remembering.. Finnmark

Kautokeino church / the ice building / snowmobile trip with Johan Anders Somby / bidos & lavvúliving / guides Elinor Strifeldt & Odd Mathis Hætta at the 0-point / Alta river and dam

the travellers

(pics by Eimear & Gisle)

Fieldwork Findings Ronald

Sami Architecture in the Landscape of Finnmark

Land as Rhizome

Landscape is the answer

Fieldwork: Alta-Kautokeino

TOPICS DIARY

the trip, the rhizome and I

mapping lecture - wednesday 9.00

Just a reminder that we start tomorrow, Wednesday, at 9.00 with a mapping lecture - consultations afterwards - see you all!

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instatrip

The students are traveling Finnmark this week, you can follow them at instagram: @70N_arkitektur and under the hashtag #tromsøacademyforlandscapeandterritorialstudies.

If you are not on insta you can see the pics here.

#1 - field work

The quote is from one of the texts you have received, Inside the cave, outside the discipline by Catharina Gabrielsson (Architecture and field/work, 2011).

For your first assignment we want you to keep awareness of the concepts of reality check, complicity with the work as well as your habits of mind, and bring back one observation/reflection for every day of the trip (6-10 January) in the form of a (short) text illustrated by photo/drawing/graphics.

You will have the week after the trip to work on the assignment, entitle it and put it together as a booklet or poster (or other). Your work should be uploaded to this blog, preferably as a pdf embedded via issuu, no later than Thursday January 16, labelled with your name and the assignment title #1 - field work (picked from the label list).

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Finnmark field work

The studio starts with an intriguing trip to experience the immersive atmosphere of the dark and cold winter on the Finnmark plateau. We will meet the actors in the landscape and analyze the potential conflicts in these contested territories. The silent knowledge from traditional reindeer husbandry is confronted by the global demand for minerals, and the physical impact of the mining industry. We will investigate beyond the obvious and seek out knowledge that is not so easily accessible, and we will trace the tracks of money connected to global powers and economies. Basically is the value of the landscape as a common renewable resource at risk. The studio objective is to act as landscape architects in a situation where the historical landscape can be transformed into a complete new reality, and where its traditional agents of humans and animals can be displaced.

Weekplan #1 - field work as pdf.

best
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Enter Biedjovággi

Welcome to the TACL winter studio, Focal Point Biedjovággi!

Sun, Joanna, Bowen, Vlad, Eimear, Victoria, Kristján, Ronald & Ona Katrina - we are happy to enter the landscape together with you, starting Monday..

Here is the preliminary studio timeline (NB! updated January 6):

Timeline as pdf.

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