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AHO WORKS RESEARCH 2012
Urbanism and Landscape
Alice Labadini
IMMATERIAL LANDSCAPES. FORMULATING THE
INTANGIBLE IN NORTHERN LANDSCAPES
SUPERVISOR: Janike K. Larsen
The thesis aims to reposition the immaterial as a val-
uable domain of investigation and project thought for
the practice of landscape architecture. Through the
study of selected projects, the thesis investigates the
possibility to design for and with immaterial com-
ponents of landscape in the unique context of the
Norwegian territory and climate. The reference projects
selected for study are three, and they are all situated in
different portions of the Norwegian territory. These are
primarily analyzed through situated conversations with
selected authors that were involved in the design.
Nicole Martin
WAYS OF LOCATING THE CONTEMPORARY GENTRY
SUPERVISORS
:
Jonny Aspen, Peter Hemmesam
This PhD argues that this contentious theoretical shift
substantiates a revisitation to the concept of the gentry;
where gentrification theory, or the study of the gentry
should be revisited in order to align our understand-
ing of the gentry with our understanding of the con-
temporary urban sub/mainstream culture; hipsterism.
Through an informed performative research method-
ology, this thesis explores ways of seeing the contem-
porary gentry by visualising the everyday use of digital
media artefacts, to disseminate the geographical and
cultural territories of hipster culture in central Oslo. By
studying the digital traces of the cultural and situated
phenomena of the ‘hip’ and linking it to the existing
mappings of gentrification in Oslo, the research can
reflect upon gentrification as an ongoing process ripe
in contemporary Oslo that is both situated and mobile.
The Ph.D. project is a part of the Overlay strand of
the YOUrban research group exploring techniques of
annotation in urban development processes.
Mirza Mujezinovic
THE ARCHITECTURE OF THE URBAN PROJECT
- THE BIRTH OF THE LARGE-SCALE VERNACULAR
SUPERVISORS: Karl Otto Ellefsen, Jonny Aspen
This research is about the
large-scale
: how it has
emerged and evolved from the late 1960s up to the early
1980s. The primary source is the large-scale projects in
Norway. This research is a monograph about one par-
ticular type of projects within one specific time period.
The following research unfolds what kind of imaginar-
ies are behind the
large-scale
and also how these have
been translated into physical structure – architectur-
al form, with an aim to question to which degree the
large-scale
has formulated a line of thought – urban
project - through which the relationship between city
and architecture may be contested.
Joseph Mukeku
LOGIC OF SELF-BUILT ENVIRONMENT. SOWETO
EAST VILLAGE, KIBERA SLUMS, NAIROBI KENYA
SUPERVISORS: Karl Otto Ellefsen, Edward Robbins
Cities in the rapidly urbanizing global South are
faced with the challenge of managing the simultane-
ous coexistence of growing informality and formality.
At the extreme end of informality are the self-built
environments of slum settlements. These self-built
environments depict a character that is distinct from
the rest of the urban environment. On this basis, this
study examines the logic that underlies the structur-
ing of slums as a form of self-built environment. It
examines how slums are morphologically constituted;
the different components that make it and how they
fit together.
Charlotte Blanche Myrvold
SKILLED PERCEPTION. AN INVESTIGATION
OF PUBLIC ART IN THE CONTEXT OF THE
REDEVELOPMENT OF BJØRVIKA
SUPERVISORS:
Janike K. Larsen, Boel Christensen-Scheel
In 2003 public art was granted both funding and access
to Bjørvika during the construction phase. This study
aims to address the role of public art in the context
