Supervisor:
Janike Kampevold Larsen
Miguel Hernandez Quintanilla
Maximilian Vinzenz Schob
Context: In the Arctic, climate change will lead to both new challenges and new opportunities, and communities must learn to balance preservation and dynamic development in novel ways. Here we must asks; how do we engage with irreversible and unpredictable change? What makes landscapes valuable or resourceful in the first place? Is there a path between the conventional schemes of static preservation and extractive development?
Concept:Instead of administrative boundaries that simply separate the human from the non-human, it deploys site-specific design to engage constructively with material trajectories and foster multi-species collaboration. It focuses specifically on the deep-time process of soil formation, and how it connects both Sami reindeer herders, local farmers, conservation biologists and state officials on the Varanger peninsula.
Design: The interventions utilize low retention walls constructed from locally sourced slate rock to form a sequence of distinct ”gardens”. Attention is given to how microtopography interacts with water and facilitate a host of native grass species. Over time, the gardens will evolve through the collaboration between multiple actors and form a spatial and temporal knot; a point of convergence where material trajectories and local agency come together within reciprocal relationships.
Contact
Inge Rosén Langdalen / +47 46966908 / karlingerosen@yahoo.no / https://issuu.com/ingerosen