TROMSØ SJØFRONT LABORATORIUM BLOG
is now launched - go there for info and conversation about art and planning in the Tromsø waterfront!
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Tidspunkt: lørdag 1. februar kl. 15-19
Sted: Tromsø kunstforening
Arrangør: 70°N arkitektur og Tromsø kunstforening i samarbeid med Nord-Norges arkitektforening (NAF)
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Om seminaret:
Kunstnere, arkitekter og teoretikere, fra akademia og praksis, vil innlede og samtale om viktige tema for å utvikle samfunn i natur- og bylandskaper under stort lokalt og globalt press.
Landskapet inneholder viktig informasjon om vår felles historie, økologi og sosiale atferd, og seminaret vil drøfte hvordan vi kan forstå og operasjonalisere kunnskap og teori til gyldige forslag, planer og prosjekter for fremtiden.
Bakgrunn for seminaret er den nylige lansering av boka; Layered Landscapes Lofoten – understanding of complexity, otherness and change – som med utgangspunkt i et masterkurs for arkitektstudenter ved Bergen arkitektskole, lanserer kunstneriske metoder og divergerende landskapsanalyser som alternativ tilnærming til planlegging i en stadig mer kompleks virkelighet.
Med seminarets tema kompleksitet / annerledeshet / forandring ønsker vi å adressere dagens mest presserende spørsmål om å leve sammen i landskaper som har nådd sin tålegrense, men som like fullt betraktes som en åpen ressurs.
Landskap som konsept inkluderer da også byen. Byen som arena for menneskers liv og utfoldelse blir stadig viktigere når en eksponentielt økende del av verdens befolkning lever urbant. Dette er en realitet som også sterkt berører sosiale og mellommenneskelige relasjoner, slik som at det også i vestlige land blir stadig større forskjell mellom rike og fattige mennesker, og at spørsmål om eiendomsrett og kommersialisering settes opp i mot den allmenne retten til bruk av byer og landskap.
I lys av vanskelige globale utfordringer – både knyttet til klima og miljø, og endringer i sosiale strukturer og migrasjon, forutsetter derfor enhver planprosess utvidet kunnskap om dypstrukturer i landskapet, og tilsvarende bruk av eksperimentelle og alternative metoder for å finne og anvende denne kunnskapen. Det er en intensjon å dreie samtalen mot aktuelle beslutninger og prosesser som styrer dagens urbane utvikling av Tromsø.
Innledere og moderatorer:
Anniken Førde, førsteamanuensis i samfunnsplanlegging og kulturforståing, UiT
Tanya Busse, kunstner
Kjerstin Uhre, arkitekt og stipendiat, UiT / AHO
Thomas Juel Clemmensen, professor i landskapsarkitektur, UiT
Kristin Tårnes, kunstner
Arild Eriksen, arkitekt, Fragment
Astrid Fadnes, arkitekt og journalist
Leif Magne Tangen, kurator, skribent og intendant Tromsø kunstforening
Magdalena Haggärde, arkitekt, 70°N arkitektur
Gisle Løkken, arkitekt, 70°N arkitektur
Boken Layered Landscapes Lofoten – understanding of complexity, otherness and change vil finnes til salgs til lanseringspris!
VI FORTSETTER DISKUSJONEN SAMMEN MED MINGEL OG ENKLERE SERVERING!
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Layered Landscapes Lofoten is part of ArchDaily architecture book selection, read about it HERE.
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We are joining the STATEX collective Friday (September 20) after the DIY performance at Hålogaland teater for a conversation on utopian visions and possible futures.
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Landscape practice for the future is the title of the lecture Gisle will give tomorrow, Wednesday, September 18, at the IFLA conference Common Ground.
The session A Retrospect Through to our Future will mark the 90th anniversary of the Norwegian Association of Landscape Architecture (NLA) and the Landscape Institute (LI) through a wide-ranging consideration for the significance of associations and their contemporary relevance.
Celebrating 100 years of landscape architecture education at the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Ås, with the ECLAS / UNISCAPE conference Lessons from the past, visions for the future.
