2360 + 16 views on the book online!

Nunarsuup Qeqqani/Nuup Qeqqani - Midt i verden /Midt i Nuuk - The Book has been available on ISSUU in Danish for views and downloads for a while now, The Greenlandic version is just published, and we belive an English version (In the Middle of the world/In the Middle of Nuuk) is coming soon.  view or download the Danish version here

City as Biotope - The Book

I’m sitting whit a fresh copy of city as biotope mosaic::reading // mindfield malmö in my hands. Magdalena and Gisle has really done a great job editing this book! The freshness from the blog is captured and our BAS students have also wonderfully presented the essence of their projects. Happy happy!
You can order it from our friends in 70°N by mailing firmapost@70n.no or buy it from BAS by contacting line@bergenarkitektskole.no for 200,-. It is also possible to download as low res pdf here: City as Biotope PDF (44,5M)
Thanks to all the students and contributors!

D&U ONLINE PAPERS // mosaic::reading

mosaïc::reading - the city as biotope is a master studio at Bergen Arkitektskole run during the autumn term 2009 by Gisle Løkken, Magdalena Haggärde, Kjerstin Uhre and Knut Eirik Dahl. Under the themes of new hierarchies, imbedded information, elasticity, dynamic of small cultures, points of departure, vulnerability and charging the landscape with new energy different aspects, ideas and possibilities of planning have been discussed and discovered - at the school in Bergen, on study trips to Malmö and Paris and on the blog cityasbiotope. The blog have grown throghout the semester with the students’ work, the presentation of new themes and comments Here, in this little textbook: mosaic::reading, the collection, we have gathered the introduction texts for each theme.
GL, MH, KED and KEU

D&U ONLINE PAPERS // GUEST // Peder Agger and Jesper Brandt // The Dynamics of Small Biothopes in Danish agricultural landscapes

The Danish biologist Peder Agger and the geographer Jesper Brandt, published in 1986 the result of 10 years of research, analysis and wanderings through the text The Dynamics of Small Biothopes in Danish agricultural landscapes. It describes a landscape under pressure, it raises the question about the vulnerability of the landscape, about relationships, and describes this as voices that speak to us about survival. It is a classic text in landscape research and made a strong impression on us when we found it on the web two years ago. Peder Agger is Chairman of the Danish Council of Ethics and professor at the Department of Environment, Technology and Social Studies, Roskilde University, Denmark. Jesper Brandt is Professor at the Department for Geography and International Development Studies, RUC and at ENSPAC (Department of Environmental, Social and Spatial Change). link to: The Dynamics of Small Biothopes in Danish agricultural landscapes

D&U ONLINE PAPERS // Appearing and disappearing Landscapes

"The landscape is not focused until it becomes “necessary" to do so, and in this respect is not prepared for the future. The present map proposes to develop a new legend that seeks to enlighten the shadow. The landscape must be prepared for and resist the next leap by remaining the superior space in an unforeseeable future. This will force an aesthetics which will have to operate on a large scale, and which must deal with more temporal than the constructed world."
D&U ONLINE PAPERS // Appearing and disappearing Landscapes

The Helsinki Tampere Visions 1993

D&U ONLINE PAPERS // The Magic Carpet

"The urban ideals loom larger than the understanding of landscape, shining far more brightly as it were. The borders of urban space constitute an intellectual hinterland. The relation between what is built and the continued life of the landscape is destined to remain the major theme in the civic space of the future...."
D&U ONLINE PAPERS // The Magic Carpet, 1994

In 1994 we participated in the international competition for the expansion of Copenhagen, called Ørestaden. The project received the second prize in the competition. The idea universe of the project is duly published in the periodical "byplan" No. 5, 95. Through the presentation of the project's own text and a comprehensive critical review of the competition by Professor Jens Kvorning (jury member). The concept launched "The Game of Ørestaden" by setting up the structure plans as a set of playing pieces, in which different forces of change led to entirely different interpretations of this future urban landscape. The current development in Copenhagen, where other areas have come into the searchlight and are taking power from the "ideal" Ørestaden, confirms one of our statements in the competition - "The spirit of the place is bound to be found elsewhere".

D&U ONLINE PAPERS

This week we will start a new series at the blog: D&U ONLINE PAPERS. Here we will make available a selection of texts, papers and lectures for download.

Vinner for andre gang i Øresundsmetropolen

Vi, Dahl & Uhre + 70°N, med ekspertgjester, Markus Holding (Atkins Global, Malmö) og Thomas Barfoed Brandrup (Skov og Land, København), har vunnet 1. pris i den internasjonale idekonkurransen om Københavns nye byutviklingsprosjekt - Nordhavnen.

Prisen ble overrakt av Ritt Bjerregaard og Klaus Bondam i Pakhus 53 i Nordhavnen i dag.

fra dommerkomiteen:
"Det er dommerkomiteens vurdering, at prosjektet gennem sine strategier fremkommer med et egentlig nyt billede på en strukturplan og deraf følgende ny horisont for byudvikling".

Excentral Park - Edge Dynamics

BYÅR 05 and Mosaïc::Region as cases in ARCHITECTURAL INQUIRIES

Gisle Løkken and Magdalena Haggärde are going to the research conference Architectural Inquiries at Chalmers, Göteborg to present the paper 'Openness and experiment...'
The paper uses ByÅr05 and Mosaïc::Region as cases in showinghow how the open conversation becomes a theoretical platform within our practice as architects and how openness and invitation are used to find new, non-linear ways in and around conventional, hierarchic planning.
AUTHORS: Magdalena Haggärde and Gisle Løkken, CO-AUTHORS: Knut Eirik Dahl, Trine Holm and Kjerstin Uhre
By following the link over, you can download all papers and abstracts at the conference.

Forelesning fra arkivene

Framtida i Nord - spillet om Tromsø / forelesning holdt på Universitetet i Tromsø på UVETT sitt fremtidsscenario november 2004. Denne forelesningen ble holdt i forbindelse med oppstarten på Framtidstudiet ved Universitetet i Tromsø. Det var på dette seminaret Olav Orheim, daværende direktør ved Norsk Polarinstitutt, for første gang lanserte at han nå var vitenskapelig overbevist om at isen i Arktis smelter og viste tre sjelsettende bilder på dette.

last ned pdf D&U PAPERS // Tristesse Arctique,2004