Architecture students exhibit scenario for Oslo year 2111

This year, University of Oslo is celebration its 200th anniversary with a range of events. In this connection, architecture students at AHO are presenting the container exhibition "Oslo with 10 million inhabitants in 2111.

Borre Skodvin and students at the master course "Shaping Futures" at AHO have planned for a scenario where global climate change forces to Norway accept 50 million climate refugees by year 2111.

How do architects, planners and designers plan and facilitate such a scenario? What requirements for social and structural changes will be needed? What will happen to Oslo?

Read more about the scenario that students have been working on.

The exhibition consists of three containers of 6x5 meters and two containers of 3x2 meters and is displayed on Fredrikkeplassen on the university campus, Blindern. The exhibition is open Saturday 18 June.

The solutions presented by the students are ranging from lowering the water level in the Oslo Fjord to liberate land, to a new kind of space-and energy-saving cemeteries where the dead are treated with freeze-drying instead of cremation.

Thomas Hylland Eriksen and Borre Skodvin will also be discussion the scenario in a conversation open to the public Saturday 18 June.