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Book chapter
Svalbard’s Urban Imaginaries
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 »
Book chapter
Learning From Neighbourhood Planning
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 »
Book chapter
Comfort and discomfort : Conflicting concerns in Arctic urban planning and design
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 »
Article
Byrom i skvis: Mellom attraksjon og interaksjon
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 »
Conference paper
Evolving Colonialism and Urban Space Design in Kalaallit Nunat (Greenland)
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 »
Article
Multispecies stories of Vardø: an Arctic place in change
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 »
Article
Landscapes between signal and data: Formal identification and analysis of forest clearings in Oslo through lidar data
- Schob, Maximilian|Callejas, Luis
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 »
Book
Pedagogical Experiments in Architecture for a Changing Climate
- Callejas, Luis|Tandberg, Jørgen|Atak, Thulay|Scelsa, Jonathan
This book presents a series of pedagogical experiments translating climate science, environmental humanities, material research, ecological practices into the architectural curriculum... Read »
Article
Architecture, politics and peacebuilding in Medellín
- Harboe, Lisbet|Hoelscher, Kristian
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 »
2022
Article
Planlegging under jorden
- Folde, Marja|Sjödahl, Elisabeth|Oen, Amy|Eriksson, Ingelöv|Helms, Karin|Tann, Loretta von der
Article
The Concept of Place in Displacement Management
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 »
Article
Hva er landskap?
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 »
Other
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. Dette er en kronikk. .. Read »
Article
Containment from Within : Women Entrepreneurs’ Strategies for Accessing Public Space and Securing Livelihoods in Nairobi during COVID-19 Pandemic
- Ese, Anders|Ese, Kristin|Mukeku, Joseph|Sanyal, Romola|Sidori, Benjamin|Lien, Ida Zeline|Bergby, Synne
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 »
Article
Norwegian Strategic Heritage Practices
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 »
Article
The Many Ways to be Nordic in the Arctic
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 »
Article
Interpretive Flexibility as an Approach to Designing Inclusive Urban Space: Learning from Medellín and Beirut
- Geirbo, Hanne Cecilie|Harboe, Lisbet|Hoelscher, Kristian|Petersen, Sobah Abbas
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 »
Article
Towards Interdisciplinary Collaboration? Boundary work among architects and social scientists
- Ese, Anders|Ese, Jo
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 »
Book
Landscape Approach : From Local Communities to Territorial Systems
- Zander, Hannes|McCartney, Shelagh|Solano, Samantha|Vangjeli, Sonja
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 »
Thesis
Å reise noe nytt og bedre : om arkitektur og politikk 1935–1940
- Kronborg, Anne-Kristine
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 »
Thesis
The Banwan Project, From Experiment to Model?
- Cao, Qing,
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 »
Thesis
Urban futures in the north : a collective imagination of an arctic borderland
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 »
Conference paper
Cohesion and Conflict in a Refugee City: Digital platforms, migration, and opportunity in Arua, Northern Uganda
- Ese, Anders|Lien, Ida
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 »
Article
Containment from Within: Women Entrepreneurs’ Strategies for Accessing Public Space and Securing Livelihoods in Nairobi during COVID-19 Pandemic
- Ese, Anders|Ese, Kristin|Mukeku, Joseph|Sanyal, Romola|Sidori, Benjamin|Lien, Ida|Bergby, Synne
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 »
Article
Towards Interdisciplinary Collaboration? Boundary work among architects and social scientists
- Ese, Anders|Ese, Jo
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 »
Thesis
Tempo-materialities : encounters with time along Arctic island coasts
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 »
Other
Policy Brief: The Role of Urban Public Spaces in Managing Displacement in Norway
- Hemmersam, Peter|Brevik-Khan, håvard|Ip, Morgan|Selmer-Olsen, Tone
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 »
Other
Kronikk: Flyktninger som huses i fuktbefengte brakkelandsbyer? Avstand, mugg og råte? Det er uverdig.
