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AHO WORKS STUDIES 2011-2012
Highlights
Is the European city aging? being emptied? Dying? unsustainable? These
were the questions posed during the 2011 Europan Forum of cities and
Juries in Oslo. Invited experts from the Europan organisation and juries
considered the planning and the form of cities, alongside the self percep-
tion and practice of the planning and design professions.
The studio
Urban Design : Future City
led by Peter Hemmersam in
collaboration with Europan Norway and the Foundation for Design and
Architecture in Norway organised public and academic lectures and
master classes with invited experts: Jens brandt, Founder of SuPER-
TANKER, an urbanism think tank in copenhagen; Lisa Diedrich, Editor,
Landscape Architecture Europe
and
‘scape
, and Professor and Lecturer,
SLu; Liza Fior, Partner at the muf architecture/art, London, dedicated
to addressing social, spatial and economic infrastructures of the public
realm; and Thomas Sieverts, architect and urban planner, germany and
President of Europan Europe.
E11 Europan Oslo
1–3 Nov 2011
The
Earth Law
project aimed to explore our relation with the earth
through law. A lavvu – the traditional Sami tent made with a branch and
reindeer-hide floor and a central fireplace – was raised at the riverside
of Akerselva between AHO and the Oslo National Academy of the Arts
(KHIO). In Saami culture the lavvu is a democratic space, the space
where people gather to discuss matters of policy and cohabitation. Intro-
ducing the lavvu as a space of negotiation in the AHO context opened a
space for discussion, cross-disciplinary thinking and multiple perspec-
tives. The project was initiated by Head of Institute, Marianne Skjulhaug
and Professor Anne Katrine Dolven, KHIO. Visiting Professor Alan
berger, MIT took part in a debate led by Professor Andé Somby, Tromsø
university.
Roundtable with
Dr. Juan Clos, UN Habitat
Executive Director
20 October 2011
Earth Law Project
4–11 May 2012
On October 20, 2011 the Program on urban challenges in the South at
the Institute for urbanism and Landscape hosted a seminar with uN
Habitat’s Executive Director, Dr. Juan clos and representatives from the
Ministry of Local government and Regional Development, the Ministry
of Foreign Affairs and Norwegian university of Science and Technology
(NTNu). Dr. clos and the Institute faculty discussed the contribution of
academia in the knowledge production of urban challenges facing cities
in the South.
uN Habitat is the world’s largest multinational organisation working
on urban development issues in the South. As an organisation dedi-
cated to human settlement programs, they aim to promote social and
sustainable towns and cities that can provide shelter to all who live
there. Dr. clos was in Norway at the invitation of the Ministry of Local
government and Regional Development and the Ministry of Foreign
Affairs to discuss the core problems of environment, social challenges
and adequate housing in the global South.
