http://routes.no Aesthetic Practices en route, 1750 – 2015 Tue, 22 Jun 2010 19:42:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en   Two Routes scholars presented papers at the first international meeting of the European Architectural History Network, in Guimarães, Portugal, 17th-20th of June 2010. Janike Kampevold Larsen presented "Desiring Matter" in the roundtable session "Beyond the spatial turn: redefining space in architectural history". Mari Hvattum presented the paper "The technological beautiful: ... http://routes.no/two-routes-papers-at-eahn-2010/ [caption id="attachment_563" align="alignnone" width="367" caption="Krogkleven paa Ringerike. Chr. Tønsberg, 1848"][/caption]   On June 4th, the Routes project team has invited Charlotte Klonk, art historian from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, to take part in a picture workshop on 19th century landscape imagery. The workshop will take place in the midst of one of the most ... http://routes.no/routes-picture-workshop-at-kleivstua-2/ [caption id="attachment_554" align="alignnone" width="337" caption="W 125th street Viaduct, Manhattan"][/caption]   Janike Kampevold Larsen, post doc in the Routes project and presently a guest scholar at Columbia University, New York, was invited to present Routes research at the Faculty of Architecture and Planning at Dalhousie University, Canada. On March 25 she presented "The Spectacle of Roads and Nature, ... http://routes.no/routes-post-doc-around-the-world/ The Routes project team has been delighted to welcoming Vittoria Di Palma, landscape historian from Columbia University, New York, as a guest researcher to the Routes project in May and June 2010. During Di Palma's stay, the Routes project team has visited several key collections of Norwegian landscape painting, among others the ... http://routes.no/guest-researcher-to-the-routes-project/ Mari Hvattum was to give her paper '"Goats, Englishmen, and art-lovers from the low-land": A. O. Vinje and the making of the modern mountainscape' at the Annual Meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians in Chicago, 21st-25th April 2010. Due to volcano troubles and cancelled flights, however, she could not ... http://routes.no/routes-paper-at-the-society-of-architectural-historians-annual-meeting/ 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 ... http://routes.no/the-norwegian-roads-administration-supports-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 ... http://routes.no/affiliated-researcher-to-the-routes-project/   [caption id="attachment_425" align="alignnone" width="450" caption="Click on image for details on the conference"][/caption]   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 ... http://routes.no/the-routes-conference/ 18th and 19th June 2009, the Routes project's guest scholar Lars Frers participated in the conference 'Technik und Wiederkehr der Natur - zur Ästhetik der Schöpferischen Zerstöring' with the paper "Erschöpfung und Erosion. Eine Phenomenologie der Handlungsmacht des Natürlichen". The conference was organised by Sektion Technik- und Wissenschaftsforschung and Sektion ... http://routes.no/routes-paper-at-the-conference-technik-und-die-wiederkehr-der-natur/     Seven Routes scholars presented their projects at a one day research seminar titled 'Veien, reisen og landskapet' at the Norwegian road museum, Friday 5th of June. The seminar was the first in a series of collaborative events between the Road Museum and the Routes project. The seminar was followed by an excursion to ... http://routes.no/routes-seminar-at-the-norwegian-road-museum/