Peter Paludan Hemmersam

• Hemmersam, Peter & Harboe, Lisbet (2025). Arctic urban space affordances: Discussing residential urban design in Greenland/Kalaallit Nunaat. Urban Design International. ISSN 1357-5317. doi: 10.1057/s41289-025-00294-3. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Greenland’s residential architecture reflects its colonial history and has been criticized for its inadequate adaptation to local conditions and culture. In contrast, the urban design practices and urban spaces remain understudied. Looking at 13 cases, this study explores residential urban space in Greenland’s two largest cities. It examines how architects and planners have conceptualized and designed the Arctic city and how residents perceive and interact with their surroundings through an affordance perspective. The article identifies six affordances of residential urban space that allow residents to engage with their surroundings in meaningful ways. The study finds that urban design in Greenland is transformed through the recontextualization of Danish and international design templates. It highlights the importance of recognizing the diversity of cultures and the evolving dispositions of users, as well as designing for a looseness of space that allows for unforeseen uses over time. Enhancing the critical awareness of the design of urban spaces and the residents’ responses can contribute to transforming urban design practices in a rapidly urbanizing postcolonial society.

• Hemmersam, Peter (2025). Making and Remaking the Capital of Greenland. I Jonghe, Bert de & Hunchuck, Elise (Red.), Arctic Practices : Design for a Changing World. ACTAR. ISSN 9781638401339. s. 20–20. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lintelo, Dolf te; Ip, Morgan; Lappi, Tiina-Riitta; Lakshman, Rajith Weligamage Don; Hemmersam, Peter & Dar, Anandini [Vis alle 7 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2024). Urban displacement and placemaking in public space for wellbeing: a systematic review of global literature. Environment & Urbanization. ISSN 0956-2478. 36(2), s. 358–376. doi: 10.1177/09562478241277085. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Breivik-Khan, Håvard & Hemmersam, Peter (2024). The Mountain Hall and the Smart Club: The Architecture of Emergency Reception in Norwegian Cities. Wellbeing, Space and Society. 6. doi: 10.1016/j.wss.2024.100189. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2023). Comfort and discomfort : Conflicting concerns in Arctic urban planning and design. I Cho, Leena & Jull, Matthew (Red.), Design and the Built Environment of the Arctic. Routledge. ISSN 9780429279874. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Twentieth-century development policies in the Arctic played out differently across the region but often involved colonization, environmentally damaging resource extraction and urbanization of Indigenous peoples. These are uncomfortable dimensions of the history of development in the North. At the same time, urban planning and architectural design in the Arctic have, over the last century, been framed as a utopian pursuit of urban comfort in an inhospitable and premodern landscape. This chapter explores a set of persistent conflicts and contestations between public policy and unstated concerns and interests in the design of Arctic settlements: First, 20th-century architects and urbanists often worked to “soften the North” to attract outside experts and skilled workers instead of focusing on the concerns of the local community. Second, architects replicated southern designs and architectural idiosyncrasies across most of the Arctic rather than enabling and promoting Indigenous cultural expressions. Third, architects and planners generally insisted on compact urban forms for climate protection, identity and community building, while locals often preferred opening settlements toward nature and enhancing outdoor living and recreation. These historical contestations are still evident in the discourse on Arctic architecture and urban planning today and are supplemented with more recent controversies. Thus, the fourth contestation is that while decision-makers seek to politically exploit the new centrality of the Arctic to boost the larger cities in the region, smaller communities in the region are shrinking and ageing. Finally, and fifth, climate advocates seeking to protect ecosystems and communities, potentially reinforce neocolonialism by narratively framing the Arctic as being on the brink of a “state-change”.

• Hemmersam, Peter (2023). Svalbard’s Urban Imaginaries. I Albert, Mathias; Brode-Roger, Dina & Iversen, Lisbeth (Red.), Svalbard Imaginaries : The Making of an Arctic Archipelago. Palgrave Macmillan. ISSN 9783031438400. s. 163–183. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter; Chopra, Divya; Dar, Anandini; Breivik-Khan, Håvard; Selmer-Olsen, Tone & Ip, Morgan [Vis alle 10 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2022). Displacement and placemaking in design studios. Architecture_MPS. 21(1). doi: 10.14324/111.444.amps.2022v21i1.004. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2021). Arcticness and the urbanism of the North. The Arctic Yearbook. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Arcticness (or Northernness) has been expressed in the planning and design of Arctic cities over the past century. This paper explores how the imaginary conveyed in this notion has influenced the urbanism and architecture of northern communities in different ways. It traces the convergence of national urbanisms of the North towards an architectural idea of an ‘Arctic city’ during the latter half of the twentieth century. The exceptionalism expressed as Arcticness became central to the architectural discourse on urban liveability across the circumpolar region during the 1970s and 1980s. However, concerns over Arcticness obscured the presence of urbanity in urban planning and development in the North. The paper concludes with a discussion of the contemporary use and relevance of Arcticness in developing new architectural identities in northern cities. Such identities are cultivated as a component of city branding for tourists, investors and ‘creative’ knowledge workers. Today, cities promote Arcticness in their aspiration to become a ‘Capital of the Arctic’.

