2018 - Trondheim, Norway - Lademoen - Group 7

LADEMOEN

LADEMOEN

Reviving Community Involvement

Fieldwork in Trondheim, Norway - Autumn 2018

NTNU-URBAN ECOLOGICAL PLANNING

AAR4525- Urban Informality Department of Architecture and Planning Faculty of Architecture and Design

AUTHORS:

Christian Baloloy, Clarissa Tubeo, Denisa Marku

Maciej Papke, Nima Nasrollahkhani, Yuna Prajapati

PREFACE

This report is the culmination of the semester work for the international master program, Urban Ecological Planning (UEP) under the Faculty of Architecture and Design at the Department of Architecture and Planning at NTNU, Trondheim, Norway. The work revolved around the participatory approach by exploiting several methods applied in Trondheim, Norway. Six out of the 27 students this semester chose to stay in Trondheim for their field work. These six international students are comprised of five different nationalities, Filipino, Nepalese, Iranian, Polish and Albanian having diverse backgrounds such as Civil Engineer, Architects and Urban Engineer.

The participatory approach by UEP gave the students ample comprehension and realizations of the community. With constant observation and engagement in some activities, the students learned about how the community could be complex and distinct. This participatory method is an alternative flavour to the conventional urban planning where through involvement and considerations of all stakeholders in the community, became a tool in combining its multifaceted aspects for conceptualizing a desirable outcome emulating the community.

This refreshing and innovative inclusive planning method provided various challenges and opportunities to the students that were used into devising a strategy for a design that exactly mimics the community. Aided with the acquired knowledge on informalities, urban poverty, civil society cooperation, etc., the students became aware that developed countries like Norway also require this kind of planning to facilitate change wherein the suppressed issues and neglected needs of the communities are brought forward.

The semester started with some lectures in Trondheim for two weeks in August together with the other students who completed their fieldwork in Bhopal, India. After that, the students were mixed with the class of City and Town Planning (CTP) at NTNU where they performed tasks such as myfavorite-place, thought-it-would-have-been-nice, good-bad-and-ugly, the future, manifesto and challenges-and-opportunities for two weeks. The group was then given their study area, Lademoen, a district 2-km northeast of Trondheim. The group was also invited to join the Utopia-Heim design competition of the class where they presented their idea of a Utopian Lademoen.

Albeit the opposing approaches of CTP and UEP, the students continued applying the participatory methods and a human-centered design thinking that were put into use in the conceptualizing and presenting of the initial proposal to the Annual Board meeting of the Lademoen vel or residents’ associations which was attended by the association’s head and board members, the Urban planner of Trondheim kommune and some BANE Nor representatives. These were also the major motivations in the co-design workshop held at the Lademoen church with several stakeholders of the community.

Those activities were very useful in the analyses of the group that were used in the preparation of their situational report with the final project proposal for Lademoen.

Hanne Vrebos, Rolee Aranya, Brita Nielsen and Marcus Schwai Fieldwork supervisors

NTNU-Department of Architecture and Planning

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

Our group would like to thank all the people who got involved and helped us in the completion of this project, including the residents of Lademoen, community leaders, business owners and volunteers, who took part in our interviews, workshop, and all the other methods we have conducted. It was impossible to complete this participatory process without their attendance and involvement.

We are also extremely grateful to our professors and advisors, Prof. Markus Schwai, Prof. Rolee Aranya, Prof. Peter Andreas Gotsch, Brita Fladvad Nielsen, Hanne Vrebos, and Ellen Aga Kildal. Their knowledge, motivation, and guidance inspired us during the entire process, and without their technical and moral support, we would never manage to complete this project.

Last but not least, our families and friends who poured in their love, support and confidence every step of the way.

—UEP Students Trondheim Group

ABSTRACT

The study is aimed at devising a strategy for a design for Lademoen that exemplifies the community’s needs and aspirations using different participatory methods of research. This further produces a more comprehensive understanding of the complexities and the distinct characteristics the community possesses.

Through several analyses such as Situational Analysis, Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats (SWOT) Analysis, and Stakeholder Analysis, the outcome is a sturdy evaluation of the different potentials and challenges in the community that helps in the formulation of the appropriate design concept.

Graffiti wall taken during the field observation.

CONTENTS

Preface

Contents

INTRODUCTION (Page 1)

TIMELINE & METHODOLOGY (Page 4) Timeline Methodology Challenges and Limitations

CASE: LADEMOEN (Page 18) Introduction of the Area and its History

ANALYSES AND FINDINGS (Page 26)

Situational Analysis SWOT Analysis

Affinity Mapping Stakeholder Analysis

PROJECT PROPOSAL (Page 50)

CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION (Page 63)

GROUP REFLECTION (Page 64) References List of Figures Appendices

ABBREVIATIONS

UEP Urban Ecological Planning

NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology

CTP City and Town Planning

SWOT Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats

PLA Participatory Learning and Action

NAV Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration

UFFA Ungdom For Fri Aktivitet (Youth For Free Activity)

EU European Union

TMV Trondhjems Mekaniske Verksted (Trondheim Mechanical Workshop)

NGO Non-Governmental Organization

Worn out door bell of one of the buildings along Mellomveien during the charity event.

Urban Ecological Planning presents a dimension of participatory approach in the conventional urban planning. This approach brings forth issues localized in nature and aids in knowing the needs of a community that require attention. In fact, this approach is a tool for empowering the marginalized sectors of the society and encouraging an inclusive way of planning.

Participatory methods performed in Lademoen such as placemaking, trust building activities, photovoice, online survey, interviews of the different stakeholders, and co-design workshop together with official statistics data have been instruments in getting familiarized with the place and people, and provided motivations in crafting a project proposal that emulates the community.

Reviving the community involvement, as the main result of the participatory methods conducted, is a concept that considers stakeholders’ contribution to the very definition of Lademoen and their valuable participation to create a sustainable and progressive community, that will redefine and revitalize the very core of Lademoen’s existence. Problematic youths, school dropouts, refugees, immigrants, lowincome earners, students, business and flat owners, residents’ association, the church, maintenance people, motorists, bus drivers, artists, and many more are the reasons why Lademoen persists. They are the essential components of a multifaceted district of Trondheim.

The former Nidar chocolate factory along Ulstadløkken street in Lademoen

INTRODUCTION

It is said that poverty and diversity have always been the connotation attached to Lademoen, however, these distinct characteristics together with arts, music, crafts and urban farming will reinforce the aforementioned concept. Perhaps the project would compensate the lack of community participation, promote safety or even create livelihoods for some, but the most important is that people would optimize its potential in the long run.

Hence, the project is envisioned to be flexible and proactive, that constant changes may occur during the installation upon the wishes of the stakeholders or whatever works for them, but also encourages the community to be environment-friendly by using recycled materials, which is also in turn an economical project, that the community will uphold and appreciate.

Objective

The project revolves on the application of several participatory approaches as the main methodologies in planning a project for the community of Lademoen. Based on this, the objective for this project has been framed: To come up with a strategic intervention resulting into a physical design in Lademoen using participatory planning processes.

After conducting different methods, several analyses of the results were done to properly investigate the suitable strategies that would be more fitting to conceptualize the project that best depicts the aspirations of the people of Lademoen.

TIMELINE AND METHODOLOGY

INITIAL OBSERVATION1

Field visit to Lademoen

Collected information using different methods ( refer to methodology for detailed methods ) Made initial analysis based on observation and gathered

INITIAL PROPOSAL3

Formulated solution based on existing analyses

STRENGTHENING OF THE INITIAL CONCEPT4

Tested initial solution by conducting additional interviews, surveys, community participation through events, and presentation of concept to residents association meeting.

start PHASE 1 PHASE 2

OCTOBER

INITIAL OBJECTIVE2

Set initial goals

6

PROJECT PROPOSAL

Project presentation at NTNU with urban planning students.

5

ANALYSES & FINDINGS

Analysed new information based on received feedback. Set priorities and re-establish goals.

Started setting design goals & considerations. Documentation. Investigation on cost, manage ment and maintenance. Created video documentation.

PHASE 3

DECEMBER

NOVEMBER

end of semester

REPORT DOCUMENTATION7

Collated all materials and references from all methods used. Report writing.

METHODOLOGY

It is believed that urban planning is neutral and is for the public good, however, it is not inclusive. It is simply because it ignores all sectors of the society in its design. “The ideas of ‘neutrality’ and the ‘public good’ based on a view of the city and the lives of their inhabitants which is informed by the experience of a small sub-section of society, has shaped the governance and planning of cities. This results in a built environment that responds to the interests and needs of a small part of society only” (Escalante and Valdivia, 2015).

Urban ecological planning, on the one hand, exclaims public participation as the valuable part of urban planning where it facilitates both the decisionmakers (i.e. municipality, politicians) and users (i.e. residents, business owners etc.) to connect with each other in order to create a goal that celebrates both their aspirations. This can be termed as participatory method that produces a more cohesive and inclusive urban community.

The article, What is Participatory Learning and Action (PLA): An Introduction, by Sarah Thomas defines PLA as an “approach for learning about and engaging with communities, that can be used in identifying needs, planning, monitoring or evaluating projects and programmes. It involves consultation and promotes active participation of communities in the issues and interventions that shape their lives” (Thomas). This shows that participatory methods could empower the silent voices of the community, the minority or ‘submissive’ members, or the oppressed constituents of the society.

Equipped with the understanding that participation is a tool of empowerment especially of all sectors of the community, the participatory methods previously mentioned helped to frame eventually the group’s project proposal in Lademoen. The participatory approach engaged various stakeholders in Lademoen in planning to acquire their influence on both the process and the outcome to achieve a suitable goal.

The fieldwork by UEP Trondheim group has concentrated on the participatory approach.

Traditional urban planner could argue that this approach in urban planning process is somewhat anarchic due to the way of involving the public and different stakeholders of the community. However, it is best to examine the group’s choices of participatory methods first and their results followed by their analyses before any kind of prejudices can be made.

Counting and Observation

Observing people is probably a fun thing to do for most people, especially if they take pleasure from doing it. Normally, it arises from an innate curiosity of a person about other people or things and indulges from their frailty (Singh, 2001). The group could have looked like taking gratification from the people in Lademoen being observed, however it was unintended. They just suddenly became the victim of prying eyes. This observation included counting people, buildings and even pets, habits or activities, as well.

Transect walk with non-structured interviews

Transect walk as defined by Thomas involves mainly wandering across the area but in this case, instead of walking with some community members, the group approached them in the park, bus stops or on the streets asking them if they would be interested to participate for a short interview or chat for NTNU studies. The result is more or less similar.

Free Coffee Stand

Soon after, a free coffee stand was conceived as inspired by Nabeel Hamdi’s article on the Invisible Stakeholders where he mentioned about turning an empty office to offer free coffee or tea to attract the invisible stakeholders in the process. Hamdi adds that the “invisible stakeholders are those community members unidentified as part of any stakeholder group” (Hamdi, 2010). The gratis kaffe (free coffee) stand was positioned at the entrance of the Lademoen park next to the bus stop along Mellomveien in Lademoen.

Spontaneous comments from two very different types of residents and visitors, a few structured intervivews of the historian, parish priest and a business owner of Lademoen including official data and the observations aided the group in the Situational Analysis.

Situational Analysis

By using both qualitative and quantitative findings, the situational analysis is more fully asserted. This results into creating a situational map that orients Lademoen in relation to people, issues, perceptions or observations, etc. Clarke (2011) explains that situational maps are strategies for articulating the elements in the situation and examining relations among them (Clarke, 2011).

The analysis uses the livelihood assets framework by Rakodi (2002) to determine the vulnerable sectors of Lademoen. These are the five types of capitals: Human, Social, Physical, Natural and Financial. From the previous analyses, these sectors are the determined demographics like refugees, student, pensioners, etc. Taking the percentage according to each capital, a graph of vulnerability is generated.

SWOT Analysis

In Lademoen, based from the two methods above, the Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats or SWOT Analysis was similarly articulated. SWOT Analysis is a “strategic planning tool that involves specifying the objectives of the project and identifying the internal and external factors that are favourable and unfavourable to achieving that objective. It is used to develop a plan that takes into consideration many different internal and external factors and maximises the potential of the strengths and opportunities, while minimising the impact of weaknesses and threats” (Narayanasamy, 2009) .

These strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats present in Lademoen were analysed carefully and applied them in conceptualizing the project proposal.

Feedback Collection on Interviews and Presentation

In order to gauge if the proposal suited the community’s needs, presenting it to the board meeting of Lademoen residents’ association and getting feedback from interviews of various stakeholders helped.

The proposal was shown during interviews with various individuals that were deemed important in the community. They were comprised of business owners, the head of Lademoen residents’ association, a resident, administrator of Lademoen kindergarten, NAV Jobbhuset team manager and supervisor.During the presentation at Lademoen bydelshus (community house) on 16th October, there were at least 27 people who were present. It was attended by the head of Lademoen residents’ association, Jan Olav Straume, and its board members, the Urban planner for the east city of Trondheim, Trine Gjessen, and BANE Nor representatives. It was a good way to establish the intention of the group with the community in creating something quite appropriate for its diverse characteristic.

Strengthening the Initial Proposal

The concept did not halt at the presentation. Instead, it was a motivation to further continue with the process in the second phase.

Photovoice (online crowdsourcing)

This phase started with coming up with a photovoice as a facebook page entitled, “Hva er det beste og verste på Lademoen?”. Photovoice is a “method by which people can identify, represent, and enhance their community through a specific photographic technique” (Wang and Burris, 1997). In this internet age, this online version could reach other types of stakeholders of Lademoen for them to engage. There was a huge optimism when this kind of method was started, even boosted it for a week for 56 krones. We were expecting that the residents would participate by taking pictures of what they thought best or worst in Lademoen and post them on the page.

Google Survey

The Google Survey was conducted then to encourage once again the participation of some stakeholders. It was posted on the facebook page of Lademoen vel (residents’ association) to reach out to more people.

Participatory Observation by attending events

Event 1:

Attending events like the language café in Lademoen church paved the way to meeting various refugees who live in the area. Refugees from Eritrea and Somalia were common.

Event 2:

Above figures from left to right:

1. Sprakkafe (Language Cafe)

2. Kirkens bymisjon (church city mission) volunteer as donation collector

Event 3:

3. Folkekjokken (people’s kitchen event)

4. Nattravn with military police and other volunteers

Six week-attendance gave some useful information of refugees and immigrants in the area.

More Interviews

More interviews were conducted to bolster the objectives and concept. Questions about different issues and gathering opinions and thoughts about the possible funding sources and schemes, managing and maintaining installation projects, etc. were carried out.

Another event was the house-tohouse money collector of Kirken Bymisjon (Church Mission) where choosing Lademoen as the area was a wise decision. The aim was to get into the apartment blocks along Mellomveien and to hopefully engage them into a short survey or interview.

The free weekly dinner by the People’s Kitchen (Folkekjøkken) at UFFA along Innherredsveien was a good way to confirm about students living in the area and some homeless/jobless, who all share dinner and smiles with each other.

1. Interview with Tonje, Lademomen resident

2. Interview with Eirik Zahl, Lademoen resident

Co-design workshop

The Co-design workshop that is human-centered is a method that involves the community to help problem solvers solve issues by letting the latter understand the real issues concerning the former. This gives the people a chance to express their thoughts in the planning process, and the “problem solvers to innovate new solutions rooted in the people’s actual needs” (IDEO, 2015).

