Publications (320)

We know very little about what is under our feet. We are used to the sight of manhole covers punctuating the streets around us, and we know that they provide access to the subterranean water system... Read »

Long-term processes of socio-environmental transformation have severely degraded entire world regions, leading to pressing social, economic, and environmental challenges. In this planetary context, the thesis develops a Landscape Approach as a theoretical framework to systematically read and better understand large-scale geographies... Read »

Cities and buildings are materializations of imaginaries of place. The Arctic is urbanizing, and Svalbard can help us understand how this realization takes place, and some of the diverging forms urbanization takes when translated into built form by architects and planners... Read »

The concept of neighbourhood has been used throughout modern urbanism to articulate notions of the ideal community. What can we learn from these different versions of neighbourhood planning?   .. Read »

Twentieth-century development policies in the Arctic played out differently across the region but often involved colonization, environmentally damaging resource extraction and urbanization of Indigenous peoples. These are uncomfortable dimensions of the history of development in the North... Read »

Tilfeldig kontakt mellom fremmede er et grunnleggende og ofte feiret trekk ved bylivet. Veksten i privateide offentlige byrom har derfor vekket bekymring: mennesker, aktiviteter og sosiale utvekslinger som kan true næringsinteresser, blir gjerne forsøkt fjernet eller tøylet... Read »

The entire urban planning history of Kalaallit Nunaat/Greenland falls within living memory, and the history of urban design needs to be documented. We have studied the evolution of urban space design through selected residential projects from different periods of the country’s planning history... Read »

The speed of climate change calls our attention towards the life forms on this warming Earth – human and beyond. In this article, I aim to contribute to the conversation about how we co-exist by presenting multispecies ‘compost stories’ of the Norwegian town Vardø, which seems to be well underway in a post-Arctic shift... Read »

This article investigates how airborne light detection and ranging (lidar) point cloud data and their embedded data models can serve as the basis for revealing, studying, and manipulating clearings in the urban forest situated in the north of Oslo. Furthermore, the article describes the unique highresolution public and open digital data and infrastructure that surveys these landscapes in Norway... Read »

This book presents a series of pedagogical experiments translating climate science, environmental humanities, material research, ecological practices into the architectural curriculum... Read »

The transformation of Medellín in Colombia is well known to urbanists. A highly contested, violent and unequal city in the 1980s and 1990s, Medellín’s Social Urbanism ushered in a series of ambitious reforms that reimagined public space and mobility... Read »

The concept of place increasingly appears in literature produced by and for actors of global displacement management relating to interventions concerning the built environment. Place, in this context, is presented as a concept appropriate for interventions in especially urban, non-camp settings... Read »

Det har skjedd en slags revolusjon i tenkingen om landskap de siste årene. Landskap er ikke lenger en fredfylt ramme for våre liv. De gror igjen, oversvømmes, graves opp, faller fra hverandre, fylles av hytter og vindmøller. De ligger midt i den politiske debatten. .. Read »

Ønsket om å ta imot flere mennesker på flukt bør også omfatte hvordan vi tar dem imot. Verdig bosetting er god byutviklingspolitikk. Dette er en kronikk. .. Read »

The restrictions limiting social interaction and use of public space in Nairobi during the COVID-19 pandemic have disproportionately affected residents in poor urban communities, who are dependent on using streets, alleyways, and communal areas as extensions of their household spaces to secure livelihoods... Read »

Complex contemporary challenges across Europe have, over time, called for a shift in the way we approach planning. In Norway, as well as many other European countries, urban planning practices are largely project-based and initiated by private actors. This has called for a strategic approach in planning and development as well as heritage management... Read »

Architecture in Scandinavia’s Arctic north exists in a tension between place-specific approaches and globalizing and potentially homogenizing meta-narratives. Here, I will show how ‘Nordic architecture’ is constructed in the Arctic. We can start with the region’s geophysical qualities of snow and darkness... Read »

In this article, we examine how urban design can promote inclusion by simultaneously accommodating multiple expressions of interests and identities and providing common ground for interaction between different social and cultural groups... Read »

With the growing focus on cities being intrinsic to societal development, interdisciplinary collaboration is increasingly encouraged in tackling urban challenges and producing urban form and architecture... Read »

The book promotes a landscape approach as a method for understanding and addressing the complex interdependent issues of environmental and climatic change, ecological degradation, and socio-cultural inequalities. The twenty-three book essays are structured into five sections around concepts of urban landscape systems, ecology, politics, territory, and practice... Read »

En politisk bevegelse med vilje til å forandre samfunnet, en velferdsstat på skissestadiet og en gruppe arkitekter i rollen som det nye samfunnets formgivere. Det er dette denne avhandlingen handler om. I 1935 dannet Arbeiderpartiet regjering. Det regnes som innledningen til en ny epoke i norsk historie... Read »

Rural policies are given priority in China, and governmental and regional funding is allocated to the countryside. Chinese villages are being transformed as a partof the urbanization and modernization process as societies, habitats, and architecture. This Ph.D... Read »

This dissertation is a cultural landscape mapping project, merging ethnography with urban planning and design to provide robust and relevant contextual data to inform those interested in a socially mediated urban future for Arctic communities... Read »

This paper investigates the emergence of social media and digital communication as platforms for urban poor and refugee voices, and their capacities to produce, understand and inhabit space in Arua, a major city in Northern Uganda... Read »

The restrictions limiting social interaction and use of public space in Nairobi during the COVID-19 pandemic have disproportionately affected residents in poor urban communities, who are dependent on using streets, alleyways, and communal areas as extensions of their household spaces to secure livelihoods... Read »