• Pasgaard, Jens Christian; Nielsen, Tom & Hemmersam, Peter (2020). New Nordic stereotypes: In search of alternative design practices for tourism in peripheral landscapes. Journal of Landscape Architecture (JoLA). ISSN 1862-6033. 15(3), s. 6–19. doi: 10.1080/18626033.2020.1886505. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Morrison, Andrew; Erstad, Ola; Liestøl, Gunnar; Pinfold, Nicholas; Snaddon, Bruce & Hemmersam, Peter [Vis alle 7 forfattere av denne artikkelen] (2019). Investigating agentive urban learning: an assembly of situated experiences for sustainable futures. Oxford Review of Education. ISSN 0305-4985. 45(2), s. 204–223. doi: 10.1080/03054985.2018.1556627. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In this article we explore the dynamic between the pedagogical and the urban, attending to‘agentive urban learning’. By this we mean processes by which young people build agency in the urban context, in using the resources of the city to develop their own agency and of developing agency to act within the city. By agency, we refer to the capacity to imagine and act to create individual and collective futures. Our interest is how young people develop such agentive urban learning themselves and how it might be enhanced pedagogically at school and university. Threecase studies explore different facets–the first onhow young people themselves develop this agency in situated settings and the tools that they use to reflect upon the future; the second how digital tools might be used to enhance students’ understanding of the city as a site of change, in this instance, climate change; the third how such agency might be developed collectively in partnership with other city dwellers.We concludethat a diversity of students’ engagement in urban contexts of learning offers waysfrom which to further investigate how identity,setting and stakeholder relationships matter aspart of potentially sustainable agentive learning futures.

• Snaddon, Bruce; Morrison, Andrew; Hemmersam, Peter; Grant-Broom, Andrea & Erstad, Ola (2019). Investigating design-based learning ecologies. Artifact: Journal of Design Practice. ISSN 1749-3463. 6(1&2), s. 2.1–2.30. doi: 10.1386/art_00006_1. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In this article we argue that, for educators in design, urbanism and sustainability, the responsibility of connecting emergent design practice and changing societal needs into pedagogical activities demands that attention be given to ecologies of learning that explore the interplay between what is and what might be. As such, this futuring imperative brings into play a mix of modes of situated learning experience, communication and tools from design and learning to query the planned and built environment as a given, while offering alternate future visions and critiques. In this article, we argue for agile pedagogy that enables students to co-create as citizens in public spaces, through agentive multimodal construction of their identities and modes of transformative representation. Our core research problematic is how to develop, enact and critique design-based pedagogies that may allow designer-educator-researchers and students alike to co-create learning ecologies as dynamic engagement in re-making the city. This we take up within the wider context of climate change and pressing societal and environmental needs within which design and urbanism education increasingly needs to be oriented. Our inquiry is located within a shared practice of design pedagogy across two continents, and climatic and disciplinary domains between the western cape in South Africa and the far north of Norway. The main finding of this research is that pedagogies that are enabling of and attentive to the interplay of an assemblage of relational context-sensitive modalities can be conducive to sustainable and futuring design-based urban engagements.

• Hemmersam, Peter & Larsen, Janike Kampevold (2019). Landscapes as Archives of the Future? I Frank, Susi K. & Jakobsen, Kjetil Ansgar (Red.), Arctic Archives: Ice, Memory and Entropy. Transcript Verlag. ISSN 9783837646566. s. 69–92. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The interdisciplinary Future North project experimentally investigates the territories and landscapes of the High North or Subarctic regions of Northern Europe. It studies the relationship between people and their environments and attempts to map the ›future‹ landscapes that are developed through both social and individual agency. The project is founded in a conception of landscape as a shared material human experience, one that supplements the traditional conception of landscape as primarily an aesthetic category. It looks at landscape as both a result of political, cultural and social development – but it also explores landscape as an agency in the production of these. The aim of the project is to raise awareness and knowledge of new landscape typologies, to include the everyday in the category of landscape, and explore tools to articulate and narrate future thinking with and from within the landscape. Two basic archive functions are evoked here: first the systematic documentation of exploration represented by the research travel, and secondly the reading of the landscape as if it was an archive – in ways that enable new narratives about the past and present condition to emerge, thus reconditioning a contemporary space of future thinking.