This method was done on 16th November at the Lademoen

church where there were several attendees. They were sourced from the previous encounters with the stakeholders and analysing who were the key players in Lademoen.

Several activities by groups showed the participation of each attendee such as building a tower by using spaghetti noodles and marshmallows, analysing what some hypothetical personas in the community need, and designing something for those personas in the park. The workshop took around 1,5

hours, starting from 1800H. Stein Elinggard allowed to use the church for this activity because of previous interview with him. To simplify the huge amount

Diverge-Converge Method

of information gathered in this exercise, the diverge and converge method was used.

This method then provided some valuable insights that were useful in the conceptualization of the project.

Affinity mapping

Acquiring a hefty amount of data and information could definitely create confusion and massive disorientation within the group. Affinity Mapping is a method to “help gather large amounts of data and organise them into groups or themes based on their relationships” (Dam and Siang, 2018).

This technique disentangled the collected findings from the several methods executed such as google survey, interviews and the co-design workshop. The data were grouped according to our initial objectives: safety, community involvement, and job generation. They were then ranked according to the number of people who expressed their inclinations corresponding to the three original objectives.

Affinity Mapping Method

Stakeholder mapping

Stakeholder mapping is a “process or action resear ch methodology used to explore the various opini ons that different stakeholders may have on potential outcomes and their relative influence” (Flicker, 2014). The stakeholder analysis aided in producing a map where important key play ers of Lademoen can play a big part in the group’s project proposal.

Stakeholder Mapping Method

This also showed who are the most influential in the community. The story about the miljøgate or the en vironment-friendly street, Innherredsveien was also reviewed where the role of the Lademoen vel, the church and the residents were highlighted in generating a big change for them and for their children. The 2-way road with cycle lanes was implemented through citizen participation. This information made the group realized that the community is motivated to partake if it’s for a good cause.

The outcome of the participatory processes conducted was worthwhile and rewarding, however, challenging. The difficulties encountered were mainly due to various basic requirements such as language. Participants in interviews, surveys, codesign workshops were able to shift to English when speaking, however official documents could be difficult to be translated.

Another challenge experienced was the sceptic nature of the community towards strangers. It is a common culture though, not only in Trondheim but also in Norway and/or Scandinavia. Trust-building process in Norway takes a long period. If the coffee stand was done on a daily basis, it could have produced more insightful results. It would have been a big help if there was a Norwegian team member.

Scepticism is not only limited to Norwegians, but also to refugees. Even after 6 weeks attending the

CHALLENGES & LIMITATIONS

language café at Lademoen church, there was not a single person who agreed for an interview, however if through a friendly chat, they divulge information quickly. It could be because of language also. Most of these groups of people know basic Norwegian and zero knowledge in English.

Additionally, arranging interviews of various stakeholders require network. “One must know one to know one” is the rule of the game! It took a lot of channels and time to go through some of the stakeholders.

Thus, it is to note that the outcome reflected on this paper is limited only to what the group has completed through the best of their abilities and knowledge. The group, however, has learned countless things about the participatory approach in research and team dynamics that are worth keeping and applying to the next task.

CASE: LADEMOEN

TRONDELAG

LADEMOEN

CASE: LADEMOEN

Introduction of the Area and its history

Lademoen is a district 2-km northeast of Trondheim. Both have distinct characteristics since Lademoen was originally a separate entity from Trondheim until 1893. Trondheim, in 1883 was bounded by Bakklandet to the east, Meråker train tracks to the northeast, Ila to the west, Sannan just below the Nid river to the south. Lademoen, at that time was still under Strinda kommune. Trondheim was fortified with gates at Ila, the Munkholmen island fortress north of the city’s harbour and the Kristiansten fortress just up the hill next to Bakklandet (Hals et al., 1981).

Trondheim city has always been the capital of trade and business in the middle of Norway. In fact, the city was originally the capital of Norway and was called Nidaros. Olav Tryggvasson, the first king of Norway, established Trondheim as a trading centre in 997. The name Nidaros was because of the river Nid that was the most advantageous and strategically harbour in Trøndelag for the earlier Vikings (Hals et al., 1981).

The next king, Olav Haraldsson became the patron saint of Trondheim after he was proclaimed a christian martyr following his death at the battle of Stiklestad in 1030 (Hals et al., 1981). St. Olav, as he is now known, is the patron of the pilgrims of the St.Olav’s way where these followers depict the

supposed coming to home to Trondheim from the battle which did not happen. So, the pilgrims walk the St. Olav’s way and is very famous all over Europe (Hals et al., 1981).

And Trondheim to date, even though not the capital of Norway anymore, is a lively thousand-year old city in the north, with such an impressive charm and such lush ambience. Thanks to its earliest history and institution that paved the way for what it is now. The new city layout was created by Johan Caspar von Cicignon in 1681 after he was commissioned by the then king Christian V after Trondheim was burned down. Several burning incidents hundreds of years after that have led to updating of various buildings or houses in the city (Hals et al., 1981, Østraat, 1985).

Old map of Trondheim 1883

The city is home to the premier science and technology university in Norway, NTNU that traces its roots back to 1750s, and also a home to other institutions of higher learning and world-class research facilities. It is no doubt Trondheim is a city of many cultural heritages and modern developments that blend perfectly and attractively having winters as attractive as anybody can imagine covering the whole city with snow, and with bright summer nights (Østraat, 1985).

Trondheim is also home to several tourist attractions like the Stiftsgården or the royal residence when the royal family visits Trondheim or during the coronation of a new king at Nidaros Cathedral. The Kristiansten fortress, as previously mentioned, still guards over Trondheim from its high location and is now a nice spot to take a picturesque view of the city and the Nid river. Several colorful traditional wooden houses are also found along the river at Bakklandet that were almost destroyed due to the plan of the city politicians in the 1960s to build a traversing national road there. Demonstrations and rallies, which became violent, changed the minds of these legislators (Østraat, 1985).

Trondheim is a modern city with facilities like airport, port and railway station aside from the tunnels and road network. And due to its rich history during the industrial era that was home to the biggest shipbuilding industry, several industries also have sprouted in the city that gave substantial income for the kommune. It is also the country’s centre of agricultural productions.

The city has also a modern hospital with highly advanced medical equipment and named after St. Olav, which serves as a regional hospital, as well. Theatres, cinemas, restaurants and many more define this chic yet traditional city in the north (Østraat, 1985).

And now, it will be home to the current development for smart cities as it embarks on investing in a sustainable future. This development will be at Sluppen by +CityXchange of the EU, located just 3-km south of the city, where passive, energy efficient buildings based from the ‘sharing’ concept will be realized (CityXchange EU, 2018). It will be a pioneer and exemplary to the country and Europe.

Lademoen is a district 2-km northeast of Trondheim, with a population of 5028, with diverse and distinct characteristics. It is bounded in the north by Lade (train track), in the east by Strindheim, in the south by Rosenborg/Møllenberg and in the west by Nedre Elvehavn.

This area is composed mainly of 85% 4 to 5-story concreted apartment blocks that were built during the industrialization era in Trondheim. This part of the city used to be an industrial area where famous factories in Trondheim and Norway had been established such as Nidar chocolate factory, a Rope factory for boats for ships, Trondheims Preserving and many more. Its unique history from being a farm village to an industrial area to a present day mixed residential/industrial area validate its multifaceted characteristic where poverty and diversity have always been accepted. Now, with the threats of gentrification from the surrounding developments like Lilleby and Nyhavna, this neighbourhood will once again face the challenges and possibly embrace the opportunities that it may bring.

A specific part in Lademoen was chosen, where important features such as the church, kindergarten, park, and two significant streets, Mellomveien and Innherrendsveien are situated. This area has a pivotal role in Lademoen due to the charming attributes of the park and the historical landmarks with flourishing business establishments. In other words, this area represents the multifaceted Lademoen consolidated in just one place.

*All above statistics are based from Trondheim Kommune Survey, NAV, Politi and UDI

1650

First settlement was founded between today’s railway line and the Strandveien

1757

Moonshine alcohol was forbidden in Trondheim but Lademoen produced a lot of it and sold to Trondheim illegally and earned hefty profits.

Came a carpenter named Petter Buran who built his house at the west side of Ladomoen park which the place Buran of today in Lademoen got its nameand sold to Trondheim illegally and earned hefty profits.

First municipal water pipeline located in Fjæregata to Strandveien. That was before Trondheim took over the area. This was due to bad hygiene and fear of plague.

Described in municipal papers as the poorest area in Strinda municipality Ladomoen park which the place Buran of today in Lademoen got its nameand sold to Trondheim illegally and earned hefty profits.

The Trondhjems Mekaniske Verk sted (TMV) or Trondheim Mechanical Workshop moved to Innherredsveien in Solsiden from Bakklandet but gave li velihoods to the workers in Lademoen.

Workers Association Sverre was established. Lademoen became an important union for Trondheim and Strinda workers.

1800 1857 1860 1870

Building boom. All available sites on Svartlamon were being built on. This was because of lack of space in Trondheim.

The Lademoen barnehage (kindergar ten) was established on Østersunds gate 3 next to the bydelshus and still existing up to today.

First big building project for building houses for workers which paved the way for the rent-to-own housing concept of today. Area was called the Colony and had their own garden with pigs, hens and other animals.

Lademoen was incorporated into the municipality of Trondheim.

Law of 50-mtr building line from muni cipality border was passed due to the poverty in Lademoen due to bad smell from households

First drainage and continuation of wa ter pipelines in all streets, Svartlamo’n

Rope Factory was established and was the start of the industrial development on lademoen that will characterize the next 100 years.

Trondheims Preserving was established on Innherredsveien opposite the Lademoen park whichwas turned into a residential building at the beginning of 2000.

1900

Starting a building boom in the Lademoen by building a large number of brick houses mainly on 4 floors.

1912

1949

Trondheim municipality re-regulated Svartla mon to industrial area and many decades of fight for housing started.

Lademoen church congregation was established at the Bakkstrandens bedehus which is now the Lademoen bydelshus (community house). Also on this year was the proposal for the Lademoen grade school came.

Nidar Chocolate Factory bought the farm called Ulstadløkken from owner, Gunder Ulstad, which is now the name of same street where the factory was built.

1913

The Lademoen graveyard was consecrated.

1901 1902 1903

Lademoen got its train station which served as the main station for the east part of Trondheim which is now the place where the Statens vegvesen office is.

Nidar Chocolate Factory, established in 1913 in Ulstadløkkveien, started a new industrial era with the construction of Aktiebryggeriet, Lade Fabrikker, etc. Nidar Chokoladefabrikker has hosted woolen factory, school and is today owned by the municipality of Trondheim as a Vocational Training for Immigrants. Other indigenous houses are converted to homes at the beginning of 2000.

1914

The very first magazine of the Lademoen church congregation was published.

1970

Extension of the Brewery, the Meierie and Lade Factories, caused 75 homes to be demolished.

1998

The Svartlamon was eventually converted to residential area again and 40 years of struggle was over. Trondheim municipality bought Strandveien Auto as the last remai ning industry in the area to move away from the controversy and media frenzy.

1900-2017

1905

Lademoen Church was consecrated. Started constructed in 1903. The church is the second biggest in Trondheim and are build in brick an outer layer of crude stone and designed by an architect from Oslo named Ole Stein who won through competition.

1906

Lademoen is fighting against housing con struction and may keep Eli Place as a park. Lademoen school designed by architect, Lars Solberg was built next to Lademoen Church. Lademoen School is today the Trondheim Kunstnerverksted (Artist Workshop). Ladejarlen pharmacy started its business along Innherredsveien 49 which the name still exists today but changed to a cafe/restaurant.

1915

The first workers house was established at Lade moen by the railway line. This is called Sing-Sing and is today on the other side of the Trikkestallen

1920-1931

Three amateur corps were established in Lade moen: Østbyen Musikkforening or The East City Music Corps, Musikkforeningen Fram or The Fram Music Corps and the Lademoens Ungdom skorps or Lademoen Youth Band.

1940 Germany invaded Trondheim in 1940 and seized Reina and demolished 16 homes to build the largest naval base. This became Dora I and Dora II that exist up to date. They built a prison camp for Russian workers.

2001

Trondheim Municipality commenced a pilot project, Urban ecological research area in Svartlamon.

2017 Trondheim municipality finally started the trial project for the miljøgate or environ ment-friendly street on Innherredsveien that was campaigned by Lademoen residents for 18 months

ANALYSES AND FINDINGS

The accumulated results from conducting the different methods described previously were then subjected to different analyses. Below are the narratives of these analyses from the results.

Observation

Observation at Buran Park

Observation at Lademoen Park

One remarkable observation that was generated from this exercise was the number of people using the parks: Lademoen park, Buran football park, and Strindheim park, that ranged from 5 to 0. It could be that August is chilly for people to stay in the park. That time Lademoen park had only one child playing in its playground while there were 2 to 3 men who stayed there for hours and mostly passersby. Strindheim park with more playgrounds was frequented by families with small children. Buran football park had never been occupied even with kids who love playing the sports.

Observation at Strandveien Park

Initial reaction from observation/counting was that the area seemed strange and empty. It could be that most members of the group who came from developing countries where the population is almost 10 to 20 times bigger than that of Norway, have a different perception of how an urban community in Norway or in Lademoen per se should look like. Still, personal impressions of a planner play a substantial role in urban comprehension.

QUANTITATIVE AND QUALITATIVE ANALYSES

Transect walk with non-structured interviews

The transect walk in Lademoen produced valuable interviews with two very different members of the community: Somali refugees and young Norwegian professionals. Abdul Kadir Hussain, a Somali man in his 50s, was just sitting alone in the bus stop at Rosendal situated between Innherredsveien and the Lademoen church. He looked like he was someone who could be easily approached to for a short talk.

“I like living in Lademoen for 6 years now. I have nothing to complain about if comparing this place from Somalia. However, I feel alone because my wife and kids are still in a refugee camp in Kenya” –Hussain.

The 24-year old Norwegian lady was walking her Chihuahua dog, Alicia. She agreed for a short interview. This strengthened the group’s conception that people walking dogs are kind and more approachable.

“I like living here in Lademoen due to its proximity to my workplace in Boots Solsiden and accessibility. And I look forward to the proposed theatre that will be built next to the gasoline station. But what I dislike is the presence of drug addicts in Lademoen park, especially on Saturday evenings.”- Norwegian lady

Free Coffee Stand

The stand attracted various inquisitive individuals in Lademoen, around 7 of them approached. They were teenage refugees, construction workers, pensionist, Romanian gypsy, and more, who took coffee, and some engaged in conversations.

One of them was a 70year old Norwegian man who was in a search for an apartment in Lademoen and has his stepson-in-law married to a woman from the Philippines. Another was the Romanian gypsy who was just traveling around Norway and other countries in Europe who expressed his strong admiration for Trondheim.

BOXED INTERVIEWS at the Initial Phase confirming socio economic issues and love for basse of Lademoen

An excerpt from the interview with the parish priest of Lademoen chur ch, Stein Elinggard on October 1, 2018.

Stein Ellinggard, priest in Lademoen Kirke, named unbearable noise, criminality, drugs and not having enough flats due to the increasing population as current social challenges in the community. Currently in Lademoen there are 400 flats for norwegians 30 years old and above, who can’t afford a regular apartment/ low income earner. While there are 65 flats for non norwegians (i think it is for norwegians Maciej) who are over 60 years old. These provisions are both for those who can not afford a regular apartment, or as mentioned by Stein “those who are out of the system”.

