Inventing Greenland

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Inventing Greenland

Designing an Arctic Nation

Bert De Jonghe

Inventing Greenland is a critical and timely assemblage of stories highlighting a shifting landscape – one born from the imagination, projections, and ambitions of a wide range of actors. Today, especially within the design discipline, there is a lack of understanding of Greenland as a complex constellation of perspectives, histories, and forces. This book aims to fill that knowledge vacuum. Geared towards architects, landscape architects, and urban planners, this book combines spatial sensibilities with local cultural, social, and environmental realities and provides a broad understanding of a unique island undergoing intense transformation while drawing attention to its historical and current challenges and emerging opportunities. Distinctly, each individual story is anchored to a common thread and interest in architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism. Such discourse may serve to prepare designers at large as they take on projects in a rapidly developing Arctic.

Publication date Size Format ISBN Printed · EN Price Mar 2022 5.9 x 8.5 in. / 15 cm x 21,5 cm Softcover · 160 pages 978-1-63840-989-2 $34.95 / €29 / £29

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