With the growing focus on cities being intrinsic to societal development, interdisciplinary collaboration is increasingly encouraged in tackling urban challenges and producing urban form and architecture... Read »

Time is at the heart of this doctoral research which engages with the Arctic island coasts of Jan Mayen, Bjørnøya and Hopen. As a means to work with different dimensions and scales of time along these coasts, I have chosen to examine the materials I encountered during excursions to the islands... Read »

Refugees, temporarily displaced people, and migrants who arrive in Norwegian cities would benefit from equitable access to urban public spaces. Research suggests that the design and management of public urban spaces and local neighbourhood centres can improve migrants’ wellbeing and encourage local cross-cultural interactions... Read »

Kronikk i Aftenposten: 22. april 2022 Flyktninger som huses i fuktbefengte brakkelandsbyer? Avstand, mugg og råte? Det er uverdig. Ønsket om å ta imot flere mennesker på flukt bør også omfatte hvordan vi tar dem imot. Verdig bosetting er god byutviklingspolitikk. link       .. Read »

This article explores how placemaking took place in architectural and design studios working with migrant and displaced communities at universities in three countries. Placemaking is a dimension of architectural and urban design practice that is emulated in architectural design studios – and often takes the form of a top-down and expert-driven exercise... Read »

The prevalence of the ‘Anthropocene’—the epoch of humankind’s detrimental force on environments—in academic discourse over the past decades has reinstigated an environmental approach to landscape history. This article is part of a project focusing on Lower Silesia’s environmental history and its relationship to urbanism, political economies and sociocultural shifts... Read »

A much-celebrated feature of urbanity, is peaceful face-to-face interaction among diverse strangers in public spaces. Such interaction has major civilizing effects, leading urban scholars argue. The rise in privately owned and tightly managed public spaces, tending to displace people, activities and exchanges that may discomfort target groups, has thus raised broad concerns... Read »

In poor urban neighborhoods in Nairobi, Kenya, Covid-19 related restrictions have resulted in tremendous economic setbacks for residents. Through their SSRC-funded research, Anders Ese, Kristin Ese, Joseph Mukeku, Benjamin Sidori, and Romola Sanyal interviewed women traders to make connections between Covid-related setbacks, the practices of containment, and assistance provided by authorities... Read »

While the discipline of landscape architecture is regarded as engaging closely with time, the temporal span that it works within is, more often than not, very narrow. In this article, I draw on three concepts of time that allow experiential engagement with the material and immaterial agencies of an Arctic coastal site to emerge... Read »

Norwegian cities are small, green and dispersed, and mainstream European models of urban regionalization and compact urbanism are not always relevant or useful when analyzing the urban landscapes of the North. .. Read »

Arcticness (or Northernness) has been expressed in the planning and design of Arctic cities over the past century. This paper explores how the imaginary conveyed in this notion has influenced the urbanism and architecture of northern communities in different ways... Read »

Vi mangler et godt språk for hvordan byens rom brukes. Ved å klassifisere bruken, vil man kunne legge grunnlag for en mer kritisk diskurs rundt offentlige byrom. .. Read »

Vi mangler et godt og presist språk om bylivets erfaringsverden, kompleks og sammensatt, dynamisk og foranderlig som den er. Én utfordring i den forbindelse er at byen like mye oppleves og erfares kroppslig og sansemessig som kognitivt og språklig. .. Read »

Det digitale skiftet utfordrer helt sentrale prinsipper om fellesskap, kollektive rettigheter og sosial bærekraft, samtidig som det også representerer et spennende mulighetsfelt for samfunnsutvikling... Read »

Tilfeldig kontakt mellom fremmede fremheves som et viktig, fellesskapsfremmende aspekt ved bylivet. Veksten i privateide byrom har derfor vekket internasjonal bekymring: Mennesker, aktiviteter og kontaktsøkende adferd som ikke passer inn og kan true næringsinteresser, blir gjerne forsøkt fjernet eller tøylet... Read »

This report synthesizes selected lessons from the research project Learning Flexibility: Novel Responses to Urban Challenge and Crisis. Explicitly embracing interdisciplinarity, the project examined how cities beset by fragility, crisis and vulnerability can be sites of innovation for policy, practice and physical interventions... Read »

This booklet is about the Oslo cases of the In Transit Studio portfolio. The In Transit Studio is part of the EUIndia Platform for Social Sciences and Humanities (EqUIP)-funded research project Displacement, Placemaking and Wellbeing in the City (DWELL), which compares case studies in India, Finland, Norway, and the UK... Read »

The subject of urban transformation in cities generally and in those of the global south in particular is a significant matter that requires to be understood and where possible, guide policy. The forecasting of rapid growth of cities of the south due to increasing urbanization and rapid population growth has brought with it challenges and opportunities... Read »

Urbanization is rapidly extending to alpine zones across our planet. Many mountainous landscapes are now destinations for leisure and are being transformed by the fragmented development of infrastructure... Read »

Nature-based solutions (NBS) can be used in combination with the reopening of piped rivers to support area development. In certain cases, piped rivers can run through disused landfills. This presents a complicating factor because landfills provide the possibility for river water to be contaminated by waste... Read »

A much-celebrated feature of urbanity, is peaceful face-to-face interaction among diverse strangers in public spaces. Such interaction has major civilizing effects, leading urban scholars argue. The rise in privately owned and tightly managed public spaces, tending to displace people, activities and exchanges that may discomfort target groups, has thus raised broad concerns... Read »

Making the Arctic City explores the unwritten history of city-building in the Arctic over the last 100 years... Read »

