Janike Kampevold Larsen is Associate Professor at the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape.
Larsen holds a PhD (Dr. Art) in Literature. She has been a visiting scholar to Columbia University, Department of Art and Archaeology, to the University of Essex, Department of Philosophy and to UC Berkeley, Department of Comparative Literature.
She is currently researching Northern and Arctic landscapes and territories through the RCN-funded project Landscape Journeys, and she coordinates work to extablish a program in Landscape Architecture at the University of Tromsø.
2008-2011 she was part of the research project Routes, roads and landscapes, Aesthetic practices en route 1750–2015.She is currently working on a book called Post National Natures. The Spectacle of the Norwegian Tourist Routes. She has been working as a literary critic, as an Assistant professor in Comparative Literature and as editor of both literary publications and the literary magazine Vinduet. She has also been coordinator of the Fehn-symposium, Oslo School of Architecture and Design 2007 and 2008.
Recent publications:
Å være vann i vannet. Forestilling og virkelighet i Tor Ulvens forfatterskap, Gyldendal Norsk Forlag [Imagery and reality in Tor Ulven’s work.] 2009.
Editor:
w/ Nina Frang Høyum: Views, Norway seen from the Road, 1733-2020.
w/ B. Brenna, B. Elvebakk, M. Hvattum, Routes, Roads and Landscapes, a collection of essays, Ashgate, 2011.
Guest editor of dossier in ’Scape Magazine: Landscape architecture and urbanism, no 1/2010, pp. 18-41, on behalf of the research project Routes, Roads and Landscapes, Aesthetic Practices en route, 1750 – 2015.
w/ S. Sæterbakken, Norsk litterær kanon, [The Norwegian Literary Canon] CappelenDamm, 2008.
Articles:
- “Imagine the Ground of the Landscape” in Making a Geologic Now, Elizabeth Ellsworth, Jamie Kruse (eds), (New York: Punctum Books, 2012).
- “Landscapes of Measure. Cultivation and appreciation of contemporary landscapes”, forthcoming in Experimenting Proximity. The Urban Landscape Obervatory, C. Girot and F. Truniger (eds) (Sulgen: Niggli, 2012).
“Landscapes on Display. Global Tourism Practices as Living Heritage: Viewing the Norwegian Tourist Route Project”, forthcoming in Future Anterior, Jorge Otero-Paillos (ed.), 2012.
“The King’s Road: Constructing the modern landscape”, with Mari Hvattum, Brita Brenna, Torild Gjesvik, forthcoming in KULVER anthology, Peter Lang Publishing, 2012.
“Curating Views, The Norwegian Tourist Route Project”, in Routes, Roads and Landscapes (London: Ashgate, 2011)
”Vegskjæringens sublimitet”, / [The Sublimity of the Road Cut] Norsk Vegmuseums Årbok, 2010,
‘The view from the road”, in ’Scape Magazine: Landscape architecture and urbanism, no 1/2010, pp. 39-41.
“CLUI.org. Å beskrive og forstå jordoverflaten” [CLUI.org. To describe and understand the surface of the earth] in Vagant, nr. 3, 2010.
”Views from the Road”, catalogue essay for the exhibition Produced Landscapes at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Sept. 2009.
”The forms of The Tourist Roads”, contribution to the catalogue for the exhibit of The Norwegian Tourist Route Project, Detour, Norsk Form, 2006.