Thursday 29 March 2012

Hidden Complexity of the Northern Landscape

Chasing Endorsement?

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

Scars and masses



Shaping the skin of the earth...

Cross-Border Stories in Kvalsund, Norway

China: The Next Station Is...Arctic!!

Opportunity out of Extreme

The Northern Mining Landscape --- Type/Transformation/Reuse

DRILL DRILL DRILL...



How far are we willing to go...?

Kiruna on the move

a refugee story in Northen Sweden

Cross- Border Mining

Stories of a lost freedom..

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

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10:30

Groupworks (4): The Big Picture

Mathilde Grellier (Møterom Urbanisme)

10:45

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11:00

Groupworks (6): The Perforated Landscape

Hao Liang

11:15

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11:30

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11:45

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12:00

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12:15

Xin Su

Kit Ting Karie Yu

12:30

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12:45

Ingrid Aas

Kari Sanne Havnevik

13:00

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13:15

Patrycja Perkiewicz

Irene Crowo Nielsen

13:30

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13:45

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14:00

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14:15

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14:30

Jingyuan Hu

Linn Riise Handal

14:45

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15:00

Francisco Rodríguez Saa

Hanne Johnsrud

15:15

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15:30

Annabel Danson

Sum-up

15:45

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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.

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.


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


Monday 12 March 2012

Inside Svalbard - A Necessity of Preserving Coal Mining Industry

THE MINING TAKING PLACE IN THE CITY & THE CITY RELOCATING FOR THE MINEING SO, WHAT IS THE NEXT?

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? 

Threat or Opportunities?

Exhausted Landscapes

From Mine-Lands with Love...

Beyond what we see

This is the first edition, which needs some modification.

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.


Scars and Masses



Scars and Masses

First Come First Served?



Let´s not turn this into another Gold Rush...

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.