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The City Makers of Nairobi re-examines the history of the urban development of Nairobi in the colonial period. Although Nairobi was a colonial construct with lasting negative repercussions, the African population’s impact on its history and development is often overlooked... Read »

Mineral prospecting perforate landscapes both physically and discursively. Bringing landscape theory in conversation with critical cartography this monograph emphasis the landscape dimension in interrelated research fields discussing indigenous livelihoods, land rights and environmental governance... Read »

Denne forskningsrapporten inneholder artikler som bygger på empiri fra forskningsprosjektet Urban EEA (Urban Experimental Eco system Accounting) finansiert av Norges forskningsråd. NINA (Norsk institutt for naturforskning) ved David Barton, har ledet prosjektet. SSB (Statistisk Sentralbyrå) og AHO (Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo) har vært partnere i prosjektet... Read »

Huge infrastructure investment in transportation together with governmental ambitions for land-use policies have led to a new Norwegian system for planning based on agreements on policies and investments. The agreements are grounded in a transport-oriented development model and demand new, high standards for density around the nodes... Read »

ON FUTURE NORTH → 7 1. INTO THE FUTURE – Andrew Morrison → 11 2. RUINS IN REVERSE – Janike Kampevold Larsen → 20 3. TRANSECT WALK – Peter Hemmersam → 32 4. WALKING THE HIGH WIRE – William L. Fox → 51 5. METHODS FOR PROBING FUTURES: VARDØ – Henry Mainsah → 55 6. SAVOUR THE PAST, TASTE THE FUTURE – Brona Ann Keenan and Miles Franklin Hamaker → 57 7... Read »

INTRODUCTION – Janike Kampevold Larsen & Peter Hemmersam → 7 1. INVENTING AND REINVENTING PLACE IDENTITY IN LONGYEARBYEN: TOWARDS A POST-MINING CITY? – Aileen A. Espíritu → 9 THE ART OF SVALBARD, MAY 23–JUNE 1, 2015 – Bill Fox → 14 2. A FLUID LANDSCAPE – Kathleen John-Alder → 19 NARRATA → 22 3... Read »

PREFACE – Janike Kampevold Larsen & Peter Hemmersam → 13 1. ENCOUNTERING KOLA – Peter Hemmersam & Janike Kampevold Larsen → 15 2. MURMANSK: A COASTAL CITY? – Aileen A. Espíritu, Ph.D. → 25 4. ENNOBLING URBAN SPACE IN THE BORDER REGION, INTERVIEW WITH MORGAN IP – Peter Hemmersam & Vlad Lyachov → 31 5... Read »

Anthropocene discourses shapes perceptions of landscape futures. This chapter reports on a visual survey and characterisation of ongoing landscape transformation in two Subarctic regions , using as a reference mechanical excavators, or ‘diggers’ – the most obvious technology for ground alteration and landscape (re)creation... Read »

From the South: Global Perspectives on Landscapeand Territory is the first book publication by the ILC (International Landscape Collaborative). The book promotes a landscape approach that aims to understand today’s environmental challenges and socio-political transformations through the medium of landscape and to discuss sites of different scales in connection to their territorial context... Read »

In 2016, almost 40 per cent of Norwegian asylum reception centres (ARCs) were located in so-called peri-urban landscapes across the country. In media coverage and central planning documents; however, geographical location seems rarely to be considered as potentially crucial to the well-being of asylum seekers or their integration... Read »

In recent years, several systems and tools to assess energy consumption and carbon emissions at scales beyond that of merely buildings, such as LEED, CASBEE and BREEAM communities have been development... Read »

We show that price levels defined by postcodes within a city gloss over important price variation driven by relative location. Relative location as in proximity to subway, parks and services turn out to be the major price determinant within a city. This insight can be used by urban planners to conctruct high value neighborhoods.   .. Read »

River re-opening strategies of piped streams are used to accommodate greater quantities of stormwater. However, experience in Norway has demonstrated challenges in applying standard principles of local infiltration and retention of water, when the former valleys have been used as dumping grounds. The water that come in contact with the waste can spread contaminants to adjacent areas... Read »

Rapporten Mot en blågrønn eiendomsutvikling? – Stresstesting av Blågrønn Faktor på utvalgte case studier i Bærum kommune evaluerer bruk av verktøyet «blågrønn faktor» (BGF), som skal fremme blågrønne kvaliteter i eiendomsutviklingen. Rapporten er basert på 7 case-studier av ulike utviklingsområder i Bærum, valgt ut i samarbeid Bærum kommune, juli 2018... Read »

The interdisciplinary Future North project experimentally investigates the territories and landscapes of the High North or Subarctic regions of Northern Europe. It studies the relationship between people and their environments and attempts to map the ›future‹ landscapes that are developed through both social and individual agency... Read »

This report highlights some of the main challenges facing Norwegian cities. These are likely to demand increased attention now and in the years ahead. Through dialogue and discussions with stakeholders, the report discusses questions related to urban development, energy, governance and participation in Norwegian cities over the next three decades, as well as ways of tackling them... Read »

Chinese high cold mountains had long been an undiscovered terrain on maps. One of them was Mount Gongga, the highest peak of the Hengduan Mountain Ranges, elevated seven thousand meters above the Chengdu Plain... Read »

Konkrete undersøkelser og diskusjoner av digitaliseringens betydning for norske byer: Digital teknologi er en sentral del av samfunnsutvikling og hverdagsliv, og blir stadig viktigere i byutviklingen... Read »

https://www.nai010.com/en/publicaties/the-potato-plan-collection/186089 .. Read »

