The stones are one of the main features present on the landscape of Jaeren : they mark the old properties boundary, creating in the agricultural land a rigorous structure. But must say that some ownership has changed, therefore the real limit is not anymore the one showed by stones, and an invisible pattern is hidden beyond this matrix.
Is this the point of departure for a new structure? How can this new feature be integrated with the definition of park? can this element combine public spaces and private spaces? how can this ingredient project Jaeren into a new horizon?
Using as a model 6 different sites, I'll try to test out how trasformations, related to the word of park and consequently to the water, soil,etc, can shape and build a new frame.
Is this the point of departure for a new structure? How can this new feature be integrated with the definition of park? can this element combine public spaces and private spaces? how can this ingredient project Jaeren into a new horizon?
Using as a model 6 different sites, I'll try to test out how trasformations, related to the word of park and consequently to the water, soil,etc, can shape and build a new frame.
In short the boundaries ,nevertheless the term in itself defines a precise space, become a methaphor for broader scenarios ,projected in the park notion.
Dear Simona
ReplyDeleteThe border as a new horizon is a brilliant title for a concept and a research on the appearing and disappearing Jæren. The notion “rigouorus” related to the old structure, describing both a lifeform and form of production historically evolving through hard labour, is the world of knowledge that informed Arne Garborgs writing, as you now. And highlighted at the Jær museum. What looks rigorous has changed, and you describe it beautifully as “ an invisible pattern that is hidden beyond this matrix. The appearance of the oil business on the Jæren scene opened for new opportunities for the young generation in Jæren related both to education and jobs. A whole generation left farming, never to return. This opened up a new scene of production that involves larger institutions and organisations reorganizing the agricultural production in Jæren, both related to animal breeding, dairy/milk production and vegetables and so on. So, a new landscape of organisation and production leads to a new matrix of properties.
This involves new ownerships of many small farms, small farms cooperating in production as larger units etc, the advancement of large scale glasshouse production etc.
Is it possible to map this new organisational and property structure, do you sit on much information on this?
This could be a stunning relavation of “the border as a new horizon” and definitely a point of departure for the next step, a new structure, which you can explore in your barcode of park concepts – charging this new horizon with a new energy (biotopes, landscape, form of production, lifeforms etc as new type of systems that work together).
Borders represent in one way limits, can be understood as this, in a broader sense. On the other hand every border is an invitation to a crossing, to test out the reality of excisting borders. This has happened with the old structure of Jæren, and a new structure is hidden there, is already in place, and it is extremely interesting to enhance on this border concept, test out new concepts – a remapping of the borderlines and borderlands of Jæren through your six sites – related to new forms of public and private spaces, lifeforms and production forms.
Your three systems, the rigorous one, the hidden excisting matrix and a new one can be looked upon as different logics of systems existing in the same space and time, but where something complete new may be appearing through your exploration
Have you talked to Mats and Trude about there crossing borders concept? - do that.
I look forward to the mid critic and your next move – be daring. To project Jæren into a new horizon, based on this ingridient is as you say – is a brilliant point of departure.
Send more on the blog if you have done more.
Hei Simona -
ReplyDeletejust a quick thought after we talked today: do you rememeber the channel marking the border between Sola and Sandnes municipalities? That could also be a reference of an ancient "rigour" that you can shuffle and reformulate.
Good luck!
Dera Simona
ReplyDeleteIn my earlier text "Diving into Jæren Agricultural and water systems(see blog under KED) I about forces that operates with reorganizing the matrix of Jæren borderlines. You can ev, contact the journalist Odd Pihlstrom on this, he is knowledgable and deep into this new patterns, production an ownership forms:
From my text:
"I had a long telephone conversation with the journalist Odd Pihlstrøm in Stavanger Aftenblad before the weekend. He is the newspapers expert on agriculture in the Jæren territory.
After this, and when he had recieved a mail from me on the themes of our studio, he answered with this:
“I just had a chat with Kristian Anton Smedshaug, a well informed advicer in “Norges Bondelag (The farmers association) and the authour of the book “Kan jordbruket fø verden” (Can agriculture feed the world). He does not exclude the possibility that the Jæren agriculture, as a spearhead in Norwegian farming with its gründer culture and its production apparatus, in a world captured in climatic crisis with exceeding food shortage (because we probably only see the start of this development) – faster than we can imagine – partly can be make a gearshift into export of meat and diary products. I will think this may be an interesting angle for your studio.
Smedshaug is giving a lecture at Varhaug on Monday evening”.
I started this conversation with the journalist to uncover aspects of The Jæren agricultural landscape and thinking and Odd P. opened a door to this field.
He mentioned Anna Høyland, the head of Rogaland Bondelag and active farmer with chicken and diary production as a possible knowledgebase, he introduced us to Helge Harboe and Olav Sande in the same organisation.
He opened up a door to series of food production clusters which Jæren is known for., among them Nortura with its board leader Sveinung Svebestad and Prima Jæren and a visionary gründertype, Asbjørn Øglend. He mentioned the Kavli Foundation and their diary plant concept with Bent Myrdahl as a knowledge source.
Most of all Odd Pihlstrøm pointed out an entrepreneurial tendency in the Jæren territory that thinks big. This means large production units with all kinds of consessions/licenses on milk, pigs, sheeps etc.
There is big thinking out there in Jæren even under the lable Jæren Smak (Jæren taste)".
It's a bit difficoult to have the map of the property structure,i found some kart on the web but it's just for the municipality of Klepp, Sola and Haa, and it's not even the whole municipality territory. But i can try to contact the city-halls and ask for the "catasto" (land register?)
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