• Hemmersam, Peter; Harboe, Lisbet & Morrison, Andrew (2018). Building the Brief : Developing a Place-specific Urban Practice. I Lorentsen, Elise & Torp, Kristine A. (Red.), Formation - Architectural Education in a Nordic Perspective. Architectural Publisher. ISSN 9788792700247. s. 200–216. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2018). Ruins and Monuments of the Kola Cities. I Larsen, Janike Kampevold & Hemmersam, Peter (Red.), Future North : The Changing Arctic Landscapes. Routledge. ISSN 9781472481252. s. 48–64. doi: 10.4324/9781315583716-4. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The changing Arctic is of broad political concern and is being studied across many fields. This book investigates ongoing changes in the Arctic from a landscape perspective. It examines settlements and territories of the Barents Sea Coast, Northern Norway, the Russian Kola Peninsula, Svalbard and Greenland from an interdisciplinary, design-based and future-oriented perspective. The Future North project has travelled Arctic regions since 2012, mapped landscapes and settlements, documented stories and practices, and discussed possible futures with local actors. Reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of the project, the authors in this book look at political and economic strategies, urban development, land use strategies and local initiatives in specific locations that are subject to different forces of change. This book explores current material conditions in the Arctic as effects of industrial and political agency and social initiatives. It provides a combined view on the built environment and urbanism, as well as the cultural and material landscapes of the Arctic. The chapters move beyond single-disciplinary perspectives on the Arctic, and engage with futures, cultural landscapes and communities in ways that build on both architectural and ethnographic participatory methods.

• Larsen, Janike Kampevold & Hemmersam, Peter (2018). What is the future North? I Larsen, Janike Kampevold & Hemmersam, Peter (Red.), Future North : The Changing Arctic Landscapes. Routledge. ISSN 9781472481252. s. 3–15. doi: 10.4324/9781315583716-1. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The changing Arctic is of broad political concern and is being studied across many fields. This book investigates ongoing changes in the Arctic from a landscape perspective. It examines settlements and territories of the Barents Sea Coast, Northern Norway, the Russian Kola Peninsula, Svalbard and Greenland from an interdisciplinary, design-based and future-oriented perspective. The Future North project has travelled Arctic regions since 2012, mapped landscapes and settlements, documented stories and practices, and discussed possible futures with local actors. Reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of the project, the authors in this book look at political and economic strategies, urban development, land use strategies and local initiatives in specific locations that are subject to different forces of change. This book explores current material conditions in the Arctic as effects of industrial and political agency and social initiatives. It provides a combined view on the built environment and urbanism, as well as the cultural and material landscapes of the Arctic. The chapters move beyond single-disciplinary perspectives on the Arctic, and engage with futures, cultural landscapes and communities in ways that build on both architectural and ethnographic participatory methods.

• Hemmersam, Peter (2018). Sustainable Urbanisms in the City of Architecture. I Simpson, Deane; gimmel, Kathrin; Lonka, Anders; Jay, Marc & Grootens, Joost (Red.), Atlas of the Copenhagens. Ruby Press. ISSN 9783944074238. s. 70–73. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter & Larsen, Janike Kampevold (2017). Landscapes on Hold: The Norwegian and Russian Barents Sea Coast in the New North. I Ray, Sarah & Maier, Kevin (Red.), Critical Norths : Space, Nature, Theory. University of Alaska Press. ISSN 9781602233195. s. 171–189. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter; Morrison, Andrew & Aspen, Jonny (2017). Serendipity and the urban transect walk Reflections on design and cultural mapping in arctic cities. I Kung, Cecile; Lam, Elita & Lee, Yanki (Red.), Open Design for E-very-thing : Exploring new design purposes. Hong Kong Design Institute and Cumulus International Association of Universities and Colleges of Art, Design and Media. ISSN 9789526000800. s. 570–575. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper presents and discusses the use of serendipity in the design and use of experimental urban mapping tools and practices. We address the issue of error in design processes by exploring the role of serendipity in an experimental cultural mapping activity enabled by an iphone app of our own design. Our approach integrates aspects of chance and arbitrariness, and thus an alternative to dominant urban mapping methodologies. Also, our mapping approach contributes to a critique of digitally based forms of knowledge and functionalist dimension of locative app development and design. The uses of emergent, accidental and vagarious discovery are studied through a series of mapping instantiations to annotate urban transect walks in several Arctic cities. Our experiments show that issues of serendipity are productive in terms of adding new dimensions of creativity to practices of mapping, i.e. they open for new ways of looking, annotating/building knowledge and producing meaning in rapidly evolving Arctic communities. We discuss how the use the mapping approach can be understood in terms of serendipity and, finally, in what ways serendipity operates and informs notions and practices of transdisciplinary, participative and situated urban mapping.