This work explains the application of a design and planning concept, the Urban Walkable Unit, that could lead to abandonment of car-dependent mobility and reverse the effects of urban sprawl: territory fragmentation, deterioration of the quality of the built environment and reduced possibilities for social interaction... Read »

Et stort demografisk skifte til urbane levesett og den økende urbaniseringen gir både muligheter og utfordringer. Blant de største utfordringene kan vi nevne ressursknapphet klimaendringer og byvekst, sammen med mer komplekse og sammensatte samfunn... Read »

The changing Arctic is of broad political concern and is being studied across many fields. This book investigates ongoing changes in the Arctic from a landscape perspective. It examines settlements and territories of the Barents Sea Coast, Northern Norway, the Russian Kola Peninsula, Svalbard and Greenland from an interdisciplinary, design-based and future-oriented perspective... Read »

Public lecture at HafenCity University in Hamburg 10 January, 2018. Despite being remote, the Arctic is in fact home to millions of people, and the region is facing some of the most rapid urban change on the globe due to climate change, resource exploitation and geopolitical posturing. The talk will present historical trajectories and contemporary dimensions of urbanism in the circumpolar region... Read »

“Behind the Hill, Into the Wild” was a landscape design studio at Oslo School of Architecture and Design. This studio explored photographic images from analogical field trips as a way to approach an alpine design site which was inaccessible. Alpine landscapes of the Norwegian Scandes was seen as a compressed model of the Colombian Andes... Read »

This paper presents and discusses the use of serendipity in the design and use of experimental urban mapping tools and practices. We address the issue of error in design processes by exploring the role of serendipity in an experimental cultural mapping activity enabled by an iphone app of our own design... Read »

Making and Unmaking the Environment – Design History Society Annual Conference .. Read »

Design School Kolding and Cumulus International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media 2017 (ISBN 978-87-93416-15-4) 4 s. .. Read »

This book documents the joint effort of an international group of researchers and students of architecture and landscape architecture to understand the everyday Kirkenes, its life, and the thinking of the inhabitants about the town and its future. These crucial local elements inform the students so that their design proposals can better suggest ways that the future of the town could unfold... Read »

In 2016 a substantial number of asylum reception centres (ARCs) were located in so-called peri-urban landscapes across Norway. Location, however, is rarely communicated as critical for asylum reception centres in Norway... Read »

This paper identifies and discusses a set of challenges relating to the design of digital services in policies and strategies for more liveable and sustainable cities. These challenges emerge in the meeting between the knowledge and practice fields of digital design, which deal with service and interaction design, and urbanism, which is concerned with the study, planning and design of cities... Read »

Discourses on the Anthropocene influence perceptions of landscape futures. This paper reports on a visual survey and characterisation of ongoing landscape transformation in two regions in the Arctic (including the Subarctic), using as a reference mechanical excavators, or ‘diggers’ – the most obvious technology for ground alteration and landscape (re)creation... Read »

This essay explores changing images of the Norwegian-Russian Barents Coast landscape, which is currently undergoing political and economic changes due to large prospected quantities of extractable oil and gas, rare earth and other minerals... Read »

This thesis is about the role of public art in the urban redevelopment of Bjørvika on the seaside of Oslo. The cultural-led approach to the area transformation has occasioned a public art programme embedded in the redevelopment process... Read »

The focus of this thesis is the regeneration of industrial harbor and brownfield areas to properties primed for urban development along the urban waterfront of Oslo, Norway. The project revolves around an empirical study of Tjuvholmen, a privately operated waterfront development scheme, centrally located in the city... Read »

Urban-EEA Planning Meeting Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Oslo 31.01.17 – 31.01.17 .. Read »

The Global South is experiencing unprecedented road infrastructure transformations accompanied by foreseen and unforeseen effects on everyday life... Read »

What is the space-shaping potential of immaterial entities? This thesis aspires to foreground the immaterial as a valuable domain of investigation and of design experimentation for the practice of landscape architecture... Read »

Fiskeværene er en unik del av Norges bosettingshistorie. Vinterfisket etter skrei la grunnlag for en fiskeværskultur som er spesielt velutviklet og mangfoldig i området fra Lofoten til Senja. Havner, kaier, mottak, produksjonsbedrifter, boliger og fellesbygninger kan i disse værene leses som redskap for næringa, som en fangstkulturs tilpassing og som fiskerinæringas avtrykk på land... Read »

Regulations in urban governance stipulate that large amounts of urban data be made available to the public with the intention of informing and enhancing decision making by businesses and citizens... Read »

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Gjesteforelesning Det Norske Hageselskap Kristiansand,  21.09.16 – 21.09.16 .. Read »

Spatial Morphology Group Seminar, Chalmers School of Architecture Göteborg, 23.11.16 – 24.11.16 .. Read »

Authors: Rönnskog, Ann-Sofi; Palmesino, John; Zalasiewicz, Jan; Williams, Mark; Waters, Colin N.; Barnosky, Anthony D.; Edgeworth, Matt; Neal, Cath; Cearreta, Alejandro; Ellis, Erle C.; Grinevald, Jacques; Haff, Peter K.; Ivar do Sul, Juliana A.; Jeandel, Catherine; Leinfelder, Reinhold; McNeill, John R... Read »

This article looks at a shift in urban governance and policy-making from a culture-led approach towards a ‘green turn’ and an environmentally informed approach. The particular focus of this exploration is how public art practices participate in this ongoing reconfiguration... Read »

