Two PhD candidates in place!

Two PhD candidates have been appointed to the Routes project. From all together eleven highly qualified applicants, the two adjudicating commitees at UiO and AHO respectively, selected Torild Gjesvik and Even Smith Wergeland. Gjesvik will be situated at IKOS/University of Oslo, working on the relationship between landscape painting and road planning in 19th century Norway. She is an art historian from the University of Bergen, and has extensive experience as a curator and writer on modern art. Even Smith Wergeland will be situated at AHO, studying the role of the motorway in post war architectural discourse and practice. Wergeland is an art historian from the University of Bergen, specialized in 20th century architectural and urban history.

’scape magazine

“The road to nature”. Janike Kampevold Larsen has published an article on some of the sea side tourist route installations in Norway in the latest issue of ’scape magazine, nr. 2/ 2008.

Paisajes culturales: herencia y concervación

Four Routes scholars gave papers at the international conference of the European Association for the Study of Literature, Culture and Environment, EASLCE, which took place at the University of Henares, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, in October 2008. 

Brita Brenna: Norwegian 18th Century Landscapes of Power and Science

Mari Hvattum: Architecture and the Mimesis of Place

Beate Elvebakk: Road Aesthetics as Practice and Discourse in the Norwegian Public Roads Administration

Janike Kampevold Larsen: Nature on Display: Matter and Nature as Sculptural Presence in Literature

The Fehn Symposium 2008

The AHO Fehn Symposium 2008, at Domkirkeodden, Hamar, served as a start-up event for the Routes project, and provided an opportunity to invite key international scholars in the field. The first day of the symposium was dedicated to ‘Routes, roads and landscapes’ and included speakers such as the art historian Charlotte Klonk from Humbolt-Universität zu Berlin, the architect and architectural historian Christine Macy from Dalhousie University, Canada, and the geographer Tim Edensor from Manchester Metropolitan University. The second day of the symposium focused on landscape urbanism today, including speakers such as architect and urbanist Kelly Shannon from Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven, landscape urbanist Alan Berger from MIT and landscape architect Ellen Braae from Aarhus School of Architecture.

The Fehn Symposium 2007

The Fehn Symposium 2007 at Domkirkeodden, Hamar, was an opportunity to invite international scholars to contribute to the initital planning of the Routes project. Brita Brenna, senior scholar in the Routes project, presented her work on 18th century topographical literature, while architectural historian Vittoria di Palma from Columbia University, NY, landscape historians Kenneth Olwig and Matthias Qviström from SLU, Sweden, urbanist Bruno Meulder from KU Leuven, and human geographer Cathrine Brace from University of Exeter were invited to elucidate aspects of routes, roads, and landscapes.