• Hemmersam, Peter (2016). Recovering Place in the Arctic. I Dahl, Caroline; Dietrich, Lisa; Lindholm, Gunilla; Vicenzotti, Vera & Vogel, Nina (Red.), BEYOND ISM:The Landscape of Landscape Urbanism CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS. Swedish University of Agricultural Science. ISSN 9789157694720. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2016). Arctic Architectures. Polar Record. ISSN 0032-2474. 52(4), s. 412–422. doi: 10.1017/S003224741500100X. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  In 1968, the British/Swedish architect Ralph Erskine published an article ‘Architecture and town planning in the north’ in this journal, in which he called for a particular Arctic approach to the design of buildings and cities that is distinct from mainstream architecture due to conditions such as harsh climate, resident indigenous or sparse population and remoteness. One hundred years after his birth (in 1914), Erskine is still considered the authoritative ‘Arctic architect’, and his approach is paradigmatic among many architects dealing with the built environment in the Arctic, sub-Arctic and northern regions. However, a study of the literature on architectural practice and the built environment in the north reveals a number of varying conceptions of Arctic architecture. These different perspectives are social in nature and construct the architectural technologies, the natural environment and society in different configurations. This article finds that architectural discourses and readings of the Arctic change under the influence of social, cultural, political and architectural paradigms. The perspectives identified in the article are seen to be critical supplements to Erskine’s utopian approach to developing new sustainable forms of urbanism and architecture in the Arctic. They also reveal that new conceptions do not necessarily replace previous ones but often overlap and place earlier ideas into fresh concepts and that certain conceptions appear to perpetuate over the decades, such as the Arctic as an ‘empty space’. The thinking on Arctic futures is, in many ways, trapped in certain modernist and utopian modes, and this article contributes to widening the range of possible relationships between people and the Arctic environment, using architecture as an aperture.

• Hemmersam, Peter; Martin, Nicole Rae; Westvang, Even Eidsten; Aspen, Jonny & Morrison, Andrew (2016). Exploring urban data visualization and public participation in planning. The Journal of urban technology. ISSN 1063-0732. 22(4), s. 45–64. doi: 10.1080/10630732.2015.1073898. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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• Hemmersam, Peter & Cook, Thomas (2026). Endringsvilje – strategi og handling for grønnere byer. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. ISBN 9788254703854. 173 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2026). De arktiske byer. Arkitektens Forlag. ISBN 9788774078050. 215 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Hvor ligger de arktiske byer, hvem bor der, hvem har planlagt dem, og hvordan kan vi forestille os deres fremtid? Bogen beskriver de arktiske byers historie og udformning, der er præget af kolonialisme, oprindelige folk, ressourceudvinding og velfærdstænkning. Den handler også om, hvordan globalisering og geopolitik udfordrer fremtidstænkningen i de små bysamfund i nord.

• Harboe, Lisbet; Holm, Erling Dokk & Hemmersam, Peter (2024). Praksis og paradokser i bærekraftig byutvikling. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. ISBN 9788254703731. 132 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Harboe, Lisbet; Hemmersam, Peter & Holm, Erling Dokk (2022). Nabolag - AHOs urbane utredninger 2022. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. ISBN 9788254703540. 206 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2021). Making the Arctic City : The History and Future of Urbanism in the Circumpolar North. Bloomsbury Academic. ISBN 9781350235854. 272 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Making the Arctic City explores the unwritten history of city-building in the Arctic over the last 100 years. Spanning northern regions of North America, through Greenland, Svalbard to Russia, this is the first book to provide a truly circumpolar account of historical and contemporary architecture and urbanism in the Arctic – and it shows how the Arctic city offers valuable lessons for the post-colonial study of architectural and urban planning history elsewhere. Examining architects' and planners' designs for Arctic urban futures, it considers the impact of 20th-century models of urban design and planning in Arctic cities, and reveals how contemporary architectural approaches continue to this day to essentialize 'extreme' climate conditions and disregard the agency of Arctic city-dwellers – a critical perspective that is vital to the formulation of future design and planning practices in the region.

