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Larsen, Janike Kampevold

Professor

Janike Kampevold Larsen is associate professor in the Institute of urbanism and landscape. Originally a literary scholar, she is now specializing in landscape theory and particularly the configuration and conceptualization of contemporary Arctic landscapes. She was project leader of Future North, and Landscape Journeys before that, as well as a research fellow at the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art. She coordinated the Tromsø Academy of Landscape and Territorial Studies.

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Hemmersam, Peter

Professor

Peter Hemmersam is a professor in urban design at the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape. He is trained as an architect and is a former partner in the architectural practice Transform. His main research interest lies in the field of urban design. He is currently undertaking research on Arctic cities, periurban landscapes of the Oslo region and placemaking. He directs the Oslo Centre for Urban and Landscape Studies.

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Morrison, Andrew

Professor

Andrew Morrison is Director of the Centre for Design Research at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO) in Norway and Professor of Interdisciplinary Design at the Institute of Design (IDE). As co-ordinator of research, Andrew takes part in and leads a range of design research projects. These cover Communication Design, dynamic interfaces and social media; RFID, mediation and activity; Service Design and innovation in leadership; electronic arts installation; narrative and mobile media; practice-based research/research by design; online research mediation and design research methods. Andrew also focuses on design writing, fiction and criticism.

He has been central to the ongoing redesign and teaching of the PhD school at AHO. He has supervised a dozen PhD students at AHO and others at the University of Oslo in design, media and education. Andrew is a member of the Research Committee and the Board of AHO. He was paper co-chair for Nordes 09, Engaging Artifacts, 3rd Nordic Design Research Conference (www.nordes.org) and been a board member of the Design research Society. He has published widely in journals, books and online and has a special research interest in online research mediation. He has edited and co-edited several collections of papers and chapters related to design and new media.

Formerly Andrew was an Associate Professor at the University of Oslo at the interdisciplinary research centre InterMedia where he led the Communication Design Group

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Espiritu, Aileen A.

Researcher

Aileen A. Espíritu is a researcer at the Barents Institute at the University of Tromsø, The Arctic University of Norway. She was previously an Assistant Professor (Tenured) at the University of Northern British Columbia, Canada, teaching Northern Studies, Soviet and Russian social history and politics, indigenous, and gender studies. She has published on her research on the impact of industrialization on indigenous peoples in Siberia and more generally on Circumpolar Northern communities. She has also published on her current research on the comparative study of border identities, border crossings, and life on the borderlands of Europe especially in an expanded EU.  Aileen has ongoing research on sustainable development in the Arctic regions, notably its urban areas; region-building in the Arctic and the Barents Region; identity politics in indigenous and non-indigenous Northern communities; the impact of industrialization and post-industrialization on mono-industry towns in the High North; and the politics of community sustainability in Russia in comparative perspective.

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Rönnskog, Ann-Sofi

PhD-fellow

Ann-Sofi is an architect, and has worked as a researcher at the ETH Studio Basel. She is a partner in Territorial Agency, and is currently a PhD-fellow at the Future North project. Her project is called “Northern Landscapes in Transformation”.

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Narratta,

Researcher

I am a bio-enhanced, nuclear assisted narwhal. I keep myself busy by observing and exploring the changing landscapes and discourses of the Far North. My long tooth has special properties. It’s an aerial of sorts, able to receive and send information and sense climate conditions and change. I can dive deep and swim great distances. But I am also able to use my special enhanced power to jettison myself out of the water and into the air. Beyond these properties I have developed extra sensory sensitivities that I use to look into the changing landscapes of the future north and the forces of today that may impact on our shared tomorrows.

You might say I am a communicative device, a constructed persona, a mobile apparatus for collaborative communication. A design fiction. Design friction! Read more here to get to know me and how we all need to heed changes in the far north and the ways they are shaped discursively already today. I’ll provide you with links and feeds, and a unique opportunity to travel a part of the globe you may find hard to visit yourself.

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Uhre, Kjerstin

Researcher

Kjerstin Uhre is an architect MNAL. She holds a diploma from the Bergen School of Architecture and has studied Philosophical Aesthetics at the University in Bergen. Uhre has built, exhibited, taught, debated, and published extensively and she is Director of Dahl & Uhre architects in Tromsø. Her PhD thesis – The Perforated Landscape – addressed ongoing and contested transitions of outfield landscapes in Sápmi. She is a member of the research group ‘Place, Power and Mobility’ at the University in Tromsø – The Arctic University of Norway.

 

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Fox, Bill

Researcher

William L. Fox is a writer whose work is a sustained inquiry into how human cognition transforms land into landscape. His numerous nonfiction books rely upon fieldwork with artists and scientists in extreme environments to provide the narratives through which he conducts his investigations. He also serves as the Director of the Center for Art + Environment at the Nevada Museum of Art in Reno.

Fox has published poems, articles, reviews, and essays in more than seventy magazines, has had fifteen collections of poetry published in three countries, and has written eleven nonfiction books about the relationships among art, cognition, and landscape. He has also authored essay for numerous exhibition catalogs and artists’ monographs. In the visual arts, Fox has exhibited text works in more than two dozen group and solo exhibitions in seven countries

In 2001-02 he spent two-and-a-half months in the Antarctic with the National Science Foundation in the Antarctic Visiting Artists and Writers Program. He has also worked as a team member of the NASA Haughton-Mars Project, which tests methods of exploring Mars on Devon Island in the Canadian High Arctic. He was a visiting scholar at the Getty Research Institute, the Clark Institute, the Australian National University and the National Museum of Australia. He has also twice been a Lannan Foundation writer-in-residence.

Bill is a visiting researcher at the Future North project.

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Ip, Morgan

PhD-fellow

Morgan Alexander Ip is a Canadian architect, and his educational background covers, among other things, mapping and participatory work towards community-centered design. He has experience from several research teams – the PPS-Arctic Impacts of a Changing Treeline, as well as several highly relevant Northern projects with Lateral Office over the last years. He has very strong experience from project work and community engagement in the Canadian Arctic, and has published on these issues.

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John–Alder, Kathleen

Researcher

Kathleen John–Alder is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Rutgers University. She is also a registered landscape architect with over twenty years of professional experience.  Her research involves the transformative role of ecology and environmentalism in the discourse of mid-twentieth century landscape design.  To date this work has concentrated on the interdisciplinary process-theories and systems approach of the landscape architects Ian McHarg and Lawrence Halprin. Additionally, Kathleen has capitalized upon her interest in environmental history and skill as a designer to explore the way designers translate, prioritize and combine cross-disciplinary knowledge. This work has resulted in an Award of Excellence from the Van Alan Institute and the National Park Service for the design competition Parks for the People.  Kathleen received a Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship for the fall of 2013.

Kathleen John–Alder is a visiting professor at the Tromsø Academy of Landscape and Territorial Studies (Fall 2015) and a visiting researcher at the Future North project.

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