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TRAGEDY SITES, ARCHITECTURE AND VALUES
OCCAS SEMINAR, OSLO, 12 MARCH 2012
PARTICIPATING SPEAKERS:
Randall Mason, Mattias Ekman, Christian Ebbesen
ORGANIZERS:
Mattias Ekman, Lothar Diem and Christian Ebbesen,
Arkitektskap AS
This second OCCAS seminar on the future of the Oslo government quarter
after the bombing in July 2011 invited Randall Mason, chair for the graduate
programme in historic preservation at the University of Pennsylvania School of
Design and previously Senior Project Specialist at the Getty Conservation Institute.
Randall presented his work on spontaneous memorials in relation to commemo-
rating tragic events. Mattias Ekman commented on the ongoing debate about
demolition or restoration, and Christian Ebbesen introduced value assessment in
relation to the work done by the Ministry of Government Administration (FAD).
The presentations were followed by an open discussion.
MARCH
AHO WORKS RESEARCH 2012
Impact, Dissemination and Events
NOT JUST DRONING ON! (HOPEFULLY)
CENTRE FOR DESIGN RESEARCH KEYNOTE, ANDREW MORRISON,
MELBOURNE, 23 MARCH 2012
In this invited keynote lecture from the YOUrban project Andrew Morrison
highlighted the importance of developing and critiquing notions and perfor-
mances of ‘critical practice’. He accentuated the importance of exploratory
and prospective hermeneutics with respect to drone technologies and their
potential uses in the emergent networked city. He referred specifically to the
person of a female rogue drone called Adrona through which particular and
more general notions of critical practice may be performed and communicated
as a mode of engaging critical debate and forms of creative academic design
criticism. His presentation was an event in its own right in that it was read live
from a mobile phone prompter and included a mix of poetry and expository
discourse. Participation in this event was part of a wider set of engagements
and exchanges between the Design Research Institute at RMIT and AHO’s Centre
for Design Research
