PhD Midway Seminar

Time

18 April, 2024, 10.00 – 15.00

Location

AHO library

At the seminar, three PhD fellows: Ida Højlund Rasmussen, Violaine Forsberg Mussault and Vignir Freyr Helgasonwill present their research:

Following the presentations the three PhD research projects, an external opponent Ellen Braae, professor of landscape architecture theory and method at the University of Copenhagen, and members of AHO faculty will respond to the research and engage in a critical dialogue with the fellows. Prof. Peter Hemmersam, head of OCULS, will chair the seminar.

Program

10:00 Vardø: Community, Resources and Lasting Values – Ida Højlund Rasmussen, PhD fellow, AHO, U+L

11:00 Unraveling multi-actor agencies in hazardous cultural landscapes:
experimental cartography into movements and flows – Violaine Forsberg Mussault, PhD fellow, AHO, U+L

12:00-13:00 Break

13:00 Mapping, managing, and developing place qualities – Vignir Freyr Helgason, PhD fellow, AHO, U+L

14:00 Final reflections/comments on the day – Prof. Peter Hemmersam, opponents and supervisors

About professor Ellen Braae:
External opponent for this PhD Midway seminar is Ellen Braae who is professor of landscape architecture theory and method at the University of Copenhagen where she also is engaged as the head of the research group ‘Landscape Architecture and Urbanism’. Ellen is trained as an architect and landscape architect from the Aarhus School of Architecture, where she also got her PhD. Ellen has several years of practice experience, including her own office. Her research is located at the intersection of urban development, heritage, and climate change. Her interests relate to transformation theory, heritage studies, transformation and preservation of the post-industrial urban landscape, theory and method of landscape architecture, planning, aesthetic and spatial theory, design theory, method, and history. She was principal investigator on the research project “Reconfiguring Welfare Landscapes”, financed by the Danish Council for Independent Research from 2016. More information and overview over recent publications here.

About PhD fellow Ida Højlund Rasmussen:
Ida Højlund Rasmussen is a PhD research fellow at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), at the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape. Her PhD project “VARDØ: Community, Resources and Lasting Values” is part of the cross-institutional research project “Common Resources, Strategies for a circular, balanced and shared management of areas under pressure”. Ida holds a bachelor’s degree from Aarhus School of Architecture and a master’s degree in urban planning and communication studies from Roskilde University. She interested in the relationship between environmental care and social justice, which relates to her previous research on societal structures, identity and agriculture in the West Bank, Palestine, where she has also lived and worked. At AHO, Ida has co-taught a studio course focusing on futures in Lviv, Ukraine, and an elective course on soil and mapping in the Varanger Peninsula.
More information and overview over recent publications here.

About PhD fellow Violaine Forsberg Mussault:
Violaine Forsberg Mussault is a French-Norwegian landscape-architect and a PhD research fellow. She is interested in exploring the intersection of design methods, participation, and living processes. Her PhD research, titled “Unraveling multi-actor agencies in hazardous cultural landscapes,” investigates cartography with a posthuman and transdisciplinary approach. The PhD is part of the NATURACT research project. For the past 15 years, Violaine has been a partner with the collaborative design studio Les Saprophytes, where she led projects around the Commons and urban ecology through bottom-up processes in post-industrial peripheries. Additionally, she has taught community engagement, agroecology, and design studio courses at the Faculty of Architecture and Landscape in Lille (Fr). Alongside her research, she is a landscape-architect adviser for the French State.
More information and overview over recent publications here.

About PhD fellow Vignir Freyr Helgason:
Vignir Freyr Helgason is a PhD research fellow at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO), at Institute of Urbanism and Landscape. His PhD research project is titled “Mapping, managing, and developing place qualities” and is approached from a transdisciplinary urbanism and heritage perspective. He holds a master’s degree (Cand. Arch.) in architecture from The Royal Academy in Copenhagen and an executive master’s degree in architectural preservation from AHO. Vignir’s experience stems from both private and public sectors and includes practical, strategic, and theoretical work. He has written and lectured on themes such as transformation of architectural and urban heritage, as well as strategic and sustainable development of cultural environments.
More information and overview over recent publications here.