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 »
Article
Displacement and placemaking in design studios
- Hemmersam, Peter|Chopra, Divya|Dar, Anandini|Breivik-Khan, Håvard|Selmer-Olsen, Tone|Ip, Morgan|Lappi, Tiina-Riitta|Lintelo, Dolf te|Mull, Robert|Adjoubei, Xenia
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 »
Article
Environmental consequences of the longing for power: Revisiting Lower Silesia’s landscapes under Frederick the Great
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 »
2021
Thesis
Hello, stranger? Public space between interaction and attraction
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 »
Article
A Pandemic of Control: Views on Restrictions and Livelihoods among Women Traders in Nairobi
- Ese, Anders|Mukeku, Joseph|Sanyal, Romola|Sidori, Benjamin|Ese, Kristin
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 »
Article
What time is this coast? Temporal encounters in the Arctic
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 »
Article
Rural Urbanism – Understanding Norwegian XS-Planning
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 »
Article
Arcticness and the Urbanism of the North
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 »
Article
Byromsbruk – en utførlig klassifikasjon
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 »
Article
Jakten på et språk om øyeblikket som bylivets erfaringshorisont
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 »
Article
Retten til det digitale skiftet
- Martinussen, Einar Sneve|Aspen, Jonny
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 »
Book chapter
Interdisciplinarity on site: Exploring the urban interventions ‘Unidades de Vida Articulada’ in Medellín
- Harboe, Lisbet|Geirbo, Hanne Cecilie
Other
Kronikk: Hvorfor snakker ikke fremmede sammen på Tjuvholmen (annet enn i fylla)?
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 »
Report
Learning Flexibility – Pathways to Urban Transformation
- Suyama, Bianca|Amaro, Gerardo Lopez|Geirbo, Hanne Cecilie|Harboe, Lisbet|Hoelscher, Kristian|Martins, Daniel|Petersen, Sobah Abbas
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 »
Report
In Transit Studio: Oslo Files
- Breivik-Khan, Håvard|Selmer-Olsen, Tone|Son, Bui Quy|Lucas, Paul-Antoine
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 »
Thesis
Urban Habitat Transformation and the African Middle Class The Case of Kileleshwa, Nairobi, Kenya
- Makunda, Collins Sasakah
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 »
Article
Routes and transects: Reading extended urbanization in alpine zones
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 »
Article
From landfills to landscapes—Nature-based solutions for water management taking into account legacy contamination
- Hale, Sarah|Folde, Marja S.|Melby, Unni H.|Sjödahl, Elisabeth|Smebye, Andreas|Oen, Amy
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 »
Thesis
Hello, stranger? Urban public space between interaction and attraction
- Bjekeset, Sverre
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 »
Book
Making the Arctic City: The History and Future of Circumpolar Urbanism
Making the Arctic City explores the unwritten history of city-building in the Arctic over the last 100 years... Read »
2020
Book
The City Makers of Nairobi: An African Urban History
- Ese, Anders|Ese, Kristin
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 »
Book chapter
Water as a Primary Building Material of the City as Second Nature
- Müller, Sabine|Quednau, Andreas
Article
New Nordic stereotypes: In search of alternative design practices for tourism in peripheral landscapes
- Pasgaard, Jens Christian|Hemmersam, Peter|Nielsen, Tom
Thesis
The perforated landscape : a study on contested prospects in Sápmi
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 »
Report
Mot en grønn areal- og regionplanlegging : tendenser i det norske plansystemet
- Ellefsen, Karl Otto|Ellefsen, Halvor|Garnåsjordet, Per Arild|Hauglin, Espen
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 »
Article
Med altoverskyggende mål om bymessighet
- Ellfesen, Karl Otto|Ellefsen, Halvor
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 »
2019
Book
Future North : Vardø
- Hemmersam, Peter|Larsen, Janike Kampevold|Morrison, Andrew
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 »
Book
Future North : Svalbard
- Hemmersam, Peter|Larsen, Janike Kampevold|Morrison, Andrew
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 »
Book
Future North : Kola
- Hemmersam, Peter|Larsen, Janike Kampevold|Morrison, Andrew
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 »
Book chapter
Disturbed Ground and Landscape Change in the Arctic
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 »
Article
Global Perspectives on Landscape and Territory
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 »
Conference paper
Living on the threshold: the missing debate on peri-urban asylum reception centres in Norway, 2015-16
- Skjulhaug, Marianne|Simonsen, Anne Hege
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 »
Conference paper
Assessing cities: Applying GIS-based methods for mapping cross-scale spatial indicators
- Manum, Bendik|Rokseth, Lillian|Mordström, Tobias
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 »
Article
House prices and relative location
- Heyman, Axel|Sommervoll, Dag Einar
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 »
Article
Commercial Counterurbanisation: A driving force in rural economic development
- Finke, Hanne Bat|Bosworth, Gary
Article
Landscape Measures for Improved Management of Stormwater and Leachate at Old Closed Landfills
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 »
Report
MOT EN BLÅGRØNN EIENDOMSUTVIKLING? «Stresstesting» av Blågrønn Faktor på utvalgte case studier i Bærum Kommune
- Ellefsen, Halvor Weider|Barton, David
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 »
Book chapter
Landscapes as Archives of the Future?
