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landscape conference Constructions of North landscapes, imagery & society
study trip: Kautokeino and Alta, January 6-10
master studio Tromsø Academy of Landscape and Territorial Studies January 6 - March 10 2014
Borderland Vulnerability / Overlapping Activities, by Niklas Sebastian Alveberg, from the master studio Emerging Arctic Landscapes, BAS 2011.
at Arctic Frontiers, Thursday January 23 Tromsø University Art Academy students Fernando García Dory, artist and teacher in collaboration with: Åsa Sonjasdotter, professor Tromsø Art Academy round-table: the common Friday January 24 Jan Åge Riseth PhD resource economics, Norut lecture: Sustaining the Commons
March10 final crits:
theme // activity // literature // participants
illustration: Contested Landscapes - reindeer migration trails meet mineral claims in Finnmark, by 70°N arkitektur
Timeline Biedjovággi
The silent knowledge from traditional reindeer husbandry is confronted by the global demand for minerals, and the physical impact of the mining industry. We will investigate beyond the obvious and seek out knowledge that is not so easily accessible, and we will trace the tracks of money connected to global powers and economies.
a touchstone for emerging northern landscapes
FOCAL POINT BIEDJOVÁGGI
Focal point Biedjovággi will relate to the critical debate on the development of Northern landscapes and aims to be a platform for experimental approaches to the landscapes. In the latent conflict of mining in Biedjovàggi the interests of the different landscape actors are in fierce conflict, and the studio will discuss to what extent this opposition can be negotiated. Through introductory and thematic investigations projects will be developed and defined at different scales, and will shed light on contradictions and interests in the landscape, also through design solutions. Through theoretically and visually informed thematic investigations, the students will define their own project assignments. These will be generated both by individual and collective experiences. The assignment will process findings at different scales and will shed light on differences and interests in the landscape.
seminars: Time, traces and practice in the landscape and Mapping controversies at Sami University College in Kautokeino, Tuesday January 7
The studio starts with an intriguing trip to experience the immersive atmosphere of the dark and cold winter on the Finnmark plateau. We will meet the actors in the landscape and analyze the potential conflicts in these contested territories.
Northern landscapes and territories are to an increasing degree exposed to strong economic and political interests, working to achieve ownership, exclusive rights and definition power in territories that are carriers of complex stories and tacit knowledge.
Travel through multilayered landscapes of space, time and practice
Basically is the value of the landscape as a common renewable resource at risk. The studio objective is to act as landscape architects in a situation where the historical landscape can be transformed into a complete new reality, and where its traditional agents of humans and animals can be displaced.
No One Belongs Here More Than You, by Marianne Lucie Skuncke, from the master studio Emerging Arctic Landscapes, BAS 2011.
Texts, essays and articles by, among others, Doreen Massey (for space), Elinor Ostrom (Governing the Commons), Deleuze & Guattari (Rhizome - A Thousand Plateaus) and Bruno Latour (We have never been modern) will be studied and discussed. Invited local and international guests and experts will contribute under the themes of mapping, the common, vulnerability, field work, hybridity and reorientation. FOCAL POINT BIEDJOVÁGGI // TALTS // 2014
FOCAL POINT BIEDJOVÁGGI // TALTS // 2014