When asked about the problem with the kindergarten, Stein mentioned that there are increasing group of 6 7 years old.

Stein confirmed that there are many non-norwegian families living in Lademoen, from around 27 nations. There are existing communities like ethiopian community but he has little idea of them, other than that they come to church for some free food giveaways or dinners.

Another interesting thought from Stein was that bef ore people just stay in Lademoen for some years and eventually move out, now more people come in and prefer to stay as the area becomes more popular due to new modern flats coming up.

When asked about his awareness of the future plans for Lademoen, he answered that they actually have upcoming meeting with the city architect and they are trying to protest against this new and biggest hotel to be built around the area (between Svartlamoen and Dora), he said “we don’t need a hotel, what we need is more flats for the people.”

He also mentioned about owners converting and dividing their units and rent it out for students use, which makes it in most of the cases impossible to create a small business in Lademoenowners are probably going for sure option of cheap housing for students, instead of vulnerable new businesses. Probably also nothing constrains them from doing that like it may in other parts of the city.

BOXED INTERVIEWS at the Initial Phase confirming socio-economic issues and love for basse of Lademoen

Transcripts of interview with Hans Aksel Choudhari on 2nd October, 2018 at 10.35am

Hans Aksel Choudhari is a resident of Lademoen and a business owner of the Mellomveien bar along Mellomveien, Lademoen. Aksel is 36 years old, married with 2 kids.

Me: Thanks. My first question would have to be about what do you think is the best or worst about Lademoen.

Aksel: You know, Lademoen has always been a working class area since industrialization came and because of that, the area is somehow diversed especially now we have higher percentage of immigrants in the city. I think that there should be more focus on people living in the area with communal activities and create opportunities. Also, for youth, there should be some places for music and art since most of the people here are artists and musicians. Even the church sometimes hold concerts for the musicians in the area. We have no football team connected to the area. And the miljøgate Innherredsveien is totally acceptable for us because it somehow lessened the traffic and became safe for our kids.

Me: Hong long have you lived in Lademoen?

Aksel: I used to live here on Mellomveien for 5 years before I sold our apartment and moved to Lade alle but I always stay here since of my bar, Mellomveien along the same street name.

Me: What about the refugees in the area, what are your views about them?

Aksel: Of course, I understand the refugees. I worked in kirkensbymisjon 8 years ago and worked with several refugees. They live in asylmottak and even in the apartments here with some others or their families in very small rooms for them. Some of them after how many years move back to their home countries or leave Trondheim.

Me: Where do you see yourself 5 or 10 years from now?

Aksel: I would really like Lademoen’s diversity. I even organize the yearly bassa competition in the area and my 2 kids go to Svartlamon barnehage. We have many friends in the area, like the owner of Taquero. We are somehow interlinked in the area, so I would really see myself living here for, maybe 20 years more.

Me: I’m intrigued about basse because I saw in the pictures where you have circles and kick a ball like thing for passing, how do people participate, and what are the mechanics?

Aksel: I have a basse here. It’s a group of rubber strips of used bicycle tires put together to form a ball. You can keep it. It is played by 6 people inside the circles which are arranged as one circle in the middle and 5 others around it. The mechanics is found in our website, www.basse.no. The game has no referee and anybody can join. This year we had 62 players while last year there was 90. We award trophies to winners. We also have it played around the schools because it promotes also honesty/integrity. There were even players from Mo I Rana. This is a game that most people in Trondheim can relate to although Lademoen people can be able to relate mostly since this is the home for basse.

Situational Map

In this situational map (figure above), different matters that can be recognized as part of Lademoen are included and regarded as varying.

Lademoen, as per Straume, is a multifaceted part of Trondheim. The community is an area where diversity and poverty are both acknowledged (Straume, 2018). Per Øverland, the priest/historian, mentioned that Lademoen originated as a farmers’ village then became a haven for industrial workers and currently, a mixed residential/industrial area of Trondheim that remains unwavered (Øverland, 2006).

Statistics show that Lademoen is one of the poorer neighborhoods in Trondheim. It has also one of the places where there are considerable number of students versus the regular residents, comprises most kommune-owned housing, quite embraces most immigrants and refugees, and having lesser families and children than any other part of the city.

In order to conduct this analysis, the demographics present in Lademoen was determined based on the Quantitative and Qualitative Analyses (i.e. statistics, transect walks). The demographics in Lademoen are then recognized as the following: Refugees, Out-of-School Youths, Alcohol/Drug Dependents, Pensioners/Disabled, Norwegian students and International Students and Business Owners.

Interviews with NAV, residents, business owners, and residents’s association and attending events such as language café, people’s kitchen (folkekjøkken), and house-to-house money collection with the church mission (Kirkens bymisjon) confirmed some of the socio-economic and demographic statistics of Lademoen.

To determine the most vulnerable among the demographic groups, the article of Rakodi where it describes the 5 types of livelihood assets such as Human, Social, Physical, Financial and Natural capitals is referred to.

Human capital refers to the number of people in the household and available time to engage in incomeearning activities, including the levels of education and skills, and health status (Rakodi, 2002). In this type of capital, assuming that drug/alcohol dependence is a health issue and lacking of language abilities (i.e. Norwegian) and sufficient education is an education and skill issue.

The Social capital refers to the networks, membership of groups, relationships of trust and reciprocity, and access to wider institutions of the society on which people adopt to gain livelihood. Limited social network to peers and fellows is assumed as insufficient to find a job (Rakodi, 2002).

The Physical Capital is the basic services available (Rakodi, 2002) and this is universal for all since those are provided by the government here in Norway. It goes the same also for the Natural capital which is common for all.

The Financial capital refers to the savings, pensions, or social support in this case (Rakodi, 2002). The percentages of financial capital for each demographic are assumed since no official data reveal about how much do they earn or have in their accounts. For example, pensioners get 15000 monthly, while refugee receive at least 15000 krones or more depending on household size, Norwegian students get 10500 krones from Lånekassen, and out-of-school youths and adult social clients receive more or less 4000 krones.

These assumptions are then placed in a table:

Above

From the table as shown, the out-of school youths, alcohol/drug dependents, and international students are the least earners among the demographics which are all under 50% of the regular monthly earnings. Refugees and business owners receive the highest income in the community. In the case of refugees, that could be because of the government policy.

SITUATIONAL ANALYSIS

The Human capital, however, is low for the alcohol/ drug dependents and out-of-school youths. It could be because of their low percentages on their ability to earn and health aspects. Refugees have a secured income from the government and very much sufficient, however they have low percentage on education/skills due to insufficient recognition of their education from their home countries and their Norwegian language ability ranges from null to basic only. This is confirmed thru attending language café in Lademoen church. While the international students have below average percentages on both the ability to earn and the education/skills due to language issues.

The Social Capitals are very low for the refugees, alcohol/drug dependents and international students. This is due to their low networks and access to wider institutions of society. Theirs are limited to their peers or fellows only. In totality, it can be observed that the most vulnerable among the demographics in Lademoen are the alcohol/drug dependents followed by the out-ofschool youths and the international students.

Above Figure: The situational condition of the demographics in Lademoen through their livelihood assets.

OInstallation bus-station educational entertainment religious residential residential-commercial residential-entertainment residential-remedial workshop park play ground around-building

Land use map produced by the group for the analysis

Mobility Map

As shown in the above figure, Lademoen park, as the focus area, is accessible to several areas of interests within the city of Trondheim. This also shows the distance and the mobility patterns of people that goes in and out of Lademoen.

Land Use Map

Notably, Lademoen has residentials, educational, religious, workshop, park and recreation, but most building types are residential, many of which are mixed use. For instance, along the road Mellomveien, several building blocks are mixed use of business in the lower floor while residential in the above floors. Three significant types of these Multi-land use buildings are Residential-Commercial, Residential-Remedial and Residential-Entertainment.

SWOT ANALYSIS

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STRENGTHS

Location & Accessibility

Historical landmarks

Availability of basic services

Diverse and creative community

Strong Residence Association & participation from the church

The residents’ association with its dynamic leader, Jan Olav Straume became a beacon of pride of the community due to their strong stand for a better and environment-friendly road of Innherredsveien with the aid of the church.

WEAKNESSES

Noise Drugs & criminality Drugs is an issue known to residents in Lademoen, even the parish priest, Stein Elinggard confirmed it during our interview.

Degraded public spaces & lacking recreation areas Some areas in Lademoen not under the jurisdiction of Trondheim Bydrift maintenance are really degraded and need to be refurbished.

Lack of people participation High rate of unemployment

People only participate in events facilitated by established groups like the church, with events that will entrust in a good cause.

OPPORTUNITIES

Development of Miljøgata New infrastructure Possibility for tourism Due to its traditional houses and proximity to the city center, it is no doubt that Lademoen could be included as a historical part of Trondheim. The Lademoen church that was built in 1905 is one of them.

Changing demographics Lademoen, due to its diverse neighborhood and transitory residents, is a place where welcoming new faces mean new ideas, and new possibilities.

More involvement from the community

When the residents see something worth doing, it would be an opportunity for them to really get involved and attain their common goal.

THREATS

Lack of support from the Kommune due to Miljøgata issue

If fighting for what they believe in was right, however defying the desires of the politicians for Lademoen, it meant also a lack of support for their future endeavours. The miljøgate or the environment-friendly street has still barriers in the middle that looks temporary.

Misuse of public spaces Mismanagement

If the public do not appreciate the open spaces, there is a chance that misuse can occur. Without community participation, appreciation of the area won’t happen.

INITIAL OBJECTIVE AND PROPOSAL

Based on the two methods and analyses above, forging the initial objectives was straightforward. They were safety, community involvement, and job generation.

Safety due to issue of drugs and crimes in Lademoen park.

Community involvement for the reason that there was not much participation that were expected from the coffee stand or the transect walk, and that residents seem strange with each other.

Job generation due to idea of providing livelihood for the homeless and unemployed.

Thus, the initial proposal included a greenhouse as the centerpoint, basse courts, wooden vertical columns, graffiti art wall, performance platform, and seating areas.

This proposal was the unfinished product of the processes of the group’s participatory approach. They continued on undertaking other methods to address other perspectives present in Lademoen. It was the Testing of the Concept by Feedback Interviews and Presentation to the people of Lademoen.

Poster made for the initial concept for the project, presented to residents.

Feedback collection from interviews and Presentation

The proposal was presented to various individuals that were deemed important in the community. They were comprised of business owners, the head of Lademoen residents’ association, a resident, administrator of Lademoen kindergarten, NAV Jobbhuset team manager and supervisor.

The results of these methods were quite interesting due to varied received comments.

The feedback from several interviews were overwhelming. It was also a way to get involved in the Lademoen residents’ association yearly board meeting by presenting them the initial project proposal. Jan Olav Straume, head of the association expressed his strong inclination towards the greenhouse feature. “I like the greenhouse idea very much!”

Participatory Observation: House to house donation collection with Kirkens Bymisjon.

-Jan Olav Straume, Head of Lademoen Residents’ Association

“Greenhouse would be something special where people can take vegetables”

“Utopic..”

“Promotes community entrepreneurship..”

“I can also help manage the stage with my kids here at Jobbhuset..”

“Nice idea…”

“Urban farming is the in thing nowadays…”

(Left) Interview with Eirik Zahl, Lademoen resident.

(Right) Interview with Pål Bøyesen, ReMida artistic director.

“Good venue and opportunity to meet people in the community”

“My kids in this kindergarten love those graffiti walls!”

“I organize basse yearly and that idea is perfect!”

“The green aspect of plants and vegetables in your project is very good”

“A big potential to do more in this part of Trondheim and your project is one that anybody can participate in”

STRENGTHENING OF INITIAL CONCEPT

The concept did not halt at the presentation. Instead, it served as a motivation to further continue with the process in the second phase.

This phase started by coming up with a photovoice as a facebook page entitled: “Hva er det beste og verste på Lademoen?”. It was an online venue to engage other stakeholders of Lademoen. There were posts, recommendations and comments to posts on the facebook page that were not adopted due to their lack of substance to fulfil its purpose, that is to capture the opinions of Lademoen residents.

The Google Survey was conducted then to encourage once again the participation of some stakeholders. A few days after it was posted on the facebook page of Lademoen vel (residents’ association), it received at least 28 respondents. Significant results were then gathered from the online survey that were translated into graphs. Other results were comments from the respondents.

“Better garbage system, noise damping systems along innherredsveien…”

“More businesses in street level. Today many old shops are used for housing. We want more cafes, library, culture, playgrounds and shops. Businesses that creates more life in the streets. And places to sit and watch city life.”

(Comments from Survey)

Participatory Observation

Participating in events like the language café in Lademoen church paved the way to meeting various refugees who live in the area. Refugees from Eritrea and Somalia were common.

Six week-attendance was an ample time to build and gain trust from the refugees that gave some useful information like refugees receive ample amount of money from the government, both from Lånekasse and the kommune. It led to an understanding that these groups of people in Lademoen do not necessarily need income-generating activities. It was also helpful in knowing their passion for their inherent music and dancing.

The House-to-house through Kirkens bymisjon ended up in observing the physical conditions of the buildings in Lademoen where majority are more than 100 years old rather than attaining its original aim.

The free weekly dinner by the People’s Kitchen (Folkekjøkken) at UFFA along Innherredsveien confirmed that students live in the area, both international and Norwegians who like to save money by cooking and having dinner at this event. There were also some homeless-looking people who shared the dinner with the students and organizers.

Conducting more interviews provided some very useful information on how to acquire funds for projects, who are mostly involved in decision-making, some ideas on temporary installations, strengthened about our initial proposals, etc. Some of the notable interviews provided feedback such as:

“I am fascinated when kids could express freely through art.”

“I don’t see myself in Lademoen in 5 or 10 years from now.”

“We source our recycled materials from all over the city and the from kommune’s used materials workshop free for all kommune’s employees for use.”

“We provide 100 krones an hour for 6 hours, 2 times a week for knitters who are mostly those Romanian beggars in the streets.”

“We roam around the city from 2200 til 0300 to provide water, bread and woolen blankets for those drunk kids in the weekends.”

“To be honest, I don’t believe there are homeless people, only people taking advantage of the weak Norwegian welfare system.”

“The on-going and the proposed developments around Lademoen like Lilleby, Nyhavna will cause gentrification in the area and it’s a good thing, but hopefully, no demolition of traditional houses.”

“The parents pay 3000 per month in this kindergarten plus 350 for food of their children.”

“We took a budget of 150 000 krones from Norsk kulturråd for our ‘Nytt Liv’ exhibition.”

“That’s typical for us in Lademoen that if we see someone contributing something, we participate.”

Co-design workshop

Adopting the concept of creating specific personas that reflect the community members in Lademoen, the workshop yielded very valuable data, however immense. To simplify these huge amount of information, the diverge and converge method was used.

The results vary from this method through the different personas presented to them like a married refugee woman, young Norwegian student, single with kids and jobless.

The participants gave their valuable inputs on these personas like providing a vegetable garden on the open space next to the Lademoen church, converting the vacant Nidar chocolate factory building that was once occupied by Trondheim kommune before moving to their new office at Lerkendal area, creating an open market along Mellomveien during holidays, and many more.