In this book, stories portray the production of our built environment, guided by three characters: Giraffes, Telegraphs, and Hero of Alexandria. Having developed its long neck to reach the leaves of high trees, the giraffe represents the vernacular approach to architecture, in which construction follows forces of nature... Read »

The Architecture of the Urban Project” is about large-scale architecture in Norway. Projects that potentially fall into this category are those that blur the distinction between the city and the building, more specifically projects such as new universities, urban redevelopments and waterfront transformations... Read »

17/11/2016 Vi lever i en tid der vi ikke kan anse et eneste stykke natur som uavhengig av menneskelig virksomhet. .. Read »

This article investigates how experimental forms of urban mapping can reveal the particularity of places in non-standard urban situations with the intention of moving beyond the reductivism of still-dominant modernist modes of mapping and associated forms of planning... Read »

This paper extends the tradition of speculative design linked to products and gallery settings to an exploratory narrative design fiction within the domains of landscape and urbanism to address matters of future literacies, context and climate change... Read »

This paper presents and discusses the use of serendipity in the design and use of experimental urban mapping tools and practices. We address the issue of error in design processes by exploring the role of serendipity in an experimental cultural mapping activity enabled by an iphone app of our own design... Read »

What is the future of our cities? Central to discussions at Habitat 3 (The UN’s Conference on Housing and Sustainable Urban Development) in Quito will be how cities – both developed and developing – can respond to dynamics of increasing complexity, fragility and insecurity in the coming decades... Read »

Guest lecture, Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada. 14.10.2016 .. Read »

Guest lecture, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada. 13.10.2016 .. Read »

Guest lecture, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. 12.10.2016 .. Read »

Guest lecture, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. 11.10.2016 .. Read »

The Arctic is urbanizing. Not just in terms of demography and economy, but also in terms of cultural evolution, changing values and lifestyle choices. The tension between colonial modernization as expressed in architecture and urban planning and indigenous ways of life is evident in many Arctic cities... Read »

This paper presents and discusses the use of serendipity in the design and use of experimental urban mapping tools and practices. We address the issue of error in design processes by exploring the role of serendipity in an experimental cultural mapping activity enabled by an iphone app of our own design... Read »

Presentation hos Det Norske Hageselskaps kurs i boligplanlegging i By om vilka kvaliteter i bostäder som folk efterfrågar. .. Read »

The population of Oslo increases rapidly and the corresponding demand of housing is an issue of great public, political and professional interest. Today, we can see several interesting discrepancies in the housing market, such as very high prices for dwellings with low technical standards and dwellings located in neighbourhoods very different from those planned and built today... Read »

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Seminar om byutviklingstendenser sett fra kunstneres ståsted: BOMS ELLER PROTAGONIST? KUNSTNERENS PLASS I FREMTIDENS BY. Fredag 26/8 2016 kl 09.00-18.00 Forstanderskapssalen, Sentralen, Øvre Slottsgate 3, Oslo https://www.facebook.com/events/1725276374391932/ .. Read »

With the change of recreational trends, trekking and outdoor activities have become popular in Chinese high altitude regions like Hengduan Mountains. Abundant and vulnerable of its natural and cultural landscape, alpine regions are generally speaking under a new pressure... Read »

Seminar: Conservation Through Transformation – Cultural Heritage and Place-based Development Varanger Museum, Vardø, 20 April, 2016 .. Read »

In 1968, the British/Swedish architect Ralph Erskine published an article ‘Architecture and town planning in the north’ in this journal, in which he called for a particular Arctic approach to the design of buildings and cities that is distinct from mainstream architecture due to conditions such as harsh climate, resident indigenous or sparse population and remoteness... Read »

The planning of Arctic cities largely still happens within a modernist master-planning framework. This tendency has paradoxically persevered, as anti-urban identity discourses relating to indigenous populations have left little room for re-evaluating city design... Read »

Mapping is intimately related to the practice of urbanism, one that is beginning to be transformed by social and locative media. This chapter presents research in a project into the design and use of locative media in the networked city... Read »

Re-Imagining Rurality, University of Westminster .. Read »

VIII International PhD Seminar ‘Urbanism & Urbanization’:The Horizontal Metropolis .. Read »

Architecture and Resilience on the Human Scale Conference .. Read »

10th International Space Syntax Symposium .. Read »

Oslo Metropolitan Area Årsmøte; 2015-09-03 .. Read »

Bjørvikakonferanse, 24.11.2015 .. Read »

Arctic settlements and cities are adapting to climatic, economic, social and geo-political changes. Strategies for planning and transformation of cities do not only depend on these dynamic and emerging conditions, but also on how existing material cultures provides frames for thinking about possible urban futures... Read »

Future North session at Arctic Frontiers Conference 22 January, 2015 Place: University of Tromsø .. Read »

Future North session at Arctic Frontiers Conference 22 January, 2015 Place: University of Tromsø .. Read »

Future North session at Arctic Frontiers Conference 22 January, 2015 Place: University of Tromsø .. Read »

Future North session at Arctic Frontiers Conference 22 January, 2015 Place: University of Tromsø .. Read »

Future North session at Arctic Frontiers Conference 22 January, 2015 Place: University of Tromsø .. Read »

Future North session at Arctic Frontiers Conference 22 January, 2015 Place: University of Tromsø .. Read »

Future North: Svalbard 30.10.2015, AHO, Oslo .. Read »

Future North: Svalbard 30.10.2015, AHO, Oslo .. Read »

Future North: Svalbard 30.10.2015, AHO, Oslo .. Read »

Future North: Svalbard 30.10.2015, AHO, Oslo .. Read »