• Larsen, Janike Kampevold; Hemmersam, Peter & Morrison, Andrew (2019). Future North Svalbard. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. ISBN 9788254703274. 114 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Larsen, Janike Kampevold; Hemmersam, Peter & Morrison, Andrew (2019). Future North Vardø. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. ISBN 9788254703281. 130 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Larsen, Janike Kampevold; Hemmersam, Peter & Morrison, Andrew (2019). Future North Kola. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. ISBN 9788254703267. 98 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Larsen, Janike Kampevold & Hemmersam, Peter (2018). Future North : The Changing Arctic Landscapes. Routledge. ISBN 9781472481252. 226 s. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The changing Arctic is of broad political concern and is being studied across many fields. This book investigates ongoing changes in the Arctic from a landscape perspective. It examines settlements and territories of the Barents Sea Coast, Northern Norway, the Russian Kola Peninsula, Svalbard and Greenland from an interdisciplinary, design-based and future-oriented perspective. The Future North project has travelled Arctic regions since 2012, mapped landscapes and settlements, documented stories and practices, and discussed possible futures with local actors. Reflecting the multidisciplinary nature of the project, the authors in this book look at political and economic strategies, urban development, land use strategies and local initiatives in specific locations that are subject to different forces of change. This book explores current material conditions in the Arctic as effects of industrial and political agency and social initiatives. It provides a combined view on the built environment and urbanism, as well as the cultural and material landscapes of the Arctic. The chapters move beyond single-disciplinary perspectives on the Arctic, and engage with futures, cultural landscapes and communities in ways that build on both architectural and ethnographic participatory methods.

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• Chapman, David & Hemmersam, Peter (2026). Urban design in (post)-Arctic cities. doi: https:/link.springer.com/collections/iaejcfegag. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Studies of cold climate, subarctic or Arctic cities are now gaining a renaissance in academia, but there is a significant knowledge gap among designers and planners concerning the ‘big issues’, with consequences for local decision-making at a time of rapid change to the environment. The aim of this SI is to provide a global overview of urban design responses to today’s critical issues in the Arctic; de-arcticing, ageing populations, global warming, resource extraction, international migration, political turmoil, economic competition, etc. The articles in the SI will include historical accounts of Arctic urbanism and the development of Winter City urban design and urban policy, case studies, fieldwork, experimental design development and experiences from urban design practice. The design of Northern cities has largely relied on imported Southern models; however, since the 1980s, an international movement has promoted Winter City planning. This has been among a series of climatological urbanisms. However, there is now a need for reviewing and updating existing knowledge and models of climatological urban design of cities that experience profound transformations that include accelerating rapid climate change – also in cities outside the Arctic and subarctic zones.