This workshop, even though conceptualized and done in a very tight schedule, the results show that the people of Lademoen would like activities like this to voice out their opinion in the planning stage so that they could be able to impart their respective concerns and issues.

The next task is to be able to simplify these ideas into a more usable and pertinent sets of data based on our initial objectives: safety, community involvement, and job generation.

Affinity mapping

It is evident from the figure that through this analysis, community involvement through arts/ music, greenhouse and sports is more interesting for Lademoen residents. The result that shows that the residents would like the miljøgate permanent is for recommendation since that is beyond the scope of this project.

This analysis then facilitated the conception of the Final Project Proposal shown in the next chapter.

STAKEHOLDER ANALYSIS

Stakeholder analysis is a “process or action research methodology used to explore the various opinions that different stakeholders may have on potential outcomes and their relative influence” (Flicker, 2014). The stakeholder analysis aided in producing a map where important key players of Lademoen can play a big part in the group’s project proposal.

This also showed who are the most influential in the community. The story about the miljøgate or the environment-friendly street, Innherredsveien was also examined where the role of the Lademoen vel,

the church and the residents were highlighted in generating a big change for them and for their children. The 2-way road with cycle lanes was implemented through citizen participation. This information made the group realized that the community is motivated to partake if it’s for a good cause.

The notable stakeholders in Lademoen were identified and described below based on the Stakeholder Analysis.

Trondheim Kommune

As the local institution that governs the city of Trondheim where Lademoen is located, this has the power over decisions that can be made in the locality, whether they are projects pertaining to safety, community engagement and job generation or housing issues. It consists of several departments that uphold both local and national laws that are related to public governance. It also provides housing supports for those households in a problematic situation, with low income and social problems. Additionally, it upholds the protection of old, traditional buildings that are also found in Lademoen.

The Norwegian Church

Even in the Norwegian context, the church and the state are separated in their respective affairs. But as any society, the patronage of the people make the church more prevalent especially if it pertains to the social issues that only both the people and church can relate to. Many countries in the world have still tight connections with the church, especially even regarding public governance.

Lademon Vel (Residents’ Association)

From its inception in 2015, the velforening or the residents’ association of Lademoen has worked steadfast to actualize the voice of the community. With the successful campaign of miljøgate together with other key stakeholders, this association surely keeps up to their high ideals. If there is an organization in the community that the people can go to if they would like to assert their apprehensions, that is Vel.

Resident Cooperative Housing Association or Borettslag

The cooperative housing association or borettslag plays an important role in the housing policy in Norway and of course, that includes Lademoen. It is composed of the shareholders from the residents of a building themselves including an accountant from a developer. This arranges for whatever work there is to be done in the building through the rents of each dweller. It is an idea that encourages independence, self-governance with legal and economic aspects, as well. They are under the umbrella of the National Federation of Co-operative Housing Associations.

The Language Cafe at Lademoen church

The importance of this particular service of the church is underscored due to the attendance of several refugees in Lademoen. This service helps them integrate into the Norwegian society through learning and practicing the language. This is composed of highly-dedicated individuals who contribute their time and knowledge to these poor individuals.

NAV and NAV Jobbhuset

This is a program of NAV Østbyen (East part of the city) that tends to 18-25 year old-school dropouts or problematic youths in this part of the city. These youths have issues like drugs, sexual abuse, psychological matters, computer game addictions, etc. that require special attention for a few months to a year so that they could go back to the society or school anew. This is in-housed at the Lademoen Bydelshus (Community house) where they get trainings such as stage preparations, painting, carpentry, electrical works, masonry, etc. The youths are supervised by dedicated individuals who monitor their progress in the program. Naturally, they receive social help from NAV from day one until they are ready to return to the working or student life. NAV also supports those who need social help aside from the problematic youths such as sick people or disabled who are unable to work, new parents, etc.

Kirkens Bymisjon

The most trusted NGO in the city that provides support to all sectors of the society such as providing temporary shelter to the homeless, providing livelihood to the less fortunate, taking care of drunk kids during weekends, etc. The nationwide campaign drive to collect funds were participated by most Norwegians due to their high-valued reputation in helping people.

The Politicians

The city politicians no matter what party they belong to contribute to the community’s welfare and safety. They are the ones who decide the fate of the city through deliberations and alignment to their platforms. Their influence and power can make or break any affairs of the community. However, their power is limited to their agenda only.

ReMida

An art studio for kids encouraging them to be creative and expressive by using recycled materials. Several city installations in the city like Rabarbra park in Bakklandet.

The Residents

Norway is a democratic country that encourages its citizens to voice out their opinion freely in a manner of open dialogues and even peaceful rallies. And the residents of Lademoen are not exempted from this. They had their own fair share of glorious moment when they won their case for a 2-way road along Innherredsveien against the politicians. The residents, regardless of background, are the major stakeholders because they are the ones who will use and benefit from any kind of project or program.

Trondheim Bydrift

The Lademoen park is beautiful and well-maintained. It is due to this agency that regularly cleans, trims grasses and tree branches, and more. Their importance to preserve this common recreation area is highly regarded. The aforementioned primary stakeholders of Lademoen were described as to their importance in relation to the group’s proposed project. They are specifically the fundamental rationale for the group in considering matters like management, maintenance, decision-making, financing, and utilization of the project.

FINDINGS

The different participatory methods supported by several analyses provided some notable results basing on the aforementioned three initial objectives: safety, community involvement and job generation.

The community has little inclination towards the first objective, safety probably due to the fact that this is a kommune, police and national concern. These are the most suitable authorities to create peaceful and orderly communities, not only in Lademoen, but also in the peripheries of their jurisdiction.

All analyses show that the community wishes to have an active participation of everyone through arts/music, greenhouse, crafts, and sports. It could be because the Lademoen park is perceived as placid and lifeless.

The third objective was the least of the concerns of the community since some receive social support from the government, which shows that the Norwegian welfare system is helping even the marginalized sectors of the society.

PROPOSAL

Lademoen Community Center

*Refer to Appendices for Implementation of the project proposal.

CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS

The participatory methods conducted alongside the human-centered design thinking aided in the understanding of the urban challenges and opportunities through the eyes of the various stakeholders of the community. This then assisted in formulating a concept and a strategy that best suits the community’s desires in line with the identified objectives from the initial analyses.

The proposal is strategically-designed to be adaptable and responsive to the issues and needs of the community, whereby encouraging tolerance and accepting differences of all members of the society. Lademoen is a district in Trondheim where poverty and diversity are signified. However, with the project, those distinct characteristics are affiliated together with arts, music, crafts, and urban farming. The outcome would be a resounding celebration of diversity and resilience, where it could cultivate urban sustainability.

No matter how comprehensive this participatory approach should be, there are matters beyond the task at hand.

The result from the online survey and interviews revealed that most residents in Lademoen would like to have a permanent miljøgate or environmentfriendly street, Innherredsveien, akin to the Olav Tryggvassons gate in the city center without the middle barrier, well-laid colored and marked asphalt for cycle lanes and with seating areas and planters, that is beyond the scope of this paper. However, that can be a subject of further studies. It is therefore recommended that, as facilitators of change in the community, the miljøgate would have to be elevated to the hands of the city politicians and the government officials who can decide and approve finances to uphold the desires of Lademoen residents.

Lademoen Park fieldwork

GROUP REFLECTION

The team throughout the 14-week semester with the UEP master program has definitely learned a lot through the course both individually and collectively.

First and foremost, the group learned that the participatory method of research is a very useful tool in getting familiarized with the subject and the puzzling issues about the research object, that getting deeper into things would definitely make a difference in conceptualizing an outcome. It was not an easy task and required a huge amount of patience to perform this type of method, but produced an outstanding and eye-opening outcome.

Reflecting on the experiences from doing the methods made each appreciate the kind of efforts in performing them no matter how difficult they turned out, and used the compendium prescribed by the faculty to guide the group in every aspect of each method executed.

Each team member has learned something from each other and how to become a team player. The team has matured eventually amidst the misunderstandings and disagreements. Reflecting individually made each aware of their shortcomings and tried to turn each distasteful situation into a learning experience.

Additionally, reconciling differences and keeping in mind about the common goal are the perfect ways to solve internal issues. Even with diversity, the group managed to put aside personal feelings and the quest for excellence prevailed. A strong bond and connection among each other developed and helped improved the teamwork at the end.

This was truly a rewarding and gratifying experience that NTNU has given these six noteworthy students a chance to work in a team with an interesting study area and with supervisors who have shown concern and effort for them to actually learn and enjoy this first semester in the program.

Meet the Students

The dynamic group who have remarkably performed and completed the processes and the conceptualization of the project is composed of six diverse individuals who hail from five different countries. Equipped with determination and passion for learning, these students amidst of challenges and issues have managed to complete the tasks at hand.

Nima Nasrollahkhani from Sanandaj City, Kurdistan, Iran, finished his Bachelor in Urban Engineering at Urmia Univer sity in Urmia, West Azarbaijan, Iran. His interests include urban development and urban planning.

Christian Baloloy, originally from Daraga, Albay which is 500 km southeast of Manila, the Philippine capital, has a Bachelor in Civil Engineering from Bicol University and a Master in Project Management from NTNU. His passion includes sustainability and climate change.

Clarissa Tubeo, from Makati City, Philippines, finished her bachelor’s degree in Architecture, and is a licensed architect. Concepts like organic and sustainable architecture pique her interest the most. On her free time, she likes to travel, swim, paint, play her ukulele and sing to a Beyonce song.

Yuna Prajapati is from Kath mandu, Nepal with a Bachelor in Architecture from Tribhuvan University. Her interests inclu de urban planning and preser vation of cultural heritages.

Maciej Papke from Poland, finished a Bachelor of Archi tecture studies in Gdańsk, Poland. Professionally inte rested in urban planning and sociology, with emphasis on authors such as Jane Jacobs or Jan Gehl.

Denisa Marku from Albania, finished her Bachelor in Architecture, integrated Msc in Urban Design at Polis University, Tirana, Albania. She is professionally interested in Architecture and Urban Planning. Spends her free time traveling, drawing and reading.

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LIST OF FIGURES

Front page photo: Lademoen colorful, traditional wooden houses in Lademoen, photo by Clarissa Tubeo, 2018.

Back of front page photo: First glimpse of Lademoen neighborhood showing a lady walking past by a building in Lademoen with wall writings, photo by Christian Baloloy, 2018.

Preface

Photo 1 Initial walks through Lademoen, observing life of the district (as background), photo by Clarissa Tubeo Acknowledgment

Photo 2 First quantitative view of one of the parks in Lademoen, bordering park under train stop, photo by Maciej Papke.

Abstract

Photo 3 A graffiti wall, photo by Denisa Marku. Page iv

Photo: Worn-out doorbell of one of the buildings along Mellomveien during the charity event, photo by Clarissa Tubeo. Page vi

Photo 4 The former Nidar chocolate factory along Ulstadløkken street in Lademoen, photo by Clarissa Tubeo

Introduction page, p.1

Fig.1 Map of Trondheim as background. Source: Google. Timeline & Methodology page, p. 2-3

Photo 5 Recycled spools of multi-colored threads on the wall of ReMiDa office at Svartlamon, photo by Clarissa Tubeo.

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Fig. 2 Timeline of the project Page 6

Fig. 3 Methodology used in accordance with the group’s timeline in chronological order.

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Photo 6 Co-design event at Lademoen church on 16 November 2018, photo by Clarissa Tubeo.

Page 8-9: Icons for the Methods. Page 10

Fig. 4 (above) Photovoice (Hva er best of verst i mitt sted - Facebook page); (below) Graph of the Google Survey result.

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Photo 7 Språk Kafe (Language Coffee) event, photo by Christian Baloloy Photo 8 Kirkens Bymisjon (church city mission) volunteer as money collector, photo by Clarissa Tubeo.

Photo 9 Folkekjøkken (people`s kitchen) event, photo by Christian Baloloy Photo 10 Participation at Natteravn event by Kirkens bymisjon, photo by Hanne Iren Withbro Eidem, 2018.

Photo 11 Interview with Tonje Devik, resident of Lademoen, at Drømmedar cafe, photo by Clarissa Tubeo, October 2018. 8ui)01

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Photo 13 Co-design workshop, open talk about participant`s findings, photoA by Clarissa Tubeo

Fig. 5 Invitation to Co-design workshop.

Fig. 6 Diverge-Converge Method to simplify results from the Co-design Workshop (IDEO.org, 2015).

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Photo 14 Affinity mapping method initial sketch, photo by Christian Baloloy

Photo 15 Stakeholder mapping method with help of Brita Nielsen, photo by Christian Baloloy

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Photo 16 Observation of streets in Lademoen, photo by Clarissa Tubeo. Page 15

Photo 17 Observation of street in Lademoen, photo by Clarissa Tubeo

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Photo 18 Innherredsveien, Lademoen, with middle barriers painted by kids with local artist`s help a few years back during the campaign for miljøgate and the colorful, traditional wooden houses along, photo by Clarissa Tubeo.

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Fig. 7 Norway`s map with Trøndelag, Trondheim and Lademoen in focus, edited by Yuna Prajapati (Sources: Norway state maps mobile app)

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Fig. 8 Old Trondheim map in y.1883 (Hals et.al., 1981).

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Photo 19 Bakklandet in Trondheim (Source: www.trondelag.com). Page 21

Photo 20 Lademoen Park`s old phone booth from 1930s, photo by Christian Baloloy.

Fig. 9 Lademoen district with boundaries, edited by Yuna Prajapati (Source: Google earth).

Fig. 10 Lademoen statistics, based from surveys of Trondheim Kommune, UDI, Politiet, and NAV.

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Fig. 11 Lademoen Historical Timeline (Sources: Sivertsen, 1997, Christiansen and Olderøien, 1983, Lervik, 2017, Straume, 2018). Page 24-25

Photo 21 Buildings along Mellomveien, photo by Clarissa Tubeo. Page 26

Fig. 12 Observation at Buran Park with timestamp.

Fig. 13 Observation at Lademoen Park with timestamp.

Fig. 14 Observation at Strandveien Park with timestamp.

Fig. 15 3d illustration model showing the two important converging roads, Mellomveien and Innherredsveien in the study area. Page 27

Photo 22 On-street interview with Somali refugee, photo by Clarissa Tubeo. Photo 23 On-street interview with young Norwegian professional, photo by Clarissa Tubeo.

Photo 24 Gratis kaffe (free coffee) stand method in Lademoen Park, photo by Christian Baloloy. Page 28

Fig. 16 A visual array of Lademoen`s topics, themes and issues we discovered as interpreted in a Situational map. Page 29

Table 1 Percentages of livelihood assets of each demographic in Lademoen.

Fig. 17 The situational condition of the demographics in Lademoen through their livelihood assets. Page 30

Fig. 18 Land use map of the analysis/study area in Lademoen. Page 31

Fig. 19 Mobility map of Lademoen with respect to the important landmarks in Trondheim.

Photo 25a Basse courts along Mellomveien, photo by Christian Baloloy.

Photo 25b Lademoen Church, photo by Clarissa Tubeo.

Photo 25c Trikkestallen skatepark in an abandoned industrial building by Clarissa Tubeo.

Photo 25d Lademoen Park in Autumn showing the church, photo by Christian Baloloy.

Photo 25e Bydelshus (Community house) in Lademoen, photo by Christian Baloloy. Photo 25f Lademoen Park, children`s artworks posted on the wooden wall facing the park by local church, photo by Christian Baloloy.

