Tour 2009
Knut Eirik gives a lecture at
AHO today Thursday at 13.00 in the large auditorium. (Poster from
Bakgård.)
Other planned lectures on the theme of Openness and experiment - planning for unknown futures with examples from our projects and processes like Mosaïc::Region, Nordhavnen Edge Dynamics and the Year of City Development:
-Magdalena at Landscape Architecture Day - Innovative Integration - at
SLU, Alnarp April 1.
-Gisle at Network Colloquium - Multidisciplinary Perspectives - at NTNU, Trondheim April 22.
-Gisle at sustainable living at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts - School of Architecture, Copenhagen May 4.
-Gisle & Knut Eirik at World in Denmark Conference, Copenhagen May 29-30.
-Magdalena & Gisle at Harbour Cities conference in Kristiansand, June 19.
More dates and locations under negotiation.. keep updated for continuous info!
2009/03/18
catching up..
Some project updates are now available on our web-site
www.70n.no: Nordhavnen (Copenhagen), Co:Lab (Shanghai), Trofi (Tromsø) + some new pics of Brinkvegen and Strandkanten - to be continued..
2009/03/13
architetti - orizzontale
We received an issue of
architetti presenting rifugio per ciclisti, torre per il bird-watching e area di sosta - tante grazie!
2009/03/12
Bjørvikarchitecture
The exhibition showing the proposals for the Munch/Stenersen museum and Deichmanske library opened today at Tullinløkka.
European Architecture
Strandkanten is one of the presented projects in the new Collection: European Architecture.
2009/03/11
art again: kunstak - kurant - kontak
Need some art this week?
The Art Academy invites to Reduction - Tromsø Art Academy in an envelope, Friday March 13, 16.00 - 17.00 at Nordnorsk Kunstmuseum.
Kurant gallery presents in collaboration with contemporary music festival
kontak several events and concerts this week-end: sequenza, aoide,
lüdkamer,
affinis..
2009/02/25
Pan-Barentz
The Pan Barentz exhibition presents a series of statements made by artists, architects and others on urban identity in the Northern parts of Russia, Norway, Sweden and Finland, opening at 0047 Friday February 27.
Organized by Pikene på Broen and 0047.
See you there!
2009/02/20
le Quotidien des Architectes #3 - cut & paste ..or secrets..
Ok, this post was going to be about our daily, and for the moment nightly as well, activities - with some pics about cutting and pasting, on computors and in real life (you know, with scissors, cutters and glue).. but since everything is so secret this is all we can say at the moment: we're doing something that involves entre autre computors and glue, we'll let you know how it turned out...
2009/02/19
Arkitektur N ..ews..
Arkitektur N #1 2009 presents National Tourist Routes projects by 3RW, Arild Wåge, Jensen & Skodvin, us and others..
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2009/02/05
2009/02/03
Nordhavnen backyard
The blogging bakgård people are working on a very interesting project:
We have a new semester project at school. Our site is situated at Nordhavnen in Copenhagen, Denmark. 70°N and Dahl & Uhre won the 1st prize in Nordhavnen Open International Ideas Competition. In their winning proposal our teacher gave us three plots to choose from.
(They are more diligent bloggers than us so you have to scroll down a bit to find the post.. but are they working as hard on Nordhavnen as we are? We're eager to see the result..!)
Emerging Architecture Talks
Gisle has left for London to give a lecture at RIBA. That is if he manages to get there, yesterday almost no flights took off from Tromsø or landed in London - due to the snow..
So, hopefully, it'll be possible to discuss Emerging Architecture with Gisle and Junya Ishigami at 6.30 tonight, RIBA 66 Portland Place.
new news
Arkitektnytt with new format, lay-out, paper and design arrived today - and we like it.
This issue presents månedens bilde, architecture talks with Jonas Gahr Støre, Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Jan Carlsen's article on our Nordhavnen project.
2009/01/27
last week: Dancing Obama - this week: Detour Norway
The Detour exhibition has now reached the National Building Museum in Washington where parts of the Obama inaugural festivities took place. Detour showcases projects from National Tourist Routes, including our bird watching towers, rest area and bikers' refuge (as on photo above). The exhibition has already traveled Europe with stops in: Oslo, Berlin, Caen, Paris, Brussels, Stockholm, Bologna and Bratislava.
TIFF <3 XBO
The xbo did some guest starring during Tromsø International Film Festival. Partly packed in snow it served as a head quarter / info centre in the main square - it has since retired to a new and quieter site..
2009/01/23
Kurant - turning their backs on Oslo
This is what you should do this Friday night in Tromsø (if you don't have our deadlines..):
Galleri Kurant presents works by Hanne Grieg Hermansen and Hans Borchgrevink Hansen, the exhibition opens tonight at 19.00, Søndre Tollbodgate 17. Kråksølv will give a concert at 21.00.
Have a nice, and sunny, week-end!
(yes, the sun has now returned to Tromsø after two months..)
2009/01/20
cudmiodiorzeszki
..once
again we can say: we don't understand, but it's beautiful..
and if what's written above makes sense to you, you can read about our kindergartens (we do understand the pics..) at cudmiodiorzeszki.
2009/01/19
europaconcorsi
On europaconcorsi you can discover some of
our projects, as well as a lot of other ones: competitions and realized.
2009/01/18
citizen KBH
The three winning teams at 'borgermøde' in Nordhavnen, Magdalena and Thomas presented and discussed Excentral Park - Edge Dynamics.
photo: Lene Skytthe / By & Havn