We'll be presenting our abstract Complexity, otherness and change in Arctic landscapes — didactic methods and experimental approaches to planning with some background from projects such as Kiruna and Maniitsoq, and of course examples from master studios Emerging Arctic Landscapes, Focal Point Biedjovággi and Layered Landscapes Lofoten - represented with student work including these by Guðrún Jóna, Marianne, Niklas, Ingeleiv Andrea, Pernille, Victoria & Livie:

Block 3D. Teaching transdisciplinary approaches to landscape (3/4)Chair: Morten Clemetsen | |
| Making the case for service learning: Pedagogy that fosters professional leadership in landscape architecture | Linda Corkery (University of New South Wales Sydney, Australia) |
| Animating criticality and trans-disciplinarity through landscape architecture education | Lisa Babette Diedrich, Andrea Kahn, Gunilla Lindholm (Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences) |
| Complexity, otherness and change in Arctic landscapes—didactic methods and experimental approaches to planning | Magdalena Haggärde, Gisle Løkken (70°N arkitektur, Norway) |
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EXPLORING ART, CULTURE, LIFESTYLE AND CREATIVITY IN NORTHERN NORWAY, NORK MAGAZINE CONNECTS THE NORTH WITH THE GLOBAL COMMUNITY.
CAREFULLY CRAFTED, THE BI-ANNUAL MAGAZINE SHOWCASES CONTEMPORARY AND BOLD STORIES FROM THE URBAN WILDERNESS.
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OBOS boligkonferanse 2019: Richard Sennett snakker lavmælt, men han er en skarp observatør og har refleksjoner om byen vi må lytte til. Sennett mener at det går et skille mellom det han beskriver som den åpne byen versus den lukkede byen (som i realiteten er det meste vi planlegger og bygger i dag). Den åpne byen er porøs og mottakelig mens den lukkede byen er homogen, statisk og repeterende. Han viser enkle eksempler - både historiske og samtidige der både det sosiale byliv og beredskap mot brå endringer på grunn av klimaendringer må håndteres. Sennet beskriver den mottakelige byen som tvetydig (ambiguous) og uferdig form der funksjoner og levd liv er blandet, mens den lukkede byen har barrierer, separasjon (sonering). Han er kritisk til innholdet i den teknologibaserte 'smartbyen' fordi teknologisk baserte funksjonelle løsninger ofte er rigide og ufleksible med 'to tight fit between form and function'. Sennet snakker om en grunnleggende humanistisk tilnærming til byen der alle skal ha en mulighet til å forme sine liv, og han viser med elegante eksempler at vi neppe kan løse byenes klimakrise - f.eks. stormvannsproblematikk med statiske bygg, men at et dynamisk problem må håndteres med dynamiske løsninger.
We are happy to receive these small reports from Layered Landscapes Lofoten around the world.
You can find it at La Central del Raval in Barcelona:
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Read Gisle's article in Morgenbladet about the architects' role in the green shift: https://morgenbladet.no/ideer/2019/06/hvilket-ansvar-har-arkitektene-i-det-gronne-skiftet
"If degrowth is to become a concept of content and meaning, Whitehead's statement that creativity is the driving force of any process of change must be put into work - and the architects must seize the opportunities inherent in this statement to change both architecture and society, this time both as participants and experts."
Read Gisle's article in Arkitektnytt #5, inspired by our visit at Actar publishers in Barcelona:
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Layered Landscapes Lofoten - understanding of complexity, otherness and change has been selected by the jury to participate at the Architecture of Necessity exhibition at Virserum konsthall, Sweden, opening June 27.
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Want to have a look inside Layered Landscapes Lofoten?
In the latest issue of Arkitektnytt (4/2019) we spy Layered Landscapes Lofoten on the shelf in Joar Nango's amazing Girjegumpi project - traveling the world in this nomadic library, this winter in Jokkmokk, going to Chicago and Ottawa in the fall.
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Review of Layered Landscapes Lofoten in the April 2019 issue of "Reviewer's Bookwatch" magazine (The Midwest Book Review) by Willis M. Buhle:
Critique: A densely and impressively informative work of experience based collaborative scholarship, "Layered Landscapes Lofoten: Understanding of Complexity, Otherness and Change" is a unique, seminal and unreservedly recommended addition to professional and academic library collections.
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Layered Landscapes Lofoten is travelling the world: here seen in Livraria AeFaup (Porto), laCapell (Barcelona), Joar Nango's nomadic library Girjegumpi (here in Jokkmokk) and at the 107th ACSA Annual Meeting | BLACK BOX (Pittsburgh).