Keynote at Arctic Frontiers – Science Session .. Read »

It is important for designers of the built environment – from the varying scales of architecture, urbanism, and landscape – to capture and reflect locally specific human voices in the anticipation and design of future communities in the face of great change. The world is increasingly challenged with the complex dynamics of climate change and globalisation... Read »

Arctic Frontiers 2015 – Future North Session Through the persona of Narratta as a ‘thing that speaks ‘I investigate what might be shaped on site in the arctic but also online in the cast of design fiction. This situates the work within comunication design and digital narrative... Read »

UNESCO Chair in Anticipatory Systems, together with WAAS-World Academy of Art and Science, ISSS-International Society for the Systems Sciences, the Advanced Design Network, and the Department of Sociology and Social Sciences of the University of Trento Abstract: We identify two challenges concerning conceptualisations of communication design, design fiction and future views on the arctic... Read »

Hva er det som gjør en by vital? Og kan man planlegge for en vital by? Byen er et sted hvor ulike krefter utspiller seg. Mennesker møtes, bygninger bygges og parker anlegges. I løpet av de siste tiårene har man i Skandinavia ønsket å utvikle levende byer, byer som ser vakre ut, og som folk kan bo og trives i... Read »

This text deals with what the concept ‘best practice’ means – where it comes from, and how it is used in urban planning and design. It is a widely used concept, which might be applied as a strict protocol, but is often also used in a much more liberal way in the design practices—describing a wider range of approaches. .. Read »

Regulations in urban governance stipulate that large amounts of urban data are made available to publics with the intention of informing and enhancing decision making for businesses and citizens... Read »

Danmark har lang tradition for streng byplanmæssig styring af detailhandelen, og Svend Aukens stop for nye eksterne shoppingcentre i 1997 og den efterfølgende politik har været en stor succes i forhold til at begrænse butiksflugten til bilbyen... Read »

On the east coast of Greenland is city of Tasiilaq where the icebergs tower over its wooden houses in the summer. These landscapes, the urban on land and the wild at sea, form a dual relationship, shaped by the long history of traditions and the recent stories of modern life... Read »

Mapping is intimately related to the practice of urbanism, one that is beginning to be transformed by social and locative media. This chapter presents research in a project into the design and use of a GPS-based ‘app’ called Streetscape based on the mapping methodology of Urban Gallery (by chora)... Read »

Akershus County, Areal og samferdselsgruppa i Follo 14.03.2014 .. Read »

Arrangement: Bærekraftig by-og tettstedsutvikling Type arrangement: Konferanse Utbredelsesområde: Norsk Arrangør: UiT – Norges arktiske uni og Fagforbundet Sted: Tromsø Tidspunkt: 12.02.14 – 13.02.14 .. Read »

Arctic Frontiers Side Event: Constructions of North: landscape. imagery. society. Organizer: AHO Place UiT, Tromsø .. Read »

Fagforbundet: Bærekraftig by- og tettstedutvikling, Tromsø .. Read »

Arctic Modernities Conference, Tromsø .. Read »

Avhandlingen handler om stedsforståelsens betydning for utformingen av en områdepolitikk, og områdepolitikkens betydning for stedsforståelsen. Caset er Groruddalssatsingen, en områdebasert innsats i det som regnes som et av Oslos utsatte byområder... Read »

In this thesis, Ese offers a critique of historical and current mapping efforts used to describe and analyse popular settlements in Nairobi. At the same time, he provides alternative ways to approach mapping in such contexts useful to both planning and architecture... Read »

Triggered by European Union’s Raw Material Initiative and intensified resource mapping, a negotiation of the limits of exploitation is emerging; in it decision makers go to extremes in accepting environmental damage. This paper unfolds discourses on resource extraction from two cartographies representing the same territory with different names and worldviews... Read »

Throughout the history of urbanism, there has almost always been an interweaving of structures of plantation with urban armatures and tissues. In Europe and Asia, forests have been the counter-figure of the city, embedded the city or complemented the city. Simultaneously, lines of trees are planted on public spaces. This has been systematically planned and constructed... Read »

In Southeast Asia, foreign morphologies and practices have been continuously crossbred with indigenous forms and traditions; hybridization has not been so much the exception as the norm... Read »

The ‘Village in the City’ is surely as a specific as a spectacular urban form that is generated by the particular urbanization process that China is undergoing during the last two decades. The massive scale and the unprecedented speed of such urbanization implies an incredible multiplicity of ‘villages in the city’... Read »

Waters Urbanisms East expands upon the first edition of Water Urbanisms, published in 2008. It gathers a number of leading practitioners and academics globally to reflect upon the growing challenges of water in the city, infrastructural landscapes and the reuniting of engineered and natural processes... Read »

We address how to make apparent a number of design initiated articulations to do with accessing, assembling, and mediating the data of the networked city and their visual renderings in publicly accessible formats. These ‘designed moves’ heighten the significance of both design knowledge and research interpretations in an exploratory and dynamic inquiry... Read »

Recent years have seen the rapid growth of mobile communication and more recently smart phones and apps. Many higher education students are active users of mobile devices... Read »

Ministry of Local Government and Modernisation 20.11.2013. .. Read »

16.11.13 Phyllis Lambert seminar, Montreal .. Read »

Contested landscapes – lost ecologies: Arctic Frontiers side event 24.01.2013 Sted: University of Tromsø .. Read »

Seminar: Exposed Northern Landscapes Mini-seminar on challenges and current issues for Sub-arctic landscapes and territories organized by the Future North project. 30 October, 2013, AHO, Oslo .. Read »