• Thon, Torgeir Holljen & Hemmersam, Peter (2026). Arkitektur i Arktis: Fra industri og koloni til generiske turistmagneter? [Journal]. Arkitektur.no. doi: https:/www.arkitektur.no/aktuelt/tema/arkitektur-i-arktis-fra-industri-og-koloni-til-generiske-turistmagneter/. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2026). Making and Remaking the Capital of Greenland . Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lintelo, Dolf te & Hemmersam, Peter (2025). Urban displacement, placemaking and wellbeing. doi: https:/www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue/10WH6SHFW3C. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter; Tornieri, Stefano & Rizzo, Agatino (2025). On Design in the Arctic. Tornieri, S., & Rizzo, A. (Eds.). (2025). Towards an Arctic Assemblage. Retrieved from https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:ltu:diva-115768. doi: https:/www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?pid=diva2%3A2020558&dswid=-8218. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2025). Making and Remaking: Arctic urban space. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2025). Summer in the Winter City: Thoughts from the (True) Global North. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Lintelo, Dolf te & Hemmersam, Peter (2024). Displaceability, placemaking and urban wellbeing. Wellbeing, Space and Society. doi: 10.1016/j.wss.2024.100229. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Jonghe, Bert de & Hemmersam, Peter (2024). Settlement Policy and Architecture: If You Want a New Greenland, You Need a New Way of Building. I Falco, Daniel Di & Hächler, Beat (Red.), Everything Changes: Greenland. ALPS Swiss Alpine Museum. ISSN 9783033108622. s. 13–16. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2024). Vers des bâtiments durables : éco-conception et rénovation énergétique - film 3. [Internet]. Vimeo.com. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2024). Ecologically Friendly Neighborhoods / Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2024). Sustainable Urban Development in Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2024). Modernism, Climate, People, and Architecture in the European North. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2023). Sosial bærekraft - Nye drivkrefter i byutviklingen. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2023). Learning From Neighbourhood Planning. I Pagh, Christian & Cook, Thomas (Red.), Mission Neighbourhood - (Re)forming Communities. The Danish Architectural Press. ISSN 9788774070047. s. 92–101. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2023). Hvad er en arktisk by? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter & Harboe, Lisbet (2023). Evolving Colonialism and Urban Space Design in Kalaallit Nunat (Greenland). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2022). Making the Arctic City. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter; Holm, Erling Dokk & Harboe, Lisbet (2022). Introduksjon. I Harboe, Lisbet (Red.), Nabolag - AHOs urbane utredninger 2022. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. ISSN 9788254703540. s. 10–17. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2022). Den Arktiske By - ideer, historie og fremtid. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2022). Hvordan studere arktiske byer. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2022). Developing Greenland's Cities. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2022). Making the Arctic City. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2022). The Many Ways to be Nordic in the Arctic. I Havran, Jiri & Merta, Dan (Red.), Nordic Arctic : Sustainable Architecture beyond the Arctic Circle. Galerie Jaroslava Fragnera & ARCHITECTURA, z. s.. ISSN 9788088161196. s. 24–31. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2021). Making the Arctic City. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2021). The ‘Arctic Urban Nucleus’ - from Colonial to Liveable Circumpolar Cities. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  The brief history of Arctic urban design is intertwined with colonialism, resource extraction and geopolitical posturing. This paper outlines the evolution of Arctic urban design thinking from the late 1950s. This was a period of increasing infra-regional learning across North America, the USSR, the Nordic countries and Greenland – through journals and documented travels by experts at planning and design institutes. The various national ‘Norths’ that make up the Arctic were conceptualized independently until the late 1950s when the ‘pre-modern’ and pre-urban territory attracted the attention of utopian modernist planners and designers. They proposed environmentally protected capsular designs to attract experts and skilled workers from the south to partake in the territory's economic and social development. In reality, few such super-structures were realized, and the Arctic city imaginary of the following decades was stuck in a tension between (late) modernist utopian urbanism and post-modern urban form. The Subarctic Habitat, presented by Ralph Erskine at CIAM ’59, was expressive of his ‘will to form’. It was emulated and reproduced across the Arctic, including by Desnoyers and Schoenauer in Fermont, Quebec. Emerging from, or responding to, such models, a new outdoor Arctic public urban realm was first proposed by urban designers in the 1970s in an urban cluster model. This model emerged during the rise of Indigenous rights and environmental movements and was subsequently articulated by the North American Winter Cities movement in the 1980s and 1990s. Despite obvious flaws in local climate performance, popular acceptance and inclusive planning practice, the two approaches represented by so-called ‘omni-buildings’ and the outdoor protected realm represent what I call the ‘Arctic Urban Nucleus’. This postcolonial and postmodern urban model has remained largely unchallenged as the urban design practice of the circumpolar North has remained peripheral to critical scholarship.

• Breivik-Khan, Håvard & Hemmersam, Peter (2021). CONTINGENCY CITY - The Architecture of Emergency Preparedness in Norwegian Cities. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Skjulhaug, Marianne & Hemmersam, Peter (2021). Rural Urbanism - Understanding Norwegian XS-Planning. Architese. 2021(4), s. 68–72. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Norwegian cities are small, green and dispersed, and mainstream European models of urban regionalization and compact urbanism are not always relevant or useful when analyzing the urban landscapes of the North.

