The Northern Norway Architecture Award

Knut Eirik Dahl has recieved the Northern Norwegian Architects Association's Honour Award for his enduring efforts to increase the understanding for -and raise the quality of- our urban environments. .

The two architectural awards for 2009 were given to:
- Ungdomshuset Straumanstua in Lofoten by Jarmund/Vigsnæs
- The rehabilitation of Hamningberg in East Finnmark.The project has been a collaboration between Båtsfjord, Vardø, Finnmark Fylkeskommune, Riksantikvaren and Statens Vegvesen.
The prize ceremony for the Northern Norway Architecture Award was in Tromsø at NAF's annual meeting, june 5.

Manhattan Transfer // The Map Collection

Along the ridge of Tromsø Island there runs a band of continues woodlands – the Tromsø Common – which in size and extension corresponds to that of Central Park in New York. Back in 1994 we superpositioned Manhattan on this map over the Tromsø Island. Tromsø was experiencing an explosive urban growth, and it was necessary discuss the lokal attitude towards nature as an unlimited resource. The Tromsø common vas already changing from being nature to become a park. 14 years later the map still has actuality in the urban discource i Tromsø - it has proved to be a valid statement.
The fact that we have an urban park of an international format is the most visible urbane trait in Tromsø that necessitates a further urbanisation. The Green Line bind all the city areas together, in winter functioning almost as a metro for cross-country skiers and families on a hike.
Skating in Central Park

SPILLET OM TROMSØ

THE GAME OF TROMSØ 1995 - 97
”If anybody can show me the future, then I really want to see it.”
(Statement by a member of the Tromso City Council that in 1995 approved The Game of Tromsø as a method of urban exploration.)

The main rule of the game entailed selecting places and endow them with new meaning. Accepted views about a number of urban spaces were turned upside-down in an extensive dialogue between the various forces at work in the urban field. The explorations served to challenge existing views on landscapes, forms of development, complexity, the programme of the city and the emerging urban geography.

The Game gave access to and visualised daring excavations in the city of the future by means of exhibitions and texts produced during two highly intensive years. Inward growth became the city’s main strategy, a new model of understanding was established.

The Game of Tromsø became a part of the national strategy of the Ministry of the Environment and received the Norwegian Prize for housing development and urban planning in 2004. The jury stated that:

”The Game of Tromsø has rendered dynamic the process of urban planning. It has lifted itself from the frames of convention, structured and extracted urban space in a novel manner that has both challenged and expanded the democratic processual repertoire of planning legislation.”

Read more on The Game of Tromsø at Northerngateway

bolig og byplanprisen

I 2004 mottok Knut Eirik Dahl "Bolig og Byplanprisen" for "Spillet om Tromsø". I Juryuttalelsen leser vi blant annet:"Spillet om Tromsø" har inspirert planleggere og investorer langt utover Tromsø. Dahl har lykkes i å introdusere ord og begrep som er nye i det norske miljøet, og har derved bidratt til å øke samfunnets interesse for planlegging, i tråd med formålet for Bolig- og Byplanprisen."
Les om prisen i arkitektnytt her
Kjøp "Plan" her

Knut Eirik Dahl mottar Tromsø kommunes kulturpris for 2006

Her er et utdrag fra kulturkommiteens begrunnelse: "Gjennom ”Spillet om Tromsø”, Europan, ”Byutviklingens år” og arkitekturbiennalen i Venezia har han inspirert folk, planleggere, myndighetspersoner og investorer - også langt utover Tromsø.
På denne måten har han bidratt til å øke samfunnets interesse for byplanlegging og nødvendigheten av gedigen bykompetanse - og ikke minst betydningen av kulturutvikling – det sistnevnte eksemplifisert ved hans engasjement for en kunstutdanning i Tromsø.
Hans repertoar i nevnte sammenhenger er omfattende og mangesidige, men som utover det rent faglige, først og fremst dreier seg om ”øvelser i åpenhet” og tilbud om ”mulighet for ny tenkning”. Det anbefales i denne sammenheng å oppsøke nettstedet ”Northerngateway.no” – der treffes også framtidsarkeologen Knut Erik Dahl."
TROMSØ KOMMUNE
omtale i arkitektnytt
Hele kulturkomiteens begrunnelse

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