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FUTURE NORTH
PROJECT LEADER:
Janike K. Larsen
FUNDER/DURATION:
2013-2016 (award 2012)
NETWORK/ADVISORY BOARD:
Tom Nielsen, (Assoc. Prof., Aarhus School of Architecture, and leader of the
research project “Den østjyske millionby”), Sarah Bonnemaison (Assoc. Prof.
of Architecture, Dalhousie University and research associate at Nova Scotia
College of Art and Design), Brita Nøstvik (Head of Research Administration,
AHO), Gisle Løkken (Head of 70°Nord Architects, Tromsø)
A major outcome of the Landscape Journey’s project was the receipt of a grant
in 2012 by the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape for the three year Future
North Project.
Northern territories are under pressure due to planned exploration and
extraction of oil, gas and minerals, bringing about rapid development of cities,
settlements and landscapes. The project maps these ‘future’ landscapes from an
interdisciplinary perspective and studies the relationship between people and
their environments as well as the importance of social and individual agency in
the development of the landscapes. The project is founded in a conception of
landscape as a shared material human experience, one that supplements the tra-
ditional conception of landscape as primarily an aesthetic category. The project
both looks at landscape as the result of political, cultural and social development
and explores landscape as an agency in their production.
The project will raise awareness and knowledge of new landscape typologies,
include the everyday in the category of landscape, and explore tools to articulate
and narrate such perspectives. The project is a collaboration between the Insti-
tute of Urbanism and Landscape and the Institute of Design, with the Barents
Institute as an external partner.
AHO WORKS RESEARCH 2012
Urbanism and Landscape