Arrangement: Internasjonalt Seminar Type arrangement: Seminar Utbredelsesområde: Norsk Arrangør: FN sambandet og Natur og Ungdom Sted: Tromsø Tidspunkt: 17.10.13   .. Read »

Exposed Northern Landscapes at the Oslo Triennale, 30 October 2013. .. Read »

Utsatte Nordlige Landskap AHO, Oslo .. Read »

Guest lecture, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey .. Read »

Phyllis Lambert Seminar Fall 2013: milieu, environment, umwelt Montréal   .. Read »

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Conference: Archives of the Arctic. Ice, Entropy and Memory .. Read »

This report is a result of a collaboration between The Foundation for Design and Architecture in Norway and the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, and the purpose was to uncover consequences of, and potentials in, shopping centre construction in small and medium sized Norwegian towns... Read »

Førsteamanuensis ved Arkitekthøyskolen i Oslo, Peter Hemmersam, gjør opp status for forholdet mellom kjøpesentre og tradisjonelle sentrum, peker ut hovedproblemer slik situasjonen er og har vært – og antyder en vei videre. .. Read »

Design investigations into future land management in the Ca Mau peninsula develop various scenarios to react to the pressing challenges of environmental pollution, population growth, and climate change. Afforestation and the creations of new waterscapes play a key role. .. Read »

Mapping, tracking and finding a path is the introduction text in the publication for the art project Hollow Earth by Tanya Busse and Emilija Skarnulyte. .. Read »

Water-based urbanism, that is, the design of cities around the role and dynamics of water, has been a powerful urban impetus in many parts of the world. As a consequence of the location of cities along major rivers, on seacoasts, and in inland and coastal deltas, water urbanism is indeed a predominant part of the history and current status of many cities... Read »

This article focuses on the revered role rivers in China once held – in cartography, history, mythology, festivals, cities, and everyday life. It reviews and summarizes ‘hydraulic civilization’, taking cognizance of feng shui as it does so. Four historical cases testify to the fact that China’s great cities were founded on riverbanks and developed in tandem with floodplain dynamics... Read »

We address how to make apparent a number of design initiated articulations to do with accessing, assembling, and mediating the data of the networked city and their visual renderings in publicly accessible formats. These ‘designed moves’ heighten the significance of both design knowledge and research interpretations in an exploratory and dynamic inquiry... Read »

Recent years have seen the rapid growth of mobile communication and more recently smart phones and apps. But how might we approach ‘learning the networking city’? In this paper we reflect on the negotiation of a mobile app for cultural mapping of the networked city developed as part of a large design research project into social media and the city... Read »

Contemporary discourses on urban redevelopment and design are, at least as seen from the perspective of Northern Europe, surprisingly alike and homogeneous. They all subscribe to the idea that the future lies in building some version of “the creative city.” It is a city being rebuilt based on the happy mix of creativity and knowledge with culture and urban consumption... Read »

In the master plan of the redevelopment of the former industrial harbor Bjørvika, funding for art is stipulated along with access to the site during the construction phase. This article looks at an intervention, from 2005, of the artist Marianne Heier, in relation to the strategic use of imagery in place branding and the use of images to structure change... Read »

The Aarhus School of Architecture. Denmark 22.10.2012 .. Read »

Negotiating Space, Arranging the Land UiO Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History and Place: Nasjonalbiblioteket, Oslo   Key words: Agency of matter, Serendipity, Mapping contemporary landscapes, Journey format. .. Read »

For some time now, architectural writers and curators have pointed to a new social engagement in contemporary architecture. What does this renewed social interest consist of, and how does it materialise? The thesis looks at contemporary architectural practices whose works and ways of working display a distinct social commitment... Read »

A consensus as to how cities can meet the challenges posed by sustainability is emerging. The primary response of cities in terms of urban policy and planning can be summed up in the term ‘Compact City’. This is a strategy that is easy to envision for planners, politicians and the general public... Read »

For some time now, architectural writers and curators have pointed to a new social engagement in contemporary architecture. What does this renewed social interest consist of, and how does it materialise? The thesis looks at contemporary architectural practices whose works and ways of working display a distinct social commitment... Read »

High mountains, narrow fjords, deep valleys. Norway’s views are its national pride – and also an international trademark. But it is easy to forget that these views are inaccessible without the roads that can take us there. Ever since the 18th century, the image of the Norwegian landscape has been inextricably tied to the gradual expansion of the Norwegian road network... Read »

In the context of contemporary Chinese development, Turenscape’s work can justifiably be called “revolutionary.” In the disciplines of landscape architecture and planning, it is without doubt extremely bold in its new “big foot” (unbound, natural) aesthetic and emphasis on larger infrastructures... Read »

The water wolf is an allegorical destructive figure in Dutch history, literature and folklore known for the devouring action of wind-driven water on soft shorelines... Read »

Possible Greenland fortæller historien om geologiske dannelsesprocesser i fortiden og om en mulig fremtid for landet som resurseleverandør i en ny geologisk æra – antropocene – menneskehedens tidsalder... Read »

‘DAHL: I think the notions Appearing and Disappearing landscapes and the notion To charge the landscape with new energy in all our projects have been related to different conceptions of landscape. In a sense a kind of explorative position of landscapes under pressure, searching for a terminology on its behalf so to speak... Read »

Letter to the editor, Tromsø paper Nordlys. january 12th 2013 ‘I høst var vi mange stumme vitner til at dialogenes by fremstod som samehetsens by. I selskap med mange andre som vanligvis er svært engasjert i spørsmål om Tromsøs utvikling, holdt jeg meg utenfor ordskiftet som fulgte byrådets beslutning om å trekke søknaden om innlemmelse i forvaltningsområdet for samisk språk... Read »