Photo 25g Lademoen`s infrastructure condition, photo by Clarissa Tubeo. Photo 25h Building along Innherredsveien that houses Buran Supermarket, photo by Christian Baloloy.

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Photo 26 Courtyard of a building block along Mellomveien, photo by Christian Baloloy. Page 33

Fig. 20 SWOT Analysis conducted for Lademoen. Page 34-35

Photo 27 Old picture of Lademoen church as background (Source: www.ntnu.tind. io).

Fig. 18 Poster made for the initial proposal with descriptions of each feature. Page 36

Photo 28 Participation in the Kirkens bymisyon (Church mission) nationwide drive in collecting money door to door at three blocks in Lademoen to inspect the physical conditions of the apartments, photo by Christian Baloloy. Page 37

Photo 29 Interview with Eirik Zahl, Lademoen resident while manning a store in Svartlamon, photo by Nima Nasrollahkhani.

Photo 30 Interview with ReMiDa Artistic Director, Pål Bøyesen in their workshop at Svartlamon, photo by Clarissa Tubeo. Page 38

Photo 31 Participation at the Kirkens bymisjon (Church mission) house to house in Lademoen, photo by Clarissa Tubeo.

Fig. 19 Array of methods done to test our concept. (top left) Presentation of initial proposal at Lademoen bydelshus (community house), photo by Yuna Prajapati; (top right) A snap shot of the facebook page, “Hva er det beste og verste på Lademoen?”; (bottom left and right) Graphs of google survey conducted.

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Photo 32 Participation at one of the weekly språkkafe (Language Coffee) events at Lademoen church, photo by Christian Baloloy.

Photo 33 Charity participation in collecting money door to door, photo by Christian Baloloy.

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Photo 34a Folkekjøkken (people`s kitchen) event, photo by Christian Baloloy.

Photo 34b ReMiDa interview, photo by Clarissa Tubeo

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Photos 35a, 35b, 35c Co-design event at Lademoen church, photo by authors. Page 43

Photo 36 Stakeholder mapping

Photo 37 Affinity mapping

Photo 38 Codesign workshop ideas mapping. Page 44

Photo 39 Stakeholder mapping in actual. Page 45

Fig. 20 Stakeholder mapping for the analysis. Page 46

Fig. 21a Trondheim Kommune logo from www.trondheim.kommune.no.

Fig. 21b The Norwegian Church logo from www.dennorskekirke.no.

Fig. 21c Lademoen Vel (Residents` Association) logo from https://www.facebook. com/LademoenVel/

Fig. 21d Resident Cooperative Housing Association or Borettslag logo (source:unkown).

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Fig. 22a NAV logo from www.nav.no.

Fig. 22b Kirken Bymisjon logo from www.kirkensbymisjon.no

Fig. 22c ReMiDa logo from www.remida.no.

Fig. 22d Trondheim Bydrift logo from www.trondheimbydrift.no. Page 48-49

Photo 40 Mellomveien walking street, photo by Christian Baloloy. Page 50-51

Photo 41 “Rabarbraparken” at Bakklandet, a temporary playground be ReMiDa, photo by Clarissa Tubeo.

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Fig. 23 Middle term intervention visualization of the project proposal.

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Photo 42a, 42b Lademoen Park, photos by Christian Baloloy.

Fig. 24 Base map of Lademoen Park as a result of secondary analysis. Page 56

Fig. 25 Map of Lademoen Park with phasing of the intervention, edited by Clarissa Tubeo (Source: Google Earth).

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Fig. 26 Map of short term intervention in Lademoen Park.

Fig. 27 Short term project in details, (top left) living wall, (top right) flower curtain, (bottom 2) art/mosaic walls. Page 58

Fig. 28 Middle term intervention visualization.

Fig. 29 Map of midterm intervention in Lademoen Park. Page 59

Fig. 30 Map of final term proposal for Lademoen Park.

Fig. 31a Community center plan with materials.

Fig. 31b Community center plan with movement patterns.

Fig. 31c Community center plan with functions. Page 60-61

Fig. 32 Lademoen Community center visualization. Page 62

Photo 43 Lademoen Park fieldwork, photo by Christian Baloloy. Page 64

Photos 44a, 44b, 44c Winter in Moholt, Trondheim, by Bikash Chaudhary, 2018. Page 65 Photo 44 Member students of UEP 2018 Trondheim group. Photos by students themselves.

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Photo 45 Picture taken during the house to house donation collection as a participation to the Kirkens bymisjon bøssebærere 2018 event, photo by Clarissa Tubeo.

Appendices

1. Name-Stein Ellinggard

The Priest inLademoen

Stein Ellinggard, the priest in Lademoen Kirke, named unbearable noise, criminality, drugs and not having enough flatsdue to the increasing population as current social challengesin the community. Currently, in Lademoen, there are 400 flatsfor Norwegians 30 years old and above, who can’t afford a regular apartment/low-income earner. While there are 65 flats fornon-Norwegian, who are over 60 years old. These provisionsare both for those who can not afford a regular apartment, oras mentioned by Stein “those who are out of the system”.

When asked about the problem with the kindergarten, Steinmentioned that there is an increasing group of 6-7 years old.

Stein confirmed that many non-Norwegian families are living in Lademoen, from around 27 nations. There are existingcommunities like Ethiopian community, but he has little ideaof them, other than that they come to church for some freefood giveaways or dinners.

Another interesting thought from Stein was that before people just stay in Lademoen for some years and eventually moveout, now more people come in and prefer to stay as the areabecomes more popular due to new modern flats coming up.

When asked about his awareness of the future plans for Lademoen, he answered that they actually haveupcoming meeting with the city architect and they are tryingto protest against this new and biggest hotel to be built aroundthe area (between Svartlamoen and Dora), he said “we don’t need a hotel, what we need is more flats for the people.”

He also mentioned about owners converting and dividingtheir units and rent it out for students use, which makes it in most of the cases impossible to create a small business inLademoen - owners are probably going for the sure option ofcheap housing for students, instead of vulnerable new businesses. Probably also nothing constrains them from doing thatas it may in other parts of the city.

The church is also an owner of Bydelhus where Sverre Aasbak(as a leader) organises meetings with people that do not ´´fitin the system´´ - mostly over 30 years old Norwegian localsliving in Lademoen.

Outside of that, Jorgen Selluvald is an artist that created someof the street art visible in Lademoen (the experimental citydivision at Strandveien) by holding workshops with childrenand actually painting those with them on the site. Churchalong with families with children wants to ask him to do itagain in the spring.Also, there are activities for children at the church, they aredoing theatre, painting and technical art like origami.

As mentioned, the church has been providing numerous activities to assist the community. Some are as follows; givingaway food in the centre, organising training on how to live inflats, artwork collaboration with community artists along withthe children in Lademoen, language cafes and a lot more. Healso mentioned that loneliness is another problem people arefacing, and the church’ goal is to assist people and families andmake the area more like a community.

2. Name-Mette Moen Baatvik

Member of NAV

Mette is the responsible or contact person for Kirkens BymisjonArbeidsrommet at Kjøppmannsgata 29. She handles around 10ladies who are knitting, sewing, and creating handmaid products such as envelopes from recycled wallpapers, brooches fromrecycled tealight tin holder and used buttons, knitting blankets,handbags from used curtains, etc.

Q: First of all, thank you for the time to let me interview youabout the amazing work that you do here at Arbeidsrommet evenif Lademoen is not your area.

MMB: Yeah, it’s fine. So, yeah, I am curious about what is it thatyou are going to do in Lademoen exactly.

Q: Ok, then I would present to you first our project which consists of a greenhouse as an income-generating activity for somepeople there, basse courts since basse is widely popular in Lademoen, graffiti walls for artists in the area, a preforming stagefor music performances in the area and some wooden verticalwalls as a symbol or monument for the past and present peopleof Lademoen.

MMB: Oh yeah, that is a good opportunity or place to meet different kinds of people in Lademoen and yeah, income generationis good since Lademoen is full of poverty.

Q: Thank you. Yes, that is right. By the way, can you tell me aboutwhat Arbeidsrommet is doing?

MMB: Arbeidsrommet works with different people, ladies fromRomania who used to be street beggars, young women schooldrop outs, some immigrants, and some Norwegian volunteers.

Q: How is it working with different nationalities?

MMB: It’s exciting and challenging, also, especially when tellingthem instructions of the work that should be done and that theyshould have good quality. Some of them don’t speak Norwegianand even English.

Q: I see. How did you convince these Romanian beggars to joinyour MMB:activities?

It was hard. It took a long while before I could convince. Ittook a lot of talking with them that the money they will get fromworking here would be more than what they get from begging.

Q: Ok. And how much do they receive from working here andhow long they should be working?

MMB: They get 600 kr for 6 hrs/day of working, 2x a week.

Q: That’s a decent amount of money! I could also join! Wheredo you usually get the funding for the operation and for salary?

From Trondheim commune?

MMB: Normally, proceeds from selling the finished products.We have a viewing area in the other room in this building. Operation expenses from the Kirkens bymisjon office, some from justisdepartementet, Bergens stiftelsen, and from sponsors or donors. No, we don’t get any funding from Trondheim commune.

Q: How long do the ladies normally stay?

MMB: Some for 3 months, some 6 months. I have 4 Romanians here who 1 of them has been here for more than 1 year, 2 for 1year, and 1 since March this year. For them, they started to realizethat this is a good place for social networking, and the stabilityhas grown.

Q: Were there also some men who joined your work?

MMB: Yes, there were 5 since we started this program in 2015.

Q: How about refugees, have you also thought of inviting themto MMB:join?

Yeah, actually we are working with INN TrondheimKommune about their program on Introduksjons ordnengin afew months back.

Q: Nice to hear. You know I was just at the language café lastnight at Lademoen church and I got to talk to some refugeesfrom Eritrea and some of them do not have anything to do, lotsof free time and there was a mother and a teenage daughter fromEritrea. And probably, a knitting activity like this can help themmake use of their time and can help them earn at the same timeand meet people in the community.

MMB: Yeah, that is a good idea. I am waiting for some developments from INN.

Q: Btw, how long does it take for someone new or willing to jointhis livelihood activity to learn knitting?

MMB: Not too long, some people learn very fast mabe less than amonth with workshops before once a week. It should take a lot ofpractice so it really helps if someone after class practice it as oftenas possible. Some take 2 months. These are really people withzero knowledge. Those with at least basic knowledge in sewingor knitting learn faster.

Q: Well, I guess I have consumed much of your time today. Thatis it for me, I have acquired some useful information on how arewe going to approach this kind of livelihood activity in the community center project that we thought of for Lademoen. Thankyou so much!

MMB: You are welcome. It was nice meeting and seeing you!

Have a nice day!

Q: Same here. Bye.

3. Name-Klaus Nielsen Manager of NAV Jobbhuset at Bydelshus

Klaus Nielsen manages young kids who are drop outs or involvedin drug addiction to learn more about working ethics and discipline and to get training to be able to go back to school again orwork.

Q: First of all, thank you for this ambush interview even if youare busy with setting up the drums and other musical instruments. We are master students at the NTNU Department of Architecture and Planning under the program, Urban EcologicalPlanning. We are 27 students who are supposed to be in Indiafor the whole semester to study about informalities but 6 of uschose to stay here in Trondheim. And so, we are given Lademoenas our study area. This does not mean Lademoen has informalsettlers but this area is just unique.

KN: Oh, that’s ok. I’d be glad to share our experience here at Jobbhuset to you. That’s good to know.

Q: Thanks. Our first question is what does Jobbhusset do?

KN: Well, we are working to give young school drop outs to redeem themselves, learn about working ethics and discipline to be

ready again either to go back to school or to work.

Q: How young are these young people? And what normally aretheir issues?

KN: They are from 18 to 25 years old who struggle with differentissues like school, drugs, abuse, etc.

Q: Are there also foreigners in your program?

KN: Yes, we have from Somalia and Eritrea or Asia.

Q: Are there from Lademoen?

KN: Normally, we cater to all who live in the Eastern part ofTrondheim. It’s not only Lademoen.

Q: I see. How do they do it? Do they go to you directly?

KN: They go first to NAV Falkenborg office and the staffs thereor my supervisor sends them here for trainings after interviews.

Q: Ok. So, this Jobbhuset here serves how many?

KN: Now, it’s half of the city because there is no Midtbyen office.That office has been integrated with the Eastern part. The otherpart serves in the Lerkendal. So, we are 2 offices: the Falkenborgand Lerkendal.

Q: Aha, what are the activities that you conduct here in Jobbhuset for these young people?

Are there seminars for creating CVs, etc?

KN: Something like that. But mostly, we teach them about workethics and they must write journals or reflections. Basically, toprepare these kids again to go back to school or to work.

Q: Very noble deed! What are the normal rebellious acts thesekids do?

KN: Normally, oversleeping because of videogaming at night.These kids sit alone and play all night.

Q: How do you control these things then?

KN: They must always be followed up with their progress and ifthey show some improvement, I will phone some shops in thearea like Bunnpris here in Lademoen and give them trainingsfirst and maybe after a month if they like it, they become regulars.

Q: Which jobs do they go mostly?

KN: It varies. Some go to nursing homes or shops or restaurants.But most important is they must go back on track.

Q: Do they receive free meals here at Jobbhuset?

KN: Yes, breakfast and lunch aside from their social benefits.

Q: Do these young people like this place?

KN: Yeah, I guess so because those who were able to get a jobcome back here to help even if they are not part of the programanymore. They must have missed the place and the friendshipsthey developed here.

Q: That is nice to hear! Is there a possibility to interview yoursupervisor in NAV Falkenborg office.

KN: Of course! (He calls Geir Johnsen asking him for an interview with NTNU students, Geir agreed on phone and told himhe’d come over at 1300). So, my supervisor named Geir will behere at 1300. It is just 1215 so you can join us for free lunch atthe café!

Q: Wow, that is very nice of you! We did not bring our packedlunches so we would definitely love to have free lunch! Thank you

so much! By the way, what about we present to you our project.

KN: (After hearing and looking at our project) That is a very niceidea! And we can administer the performance stage as I and thekids make sure the stage and sound here at La’mon scene do thatfor Friday’s and Saturday’s performances. You should both joinour karaoke here!

4. Name-Geir Johnsen Team manager of the youth department at NAV

Q: First and foremost, my name is Christian and this is Clarissa.We are master students at NTNU Department of Architectureand Planning under the program, Urban Ecological Planning.We are supposed to be in India studying about informalitiesthere, but 6 of us decided to stay here in Trondheim. So, we aregiven Lademoen as our study area. Our first question is if youcould introduce yourself and your work in NAV.

GJ: My name is Geir Johnsen. We are around 230 employees forthe 2 NAV offices in Lerkendal and Falkenborg. We have 8 different departments. I am the team leader for this program aboutyouth that is housed here in Bydelshus. At the youth department, we have around 30 employees. We are dealing with 18-25years who are given lectures and monitored here at Jobbhuset inBydelshus.

Q: What kind of activities Jobbhuset do for these young people?

GJ: We write notes, journals of each young person. We give somecommunity work, some of these are here in Bydelshus like arranging the stage, etc. We give them chance to be prepared againfor the job market or go back to school again.

Q: Where do mostly the prepared young people referred to byJobbhuset or by your department?