• Hemmersam, Peter (2021). Building the Arctic City. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2021). Making the Greenlandic City. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2021). Making the Arctic City. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Breivik-Khan, Håvard & Hemmersam, Peter (2021). Paper presentation: Contingency City - The Architecture of Emergency Preparedness in Norwegian Cities. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Morrison, Andrew; Larsen, Janike Kampevold & Hemmersam, Peter (2019). Narratta. I Larsen, Janike Kampevold; Hemmersam, Peter & Morrison, Andrew (Red.), Future North Svalbard. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. ISSN 9788254703274. s. 22–22. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Morrison, Andrew; Larsen, Janike Kampevold & Hemmersam, Peter (2019). Narrata: Vardø Futures. I Larsen, Janike Kampevold; Hemmersam, Peter & Morrison, Andrew (Red.), Future North Vardø. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. ISSN 9788254703281. s. 128–129. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Morrison, Andrew; Larsen, Janike Kampevold & Hemmersam, Peter (2019). Reaching for Reason. I Larsen, Janike Kampevold; Hemmersam, Peter & Morrison, Andrew (Red.), Future North Kola. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. ISSN 9788254703267. s. 73–74. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Morrison, Andrew; Larsen, Janike Kampevold & Hemmersam, Peter (2019). Narrata: Dreaming About the Butterfly Island. I Larsen, Janike Kampevold; Hemmersam, Peter & Morrison, Andrew (Red.), Future North Vardø. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. ISSN 9788254703281. s. 125–127. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2019). Disturbed Ground and Landscape Change in the Arctic. I Larsen, Janike Kampevold; Hemmersam, Peter & Morrison, Andrew (Red.), Future North Kola. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. ISSN 9788254703267. s. 43–41. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2019). Transect Walk. I Larsen, Janike Kampevold; Hemmersam, Peter & Morrison, Andrew (Red.), Future North Vardø. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. ISSN 9788254703281. s. 32–48. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2019). Many Norths: Spatial Practice in a Polar Territory. Journal of Landscape Architecture (JoLA). ISSN 1862-6033. 14(2), s. 92–93. doi: 10.1080/18626033.2019.1673599. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter & Harboe, Lisbet (2019). Place-specific Arctic urbanism. I Larsen, Janike Kampevold; Hemmersam, Peter & Morrison, Andrew (Red.), Future North Svalbard. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. ISSN 9788254703274. s. 29–33. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter & Larsen, Janike Kampevold (2019). Encountering Kola. I Larsen, Janike Kampevold; Hemmersam, Peter & Morrison, Andrew (Red.), Future North Kola. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. ISSN 9788254703267. s. 15–23. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2019). Past, Present and Future of Arctic Cities. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2019). Comfortable Winter Cities : The architecture of public space can extend the outdoor season. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2019). Past, Present and Future of Arctic Cities. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2019). The Arctic City. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2018). Evolving Urbanism in the Arctic. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2017). Disturbed Ground and Landscape Change in the Arctic. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2017). Learning from Vardø. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Aspen, Jonny; Hemmersam, Peter; Knutsen, Jørn & Martinussen, Einar Sneve (2017). Challenges of the ‘Urban Digital’: Addressing interdisciplinarity and power in the planning and design of the digital city. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This paper identifies and discusses a set of challenges relating to the design of digital services in policies and strategies for more liveable and sustainable cities. These challenges emerge in the meeting between the knowledge and practice fields of digital design, which deal with service and interaction design, and urbanism, which is concerned with the study, planning and design of cities. The purpose of this paper is to lay the ground for a more inclusive and cross-disciplinary perspective on the conceptualisation, planning and realisation of the ‘urban digital’. This relates to how design and urban planning professionals learn to take seriously the societal responsibility implied in the development of digital services and products for everyday urban living.

• Hemmersam, Peter (2017). Makt og Avmakt i byutviklingen. Arkitektur N. ISSN 1504-7628. 2017(3), s. 90–90. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  Bokanmeldelse: Ronny Spaans: "Kjøpesenterlandet : planlaus norsk stadutvikling", Dreyers Forlag (2017).