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 »
Article
Investigating Agentive Urban Learning: An Assembly of Situated Experiences for Sustainable Futures
- Morrison, Andrew|Erstad, Ole|Liestøl, Gunnar|Pinfold, Nicholas|Snaddon, Bruce|Hemmersam, Peter|Grant-Broom, Andrea
Book
From the South: Global Perspectives on Landscape and Territory
- Zander, Hannes|Sciaraffia, Flavio|Biswas, Sourav Kumar|Nideroest, Thomas
2018
Report
Norwegian Urban Challenges – Stakeholder dialogues 2018
- Harboe, Lisbet|Geirbo, Hanne Cecilie|Hoelscher, Kristian|Petersen, Sobah Abbas|Christie, Ingrid
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 »
Article
Tools and Alpine Landscapes: An Approach to Inquiring into Mount Gongga Routes
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 »
Book
Hvor smart?
- Melien, Ingvild Festervoll|Harboe, Lisbet
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 »
Book chapter
Oslo
- Skjulhaug, Marianne|Hamaker, Miles
https://www.nai010.com/en/publicaties/the-potato-plan-collection/186089 .. Read »
Article
Konseptet Urban Walkable Unit, en ide for å omstrukturere den spredte byen og skape gangbare, blågrønne og bilfrie områder
- Rivera, Agustin Sebastian|Sjødahl, Elisabeth
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 »
Report
Norske floker – Urbane utfordringer
- Harboe, Lisbet|Geirbo, Hanne Cecilie|Hoelscher, Kristian|Petersen, Sobah Abbas|Christie, Ingrid
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 »
Book
Future North : the changing Arctic landscapes
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 »
Lecture
Arctic City
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 »
2017
Article
Imaging an Excursion, Imagining an Expedition:On Methods of an Alpine Landscape Design Studio at Oslo School of Architecture and Design
“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 »
Conference paper
Serendipity and the urban transect walk: Reflections on design and cultural mapping in arctic cities
- Aspen, Jonny|Hemmersam, Peter|Morrison, Andrew
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 »
Conference paper
Historical Perspectives on Contemporary ‘Smart City’ Thinking
- Aspen, Jonny|Martinussen, Einar Sneve
Making and Unmaking the Environment – Design History Society Annual Conference .. Read »
Conference paper
Bridging the divide between problem and solution: A design approach to housing production in Nairobi
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 »
Report
Borderlands
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 »
Conference paper
A house is not a home: Aspects of peri-urban locations of Norwegian asylum reception centres 2015-2016
- Skjulhaug, Marianne|Simonsen, Anne Hege
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 »
Conference paper
Challenges of the ‘Urban Digital’: Addressing interdisciplinarity and power in the planning and design of the digital city
- Hemmersam, Peter|Aspen, Jonny|Martinussen, Einar Sneve|Knutsen, Jørn
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 »
Conference paper
Disturbed Ground and Landscape Change in the Arctic
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 »
Book chapter
Landscapes on Hold: The Norwegian and Russian Barents Sea Coast in the New North
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 »
Thesis
Public art : urban learning
- Myrvold, Charlotte
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 »
Thesis
Urban environments of the entrepreneurial city : from Aker Brygge to Tjuvholmen
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 »
Talk
Hedonic Price Analysis of Apartment Sales in Oslo (2007-2015)
- Heyman, Axel|Chen, Xianwen|Manum, Bendik|Nowell, Megan Sara|Barton, David Nicholas
Urban-EEA Planning Meeting Norwegian Institute for Nature Research, Oslo 31.01.17 – 31.01.17 .. Read »
Thesis
Our way or the highway? : a study of the reframing of transformed road transportation infrastructure in the Nairobi Metropolitan Region
The Global South is experiencing unprecedented road infrastructure transformations accompanied by foreseen and unforeseen effects on everyday life... Read »
Thesis
Immaterial Landscapes. Formulating the Intangible in Northern Landscapes
- Labadini, Alice
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 »
Book
Fiskevær – Myre på Yttersida
- Ellefsen, Karl Otto|Lundevall, Tarald
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 »
Book chapter
Envisioning the Appearance of New Urban Landscapes: Transformative City Dialogues in Nuuk
- Uhre, Kjerstin|Dahl, Knut Eirik
2016
Article
Exploring urban data visualization and public participation in planning.
