Winner – Radical Reimagining

Radical Reimagining

AUTHOR(S) — Ona Flindall (NO), Architect; Marianne Lucie Skuncke (NO), Architect, urbanist

GUOVDAGEAIDNU (NO) — WINNER

CONTACT — +47 40045979 / onaflindall@gmail.com

TEAM POINT OF VIEW — The Sámi people of Guovdageaidnu carry a collective inheritance of enforced staticity and centralisation. If current municipality plans are failing to provide conditions for the productive city, it is because they privilege European and Norwegian ideals and fail to recognize underlying cultural mechanisms and traditional infrastructures as viable points of departure for future development and growth. Through a series of precise interventions, the proposal questions the role and purpose of architecture head on. Each intervention initiates with the explicit intention of realizing effects beyond the place of insertion. Each intervention holds a pivotal potential for re-orientating Guovdageaidnu towards the productive space that is not defined by its buildings or the spaces between them, but by the larger landscape, the history, memories and livelihoods that interweave with it.

JURY POINT OF VIEW — The project clearly recognizes the complexity of the site and related land use controversies, engagingly addressing the need to establish and maintain the links between nature and culture, the reindeer economy and the welfare institutions, cultural heritage and the challenges of tourism; all of which are conditioning forces of Guovdageaidnu. It emphasizes the need to advance with great sensitivity to the special circumstances of the site and the accumulated experience of its inhabitants, and include ideas on how micro-scale interventions can enhance already existing forms of production and expression, including the already ongoing comprehensive planning practices of Guovdageaidnu. +47 90633781 / marianne.skuncke@gmail.com