"Invaders of the invisible landscape" is my little update to the "charging the landscape with new energy" part of our course. I made this pdf because I have my midcrit tomorrow, and I wanted to share my new information and thoughts about Kviamarka (my area of focus).
The last drawing is great... Curious to know when I'm going to start seeing some actual design hit the ground?
ReplyDeleteHei Henriette!
ReplyDeleteThis looks very promising, I am looking forward to hear your presentation! Don't forget to bring your first presentation for midcrit also, would be nice to go though all your process to give you the max feedback!
Talk tomorrow!
Alice
Dear Henriette
ReplyDeleteYou are on a really interesting track. The new industries is reshaping Jæren, making a new cartogrophy of Jæren as large scale production units. Your intruders may oppose, change and transform this ecological threatening cartography, by meeting it with a cartography of another type. You are then disturbing this new industrial model of Jæren, challenging it with some resistance, that can give at least two types of cartographies of Jæren, in conflict, on the same site, place and field.
This you can call DISTURBED MAPPING that corrects changes and transform the industrialisation of landscapes,and demands that they are viewed in a new way, as systems that give someting to the ecoligical status of the appearing Jæren. In a way your concept/project could be a pattern of such invaders, landscapes that perform other tasks than only exhausting Jæren to its last breath. I will be there on Thursday and Friday next week. Alice will talk more about this with you today. Charge the landscape with your invaders, and May the Force be with you. See also Simonas discoveries of the invisble or hidden new structures of Jæren, it relates to your discoveries. Nice that Kelly also likes your graphics, isnt it?
Hei Henriette
ReplyDeleteHere is part of our text(Kjerstin, KED) in OnSite on Disturbed Mapping, it goes on the impotrtance of the dynamics of small cultures (your intruders)of knowledge that can change directions an map the world a new:
"The large international oil companies execute advanced mappings of the ocean areas of the north, now also underneath the mass of melting ice.
This is an offensive mapping, done with advanced technical equipment. Several types of criticisms are voiced against this activity, from the mere fact that it takes place, to where it is happening and to how great an extent.
The foreground, if we so choose to call it, is dominated by aggressive mapping and exploitation of resources, which in no way are balanced by research on the development of alternative sources of energy and marine resources.
When the Russians reveals images of a mini-submarine under the ice at the North Pole planting their flag there, this is a sign that the seascape and the seabed face an international re-mapping. The revelation of new fossil resources is the main driving force. In May 2008 the foreign ministers of the Arctic coastal states met at Greenland to discuss new international agreements for the ocean areas. Ocean areas interpreted in the light of the ice melting – that this is a truth without modifications.
The Norwegian Government has as its goal to formulate a revision of an “Integrated Management Plan” for the Barents Sea. A management forum (led by the Norwegian Polar Institute in Tromsø), a supervisor group and a risk group consisting of researchers from a range of institutions are attempting to explore the entire eco-system, as an input to a global political vision of the future of the Barents Sea.
The current state of affairs when it comes to the environmental risks is that these research groups are struggling to find ways to minimize the risk factors in the Barents Sea. This is substantiated by engineering experts who state that: “prior to this the ice represented the challenge for the marine installations in the north, now the waves are the basis for these estimates.”
This environmental mapping’s collision with the mapping of fossil resources can from hegemonic milieus be seen as a disturbing mapping. The researchers’ environmental mapping represents a “weaker voice”.
When the researchers and the environmental models statements declare that the “ice is melting” and the leaders of nations and instances realise this, it seems a true enigma why more vulnerable research truths are not being communicated and becomes formulating. Global heating increases the pressure on coastal areas and ocean zones, the seabed itself and the quality of the ocean areas are at stake – the resources here constitute the world’s future "granaries" and "larders".
It is the mapping and change of this seascape that now appears as the big challenge – a future and appearing landscape undergoing a dramatic and complex process of change".
Hei igjen Henriette
ReplyDeleteThe text under here is a first draft for an Intro that Anders and Geir has asked med to do for theier project next year titled "Five Maps tha changed Norway", it is in your field so to speak, discovering systems of informational exhange that perform in another way as landscapes to come. Talk to Anders about this and your own project
"Å forberede (by)landskaper for endring
Det er stadig mulig å si, med dagens modeller for planlegging av våre byer, at et landskap ikke er i søkelyset før et prosjekt kaster øynene sine på det. Slik sett finnes det ikke noen utviklet terminologi på landskapets vegne. Landskapet da sett som både en overlevering til kommende generasjoner og som et system av biotoper.
Alle de større norske byer har gjennom sin vekst etterlatt seg landskaper og byområder der forbruk av landskap har vært ledetråden. Dette har tatt form som forurensede industrilandskaper, søppelfyllinger, utfyllinger og forurensning i havneområder, infrastrukturelle kutt i landskapet, boligområder som nedbygger landskap, jordbruksområder som økologisk bunnfall og vannveier og våtmarker som er lagt i rør.
En kartografi over disse sårene og arrene i landskapet, systembruddene, gjenstår å bli avtegnet for å kunne bli forstått som byenes nye mulighetsrom. Det finnes ingen offensiv og skapende betraktningsmåte for denne type landskaper innenfor planapparatet. Det å ”dyrke fram” byenes sammensatte restlandskaper som står lavt på den økologiske kurven står ikke høyt i kurs.
Prosjektet ”Fem kart som forandret Norge” har som ledetråd at landskaper og måten vi lever og bygger i dem på er systemer som utveksler informasjon og som påvirker hverandre. Vi lever midt i systemene, er en del av dem og vi må nå oppdage og oppfinne helt nye omtankemodeller i betraktningen av byenes utsatte landskaper.
Fem kart tar mål av seg til å løfte fram i lyset helt nye muligheter for en dialogbasert byutvikling i forhold til landskapers beskaffenhet og økologiske tilstand. Med en dialog menes her å gå dypt inn i alle databaser som beskriver et (by)landskaps økologiske tilstand, for så lansere strategier som pleier, bearbeider, reparerer og forbereder disse landskapene for en helt ny type byutvikling. Søkelyset i dette prosjektet vil være å lage en troverdig kartografi av en mulig bærekraftig byutvikling – en ny terminolog på landskapets vegne".
Dear Henriette
ReplyDeleteI am reading your commentaries to Snædis, Nearly Landed. Your positive apreciation of the other students work and your support, linking them to interesting things etc is formidable. I am eagerly waiting for your own concept - i really look forward to it, good luck.