- Aspen, Jonny|Hemmersam, Peter|Martin, Nicole Rae|Westvang, Even|Morrison, Andrew|,
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 »
Talk
Efterfrågan på bostäder – vilket läge är ett bra läge?
Gjesteforelesning Det Norske Hageselskap Kristiansand, 21.09.16 – 21.09.16 .. Read »
Presentation
Defining accessibility in spatial morphology
Spatial Morphology Group Seminar, Chalmers School of Architecture Göteborg, 23.11.16 – 24.11.16 .. Read »
Article
Scale and diversity of the physical technosphere: A geological perspective
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 »
Article
Participatory action in the age of green urbanism. How Futurefarmers leapfrogged the cultural consumer?
- Myrvold, Charlotte|Wergeland, Even Smith
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 »
Article
Participatory action in the age of green urbanism. How Futurefarmers leapfrogged the cultural consumer?
- Myrvold, Charlotte|Wergeland, Even Smith
Book
Giraffes, Telegraphs, and Hero of Alexandria – Urban Design by Narration
- Müller, Sabine|Quednau, Andreas
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 »
Thesis
The architecture of the urban project
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 »
Article
Isbobler og gullstøv i Arktis
17/11/2016 Vi lever i en tid der vi ikke kan anse et eneste stykke natur som uavhengig av menneskelig virksomhet. .. Read »
Article
Place Mapping – transect walks in Arctic urban landscapes
- Hemmersam, Peter|Morrison, Andrew
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 »
Conference paper
Design Fiction in Design Education: Urbanism, Landscape and Futures Literacies
- Morrison, Andrew
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 »
Conference paper
Serendipity and the Urban Transect Walk: reflections on design and cultural mapping in Arctic cities
- Hemmersam, Peter|Aspen, Jonny|Morrison, Andrew
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 »
Article
Hvilken vei skal byene gå?
- Hoelscher, Kristian|Harboe, Lisbet|Petersen, Sobah Abbas|Christie, Ingrid Nytun|Geirbo, Hanne Cecilie
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 »
Lecture
Place Specific Arctic Urbanism
Guest lecture, Université de Montréal, Quebec, Canada. 14.10.2016 .. Read »
Lecture
Place Specific Arctic Urbanism
Guest lecture, Université Laval, Quebec, Canada. 13.10.2016 .. Read »
Lecture
Arctic Architectures
Guest lecture, McGill University, Montreal, Canada. 12.10.2016 .. Read »
Lecture
Arctic Architectures
Guest lecture, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. 11.10.2016 .. Read »
Conference paper
Urban landscape hybrids in Arctic cities
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 »
Conference paper
Serendipity and the urban transect walk: reflections on design and cultural mapping in arctic cities
- Hemmersam, Peter|Aspen, Jonny|Morrison, Andrew
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 »
Talk
Efterfrågan på bostäder
Presentation hos Det Norske Hageselskaps kurs i boligplanlegging i By om vilka kvaliteter i bostäder som folk efterfrågar. .. Read »
Article
Distances, accessibilities and attractiveness; looking at new approaches to include measures of urban form in hedonic pricing modelling?
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 »
Conference paper
A House is not a Home – Media representations of asylum shelters in Norway.
- Skjulhaug, Marianne|Simonsen, Anne Hege
T.. Read »
Talk
Om å tenke med byen – noen vitalistiske perspektiver
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 »
Article
Trekking and Alpine Landscapes: Swiss and Norwegian outdoor landscape strategies as reference for Hengduan Mountains
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 »
Talk
What is a Place?
Seminar: Conservation Through Transformation – Cultural Heritage and Place-based Development Varanger Museum, Vardø, 20 April, 2016 .. Read »
Article
Arctic Architectures
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 »
Conference paper
Place Specific Arctic Urbanism
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 »
2015
Book chapter
Exploring locative media for cultural mapping.