The profound complexity inherent in landscapes – precisely because they embody culture and nature, art and science, the collective and the personal, the natural and the artificial, the static and the dynamic – has led to the use and abuse of the term (Berrizbeitia 2001)... Read »

Water and mud. Erosion and sedimentation. Profits and perils. Natural and social forces. Water resource management and urbanization. Human culture and civilization requires the control and appropriation of water. The capture, storage, and distribution of water inextricably bind physical and social processes into a thorny relationship between nature and society... Read »

This paper presents completed research in phase one of a project into the interdisciplinary co-design and collaborative uses of social media in urban settings. Research now includes place-specific computing, locative media applications (‘apps’), and open source tools (OpenStreetMaps, Ushahidi)... Read »

Urban sustainability is often reduced to a specific set of issues packaged in the notion of ‘green city’ or ‘eco-city’. The idea of eco-city is problematic in terms of pure sustainability, but forms an important motive in urban policy. The architectural policy of Oslo emphasizes sustainability, and ‘greenness’ is a marketable quality which is exploitable in the promotion of cities... Read »

Op-ed .. Read »

City of Tromsø, Planning Department 17.11.2010. .. Read »

Innlandsbykonferansen 2010 (Hedmark and Oppland Counties) 05.05.2010. .. Read »

Wars, internal conflicts and natural catastrophes are plaguing the world. Millions of people are on the run in search of new, safer places to settle temporarily or permanently. “Human settlements” goes in more depth into the aspects of modern settlements that are related to architecture, urban design and planning... Read »

The notion of ‘green city’ or ‘eco-city’ occurs in urban planning policies in many cities. The issue of sustainability in urbanism is often reduced to a discussion of a limited range of quantifiable factors, but there are in fact not only one but many different and often competing ‘sustainability agendas’... Read »

The growing and unmistakable interest in infrastructure calls for a sound overview of recent exemplary design. Across the globe, public authorities view infrastructure—particularly transport infrastructure—as their primary field of investment... Read »

Kommuneplankonferansen 2009 02.02.2009 .. Read »

Ministry of Environmental Affairs 08.09.2009 .. Read »

(English summary below) RESUMÉ Afhandlingen er en undersøgelse af integrerede shoppingcentre. Den er et studie af, hvorledes tre nyere danske centre i tætte bysituationer, udform-ningsmæssigt og programmatisk, indgår i eksisterende kontekster og skaber nye offentlige rum og fodgængerforbindelser... Read »

City of Oslo, District Grorud 08.04.2008 .. Read »

City of Oslo, District Grorud 28.10.2008 .. Read »

Norwegian State Housing Bank 27.08.2008 .. Read »

OAF (Oslo arkitektforening) 22.05.2008 .. Read »

Water is re-conquering the contemporary agenda of urbanism. The renewed focus for urbanists is not uncalled for. Rather, its disappearance during the heydays of urbanism in the 19th and 20th century is remarkable. Water Urbanisms has three main sections. Water Cultures. Essays on Water Urbanism elaborates interplays of urbanism and water in different cultures and regions. Another Water Urbanism... Read »

Afhandlingen er en undersøgelse af integrerede shoppingcentre. Den er et studie af, hvorledes tre nyere danske centre i tætte bysituationer, udformningsmæssigt og programmatisk, indgår i eksisterende kontekster og skaber nye offentlige rum og fodgængerforbindelser... Read »

Norwegian Association of Architects – Akademiet 27.10.06 .. Read »

City of Oslo, Agency for Planning and Building Services 11.11.2005   .. Read »

Gentrifisering, forstått som fysisk og sosiokulturell oppgradering av tidligere arbeiderstrøk og industriområder, er hovedfokus for ny bok fra byutviklingsprogrammet. Studieobjektet er først og fremst de indre østlige byområdene i Oslo... Read »

The article discusses the fact that much of the current urban theory describes the city as both physically and socially fragmented as a negative result of globalization and other forces, while some architects and writers adopt a somewhat more positive tone, seeing a potential for urban integration with shopping as an integrating program. .. Read »

Artikkelen befatter seg med tilfeldig interaksjon mellom byens fremmede. Slik interaksjon er et grunnleggende og ofte feiret trekk ved bylivet. Hvilke forhold som utløser kontakt av denne typen, har likevel sjelden blitt systematisk dokumentert. Artikkelen utforsker underliggende omstendigheter som bevirker tilfeldig, vennligsinnet interaksjon mellom fremmede i byens utendørs offentlige rom... Read »

Vejle Cityforening 05.11.2002 .. Read »

Retail Institute Scandinavia: City Branding Conference 07.11.2002 .. Read »

International Business Conferences: ‘Butikken som oplevelse’ 13.12.2001. .. Read »

Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole, Copenhagen 10.10.2000 .. Read »

Boken presenterer for første gang på norsk de viktigste tendensene innenfor internasjonal byutvikling – og i forskningen og teoriutviklingen omkring denne. Antologiens bidragsytere er fremstående byforskere som kombinerer teori og empiri på spennende måter. Byene får stadig større økonomisk, politisk og sosial betydning, en utvikling som er tydelig også her til lands... Read »

The article addresses chance interaction between the cityʼs strangers. Such interaction is an essential and much-celebrated feature of urbanity. However, what makes it actually occur, has rarely been systematically documented. The article investigates underlying circumstances that encourage peaceful chance interactions among strangers in urban public space... Read »