GJ: Mostly, grocery shops like Bunnpris, restaurants like Ladejarlen, nursing homes. We normally provide money to the shopsso they can take these young people for 2-3 months as trainees.After that, if they improved or learned something, they can either choose to continue with the employer or maybe they wantto go back to school.

Q: Are other nationalities welcome here other than Norwegian?

GJ: Yes, all nationalities are welcome. We only look for the agewhich is 18-25 years old limit. What’s hard with other nationalities though is the language because if they don’t speak Norwegian, that would be quite difficult for them to do tasks herealso. But we don’t mind if they speak English as long as we seehow they work and work ethics. We can recommend them to ourpartners if they have done an improvement.

Q: That’s great to hear!

GJ: Yes, even our partner shops are positive about the program!

Q: Nice! How many young people have you helped so far?

GJ: From the start, which is 2013 up to present, there have 300-500 youths and most of them are in jobs now.

Q: What was the reason why you started this program in 2013?

GJ: The commune saw in 2013 that a lot of young people inTrondheim were out of work especially this east side and the sentrum.

Q: What do you think is the reason for that?

GJ: Well, especially here in Lademoen, there is a lot of low in

come family with low cost, traditional housing. This eastern parthas a lot of challenges.

Q: What is the turn out of youths that go back to school or geta job? What is the percentage of getting work in the first year ascompared to others?

GJ: The turn-out usually is around 10-15 every day get jobs orgo back to school before their 6th month. There were about 50%of youths under us get jobs during the first year of the programwhile around 30-40% get jobs in the recent years. And most ofthese who had difficulty have some health issues that are medically certified.

Q: Does this figure affect the unemployment statistics?

GJ: Not so, because here in Norway, the statistics measure thosewith health issues out of job in a different data than those whohave without health issues. The statistics for those healthy peoplewithout jobs is quite low.

Q: What about those over 25 like us? Does NAV also have the same program or different?

GJ: For those over 25, we have individual trainings. Some ofthem who go to NAV have health issues why they can’t work.For normal students like you, we depend mostly on norsk fluency than what you can do because at NAV office, when you sitopposite us, we hardly know you unlike if you are in a house likethis, we are able to know you better, but unfortunately this is for18-25 years only.

Q: Too bad! What about if there are issues of rebellion amongthese young people?

GJ: Usually from our perspective, those that rebel only wantsomething normal. They rebel maybe because they could not experience what a normal life which is about having a job feels like.So, when they get a job, rebellion normally stops. They are mostlikely to stay in one job longer than those who are not rebels.

Q: I see. That’s a good perspective! But why do this kind of thinghappens, like young people drop out of school, become problematic?

GJ: That’s part to blame to the Norwegian school system. The system doesn’t adjust to the students’ needs. They have some workor tasks that are quite difficult to be grasped by those childrenwho are victims of abuse, drugs in the family or friends whichresult into having psychological issues and very low self-esteem.

Q: That’s quite something new. Coming from the Philippines,we can say Norway has the excellent education system! Anyway,what can you say about the increasing number of refugees in thearea or in Trondheim, in general?

GJ: Refugees are a big task on economic in terms of NAV. Thecommune takes a lot of refugees but do not give NAV financesto help those people who I see are so motivated to work becausethey have experienced difficulties in their respective countries.And all they want to do here is to work and help themselves forget about those bitter experiences.

Q: (After presenting our project) What can you say about ourproposed project?

GJ: You are able to catch this area because Lademoen has manydifferent kind of people who think differently with different approaches and the green aspect of plants and vegetables in yourproject is very good. It will be a meeting place and a good way toshowcase talents and sports of basse. There is always a big potential to do more in this part of Trondheim and your project is one

that anyone can participate in.

Q: Well, thank you so much! We would like to ask for the statistics of your program, if possible?

GJ: Of course, I give you my email address and write me. I willfind also the English presentation of our program.

Q: Alright. Have a nice day! Bye.

5. Name -Eirik Zahl Grocery seller (volunteer job) and heis tanslator (main job)

37 years old. Born in Trondheim in Singsaker neighborhoodwhich was a rich neighborhood not now anymore. And his parents have worked in NTNU. He moved to Svartlamon which he think it has a bad reputation because in the past (50 years ago) itwas black part of the city because there was no electricity thereand people call it Svart(black)lamon. Until 2000 there was nocafe or shops in Svartlamon just there was a bookshop. Findingpeople to volunteer jobs like this is difficult. The salary of hismain job is good enough so he has time to work in this groceryas a voluntreer.

Q: Do you have any refugee or migrant from other nationalityin your building?

EZ: In my building no but in neighbor yes we have. In Svartlamon you can see many different nationalities.

Q: Do you have interaction with them or they interact with you?

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EZ: t is not regular in the street but sometimes it can happen withyour neighbors. I live in buretslag building near the bus stop it isa kind of owning that you can buy the right of living there it is abit different, you cannot rent it like your private apartment thereare some restrictions and I have been living here from 2000 therent of this kind of building are so cheaper than normal prices Ipay 4000 NOK but it is not the rent it is for expenses and theymaintain the building for example now they are changing thewindows and there is some meeting and you can vote about thesemaintenance and also you can be a leader of people living there.And also I have to pay the electricity and cleaning washing thestairs.

Q: Do you know about Nihavna? Is it increase the price of houses here?

EZ: Yes, it is not only Nihavna also the railway they want tochange it to double track and this building and shop will be removed in future (next 10 years)

Q: Do the government consult people and ask them about thisnew project to get their idea?

EZ:Yes, they had some meetings and they invited people of svartlamon to this meeting to talk about new plans such as Nihavna ,new rail way and also dahls, but they did not say anything aboutthe hotel In meeting. Increasing of houses price in Svartlamon isa bit worrying because if the prices here will be same with other parts it is so difficult to stay here and most of the shops likethis would be disappear because of the rent price. With this newplans some houses would be removed (9 houses) because of security distance of train. About Innherredsveien, it is a test projectbut they think it is successful so they want to make it permanentand I like it and I think it is a great and fix the car noise problem.

Q: Where do you see yourself in next 10 years?

Still living here in lamon?

EZ: I don’t know,I don’t have a plan for next 5 years but I like toexperience the new life in other country to see knew people, culture and warm weather. Half of my friend are living in my neighborhood and rest of them are spread in other part of the city.

Q: What kind of social gathering normally you join here in Svartlamon?

EZ: We have different things, we have infocafe, sometimes concerts, different clubs like chess club and poker club bar.

Q: Do you think svartlamon has the highest percentage of refugees?

EZ: I don’t know exactly just I know people from different part ofthe world live here from African and Asian countries. And there are some difficulties for them at the beginning because they don’thave permission to work and they cannot do anything and it isnormal to maybe something happen like this disaster in Trondheim. I am against now policies of governments because it is sohard to accept people to come to Norway.

I am not sure that is more than rest of the country but I haveimpression that is more drug and drinking in Lamon and it isa tradition in Trondheim that lots of people make their alcohol(moonshine) and some people here make some problems afterdrinking a lot.

6.Name -Jan Olav Straume Styreleder of Lademoen velforening and bydelshus

Jan Olav Straume is the current styreleder of Lademoen velforening and bydelshus and has been in that position for 3.5 years already since the velforening’s establishment.

Q: What is the velforening for?

J.O.S.: The velforening is an organization here inLademoen that could speak to the politicians about planning inthe area. We are the voice in the area.

Q: Have you done the campaigning for the miljøgate?

J.O.S.: The mayor of the city was actually opposed about the ideawhen we were telling her about it because she has other plans.The idea of two-felt road was conceptualized several years agowhen the tunnels beneath us was finished. Even other politicianshave other plans for Innherredsveien and so, the capacity on thisroad did not change.We made the argument that without tunnels was not very goodfor the development of Lademoen. We had several experts intraffic and urban development who held lectures to the politicians about the positive effects of miljøgate, so we got their sideeventually. Now, we can cross the road safely with a 60-70% decrease in traffic here. It was a tough 18-month campaign startingaggressively with an open rally meeting at the Dokkhuset in Solsiden which was attended by a lot of people from Lademoen andin other parts of the city. Also, the local newspaper, Adressavisain taking both sides with interviews helped a lot in informationdissemination. In totality, it had been a success! And it was thefirst time in 14-15 years that the city council was defeated.

Q: That is very good! On another note, are there some issues inLademoen?

J.O.S.: You know, Lademoen is in the Eastern part of the city and

around it, there are new developments like Lilleby and Reinawhich is projected to have 6500 flats completed in 10 years butdue to faster developments, it will probably be completed in 4-5years only.

Q: What can you say about the gentrification that will happen inthe area with all the developments around?

J.O.S.: Of course, housing prices will go up but urban habitation is popular. But the quality of life in Norway in urban areais somehow neglected. Urban living is luxurious for some. Someelderly sell their units in suburbs to move to the city because lifeis more exciting here.

Q: What do you think will happen to these traditional houseswith this gentrification?

J.O.S.: We must be determined to keep the cheap housing in Lademoen. Aside from they are colourful, these houses are protected by law. Here in Norway, if houses are more than 100 yearsold, they can’t be touched, can only be refurbished or renovatedinside but the façade is off limits. Here in Trondheim, we haveprotected traditional houses that stretch from Lademoen to Møllenberg to Bakklandet.

Q: How many are those found here in Lademoen?

J.O.S.: We have 300 kommunal flats that are more than 100 yearsold, which were built at the start of 1910. There are social flats at Reina that are nowadays home for poor people, people addictedto alcohol, etc.

Q: What does velforening do for the poor people here in Lademoen?

J.O.S.: The velforening deals with the ongoing issues continuously to make lives better, atleast. These people are important partof this community because they make this multifaceted but toomuch of youth criminals is a big challenge. We even help thoseyouths not economically resourceful by providing them flats here in Lademoen. It is very important to have those 2 pillars in a community,urban living and urban quality of life.

Q: How many percentage move from Lademoen?

J.O.S.: Around 25% every year move away to a ‘better place’ butthey don’t realize thatLademoen is a better place.

Q: What do you say about all these developments in the areaaround Lademoen?

J.O.S.: It is very positive to build new residential buildings aroundthe area.

Q: What about the issue of Scandic hotel near Svartlamon?

J.O.S.: That is quite controversial, especially for Svartlamon people. They are sceptic about it. Trondheim is dubbed as a conference city and a big hotel like that would be a big help economically and to maintain that special mention. Svartlamon is quiteprogressive so it’squite challenging politically.

Q: What can you say about the increasing number of refugees inthe area?

J.O.S.: It is a good thing to have them here where diversity is celebrated. But they are the new ‘poverty’ of this community andmaybe the municipality placed them here because Lademoenhas always been a palce that poverty is home. The muslim immigrants havedifficulty in integrating because they don’t like the kind of society

here in Scandinavia where we value equality between men andwomen, and mostly of these immigrants’ wives just stay at homeand are not allowed to work by their husbands.

Q: What other programs help jobless in the community?

J.O.S.: We have NAV here in the daytime that rents Bydelshusand give jobs to youth misfits for several years now.

Q: What do you think of the idea of this community center project?

J.O.S.: I like the idea! In urban living, everything is a possibility.The innovation is a very niceidea especially the greenhouse. That is quite exciting especiallythat we are living in thegreen times now and urban farming isa new thing in Norway! In a few years now in Lilleby and Reinaand in Oslo has been doing that urban farming.

Q: Can the velforening help in looking for someone to managethe greenhouse, especially someone who has expertise in urbanfarming?

J.O.S.: Velforening can only initiate but we can’t do management.We are an initiator in the community and catalyst between politicians and residents.

Q: Is it possible to pitch the idea on the årsmøte on 17.october?

J.O.S.: The årsmøte will start at 1800 and its agenda is to elect newboard members andprobably you can talk with them after that.I have been the styreleder for 3,5 years and Ihave resigned fromthe post. The biggest issue that we will discuss on this meetingwith theurban planning office of the municipality is that plan ofa Scandic hotel here.

Q: What can you say about incorporating the game, basse that issynonymous to Lademoen to this project?

J.O.S.: Basse is very special to Trondheim. You know, one ofthe board members ofvelforening, Olav Sjelmo who is alsopart-owner of Mellomveien pub and Ramp in Svartlamon is oneof the organizers of basse

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Q: That is very good info as I have interviewed Hans AkselChoudhari of Mellomveien pub! I can ask them about our pro ject.

J.O.S.: Yes, the project could be a driver to offer an exciting urbanlife here in Lademoen.

Q: Can you introduce us to the NAV people that work here inBydelshus so we can interview them about jobbhuset?

J.O.S.: Of course, Klaus is downstairs and I can introduce you tohim. He is the manager of the jobbhuset.

C&C: Tusen takk for the time and for the interview!

7. Name -Øystein Løvli Borettslag leder of Ulstadløkkveien 5

Q: Thank you for this chance to interview you! May I begin by asking how many apartments in your building?

ØL: We have around 47 apartments.

Q: Are there any municipality owned in those 47 apartments?

ØL: Yes, there are about 4 of them.

Q: I see. How many years have you lived here in Lademoen?

ØL: About 12 years.

Q: How does a borettslag work?

ØL: Well, we collect a house rent per year between 4000 and 6000 kroners depending on the size of apartments.

Q: What are the usual size of the apartments in your building?

ØL: We have apartments that range from 38 sqm to 78 sqm. We have usually 2-rooms apartments and just 3 pcs of 3-rooms apartments.

Q: Where are borettslag payments spent mostly, fixing windows, balconies?

ØL: Well, fixing windows are not done regularly and for balco nies just a cover. Mostly, we spend them on insurance for inci dences like thieveries, fires, damages and such.

Q: How often are borettslag meetings? How many usually parit icipate? How do you inform them?

ØL: One time in a year. Normally, 10-15 people joins. And I send them informations before the scheduled meeting.

Q: What are the usual problems happening in the building?

ØL: Well, since we have many students, so it’s mostly noise espe cially if they don’t lower down their music even at the middle of the night. The rest are just small things because people are cozied living there.

Q: What are the usual occupants of the building?

ØL: We have various. There are 5 with families, many students, some singles, 5 retired people from 67 to 89 years old.

Q: How many floors does your building have?

ØL: There are 5 floors with basement and loft.

Q: Do you have a working elevator in the building?

ØL: Yes, we have elevator from basement to 5th floor.

Q: Do you have a parking area?

ØL: Yes at the basement. Half of it for storage and half for park ing.

Q: Do you have an accounting firm that manages your borettslag account?

ØL: Yes, TOBB.

Q: You mentioned earlier that there are apartments owned by the municipality? From where are the occupants of those?

ØL: They are Norsk, Turkish, French, Spanish.

Q: I see. Are there also refugees in your building?

ØL: Yes, we have two with their families.

Q: Can these refugees talk in norsk with you?

ØL: Yes, they can speak norsk. There is no problem in commu

nicating.

Q: Do the refugees complain about anything in the building?

ØL: No, not much.

Q: Is it ok to ask about your age and if you are single or married?

ØL: Yeah. I’m 43, single and gay.

Q: I see. Are there many gay people in Lademoen?

ØL: Hmm, yeah we are about 4.

Q: That is nice to hear! Gay people must be represented also in a community project that we think of.

ØL: I agree!

Q: When you decide to eat out, where do you mostly go?

ØL: Well, Ladejarlen is best! Also, I go to Solsiden or to the city sentrum. Sometimes, Burger King!

Q: What can you say about the miljøgate?