- Aspen, Jonny|Hemmersam, Peter|Morrison, Andrew|Sem, Idunn|Havnør, Martin
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 »
Conference paper
When the migratory route is home
Re-Imagining Rurality, University of Westminster .. Read »
Conference paper
Subsurface Mining and Surface Urbanization: Disturbed Ecologies requiring Rebalancing
VIII International PhD Seminar ‘Urbanism & Urbanization’:The Horizontal Metropolis .. Read »
Conference paper
Participatory Mapping in the Co-Design of the Future North
Architecture and Resilience on the Human Scale Conference .. Read »
Conference paper
Distances, accessibilities and attractiveness; urban form correlates of willingness to pay for dwellings examined by space syntax based measurements in GIS
10th International Space Syntax Symposium .. Read »
Presentation
Arctic urbanism: Kola mining towns
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 »
Presentation
Kautokeino and Kvalsund Compared: rejection and acceptance of mining in communities in Northern Norway
- Espiritu, Aileen
Future North session at Arctic Frontiers Conference 22 January, 2015 Place: University of Tromsø .. Read »
Presentation
Testing Ground: Mapping Mining in the Canadian North
- Ponte, Alessandra
Future North session at Arctic Frontiers Conference 22 January, 2015 Place: University of Tromsø .. Read »
Presentation
Ethnographies of the North
Future North session at Arctic Frontiers Conference 22 January, 2015 Place: University of Tromsø .. Read »
Presentation
Mining controversies
Future North session at Arctic Frontiers Conference 22 January, 2015 Place: University of Tromsø .. Read »
Presentation
Brandscape: the role of public art in contemporary nature
Future North session at Arctic Frontiers Conference 22 January, 2015 Place: University of Tromsø .. Read »
Presentation
The new landscapes of North
Future North session at Arctic Frontiers Conference 22 January, 2015 Place: University of Tromsø .. Read »
Presentation
Futuring the Arctic: strategies of sustainability in Longyearbyen and Barentsburg
- Espiritu, Aileen
Future North: Svalbard 30.10.2015, AHO, Oslo .. Read »
Presentation
Longyearbyen 3000
- Morrison, Andrew
Future North: Svalbard 30.10.2015, AHO, Oslo .. Read »
Presentation
Travelling with Luggage – beyond deadpan mapping
Future North: Svalbard 30.10.2015, AHO, Oslo .. Read »
Lecture
Changing climates in local communities on the Barents coast
Keynote at Arctic Frontiers – Science Session .. Read »
Conference paper
Participatory Mapping in the Co-Design of the Future North
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 »
Conference paper
Co-narrating a Future North
- Morrison, Andrew
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 »
Conference paper
Personas and projections. A lyrical essay on facing climate change via design fiction
- Morrison, Andew|Larsen, janike Kampevold
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 »
Book
Den vitale byen
- Aspen, Jonny|Pløger, John
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 »
Book chapter
Best Practice Reconsidered: What is the problem with best practice?
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 »
Article
Exploring urban data visualization and public participation in planning
- Hemmersam, Peter|Martin, Nicole|Westvang, Even|Aspen, Jonny|Morrison, Andrew
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 »
Article
Planlægning, by og butik
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 »
Report
Urban Design: Arctic City – Tasiilaq
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 »
Book chapter
Exploring locative media for cultural mapping
- , |Hemmersam, Peter|Aspen, Jonny|Morrison, Andrew|Sem, Idunn|Havnør, Martin
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 »
2014
Talk
Integrerte kjøpesentra – kan de berike byen og i tilfelle hvordan?
Akershus County, Areal og samferdselsgruppa i Follo 14.03.2014 .. Read »
Presentation
…gruvedrift i nord
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 »
Presentation
Shifting political rhetoric – From Barents to Arctic
- Espiritu, Aileen
Arctic Frontiers Side Event: Constructions of North: landscape. imagery. society. Organizer: AHO Place UiT, Tromsø .. Read »
Conference paper
Det olje-spesifikke stedet
Fagforbundet: Bærekraftig by- og tettstedutvikling, Tromsø .. Read »
Conference paper
Re-fictioning Arctic Exploratory Narrative
- Morrison, Andrew|Mainsah, Henry|Hemmersam, Peter|Espiritu, Aileen Aseron|Uhre, Kjerstin|Ball, Cheryll|Larsen, Janike Kampevold
Arctic Modernities Conference, Tromsø .. Read »
Thesis
Groruddalen: Oslos vakreste verkebyll? Problemrepresentasjoner og stedsforståelser i Groruddalssatsingen
- Gabrielsen, Guro Voss
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 »
Thesis
Uncovering the urban unknown: Mapping methods in popular settlements in Nairobi
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 »
Article
Arraying Territories – Remote Sensing and Escalation in the North
- Rönnskog, Ann-Sofi|Palmesino, John
Conference paper
Sápmi and the Fennoscandian shield – on and off the map
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 »
Book chapter
Forests and Trees in the City: Southwest Flanders and the Mekong Delta
- Meulder, Bruno De|Shannon, Kelly
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 »
Book chapter
Beyond Tropical Regionalism: The Architecture of Southeast Asia
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 »
Book
UFO4 Village in the City
- Meulder, Bruno De|Lin, Yanliu|Shannon, Kelly
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 »
Book
UFO3 Water Urbanisms East
- Meulder, Bruno De|Shannon, Kelly
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 »
2013
Conference paper
Making the mobile and networked city visible by design
- Aspen, Jonny|Morrison, Andrew|Westvang, Even
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 »
Conference paper
Building appetites: the design of locative media apps for learning the networked city.
- Aspen, Jonny|Morrison, Andrew|,
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 »
Presentation
The Art of the Anthropocene
Contested landscapes – lost ecologies: Arctic Frontiers side event 24.01.2013 Sted: University of Tromsø .. Read »
Presentation
Transforming Barents towns
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 »
Presentation
Contending Aspirations – the extractive industries looks north
Arrangement: Internasjonalt Seminar Type arrangement: Seminar Utbredelsesområde: Norsk Arrangør: FN sambandet og Natur og Ungdom Sted: Tromsø Tidspunkt: 17.10.13 .. Read »
Presentation
From Barents to Arctic: shifting discourses
- Espiritu, Aileen
Exposed Northern Landscapes at the Oslo Triennale, 30 October 2013. .. Read »
Presentation
Transecting Kola – Tracing Change in the Russian City
Utsatte Nordlige Landskap AHO, Oslo .. Read »
Lecture
Beyond Nation: Challenges for Northern and Arctic Landscapes
Guest lecture, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey .. Read »
Conference paper
Northern Environments: The Observers
Phyllis Lambert Seminar Fall 2013: milieu, environment, umwelt Montréal .. Read »
Conference paper
Landscapes as Archives of the Future
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin: Conference: Archives of the Arctic. Ice, Entropy and Memory .. Read »
Report
Urban Design: The New City Center
- Hemmersam, Peter|Bratz, Christian
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 »
Article
Kjøpesentrene har kommet for å bli
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 »
Article
From Planning to Planting. Afforestation in Ca Mau, Vietnam
- Meulder, Bruno De|Shannon, Kelly
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 »
Other
Mapping, tracking and finding a path
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 »
Book chapter
Eco-Engineering for Water: From Soft to Hard and Back
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 »
Article
(Recovering) China’s Urban Rivers as Public Space
- Shannon, Kelly|Chen, Yiyong
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 »
Conference paper
Making the mobile and networked city visible by design
- Morrison, Andrew|Aspen, Jonny|Westvang, Even
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 »
Conference paper
Building appetites: the design of locative media apps for learning the networked city
- Morrison, Andrew|Aspen, Jonny
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 »
Book chapter
Oslo – The Triumph of Zombie Urbanism
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 »
Article
Negotiating the Image of the City : A Discussion of Skilled Perception and the Role of the Artist in the Redevelopment of Bjørvika
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 »
2012
Conference paper
Mapping from the Ground
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 »
Thesis
Social concerns in contemporary architecture : three European practices and their works
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 »
Report
Urban Design: Future City
- Hemmersam, Peter|Nummedal, Geir
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 »
Thesis
Social concerns in contemporary architecture : three European practices and their works
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 »
Report
Bæredygtige forstæder : udredning og anbefalinger fra Forstædernes Tænketank
- , |Kvorning, Jens|Ellefsen, Karl Otto|Poulsen, Pernille Schyum|Kørnøv, Lone|Nyboe, Michael|Andersen, Hans Thor|Groes, Eske
Book
Asker Mortuary and Crematorium Architect: Carl-Viggo Hølmebakk
- Lending, Mari|Jensen, Jan Olav|Skodvin, Børre|Ellefsen, Karl Otto
Book
Project Lanternen : architect Atelier Oslo + awp, asBUILT(8)
- Ellefsen, Karl Otto|Jensen, Jan Olav|Lending, Mari|Skodvin, Børre|Sagen, Dagfinn
Book
Views. Norway seen from the road 1733–2020
- Høyum, Nina Frang|Larsen, Janike Kampevold
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 »
Article
Water Urbanism: Topography-based masterplan for the Vietnamese city of Cantho
- Shannon, Kelly|Meulder, Bruno De
Book chapter
The (r)evolutionary Nature of Turnescape’s Ecological Infrastructure
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 »
Book chapter
Dancing with the Water Wolf & Choreographing Urban Ecologies
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 »
Review
Possible Greenland exhibition review: Hjemme i verden – men hvor ble det av den kritiske revy?
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 »
Book chapter
Appearing and Disappearing Landscapes 2.0.
- Uhre, Kjerstin|Dahl, Knut Eirik
‘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 »
Other
La Byen Synges
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 »
Book chapter
Landscapes (Project Section of Nature/Ecology/Sustainability)
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 »
Book chapter
Water Urbanisms spanning the globe: the Scheldt Estuary & Mekong Delta
- Shannon, Kelly|Meulder, Bruno De
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 »
Conference paper
Designing Experimental Urban Mapping With Locative Social Media
- Morrison, Andrew|Aspen, Jonny|Hemmersam, Peter|Sem, Idunn|Havnør, Martin
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 »
Book chapter
Can cities be green?
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 »
2011
Book
V-House, Space Group, asBUILT(4)
- Ellefsen, Karl Otto|Jensen, Jan Olav|Lending, Mari|Skodvin, Børre
Book
Two Summer Houses, asBUILT(6)
- Ellefsen, Karl Otto|Jensen, Jan Olav|Lending, Mari|Skodvin, Børre
Book
Farm House : Jarmund/Vigsnæs Architects, asBUILT(5)
- , |Ellefsen, Karl Otto|Jensen, Jan Olav|Lending, Mari|Skodvin, Børre
2010
Talk
Kjøpesenteret i sentrum – problemer og muligheter
Innlandsbykonferansen 2010 (Hedmark and Oppland Counties) 05.05.2010. .. Read »
Book
UFO2 Human Settlements : formulations and (re)calibrations
- d'Auria, Vivana|Meulder, Bruno De|Shannon, Kelly
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 »
Article
Green Urbanism
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 »
Book
Landscape of Contemporary Infrastructure
- Shannon, Kelly|Smets, Marcel
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 »
2009
Talk
Byen som kjøpesenter – kjøpesenter som by
Ministry of Environmental Affairs 08.09.2009 .. Read »
2008
Thesis
Fra shoppingcenter til by : en undersøgelse af det integrerede shoppingcenter
(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 »
Book
UFO1 Water Urbanisms
- Shannon, Kelly|Meulder, Bruno De|Gosseye, Janina|D'Auria, Viviana
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 »
Thesis
Fra shoppingcenter til by : en undersøgelse af det integrerede shoppingcenter
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 »
2006
2005
Talk
Shoppingcentrets potensiale for stedsudvikling
City of Oslo, Agency for Planning and Building Services 11.11.2005 .. Read »
Book
By og byliv i endring : studier av byrom og handlingsrom i Oslo
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 »
2004
Article
Shopping – Integrating the Fragmented City
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 »
2003
2002
Article
Byens tilfeldige møter: Hva får fremmede til å interagere med hverandre?
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 »
Talk
Fremtidens attraktive byrum
Retail Institute Scandinavia: City Branding Conference 07.11.2002 .. Read »
2001
Talk
Byen har brug for centre
International Business Conferences: ‘Butikken som oplevelse’ 13.12.2001. .. Read »
2000
Lecture
Shopping City – City Shopping
Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole, Copenhagen 10.10.2000 .. Read »
1998
1997
Book
På sporet av byen : lesninger i senmoderne byliv
- Aspen, Jonny|Pløger, Jon
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 »
Article
Byens tilfeldige møter: Hva får fremmede til å interagere med hverandre?
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 »