http://routes.no Aesthetic Practices en route, 1750 – 2015 Fri, 26 Feb 2010 19:39:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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/ Lars Frers presented his paper "Landscape, the body, and the route. The sociomateriality of road stops between materiality and fatigue" at the British Sociological Association's annual conference in Cardiff, 16-18 April 2009. He spoke in a panel devoted to 'Space, Mobility and Place'. http://routes.no/routes-paper-at-the-british-sociological-associations-annual-conference/   Janike Kampevold Larsen and Mari Hvattum presented Routes-related papers at the 2009 annual meeting of the Society of Architectural Historians in Pasadena, 1-5 April 2009. Larsen spoke in a session devoted to 'The Architecture of the Road: Space, Commerce, and Mobilization', and the title of her paper was 'