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The Norwegian Roads Administration supports the Routes project

The Routes project is happy to announce that The Norwegian Public Roads Administration has decided to grant additional financial support to one of the project’s senior researchers: Beate Elvebakk from the Norwegian Institute of Transport Economics. The support, extending over three years, will enable Elvebakk to expand her focus on landscape practices in urban areas. The aim of this study is to improve the Roads Administration’s theoretical and empirical  competence on their own and others’ aesthetic thinking relative to roads and landscapes. The Routes project team is grateful for the support, which strengthens the already active collaboration between the Routes project and the Norwegian Public Roads Administration.

Affiliated researcher to the Routes project

The cultural historian Kristina Skåden has become an affiliated researcher to the Routes project. Skåden is a PhD stipendiat at the University of Oslo, Department of Cultural Studies and Oriental Languages (IKOS), working on the dissertation Production of Landscape: Norwegian-German relations in the automobile- and road sectors 1933-1940.  Skåden will take active part in the Routes projects’ seminars and events, and her research greatly strengthen the project’s inquiries into 20th century car culture. In the spring 2010, Skåden is a guest researcher at the Technische Universität in Berlin.