The Routes Conference

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On the 24th and 25th September 2009, The Oslo School of Architecture and Design, in collaboration with the University of Oslo and Norwegian Institute of Transport Economics, invited scholars and students to an international conference on routes, roads, and landscapes. The conference investigated the ways in which various kinds of routes have shaped modern conceptions of the landscape, and inquired into the role of the route itself, both as an aesthetic object and as a setting for aesthetic practices.

Outstanding international scholars from many fields were invited as key note speakers, and an open call for papers had attracted a large number of abstracts for the open sessions. The conference gathered all together 21 speakers from 9 different countries, representing a wide range of disciplines. The artists Ingrid Book and Carina Hedén presented an exhibition of recent landscape and road photography with the title Produserte landskap, made specially for the Routes conference. With an audience of more than one hundred people, the Routes-conference provided two stimulating days of lectures and discussion. Click here for details.