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?

The flight of Jæren- Redlist sustained compendium of little things.

"For eighty millions years, birds have ruled the skies, seas and earth. Each spring they fly long distances. Each fall they fly the same routes back. The story of migrating birds is the story of a promise; the promise to return"
Movie: Wind Migration

The natural diversity is made up of all the world's life forms and their habitats. This includes biological processes and ecological functions at different levels. Many species and habitats is now in danger of disappearing forever. Physical interventions and changes in land use is considered the main couse. The tendency is desired areas drained and filled, mono-cultured for a better and faster crops to be developed. It allows the bird's natural areas to shrink and changes to quikley for them to be able to adapt.
Some species related to cultivated agriculture return because of changing in farming and a more intensive farming. Suggested at the wrong time is an example. Modern forestry with the removal of old dead trees, and this is negative for some forest living birds, like woodpeckers. Birds can adapt to new areas, but the story in the agricultural landscape shows that the breeding success goes down, the species will be fewer and the number of birds will be less.

Norway has committed itself to halt the loss of biological diversety by 2010. Maby Jæren can be the first step in this direction.

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Final presentation - Secret Garden

A secret garden for endangered species.

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Final Presentation

My ambition was to investigate other resources than fossil fuels, to see what possibilities Jæren had for a production of its own energy on site.

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Mastermap

Now begins my master map to take shape. This is a foretaste of my concept that "as we speak" is under constant development with great enthusiasm. Lots of information that forms the concept further.

Compendium of little things - basic facts

This is the most important facts that I have used further in my project. Facts that are interesting and which might not have thought of before, are put together in a small compendium of little things. There is so much info about the birds that it quickly becomes difficult to zome out again. But the basis for my project will be the Red List of Rogaland.

my storyboard - outline of the process

I've tried to illustrate all my stories and information I've collected. Jaeren is going to face the climate change, and that will affect the so valuable agricultural lands.

Next drawings will be more detailed and with facts, will go deeper into essence.

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Natural Type and bird life connection

One can see clearly that the species that have connection to the agricultural areas are those most threatened. It seems as if the birds that relate to two or more habitats are less affected than those that relate to a natural kind. One can see that almost half of the species living in connection with a maritime environment, sea, wetlands, etc..

Based on this analysis, I will say that the areas with the most threatened species are farm areas, the coast and then comes the forests and wetlands, followed by mountains. I believe that the change in the operation of farm areas that have the greatest impact on birds. An intensification of agriculture and drainage of wetlands is the biggest threat. This has an impact on breeding and food situation for the birds. What can you do to maintain a balance? Can the birds adapt to new areas? "Some species associated with cultural returns due to changing farming and intensive farming. Suggested at the wrong time is an example. Decreased or ceased grazing by livestock and overgrowth are other examples. Modern forestry with the removal of old and dead trees are negative for a number of forest living birds, like woodpeckers example ......" Norwegian Red List.

Birds can adapt to new areas, but the story in the agricultural landscape shows that nesting success is decreasing and the species will be fewer, the number of birds will be less. Some species will be able to adapt so well that they manage to maintain a population.

Mycelium as a catalyst for a rhizomatic development

I am following my own line of sight in Jæren, it has guided my project in a philosophical direction and my wish for a rhizomatic development in Jæren has become the root of thinking. I have not yet designed what Kviamarka, as a future epicenter of Jæren, will become - and I'm not sure if I will. Right now I am still drawing and thinking, and trying to create chapters of these thoughts. 

Mycelium will be the catalyst for the rhizomatic future in Kviamarka. The physical consequence of this is a constant growth and collapse system, different spatial scales, and a revitalized holistic context. This will generate topsoil and vegetation, as well as clean pollutants and work as a natural pesticide.

My main focus is scale and context - generated by public awareness, ecological resilience and economic viability.

A journey across the augmented landscape

Hi everyone!

I'm in Jæren right now taking some pictures together with my friend Mari-Liis and my father. Yesterday I was so lucky to be able to take pictures of Kviamarka from the sky, thanks to Øyvind the pilot :)

Here are more PICTURES

When you hear music its gone in the air

This image from my notebook was used in the discussion with you on storyboards. It is my storyboard for the 10 minutes lecture I gave for 11 departments at the NAL session om Architecture Now, just back from Greenland. As you can see, some of the other lecturers is written into my storyboard giving it new shape and form, they informed my lecture so to speak
It is the only two pages from my notebooks, that has been with me through all the studios we have set up through Jæren and Greenland, that is left in my position.
My computerbag with all technicalities and two completely filled notebooks where stolen from me in Oslo on Friday evening. As you know how much importance and confidence I place in the dialogue, and in the images that these dialogues create, can understand the complete loss I feel after this theft. Even the texts from the last dialogues with you is gone with the wind. But; Alice has made a beatifull poster, positioning this studios in two worlds we have been to and the notions and statements from them as stones in water with rings of knowledge, thouching each other, merging into each other. She has even blocks of texts from the studios. If I could ask for the moon: could each of you post on the blog a comment from one or two of the studios we set up in Jæren and Greenland and give your version of them, just some lines. That would be very good for me, and also for you I hope. A kind of rewriting of your and my learnings. Anything is very welcome - fex Gotfrieds five points from the IRIS studio, and Tarald Omas four columns of wisdom from the Ona Lighthouse studio. The heading "When you hear music its gone in the air" is from the Jazz musician Eric Dolphy. I am eagerly waiting for your small stories - thanks.

appearing and disappearing landscapes

Appearing and disappearing landscapes is part 2 of AHO's "Research on the Norwegian Landscape". The course is an inter-Nordic cooperation between the AHO and Forests and Landscape at Copenhagen University. Jæren is a region that today has the largest urban growth in Norway after Oslo. The region, which is the centre of oil development in Norway, is now entering into a new phase, causing both landscape and urbanity to be in need of reinterpretation. The course will establish recognition on the larger scale that will affect knowledge built up during the course work. The UN climate conference, COP 15, in December 2009 will send out signals concerning this larger scale.The Course is planned as a discourse between landscapes and urban conditions that range from the smallest biotope to the larger future image - in the aftermath of COP 15. Students will throughout the semester work on individual projects as experiments in the relationship between different territorial contexts and urban strategies; this will entail both a smart and innovative cartography and conceptual design projects.