ØL: It’s very good, but of course I wish it becomes permanent not like this that looks so temporary so I can enjoy eating on the street especially if weather is nice. I like it because it decreased the traffic here, less noise and less dirt on the street.

Q: What can you say about our project which is a community center that will incorporate a greenhouse, basse, graffiti art wall, performance stage and a vertical wooden wall in Lade moen park?

ØL: That is very nice, especially the greenhouse and I like flowers and greens! These kinds of developments encourage people to visit more Lademoen and this can even become the new Grüner løkka in Oslo which is hippie, stylish and with nice street arts.

Q: What can you say about the gentrification that’s happening in the area due to developments around like in Lilleby and the plan in Nyhavna?

ØL: Well, of course it will cause an increase in property prices and I like it! It will encourage a high quality of living and lifestyle. It will discourage the increase of drug addicts and alcoholics in the area, which can then cause less criminality. With lower cost of apartments comes also a lower cost of living and the quality of urban living depreciates.

Q: How do you communicate or cooperate with other blocks ad jacent to yours?

ØL: Well, there is a block leader, nabolagetstyreleder. But we are in good terms, so no issues.

Q: Well, I think that is all. Thank you for the interview and for the cola. Are you attending the årsmøte at Bydelshus?

ØL: No problem. No, I don’t think I will attend because I have some work to do tonight.

Q: Work? What kind of work you do?

ØL: It is with regards to music.

Q: I see. Do you sing?

ØL: Yes, I do. I am a countertenor and so many others.

Q: Wow! That sounds like you sing at the Olavshallen.

ØL: No, not that kind of venues. Or maybe I had performed there before. I don’t remember.

Q: Haha ok. Well, I must head now to the årsmøte. And thank you. Ha det bra.

meetings that can last 2 or 5 or 10 hours depending on the com plexity.

Q: Then, what happens after that?

TG: Then, we gather all completed materials based on the sub mitted drawings of developers with our studies and revision-re quirements, if any. We make a report out of these which will show a project that fits the regulations, for example, if housing must consider sun shadows.Checking if everything is delivered like case plan with description, decisions, maps, reports.Then, we write a case for the politicians/legislators what we think about it whether good ornot so good, bring up environmental aspects or is it a good place to do the project or not.

8. Name -Trine Gjessen Department head of inner city of Trondhei including Lademoen at the Trondeim Urban Planning

Q: First of all, thank you for letting us interview you even you are so busy. Our main purpose for today’s interview is to know more about the procedure or processes at the urban planning office. How does a plan like that of Nyhavna get to be realized?

TG: Well, the Nyhavna project is not a private public partnership. But in usual projects, we have private investors first. Then the byplankontoret (urban planning office) takes over.

Q: How do you go about this?

TG: These private companies or developers must do an analysis of the community first, like good mobility connections and the kindergartens (usually if there are more than 200 people living there must be a kindergarten), and consideration of the regula tions. Usually, these private initiatives must consider what’s best for the people who live in an area, for the community and for the city as a whole. Here in Trondheim, we have flexibility in terms of private developers negotiating more and then if we agree, we do recommendations for the politicians.

Q: What’s the normal procedure, like is it bureaucratic?

TG: Well, a builder hires a consultant and then set up a meeting with the urban planning office. So, 2 people from urban plan ning office meet with the consultant and developer. But before that, we must take a look first at the proposal by their submit ted papers and forms. And then, we have a meeting first with the building permission office and municipality technical teams, these are like 18 people giving advices on what’s good for the youth and kids. Then, the second meeting is with experts such as Statens vegvesen, etc. that gives advice on transport, driving, biking, goods, delivery, renovation, availability, safety, buses, etc. Then we take all advices and one person compiling them all and evaluating which one would fit, weighing which among them is more important.

Then, we meet with the consultants and developers to discuss about revisions, redraws,etc based on the advices or maybe there could be no revisions.

Q: How many months usually this happen before a “start-up of project” meeting?

TG: Normally, a month before that. We conduct a long work

Q: Are you allowed to meet the legislators personally?

TG: No, we are not allowed. But the developers can lobby with them. Sometimes, politicians call us for advice.

Q: I see. What about for small houses or buildings? Do they go through the same long, tedious procedure, it must be very hard for small developers or builders?

TG: Buildings with 4-5 flats only must just apply for the regula tion. If it’s their first time, there will be hearings from public sectors such as Statens veg vesen (Norwegian Public Roads Authority), BANE Nor (for trains), and/or fylke (provincial). The SVV and fylke can say about the noise and must give advice to politicians for decisions. So, it’s a little bit short.

Q: And how long does this whole procedure last before the final decision has been made?

TG: At a rate from 1 to 3 years. That’s the average.

Q: Quite rigid. How about the case of Svartlamon? Are they fol lowing the same regulations as others?

TG: Svartlamon is a special case. You know that house painted by 2 famous artists both named Håkon? That was the start of it pro tecting the community because of an art work of national artists.

Q: Yeah, yeah I heard. We even visited Svartlamon at the begin ning of the semester and learned about it.

TG: In Svartlamon, building their houses do not meet TEK17 which talks about energy efficiency requirement of new build ings to meet A or B. Those are old buildings with verysignificant cultural importance with the municipality owning them and rented out cheaply.What they only comply is the fire regulation and that is no compromise on that whether oldor new buildings in Norway. Svartlamon is also an area where most drug addicts find theirshelter and they are taken care of because that area has a lot of tolerance for this kind ofpeople. And the nice thing about there is the alive “dugnad” culture where they mustcontribute working voluntarily for 10 hours.

Q: Yeah, cool place.

TG: Yes, I think that is quite unique in Norway and only in

Trondheim. Nothing like that can be found in other parts of Norway.

Q: Interesting. How about the kommunal housing in Lademoen, do you have any idea where can we get such information?

TG: The byggesakskontoret (Building permission office) can give you more of that info. They are just found over there (points at an office with a group of people with computers). You can talk to their reception about the info you need and she will refer you to the right person.

Q: Thank you for that. What about the person in charge for parks or open spaces at your office? Because if we would like to pitch in our idea, we would be needing some advice.

TG: Yeah, her name is Nadja Sahbegovic in my office. She knows all about parks, open spaces in the city. You can email her and cc me. Check also this Rabarbra park at Bakklandet where there are some temporary facilities for children that you can inspiration from. But now, I have to go. I am meeting someone outside.

Q: Ok, will do. Thank you so much for the time and all the info. TG: You are welcome. You can also walk around this area to check some projects and the model of Trondheim.

Q: Sure. That is great! Bye.

9. Name -Karl SellgrenKirkens Bymisjons Nattraven.

Nattraven is a voluntary work that the Kirkens Bymisjon handlesby helping drunk young ladies that seem to be lost or confusedon the streets. To be able to facilitate them going home safely isthe aim of this program, providing them with warm blankets.

Q: Thank you for this chance to interview you. I would like tobegin by asking what is the nature of work of nattraven?

KS: We organize a group of adult, trustworthy people wearinga nattravn jacket with our logo that roam around the midtownTrondheim from 2230H to 0300H. We normally help confusedyoung ladies due to drunkenness. We provide them warm blankets if they had left their jackets inside the pubs or bars. Andfacilitate that they are able to go home safely and not be takenadvantage by some other guys offering them a safe companyhome. It is very important that they see our logo and that theycan trust us. We are like the parents that they don’t have here inTrondheim.

Q: Which nights you normally operate?

KS: We normally operate on Friday and Saturday nights to takecare of drunk students. Some of them puke.

Q: Why is this kind of operation?

KS: Well, there are many young girls who are being taken advantage and raped every year because they were left behind by theirfriends and so vulnerable.

Q: Do you walk them home or put them to a bus stop?

KS: Yes, we walk them home if they live in the city. But if they liveoutside, we walk them to the bus stops.

Q: I see. Why do this kind of thing happens?

KS: Well, this usually happens for first time drinkers who don’twant to be embarrassed in front of their friends. So they go outof the pubs/bars to get some fresh air leaving behind their housekeys, jackets, or wallets. They become cold with their thin clothesand we are there to provide a warm blanket.

Q: Where are other nattravens walk around aside from the mid town?

KS: There are also nattravens in the suburbs to help teenagersbut nowadays maybe because of technology, kids do not go outany more like before. They mostly stay at home. This is good fortheir personal safety but bad for their socio-psychological issues.Some commit suicides, some are victims of online harassments nowadays. So, there are less nattravens now in suburbs and mostly concentrated here in midtown, but in seasons like spring, wesupport the suburbs with nattravens, otherwise the parents aretheir “nattravens”. But we have an ongoing operation of nattravens at Rosenborg.

Q: When do you put limitations in your assistance?

KS: Well, we don’t interfere if it involves violence and other crimes. The police are the proper authority to deal with those.We are the ones whoshould call the police when such incidenceshappen.

Q: When did this kind of service started?

KS: In 1990, it started in Oslo and had been successful and ex panded in the whole Norway. It helps when they don’t see us asauthorities but like “parents” to them, give them comfort and atthe same time report to police if there is something wrong. Wedon’t judge them, we respect and value them, these are youngpeople who can’t manage due to drug abuse, no support at homeor from friends. We are nattravens that they can look up to whenthey are needing some help when they are intoxicated.

Q: Why do you think young girls engage in alcohol abuse orsuch?

KS: Norwegian way of drinking is to abuse in weekends. Youknow earlier there were 140 women who went to the police whoreported they were raped, 50% of these were 24 years old andhave 1,9 alcohol level in their blood and most of them are vul nerable, lonely, and not happy with their lives, some are genetic, and somehave that perception that it’s ok to get drunk in theNorwegian society.

Q: This happens even Norway control the sale of alcohol.

KS: In last part of the 19th century, alcohol ingredients becameless expensive like potatoes in making spirits, but Vinmonopoletcontrolled alcohol sales in 1980s. So, in between those years,there have been a lot of drunkards in Norway.

Q: Do you have some refugees that have gone through drinkingproblem and had to help?

KS: Well, not recently. Maybe expensive for them just like forother foreign students.

Q: Do you also have refugee volunteers as nattravens?

KS: Well, INN of Trondheim municipality is in contact with usto provide jobs for the refugees since these people receive moneyfrom them.

Q: I see. Does Kirkens Bymisjon work separately from the municipality and the police?

KS: We only cooperate with them on issues that we should notinterfere.

Q: Ok. Do you have statistics of the work you do in Trondheim?

KS: Yes, you can find it on our website at www.kirkensbymisjon.no and look for Trondheim and Årsmelding.

Q: Alright. Thank you for the interview and maybe I can join asone of the nattravens since I am not a drinker.

KS: Of course, you can fill up the form. I can open it up for youin my computer and fill it out.

Q: Great! Then I join this Friday evening at 2230!

KS: Yes, that would be great! And you will get a free pizza meal atEgon Søndregate and a night bus card.

Q: Cool, that’s nice. But I live close to Nidaros domen so probably not needed the night busticket. But thank you. See you.

area?

Aksel: Gentrification is good, of course but if this will take away the kommunal housing due to non-maintenance and of course, costs will be higher, this will take away the historical values and even I, write on the historielag of Lademoen, that would be bad. Even in the area where Dahls bryggeri is, there will be apartment buildings that will be built there. I think the historical buildings should be maintained including the artisitic house just opposite the Lademoen church which helped restore it when it got burned. In addition, in 15 years time of course this area will change but now, still we are close to the city and yet we have low cost of apartments. I sold mine before for 3,6million krones.

Q: What about the refugees in the area, what are your views about them?

Aksel: Of course, I understand the refugees. I worked in kirkens bymisjon 8 years ago and worked with several refugees. They live in asylmottak and even in the apartments here with some others or their families in very small rooms for them. Some of them after how many years move back to their home countries or leave Trondheim.

10.Name -Hans Aksel Choudhari Owner of the Mellomveien bar

Q: First of all, I would like to thank you for letting me interview about Lademoen. We are master students of Urban Ecological Planning, and our program is mainly focusing on informalities and so, 21 out us 27 students are in India now, but 6 are in Trond heim and the faculty decided that our study area is Lademoen. And sorry for a bit late. Aksel: Oh it’s ok. No problem.

Q:Thanks. My first question would have to be about what do you think is the best or worst about Lademoen.

Aksel: You know, Lademoen has always been a working-class area since industrialization came and because of that, the area is somehow diversed especially now we have higher percentage of immigrants in the city. The bad thing is that if gentrification persists, the kommunal housing will be gone which house mostly the immigrants. Nice is that there is Lilleby skolewhere anyone can borrow some equipments. I think that there should be more focus on people living in the area with communal activities and create opportunities. Also, for youth, there should be some plac es for music and art since most of the people here are artists and musicians. Even the church sometimes hold concerts for the mu sicians in the area. We have no football team connected to the area. And the miljøgate Innherredsveien is totally acceptable for us because it somehow lessened the traffic and became safe for our kids.

Q: Hong long have you lived in Lademoen?

Aksel: I used to live here on Mellomveien for 5 years before I sold our apartment and moved to Lade alle but I always stay here since of my bar, Mellomveien along the same street name.

Q: What do you say about gentrification, especially that there is a plan for Nyhavna and this will affect the housing prices in the

Q:Where do you see yourself 5 or 10 years from now?

Aksel: I would really like Lademoen’s diversity. I even organize the yearly bassa competition in the area and my 2 kids go to Svartlamon barnehage. We have many friends in the area, like the owner of Taquero. We are somehow interlinked in the area, so I would really see myself living here for, maybe 20 years more.

Q:How is business, by the way? How long have you been oper ating?

Aksel: Business is good. We have been here on Mellomveien for 5,5 years now. We normally have customers in their 30s who come from the East side of the city (e.g. Lade). This is a sports bar and something closer for them than going to the city.

Q:Are there customers from Lademoen?

Aksel: Well, since Lademoen is a low-income neighbourhood of Trondheim, I do not see those who are in their 30s here in my bar, probably I see some Lademoen people here who are in their 50s or more.

Q: You know, when we first walked around here in Lademoen, we got the impression that the area is not so welcoming, what can you say about this?

Aksel: I totally disagree because we, who live here know each other and we are somehow welcoming in our ways and help each other.

Q: Yeah, I believe that’s true because we set up a GRATIS KAFFE at the corner of the park and Mellomveien, at least 7 people ap proached us and have a chat.

Aksel: That’s typical of the people who live here when we see oth ers contribute and participate, we are very welcoming and easy to talk to.

Q:I’m intrigued about basse because I saw in the pictures where

you have circles and kick a ball-like thing for passing, how do people participate, and what are the mechanics?

Aksel: I have a basse here. It’s a group of rubber strips of used bicycle tires put together to form a ball. You can keep it.

Q: Thanks. We have something similar in the Philippines where we use rubber bands tied together to form a ball and we kick it several times into the air and whoever drops it is out of the game. We also have this ball made from coconut figs with some holes and play between two teams with 3 members each and pass the ball through kicking over the net.

Aksel: Yes, I know. I have seen it also.

Q:Very impressive that you know about Filipino sipa which is local for kick.

Aksel: Well, basse is played by 6 people inside the circles which are arranged as one circle in the middle and 5 others around it. The mechanics is found in our website, www.basse.no. The game has no referee and anybody can join. This year we had 62 players while last year there was 90. We award trophies to winners. We also have it played around the schools because it promotes also honesty/integrity. There were even players from Mo I Rana. This isa game that most people in Trondheim can relate to although Lademoen people can be able to relate mostly since this is the home for basse.

