I have been struggeling to find an approach to how Forus will appear in the future. Alice gave me some reference projects about shrinking cities as inspiration. While looking through them I realized my intentions of choosing Forus may been unclear to you.
I see the shrinking city phenomenon more as an backdrop for my project, and not as "the project". On the countrary, my project is about finding a strategy on how to counter this phenomenon, and using Forus as the testing site. The shrinking cities projects I have been looking into deals with revitalization and reprogramming of abandoned industrial areas, and not areas which at current state are productive. Therefore I feel another approach is needed.
I am still holding on to my cards and my networks of knowledge. In the transition from the fossil economy I have to define what kind of new input Forus needs, and if they can be connected to the already existing industry. The newcomers will be the fresh impulses and the current actors at Forus can become mentors. I found a interesting project by OMA adding various functions and public programs to a metro line. This can be tested out along the JærMetro track passing Forus.
The main challenge for me now is how to deal with the landscape in this situation. Input would have been nice.
Kemppe
hey Kemppe
ReplyDeleteI like this phrase of yours:
"The newcomers will be the fresh impulses and the current actors at Forus can become mentors".
The diagrams (circles and firms) of research and know-how you showed at your former presentation, shows that there excists capasities in a wide field of competences in Stavanger. It is their Point of Departure, in your thinking. As opposed to shrinking cities your reading of "the third city", the next step, is based on the possibility that these forces can be combined in new ways and that they have the strenght and ability to do it. The footprints of the oil economy and their enormous boomas in Forus, is then opened for a symbiotic approach of constant remaking. The footprints are on the move so to speak. They will be archipelagos with a new connectivity, helped out by your Jæren Metro.
The moving out of institutions, capital and brains can be a fact to some extent. But there is a posibility of core units/current actors and practises that can enhance upon the state of art in the knowledge and research sector. It is wide, deep an with global connections(learned through 40 years of oil economy).
So may be your game board for the footprints/Forus is subtraction (what disappears) and additions and joint ventures with newcommers (that appears). When Vidar Lerøen is travelling the worlds with the Mayor of Stavanger, this way of thinking is in the back of his head. And; Stavanger has shown abilities to welcome and take care of its visting experts and competence. This possible invitational aspect in the footprints can then be the addition. That means invitation to competences that reformulate the landscape, competences that reformulate research, competences that reformulates more complex programs joined together at Forus etc. Competences that comes with a new approach to exploration of the seascape (ref Betsey), a boost in the film-industry etc. Additions that together is more than 1+1. The footprint itself regains its foothold by experimenting in systems of informational exchange. May be a kind of Light urbanism, with a look to the footsteps of oil economy as a new kind of biotopes. Where you introduce a set of smart strategies, and your concept is vizualising these changes. The metro is a scoop and in itself an invitational gesture. I will look up some comparative projects
Ps
ReplyDeleteCounterattack - the diagramatic drawing:
Kjerstin and I think your drawing is beatifully clear and a smart tool for the next move. At the exhibition Grand Paris - The New Paris (exhibition initiated by Zarkosy) one of the projects had an animated drawing and a modell that showed changed intensities in different districts, in time. Intensities, additions and subtractions is then some key words in your appearing footstep biotopes.
We will check out some projects. I am still recovering. Have you some more references?
Hei Kemppe
ReplyDeleteI am looking up a project/thesis from Abbalos and Herreros which the worked on from 1997-2002 in the magazine 2G, n.22.
Its titled A new naturalism (7 Micromanifestos).
and has seven headings:
1 Latent Garden/2 Areas of Impunity/3 Ecomonumantalism/4 World Material/5 Hybrid Technique, Mestiso Esthetic/6 A new Naturalism/
7 Final Note.
Look it up,its mostly texts, and it may give you some input to a strategy for the Forus to appear. A kind of line up of new possibilities. Even if you dont find it this terminology (7 points of departure) can inspire as strategy from your side, I think - keep in thouch.
Hei K
ReplyDeleteLook up Metrobosco and co in TOPOS 66/2009
(Stefano Boeri and co) on urban forrests for Milano - Forus as a place for new type of partisipation, may be. See also Mega-Urban open space page 74 in the same edition, and Detroit "Scale of Crisis - scale of intervention". You also have Shelby Farm /FO in the same edition
Hi, North Norway
ReplyDeleteThanks for the references. I will look into them.
Kemppe