• Hemmersam, Peter (2017). Å planlegge for framtiden. Svalbardposten. s. 20–21. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2017). Kompakt og prosjektbasert byutvikling. Arkitektur N. ISSN 1504-7628. s. 88–89. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2017). Urbanitet og konsumptionsmønstre. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2017). Fra Kjøpesenter til by. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2017). Place Specific Arctic Urbanism. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Harboe, Lisbet; Hemmersam, Peter & Morrison, Andrew (2017). Developing a Place Specific Urban Practice in the Arctic. I Harboe, Lisbet; Hemmersam, Peter & Ip, Morgan Alexander (Red.), Borderlands Arctic City Urban Design Master Studio 2017. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Martinussen, Einar Sneve; Aspen, Jonny & Hemmersam, Peter (2016). Digital City Life. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter & Harboe, Lisbet (2016). Place Specific Arctic Urbanism. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter & Harboe, Lisbet (2016). Arctic City. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2016). What is a Place? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter (2016). Hva er tett? Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter & Flatø, Emil (2016). Ruiner fra en overmodig tid. [Journal]. Morgenbladet. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Harboe, Lisbet & Hemmersam, Peter (2016). Arctic city: Developing a place specific Arctic urbanism. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter & Harboe, Lisbet (2016). Place Specific Arctic Urbanism. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter & Harboe, Lisbet (2016). Arctic Architectures. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Hemmersam, Peter & Harboe, Lisbet (2016). Urban Landscape Hybrids in Arctic Cities. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Kivle, Angela; Hemmersam, Peter & Müller, Sabine (2025). Unforced coexistence : reconceptualising open space planning in Oslo through environmental justice and affordances theory. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. ISSN 9788254703786. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  For over twenty years, open space planning in Oslo, Norway, has been driven by the vision of creating a greener, more equitable city. However, greening remains a contested term in urban design, planning and landscape research. Without an understanding of the nuances of how public open spaces are used, designers risk applying universalised assumptions about everyday use to suburban greening projects. This study used the theoretical framework of critical environmental justice, encompassing distributive, procedural, and recognition justice, to examine the norms made explicit in strategic planning documents and among designers involved in daylighting projects in Oslo. Through a spatial analysis of landscape architectural drawings, walking interviews, as well as an analysis of planning documents and promotional material, this thesis first sought to understand the norms and assumptions in the planning documents and among designers. Secondly, in order to question and nuance these normative assumptions, direct observations of everyday use were conducted in two daylighting projects in Osloʼs Grorud Valley between April 2021 and February 2023: Grorud Park and Byggerʼn Activity Park. The everyday use of suburban parks was approached through the theoretical concept of affordances, rooted in environmental psychology, which highlights the often unseen interactions in open spaces between people and the environments they inhabit. Examining the two case studies through the lens of recognition justice and affordance theory revealed a dissonance between the terminology used by designers and in strategic policy documents, and how these open spaces were actually used. Drawing on affordances theory, this thesis introduces four relational terms—touch, leave, merge and diverge—to provide an awareness of the dynamic moments of ebb and flow, nearing and distancing between users in these two parks in low–density neighbourhoods on the urban periphery. When the environment invites both proximity and distance, as well as encounter and avoidance, users of public open spaces can interact with each other in ways that help them to manage their differences—what I call an environment of unforced coexistence.

• Harboe, Lisbet & Hemmersam, Peter (2024). ARCTIC BUILDING AND CONSTRUCTION (ABC) Arkitektur og Byrum: Delprojektrapport – Udkast 20.03.2023. Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU). Fulltekst i vitenarkiv
• Sjödahl, Elisabeth Ulrika; Müller, Sabine & Hemmersam, Peter (2024). Deep landscape. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. ISSN 9788254703717. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  We know very little about what is under our feet. We are used to the sight of manhole covers punctuating the streets around us, and we know that they provide access to the subterranean water system. But where does that system start and end, and how is the manmade, reworked ground made up? Humans have a history of adapting well to notions of an expanding world, but what about the closest realm in distance and time: the ground on which we stand and within which our fresh water is contained? This thesis argues in favour of urbanism not only incorporating landscape but also actively incorporating the other, unseen half of the landscape: the underground. It explores how we could get closer to perceiving the depth of the landscape setting we inhabit. This is increasingly important in a time when human actions dominate the geological ground conditions. The design case of daylighting of a piped underground water system to make it an open, landscape-integrated surface system reveals a need to design both visible- and invisible underground landscapes together. This exegesis thus expands on my claim that the landscape has a composed depth. The design case has been used to test this assumption and provided various findings, reflected on a posteriori in the exegesis to determine their implications for the landscape- and urbanism disciplines. This has further resulted in the coining of the ‘deep landscape’ as a term, a concept, and a strategy for design. This thesis is positioned between the fields of landscape architecture and urbanism, and it offers insights into water and urban ground conditions in one conference paper and two published articles. It uses the term ‘deep landscape’ as a reminder of the inseparable context beneath our feet. The presence of water and the ongoing processes below grade, as well as the subterranean landscape modified by humans and its installations, the reworked ground, must inform and become part of landscape architecture and urbanism.

• Harboe, Lisbet; Hemmersam, Peter & Ip, Morgan Alexander (2017). Borderlands Arctic City Urban Design Master Studio 2017. Arkitektur- og designhøgskolen i Oslo. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

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