Q: Do you have any plans of inviting international players?

Aksel: Well, I guess people from all over the world have the same kind of game but calls it differently even in the slums of Brazil because it is free and fun. If to make it international, it would be difficult to do. Even, here in Trondheim during the Martnan we tried putting some circles there and played but were removed after a few days.

Q: I think this is it. I would like to thank you again for the inter view and this will be very useful in our studies. One last question, if ever we need to do a follow up interview in the next weeks or months, or if we need your expertise on basse, can we contact you again?

Aksel: Definitely, I would be glad to help!

11.Name -Nazif Owner of Ladejarlen

He was so gracious enough to show me around his café and res taurant where he has some personally-designed art works and some photographs on the walls by some local talented price-win ning photographers. He’s ‘brutally’ honest as they say and he’s a livsnyter, enjoying life as it is but with a truly big heart. Miljøgate

Q: I will start with my 1st question regarding miljøgate. What can you say about this project?

Nasif: I like this 2-way road along Innherredsveien but it looks temporary even after 2 years of implementation and the munici

pality has decided that it is not a trial project anymore. I just hope they finish with the last touches to make it more permanent.

Q: Have you been involved with the miljøgate project since your business is just along Innherredsveien? How was the campaign to get people participation?

Nasif: You know, I even campaigned about it together with the Velforening and the La’mon residents to the municipality which took us more than 5 years before they finally decided 2 years ago to push through with the trial first and now, a permanent one. It was a very difficult process! The municipality people thought we had zero idea about miljøgate consequences which they were so wrong! We told them there is already a tunnel with 4 lanes, so why do they need this road to be 4 way also. These politi cians must be crazy to open a multi-million tunnel project and still, open this road. I am also against unnecessary things, we must use our resources with knowledge, balance and control in a smart and interactive way. The politicians in the municipality was saying that the sentrum is dying because of miljøgate but the malls are out of the city anyway and they have free parking zones. There are netshopping nowadays where most people get hold of this most dangerous weapon tearing apart our community, these mobile phones.

Q: How long has the café and restaurant been running?

Nasif: Almost 3 years.

Q: Are you a resident of Lademoen?

Nasif: No, but I spend mostly my time and effort here in Ladejar len. I live in the neighbourhood close to Lademoen.

Q: Why Lademoen?

Nasif: Because it was important that someone should start revi talize of a dying residential area back to the good old days. This is the area in all Scandinavia has most knowledge and creativity! We chose to be that idiot!

Q: What kind of vegetables do you normally use or have in your menu?

Nasif: Varies mostly, those that are typically available in the mar ket. Sometimes, local vegetables, but we also use exotic vegeta bles like Asian, Turkish, Mexican, etc.

Q: Where do you normally source them?

Nasif: We normally get them from local farmers but mostly from Frosta or from other Import-export vegetable companies. Any where as long as they are available here.

Q: How often do you get vegetables from your source/s, daily, weekly, monthly?

Nasif: Twice in a week, more if necessary.

Q: How long do these vegetables last before expiration?

Nasif: Depends on the vegetables. Fresh ones 2x a week, others like celery, root crops stay longer.

Q: What do you do with those vegetables after they expire?

Nasif: Make stock, some can stay for a few more days after the

prescribed expiration. We normally store them in a cooler here.

Q: What do you think of an idea of giving income-generating activities to some homeless people in Lademoen by letting them supply your restaurant with your vegetable demand either par tially or fully? Have you done the same before or considering to do it with some other vegetable growers in the area or city?

Nasif: To be honest, I don’t believe there are homeless people. These people who rely on social benefits are even physically stronger and mentally capable than anyone else. Why don’t they find a job and work and contribute to the economy and socie ty rather than bumming around? They would rather get money, they take advantage of the weak system here in Norway. These social clients do it because they are unhappy because they want more. And so, they do not work instead just waiting for mon ey from NAV or any government/social institution. I can’t go to NAV myself because I don’t have the face for that. I’d rather work and earn money and so these social clients should do also.I have not done the same and since as you can see I grow my own spices and some vegetables like tomato, basil, etc. I believe in the power of soil.I don’t like capitalism and communism, I am more of an idealist. I work hard to get something and only perfect is good enough for me. I also like to enjoy life, I am those what you call in Norwegian as livsnyter (enjoying life). If you tell your brain to do everything, then you can do everything, but some people do not care and give a shit about life.

Q: What do you think of the idea of the project in Lademoen at the park? What can you say about workability of this kind of pro ject here in Lademoen just like what has been done in Credo and in Svalbard). What can you suggest to make it better?

Nasif: We are not like Credo who are too crazy about publishing it in media of what they do. We grow our own vegetables here in the restaurant and we don’t need that hype to do that. We don’t like, especially those wannabe’s, people pretending of something that they’re not. In Norwegian society, there is what you call jan teloven.

From my heart, I think that project you showed me is very Utop ic. It’s like kindergarten where you can teach kids what they should do, just good for wannabe’s who like to see something nice in the park and something to say they do while they can grow their own vegetables inside their houses rather than having that. But it’s a good idea to encourage social entrepreneurship and responsibility in the community. I am more bio-dynamic, organic so I would like something more than this. Of course, we need urban cultivators, cheaper solutions because economy is very important. This project can be done even without back up capital or social back up. This project is also nice but should not only be done in Lademoen park but in other parks as well, such as Strandveien park, and parks in the city. We need a farmers’ park, every park not only here in La’mon that can be organized by velforenings. Do you know about tilrettelagt? It’s a Norwegian concept that has been adopted to a park in Tiller where there is an outer baker oven.

Q: What about the idea of preserving old, dilapidated buildings to put up a greenhouse or urban farm?

Nasif: It can be a good idea if you could find someone who would

let their property to be used for this project. Basements can be used to grow mushrooms. But that must also be controlled be cause maybe some smart guys if given the chance might plant something different there. There must be a control mechanism in place which is very important in this kind. A cooperative must run it that will have the responsibility and control. Urban culti vating houses must be done in every part of the city.

12.Name- Gøril Lademoen kindergarten

Gøril Five is the leader of Lademoen barnehage who has been in that position since 1986. She is the 10th leader since the incep tion of the kindergarten in 1893. The kindergarten is one of the oldest in Norway. It was basically a kindergarten used by people working in Lademoen industries before.

Q: Hi, thank you for this opportunity to let me interview you for our school project. My first question is how is it being a leader of a kindergarten here in Lademoen?

GF: It’s a good combination because I can work as an adminis tration leader and at the same time I can join the kids in their ac tivities. It is nice working in an exciting area with various mix of people. Some of these are people who can’t pay for their houses, alcoholics, drug addicts, and this area is very popular for young people to live because it’s cheap and there are a lot of refugees also in the area.

Q: Is this a public or private kindergarten?

GF: Private.

Q: You have children from refugee families, is that right?

GF: Yes, we have 25 children which is from mostly Somalia and Eritrea out of 60 children.

Q: How are they like?

GF: They are a little bit shy, wondering what to expect from them or from us.

Q: How do you deal with communication?

GF: Well, some of them are not adept to Norwegian language, so we sometimes use body language or pictures/symbols to ex plain for example that they must buy the proper winter clothes for their children. Some women in their cultures do not go to work or not even go out to learn a language, so it’s very difficult in communicating with them.

Q: How are they with other parents from Norway?

GF: Well, I’m glad that they are all in good terms and meeting outside of the kindergarten. Sometimes, I hear Norwegian par ents inviting Eritrean families for a gathering and vice versa. This is a good place where all nationalities get to interact and coop erate.

Q: What is very important in the kindergarten?

GF: It is very vital that they speak Norwegian especially here in

the kindergarten. Because at this age, children can easily pick up new languages. Also, they must know the proper behaviour in the society and the kindergarten teaches the basics of that.

Q: How old is the age range in the kindergarten?

GF: It’s from 1 year to 6 years. When they reach 6 years old, they have to go to school.

Q: I see. What are the usual activities in Lademoen barnehage?

GF: Well, mostly playing both inside and outside but mostly, out side. As we have to properly introduce to the kids the Norwegian culture of enjoying outdoors no matter what the weather is. We also have singing, art, painting.

Q: What do the foreign parents think of this kind of culture?

GF: They are mostly worried because when it’s raining or snow ing and cold outside, they’d prefer that their children stay in doors because they might get sick. But we encourage really that they must enjoy the outdoors. Also, some parents from other countries know kindergartens like a school. And of course, we are not like a school that have lessons, the Norwegian system for kindergarten is to let them play outside and enjoy being a child.

Q: Yeah, that is actually true because when I was a kindergarten myself I had to learn how to count, sing ABCs, and many more. Geir Johnsen of NAV mentioned that the Norwegian education system has to be blamed for some drop outs because there are some kinds who can’t cope to the rest of the class and they don’t have the kind of learning ability like other children. What can you say to this?

GF: Well, it could be true because everyone has to go through the same so it’s quite not good. Maybe a boy who wants to be a carpenter doesn’t have to sit in class to learn about history for 10 hours. It’s quite unnecessary for him.

Q: Do you have any other activity in your kindergarten other than the ones you mentioned? Because I see some kids on the street with their teachers walking and crossing the streets.

GF: Yes, as a matter of fact later today we have a group going to walk to Lade.

Q: Were you a child psychologist or educated as a kindergarten teacher?

GF: Yes, Bachelor in kindergarten teaching.

Q: Do children get food in the kindergarten also during the day?

GF: Yes, we have. We give them porridge for breakfast, bread slic es in the middle of the day and fruits for the rest of the day but it’s not the same in all kindergartens. It’s better that all children here get the same food.

Q: As a private kindergarten, how do you get fundings for all your activities and food?

GF: From the parents. They have to pay 3000 kr a month as a tuition and then 350 kr a month for the food.

Q: How about if parents cannot afford the tuition fee?

GF: If parents cannot afford, the Trondheim commune can pay for the rest. They just have to apply there. And in Norway, mostly 98% of children are subsidized by the government.

Q: Very generous state! Does the Trondheim municipality also visit here and conducts inspections and how often?

GF: Well, yes. They come every 2 years and they normally check our plans and activities if conforming to the Norwegian Educa tion ministry’s regulations. We have this book called “Ramme plan for barnehagen” which is the regulations for kindergartens.

Q: We have this project here in Lademoen where we involve the community, all stakeholders. And involving the kids to express their creativity would be a good opportunity. We have this graffiti art wall that we will include in the project aside from a green house, performance stage, basse courts, and wooden vertical wall representing the past and present personalities of Lademoen. And can we ask the kids one time to participate in art expression when this project will be realized?

GF: That’s a good venue and opportunity to meet people in the community. The greenhouse would be something special espe cially there are green fields in Svartlamon and people can take vegetables from there just like our kindergarten is open for fam ilies in the area to use for playing of their kids after school hours (3pm). We even go with the kids at Svarlamon and look at those grafittis on the walls and they love them! Of course, the kids can participate!

Q: Where do kids live?

GF: They are from Lademoen and the surrounding area of Møl lenberg where I live.

Q: I see. Are there some problems that you encounter in the kin dergarten, like for example sick children?

GF: Well, our most common is language because it creates some misunderstandings if they don’t understand us and vice versa. And yes, sometimes a sick child could be a big problem since parents do not understand that their child must stay at home and not in school if they are sick to avoid infecting others. But we understand them also that children do not want to be at home and would rather be in the kindergarten because it’s fun even when they are sick.

Q: How about the parents, are they satisfied with the kindergar ten?

GF: Yes, a lot of parents are satisfied because we communicate with them 2x in a day, both in the morning and afternoon.

Q: Are most teachers Norwegian or are there some who are cul turally the same with some of the children?

GF: No, they are mostly Norwegians. Some have foreign back grounds but Norwegians.

Q: I see. Have you known about this school in Trondheim for special children that is going to be closed? I have one teacher at NTNU who was so upset with this decision because her child has a hearing and speech defect, and believes that her child must be in a school for special children because it might create something

negative. Like for example, I saw one movie where it showed a child who was just in one corner because she could not hear or talk with the other children and it looked so sad because the child could not relate to inclusion. Is Lademoen barnehage ready for the influx of these special children?

GF: Yeah, the school in Møller is going to be closed down due to finance as Trondheim municipality says. And that is very un fortunate. Yes, we are ready for them. And we have to cooperate with other institutions in order to give them the best kindergar ten experience.

Q: That is nice to hear! Did you have some similar experience in the past?

GF: Yes, some years ago we had a girl with tsisma (couldn’t speak, hear or even look straight at you). We had one who looked af ter her needs and taking care of her. We got also money from the municipality to deal with children with special needs or with physical difficulties.

Q: Well, thank you for the time! I have learned about the kinder garten. And can I look around before I go? Also, if it is possible to observe the children how do they go about their activities and go with them in their walks?

GF: Of course, you are welcome! Just email me and we can ar range that!

Implementation of the project proposal: Management and Funding Streams

A. Short Term

● Features: Movable flower curtains / Art Wall

● Materials: Wood, recycled plastic bottles and pipes

● Labor: NAV Jobbhuset or Students or Residents

● Target Group: Children and families, Artists, Flower/Garden enthusiasts, Tourists

● Duration: 2 weeks to 1 month max. (Spring to Autumn)

● Budget: Approx. 10000 to 15000 krones

● Maintenance: Trondheim bydrift, NAV Jobbhuset, Church volunteers

B. Medium Term

● Seating Area with planter in front of platform

● Wood, Soil: 13600 krones

● Labor: Jobbhuset/Students/Residents

● Playground Installations

● Recycled materials like the Rabarbra park by ReMiDa (in cooperation with Pål Bøyesen)

● Musical playground for kids (xylophone) with installation cost: 20 000 krones;

● African drums with installation cost: 10 000 krones

● Materials: recycled rubber flooring

● Platform

● Wood with dimension 12m diameter; 113 sq.m. x278 kr per sq.m. = 31 400 krones

● Labor: Jobbhuset/Students/Residents for installations

● Duration: 1 month to 2 months (Spring to Autumn)

● Cost: 50 000 to 70 000 krones

● Target Groups: Major refugee groups in Lademoen (Eritreans, Somalis etc), children and families, artists, performers due to the combination of the installations in Short and Medium terms

C. Long Term

● Community Center in Phases

● Phase 1a: Seating area/Cafes

● Duration: 3-months installation

● Seats, sponsorship by Venstre company

● Lighting, Stand

● Phase 1b: Covered multi functional activity area

● Duration: 5 to 6 months

● Works: 1. Removal of existing fountain, excavation

2. Heating, lighting and water connections

3. Changing of plants in the planters to flowers

● Materials: Soil, Flowers, Glass windows (use recycled from Trondheim kommune supplies)

● Phase 2: Plastic bottle wall

● Duration: 2 weeks to 1 month

● Materials: Wood for frames, LED lights, metal poles for lighting, waste bins/baskets

● Materials: 1. The idea is to use recycled glass windows from Trondheim kommune just like what ReMida did in their office;

2. For cements, use fly ash mixed with Portland cement

● Cost: 150 000 to 200 000 krones from Trondheim kommune kulturråd (Arts & Culture), based from the idea shared by ReMiDa

● Duration: 3 months to 12 months (Spring to Autumns only)

● Target groups: same as in Midterm

● Maintenance: ReMiDa for playground; Trondheim bydrift for the outdoor facilities; NAV Jobbhuset for the indoor facilities