The increasing frequency and severity of flooding events due to heavy rainfall patterns and rapid snow melting, impacting human infrastructure and homes, underscores the urgent need for action. Such events are about to reach the extent where the effects can no longer be overlooked.
Teaching activities and projects
The title ” The River as Designer” raises a question about perspective. Working on the scale of the Glomma River, there is a need to design with the river, understanding the natural processes and relations between the water and the ground, moving, shaping, and continually transforming the fluvial soils of the site.
This diploma is a critical reflection on the static, spatially oriented, and primarily regulatory program of contemporary “natural reserves”, as well as the technological infrastructure and cartographic practices that enable such nature-society relations. Is there an alternative?
The project focuses on the development of a large industrial fishing harbor in Bømlo, which significantly alters the island’s unique geological landscape by creating leveled surfaces and reclaimed land in the sea.
The diploma topic starts from the observation of birds (occupants of the landscape pattern), aiming to explore a new composition of land by admiring the natural creatures birds as independent living entity and looking for their settlements in the tamed wildness and urbanized grounds.
This project aims to explore the existing and evolving Ukrainian identity within the context of the war memorial cemetery amidst the ongoing Russian-Ukrainian war. Rooted in the evolving narrative of a nation amidst turmoil, this endeavor seeks to explore the transformative potential of landscape design in shaping collective memory and identity.
This diploma project revolves around the potential of sheep resources in Norway. Through the study, I aim to highlight the unused value of sheep, with an emphasis on wool production as an underutilized asset as well as the sheep’s role in maintaining a cultural landscape.
In light of the growing threat posed by climate change, the issue of flooding in recent years has emerged as a critical concern. The Diploma “Floodable Garden: From natural Disaster to ecological Hope” examines Lillehammer city center and proposes a strategy to protect it from the Mesna River’s potential floods.