Friday, 30 March 2012
Thursday, 29 March 2012
MINEOPOLIS
An informative game about the possible consequences of mining, the potential for changes in the regulations given by the state and a promotion of a different kind of value-system, where several considerations are taken into account at the same time.
Brief idea of the game
A community is faced with the prospect of having a mineral industry. Many communities and people don´t know what this entails, and the game takes you through a set of events that could, and most likely would, happen if a mine opens.
Additionally there are events governed by the state, indicating changes to the current regulations, that could change the way things work significantly for different interest groups.
The goal of the game is to find a way to manage the local society, the local resources, and the operational mine sustainably at the same time.
Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Tuesday, 27 March 2012
Final Critique Schedule
| Thursday 29.03. – Lille Auditorium | Thursday 30.03. – Store Auditorium | |
| 10:00 | Introduction by the teachers | Annisah Solihah (Møterom Urbanisme) |
| 10:15 | " | " |
| 10:30 | Groupworks (4): The Big Picture | Mathilde Grellier (Møterom Urbanisme) |
| 10:45 | " | " |
| 11:00 | Groupworks (6): The Perforated Landscape | Hao Liang |
| 11:15 | " | " |
| 11:30 | PAUSE | PAUSE |
| 11:45 | " | " |
| 12:00 | " | " |
| 12:15 | Xin Su | Kit Ting Karie Yu |
| 12:30 | " | " |
| 12:45 | Ingrid Aas | Kari Sanne Havnevik |
| 13:00 | " | " |
| 13:15 | Patrycja Perkiewicz | Irene Crowo Nielsen |
| 13:30 | " | " |
| 13:45 | PAUSE | PAUSE |
| 14:00 | " | " |
| 14:15 | " | " |
| 14:30 | Jingyuan Hu | Linn Riise Handal |
| 14:45 | " | " |
| 15:00 | Francisco Rodríguez Saa | Hanne Johnsrud |
| 15:15 | " | " |
| 15:30 | Annabel Danson | Sum-up |
| 15:45 | " | " |
| 16:00 | End | End |
Notice: Before each presentation, the students shall explain their choice of investigation and how it relates to the thematics of the course. Each group must choose one representative (due to the limited amount of time) to present the entire group work.
Monday, 26 March 2012
Final Critique with John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog 29th - 30th March
Final Critique will be in Lille Auditorium from 10:00 Thursday and in Store auditorium from 10:00 Friday. Lecturers are invited, external Critiques will be John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog,Territorial Agency.
Territorial Agency is an independent organization that promotes integrated spatial transformations. They are architects and urbanists and teach at the AA Architectural Association in London. Their research project North, which investigates the contemporary transformations of inhabited landscapes at the higher latitudes, was nominated for the Zumtobel prize for research and sustainable architecture in 2009.
Reflections should be posted on the blog Wednesday afternoon with the label "reflections" and your names.
Before/during Friday you must give us all your submissions on pdf's and your Indesign packages (with image files) on a memory stick which we can copy to the archive. This is material from the whole course for the book.
Territorial Agency is an independent organization that promotes integrated spatial transformations. They are architects and urbanists and teach at the AA Architectural Association in London. Their research project North, which investigates the contemporary transformations of inhabited landscapes at the higher latitudes, was nominated for the Zumtobel prize for research and sustainable architecture in 2009.
Reflections should be posted on the blog Wednesday afternoon with the label "reflections" and your names.
Before/during Friday you must give us all your submissions on pdf's and your Indesign packages (with image files) on a memory stick which we can copy to the archive. This is material from the whole course for the book.
Sunday, 25 March 2012
Our studio was presented in lecture for the Mining Industry
On thursday the 22. of March Espen and Knut Eirik gave the opening lecture at the general assembly of Norsk Bergindustri (The association of the Mining Industry). They presented the way into such a master studio, and where the concept came from. Through examples of the students work in the three first themes the Big Picture, the Perforated Landscape and the Multilayered Landscape they guided the crowded audience through the works, ideas and explorations. They presented the double layer of our studio, the twenty lecturers who we have been in so many discussion with, related to the students works. And the portrayed the headlines of the works each student now is deeply into, the Reflections. The National Labour Organisation (Ellen Stensrud) and the Norwegian Industry (Knut Sunde) discussed the role of the mining industry after the lecture. The former one especially related to the upcoming National Mining Strategy.
