ROUTES, ROADS AND LANDSCAPES.
AESTHETIC PRACTICES EN ROUTE,
1750-2015
PROJECT LEADER
:
Mari Hvattum
FUNDER/DURATION:
Norwegian Research Council,
KULVER 2008-2012
NETWORK:
AHO, University of Oslo, The Norwegian
Institute of Transport Economics, Technische
Universität Darmstadt, The Norwegian
Public Roads Administration, The Norwegian
Road Museum
ACTIVE RESEARCHERS:
Professor Mari Hvattum, AHO (project leader)
Professor Brita Brenna, University of Oslo
(researcher)
Senior researcher Beate Elvebakk (researcher)
Janike Kampevold Larsen, AHO (post-doc)
Even Smith Wergeland AHO (PhD)
Torild Gjesvik, University of Oslo (PhD)
Associate professor Lars Frers, Technische
Universität Darmstadt (guest researcher)
Associate professor Vittoria Di Palma,
Columbia University, NY (guest researcher)
AHO WORKS RESEARCH 2012
OCCAS
“Routes, Roads, and Landscapes” is a multidisciplinary research
project which studies the aestheticization of the modern land-
scape, i.e. the ways in which the landscape, from the Enlight-
enment until the current day came to be construed as an aes-
thetic object with particular aesthetic values. The vehicle for
the investigation is infrastructure: routes, roads, and railways
that made their way into the landscape, simultaneously consti-
tuting it as landscape and making it accessible for practical and
aesthetic exploitation, reification and interaction. The scope of
the study is twofold. We investigate the ways in which various
kinds of routes have shaped modern conceptions of the land-
scape by framing it as a view, an aesthetic object, or a place for
interaction, and we inquire into the role of the route itself, both
as an aesthetic object and as a setting for aesthetic practices.
The Routes project has resulted in a large number of interna-
tional and national publications, lectures, conference papers
and seminars, including the edited collection “Routes, Roads
and Landscapes”, published by Ashgate in the autumn of 2011
reprinted 2012. The project was reported and final publications
produced during 2012.
