TERRITORIAL PRACTICES / CONFERENCE

This second conference in the annual Landscapes in Change series delivers a critical perspective on the different practices shaping and constituting the landscapes of the high and arctic North. Landscape as an integral part of lived space develops and exists in a continuum of individual and collective practices, movements, economies and experiences, the complexity of which are not always recognizable in a visual representation.

These spatial energies are often or not yet communicated as knowledge. As the pressure on circumpolar territories increases at a high pace it become evident that economies of exploitation are allowed access to landscapes at the expense of local and regional practices, and often overrides a tacit knowledge about landscape.

Taking its basis in landscape as a condition for living, the conference asks if and how industrial practices and global economic practices are able to develop in a close and sustainable connection to local landscape conditions. It also asks how architectural practices can identify and create awareness of landscape spaces that are not immediately visual. It seeks to demonstrate the significance of architectural logics, explorations and concepts for social development.

The conference will work explore new vocabularies, tools and methods for a sustainable development of the complex set of practices operating within the same territories.