Hanne Markussen Eek, the head of the board gave a public appraisal for our lecture and our studio works. Our studio is in this way located in the national discourse in this Field of Exploration. The images from this 30 minutes lecture you can see here.
Hanne Markussen Eek, the head of the board gave a public appraisal for our lecture and our studio works. Our studio is in this way located in the national discourse in this Field of Exploration. The images from this 30 minutes lecture you can see here.
Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Sunday, 18 March 2012
Lecture with Hadi Lile
Hadi Lile is giving us a lecture on human rights and indigenous rights with a focus on the Sami people Wednesday 21th 10:00 at group room 4-5. In 2011 Hadi took a PhD on ”The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child Article 29 (1) on the Purpose of Education: Sociology of Law Study on What Children in Norway Learn About The Sámi People.” He has earlier worked at Gáldu - Resource Centre for the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
and he has recently written these chronicles: det norske folks samer and Hvitvasket historieundervisning
and he has recently written these chronicles: det norske folks samer and Hvitvasket historieundervisning
Thursday, 15 March 2012
Lectures by Ron Boyd
Geologist Ron Boyd of NGU (Geological Survey of Norway) gave two lectures on March 15th:
-The EU Raw Materials Initiative – seen from Norway
-Mineral resources in North Norway
-The EU Raw Materials Initiative – seen from Norway
-Mineral resources in North Norway
Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Tuesday, 13 March 2012
Monday, 12 March 2012
Where is Kvalsund heading?
Where is Kvalsund heading?
Speculations about the resources and the future of the municipality.
The environmental risks of mining in Finnmark
Open publication - Free publishing - More mining
There is a
growing recognition within the mining sector that the right to free, prior and
informed consent is needed in order to improve the relationship with indigenous
people, in this case the Sami ethnic group. Letters of intent have been made,
but do they secure the indigenous people of Finnmarksvidda’s interests? But what
happens with the nature and environment which constitute the livelihood of the
reindeer herders? Why has not any agreements been made that deal with
protecting these fragile areas?
Sunday, 11 March 2012
The Kiruna paradox
Moving Kiruna is not about moving the houses. Instead of “refugee relocation”, regeneration of ecosystem and social landscape should be considered.
Manifestations from the Sub Surface - on the destiny and effect of two lakes in the heart of Kiruna
The mining process in Kiruna is gradually transforming the landscape; deforming it, cracking and fracturing it; making visual manifestations on the surface of the landscape and telling a slow story of what is going on underneath the ground. Yet, there is more going on underneath the surface, than meets the eye, or indeed the ear; Some of us have heard of the slow draining of the lake of Luossajärvi, transforming it gradually into a bog. Fewer have heard of “the pit” in Malmberget/Gallivare, that is a 50-year-old manifestation of what will take place at an even larger scale in Kiruna in the near future; gradually deforming ground, following the rules of gravity as holes are made further and deeper in the ground than could once be imagined. Only very few of us have heard the story of what is hidden conveniently underneath the surface of two lakes, strategically placed at the centre of the Kiruna-community, as we know it today.
Monday, 5 March 2012
Kirkenes Next!
As you type your way through the multi-layered landscape, the study trip draws closer. As you know, we are visiting the town of Kirkenes, a place where mining is embedded in the landscape and the soul of the town. We will visit curators Pikene på broen, the mine in Bjørnevatn, talk to the mining director Harald Martinsen, visit the Barents Secretariat, talk to Thomas Nilsen in the Barents Observer and study and document the town and its surroundings. Bring some warm clothes, cameras and notebooks.Program is posted on the calendar, more to come..
Bente Aasjord: Landscape management. For whome?
Bente Aasjord is special advisor at Fellesforbundet, she talked to us about peoples, economies and societies in the North.
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