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Showing posts with label #3 - New Hierarchies. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #3 - New Hierarchies. Show all posts
Thursday, November 3, 2011
Entangled Systems
Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
If Beautiful, then Just as Beautiful
In this task, I have mapped trajectories of eight people and things in Vardø. It is an attempt to map and imagine the complexity of what is going in a place. Mapping everyday situations, such as walking to school or grocery shopping at Ica. How much time is being spent in everyday situations. The mapping takes place over 24 hours, a film roll for each trajectory, together with a tracking, drawn over an actual map of Vardø. A slice in time, a story with neither beginning or end.
These trajectories are only fiction. Though all places they visited in Vardø are real places. I have tried to put together stories of people that have a certain degree of reality in them. But it is also an exercise in trying to understand what is going on in a place, and to picture the life of the people living there and how they spend their time. It also made me aware of how many different ways it is possible to tell a story, as it was up to me, to decide the photos of the filmrolls. Made me aware that the story of a day in life could be told in so many different ways. This puts into question, how we map as architects, because, there is not one way of understanding a place. There are as many ways as there are people.
Even though this is fiction, there is information that can be read out of this diagram, that is relevant. It has to do with movement inbetween places. The building up of a place like Vardø, how people move frequently in the town centre, and seldom on the edges of the island, where there are no roads. What the diagram also makes us aware of, is there is no differantiation in moving in the landscape, at sea, or in the town. What happens to movement when it is no longer bound to a place.
These last three slides question the way a story is being told. And how much information, and interconnections are there to be mapped into each moment of a life. Endlessly. There are multiple ways of telling the same story, and there are threads/points/connections that can be tied up to every situation, moment, photo. There is not one way to tell a story, facing this amount of information, of what is going on at a place, realizing the complexity of place/space/time. And how everything is interconnected.
Monday, October 31, 2011
Contradictory landscape
Sequence of investigations on the landscape in Nikel. The first one takes on defining the landscape in Nikel. The second concerns how the landscape is experienced from different perspectives. In the third part we take a closer look at how the these landscapes overlap over time from different perspectives. These investigations are an attempt to understand the “new hierarchies” as something that is detachable, connectable, reversible and modifiable.
Open publication - Free publishing - More landscape
Sunday, October 30, 2011
Friday, October 28, 2011
review #3 - New Hierarchies / intro #4 - Flexibility
Monday, October 17, 2011
#3 - New Hierarchies: consultations + seminar
Please prepare a list for consultations counting 30min per student starting at 9.30 including a lunch break 12.00-13.00.
Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Thursday, August 11, 2011
studio intro
Master studio BAS autumn 2011
Emerging arctic landscapes
The objective of the studio is to create a platform for critical discussions on the changes currently taking place in the Arctic region. These are changes in climate, ecologies, landscapes, societies and cultures - changes that by all accounts can be expected to accelerate in the close future.
We see an increasing tendency within the field of landscape architecture to focus on the ‘design’ of landscapes: as the development of new uses for post-industrial land or as transformations of existing land into new park landscapes in connection with strong forces of urbanization. A common feature that may be observed is how nature becomes artificial, generic and is reduced to a design object simply through processes of medialization and conceptualization, and how physical transformations often are linked to consumption – visual or otherwise.
The major part of the Arctic may still be seen as ‘genuine’ nature and as cognitive landscapes, and demand a different approach and different means of investigation than those applied for already ‘domesticated’ landscapes. Global warming, environmental disturbances and political pressures combine to create a completely new physical ‘ground’ which puts great demands on the enfolding response of architects and landscape architects. The need to develop a critical awareness and alternative forms of knowledge in connection with this development transcends the traditional design focus. Serving as a backdrop, the intention is to use the master studio to emphasize the need to focus on the northern regions, a focus which to a large extent has been lacking until now.
The studio will arise along a road trip from Hammerfest to Murmansk - a slow journey in a cross section of remote arctic landscape and intrusive development:
From the oil-driven growth of Hammerfest (from fish to oil – and the resurrection of the city after WWII), via the new urbanization of Alta, the surviving sami culture in Kautokeino and Karasjok, the decaying and mythical city of Vardø, and the abandoned fishing village of Hamningberg. The trip takes us to the pending economy in Kirkenes, the destructed landscapes of Bjørnevatn – crossing the Russian border into the remote and desolated landscapes, cities and settlements on the Kola-peninsula - via the extremely heavy polluted nature in Nikkel, the trip will end in Murmansk – a city in transformation, from a soviet military stronghold – to a modern and emerging economy, waiting for the oil to arrive.
There are numbers of possible points of departure for the debate, and for the issues wished focused on. In this studio we want to investigate a broad span of examples of landscape occupations and arctic urbanizations - and study the forces of growth and decline that are working in the arctic. The studio will debate the position of an architect in vulnerable landscapes and the intersection between careful awareness and complete destruction.
Through textual studies, lectures and comparative examples we will gain new knowledge that enable us to approach a concrete situation for a profound understanding of the context and the forces at work. We want to use a blog to communicate the learning and collect the findings from the process, and also for the students to present their work as a continuous process. The studio will expect curiosity and an open-minded effort from the students to learn, and to experience knowledge that is not obvious - and that has to be carefully investigated to be operative for the planning process.
Emerging arctic landscapes
The objective of the studio is to create a platform for critical discussions on the changes currently taking place in the Arctic region. These are changes in climate, ecologies, landscapes, societies and cultures - changes that by all accounts can be expected to accelerate in the close future.
We see an increasing tendency within the field of landscape architecture to focus on the ‘design’ of landscapes: as the development of new uses for post-industrial land or as transformations of existing land into new park landscapes in connection with strong forces of urbanization. A common feature that may be observed is how nature becomes artificial, generic and is reduced to a design object simply through processes of medialization and conceptualization, and how physical transformations often are linked to consumption – visual or otherwise.
The major part of the Arctic may still be seen as ‘genuine’ nature and as cognitive landscapes, and demand a different approach and different means of investigation than those applied for already ‘domesticated’ landscapes. Global warming, environmental disturbances and political pressures combine to create a completely new physical ‘ground’ which puts great demands on the enfolding response of architects and landscape architects. The need to develop a critical awareness and alternative forms of knowledge in connection with this development transcends the traditional design focus. Serving as a backdrop, the intention is to use the master studio to emphasize the need to focus on the northern regions, a focus which to a large extent has been lacking until now.
The studio will arise along a road trip from Hammerfest to Murmansk - a slow journey in a cross section of remote arctic landscape and intrusive development:
From the oil-driven growth of Hammerfest (from fish to oil – and the resurrection of the city after WWII), via the new urbanization of Alta, the surviving sami culture in Kautokeino and Karasjok, the decaying and mythical city of Vardø, and the abandoned fishing village of Hamningberg. The trip takes us to the pending economy in Kirkenes, the destructed landscapes of Bjørnevatn – crossing the Russian border into the remote and desolated landscapes, cities and settlements on the Kola-peninsula - via the extremely heavy polluted nature in Nikkel, the trip will end in Murmansk – a city in transformation, from a soviet military stronghold – to a modern and emerging economy, waiting for the oil to arrive.
There are numbers of possible points of departure for the debate, and for the issues wished focused on. In this studio we want to investigate a broad span of examples of landscape occupations and arctic urbanizations - and study the forces of growth and decline that are working in the arctic. The studio will debate the position of an architect in vulnerable landscapes and the intersection between careful awareness and complete destruction.
Through textual studies, lectures and comparative examples we will gain new knowledge that enable us to approach a concrete situation for a profound understanding of the context and the forces at work. We want to use a blog to communicate the learning and collect the findings from the process, and also for the students to present their work as a continuous process. The studio will expect curiosity and an open-minded effort from the students to learn, and to experience knowledge that is not obvious - and that has to be carefully investigated to be operative for the planning process.
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