In collaboration with Future North and Kommuneqarfik Sermersooq, two master studios at the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape and the Tromsø Academy of Landscape and Territorial Studies (both AHO) have studied the urban landscapes of Tasiilaq, Eastern Greenland.
Guro Voss Gabrielsen, tilknyttet Institutt for urbanisme og landskap, forsvarte d 18. november 2014 sin avhandling med titlen “Groruddalen; Oslos vakreste verkebyll? Problemrepresentasjoner og stedsforståelser i Groruddalssatsingen”. I denne artikel på forskning.no advarer hun om at den politiske satsingen kan bidra til at det dårlige ryktet til Groruddalen forsterkes enda mer.
Is North a direction or a place? Is it a state of mind or an image? Might it be all of these?
The Art + Environment Conference at the Nevada Museum of Art on October 9–11, 2014 included a number of presentations of collaborative teams working on documenting landscape change.
They eat my skin: ‘Mattak’ they call it. Cut in small cubes you can make out the mottled white pattern on my skin attached to the blubber. It is thicker than that of other whale species – and some say better tasting.