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Now you can read John Pløger's text on Imbrication: The Connections of City and Landscape from Layered Landscapes Lofoten on urbanNext:
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Student projects from Layered Landscapes Lofoten by Victoria H H Storemyr and Ingeleiv Andrea Utne Midtun are published on urbanNext:
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The article on Layered Landscapes Lofoten by Astrid Fadnes, published in Arkitektnytt 2/19, is now available online:
https://www.arkitektnytt.no/nyheter/kreativ-kartlegging-av-en-kompleks-virkelighet
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Layered Landscapes Lofoten - A History of Extremes is part of this week's climate themed urbanNext:
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This week's newsletter from ACTAR, including info on the Layered Landscapes Lofoten book launch at BAS:
Layered Landscapes Lofoten - understanding of complexity, otherness and change discusses approaches towards landscapes under pressure and transformation, and the importance of unprejudiced and experimental investigations to reveal its natural and cultural complexity.
The book aims to challenge internalized concepts about how landscapes are considered and investigated, to open for alternative research, and legitimize subjective, singular and experimental approaches as valid and appreciated as a foundation for an informed process. These approaches take into consideration both the landscape and the practices taking place in the landscape, that are consistently full of individual and collective stories and experiences — the complexity created in both time and space, which influences our societies not only as traces of historical events, but as present realities and even expectations and what is to become.
Under the concepts of complexity, imbrication, vulnerability, fieldwork, flexibility and reorientation ideas are developed, all based in the contemporary and historic layers of the dramatic and contested landscapes of the Lofoten Islands in Northern Norway — where pressure from political decisions and structural changes, increasing tourism, a potential new oil industry and uncontrollable global forces’ impact on nature and societies and cause continuous transformation and alteration of landscapes and topography, surrounding the traditional and modern fishing communities.
Layered Landscapes Lofoten - understanding of complexity, otherness and change is based on the master studio Layered Landscapes Lofoten conducted at Bergen School of Architecture during the spring semester 2017.
Contributing to the book are:
Cecilie Andersson, Master of Architecture, PhD in Urban Planning and rector at Bergen School of Architecture
Tone Megrunn Berge, Master of Architecture and partner of Kaleidoscope Nordic
Anne Katrine Dolven, Artist based in Lofoten and London and former Professor at Oslo National Academy of the Arts
Anniken Førde, Dr.Polit in Community Planning and Cultural Understanding and Associate Professor of Community Planning at the University of Tromsø, the Arctic University of Norway
Karoline Kalstveit, Master of Architecture
John Pløger, Dr.Art and Professor of Urban Planning at the University of Agder
Marianne Lucie Skuncke, Master of Architecture
Hermod Torbjørnson, Local expert, Fredvang, Lofoten
Trond Waage, Ph.D in Social Anthropology with specialization in Visual Anthropology and Associate Professor of Visual Cultural Studies at the University of Tromsø, the Arctic University of Norway
and of course the students:
Anders Dommerud Tellefsen, Andreas Tveit, Anna Liisa Saavaste, Arne Magnar S. Nordhammer, Arnulf Mårdalen Hasle, Christian Solbakken, Eva Bull, Ingeleiv Andrea Utne Midtun, Jøran Sofie Olsen Bjørshol, Lara Engelking, Lassi Tulonen, Livie Avo Johansen, Maria Eugenia Salazar Rocha, Matt Breton-Honeyman, Pernille Kleppan Mørch, Pia Eide, Soheil Hivad Nabi, Stefanie Klem, Sum Ping Wong, Stephanie Steriotis, Stine Elise Kristoffersen, Sveinung Grøneng Havn and Victoria Helene Storemyr.
Layered Landscapes Lofoten - understanding of complexity, otherness and change is published by ACTAR publishers, and is available in selected bookstores worldwide, on amazon, and in Norway and Sweden at Adlibris.
Layered Landscapes Lofoten - understanding of complexity, otherness and change
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Happy to be part of Joar Nango's nomadic library Girjegumpi, here at Jokkmokk winter market.
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It's official:
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Astrid Fadnes interviewed us about our work with Fremtidens fiskevær and Layered Landscapes Lofoten for her article on the relation between tradition and development in Lofoten in magasinet kote #9
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