BARCELONA BIENNALE

Five projects from our studio have been selected to be exhibited as part of AHO contribution to the 6th European Landscape Biennial in Barcelona. The INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION OF UNIVERSITY PROJECTS IN THE SCHOOLS OF ARCHITECTURE AND LANDSCAPE will be celebrated in the Technical School Superior of Architecture of Barcelona, from the 27th of September till the 15th of October of 2010.

See the pdfs here:
> JÆREN RECONNECTED
> A NEW SEASCAPE CARTOGRAPHY / (+doc)
> SOS JÆREN / (+doc)
> AGRICULTURE LEADS THE FLOW / (+doc)
> A JOURNEY ACROSS THE PIXELATED LANDSCAPE / (+doc)

The New Seascape Cartography

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This project investigates our relationship to the sea. The field of study, Jæren, situated on the coast of Norway is part of the North Sea ecosystem. The project reveales the north sea as one territory, looking at what is influencing this huge ecosystem and what will be the future challenges for the communities residing in this drainage bassin. The project suggests a number of strategies for the North Sea, which all the countries, commnities, will be affected by and have strategies that relate to. Jæren, the municipality of Norways oil capital Stavanger, play an interesting role in this seascape.

The project focuses on man made interventions. The historical research and the reference used to predict future scenarios are all human interventions. The project investigates if it is possible to design not only for people but also the ecosystem and if there exists solutions that benefit both. It is optimistic in the way that it still sees potential in man to continue to form it’s landscape. The scenarios sketched out with the archipelago is intended to illustrate what kind of concequences this kind of thinking could have, but also to problematize this kind of interventions. The question remains open: how will we interfer in the sea in the years to come?

Oil- age seascape

But where is the post-oil sea scape?? working on it with Ariel

Charging the landscape with new energy- Betsey

In search for a new post-oil landscape, we are turning to the sea-scape hoping that, within it’s infinity, we can find new ways of energy, new food production and even the cure for cancer. It is not the first time we seak the oceans for survival, we have been living with and of the sea since the beginning of times. How have we been doing this and what impact has this had? In charging the landscape with new energy I unfold my actors, looking historically on how they have been acting and how they have influenced each other. Without oil, Norway might not be in the position it is today, many claime we too would be harshly hit by the financial crisis. How was this possible and what happens when it disappears? We are in times of transition and looking historically at how we have been using our ressourses will open reflections on how we can use our ressourses in the future and how this new post-landscape may look like.
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Imbedded information

The North Sea is one of the busiest sea-scapes in the world surrounded by land and human activity. In Imbedded information I unfold more actors hidden under the surface, but I also realize that the the fi eld area must be enlargened to include the whole drainage bassin of the North Sea where 184 million people live! The actors on land become as important influencing the north sea ecostystem. In try to geolocate all the actors.
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Work in progress: what is threathening the North Sea?

A possible way to look at Jæren

Huaman Rights filmfestival

Film festvival at parkteateret can be interresting. Especially sunday where the team is big business- outside the law? 2 films and debate about the oil buisness from 13.00. Today the theme is migration and human wrongs. See the whole program at humanfilm.no (1film=50,- daypass=100,-)

Encicling the field - Betsey

The vast endless sea scape might at first glans seem blue and untouched but is that really the case? In this first encirclement of the field I start revealing some of the actors hidden under the surface, espacially the infrastucture from the oil industry. Many actors are claiming the seascape. At Doggerbank this conflict becomes evident. A long time the conflict has been between the fishers trawling, putting the vulnerable corallreefs at risk. Today a new conflict arises between renewbal energy and the fishers. Because of it's depths it is the perfect location for a windmill parc that can give Uk the energy it needs. Who can claim the sea-scape? How can we structure the seascape?
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GIS map ready

The GIS map is finally ready. I have picked a section I hope is big enough for everyone. The layers I have included are: buildings, roads, water, heights, markslag and railroad. If you are interested come with an external harddisk and you can copy the nessecary files. GIS program can be picked up in Espen's office.

Landscape-urbanism project spring-09

Jaeren survey

On November 11th-12th we have been in Jaeren for a preliminary survey of the region. We have been following an unreliable italian GPS and this beautiful map. The result: many impressions, and a slide show, that we invite you to see, here.

Jaeren slide show from ALICE LABADINI on Vimeo.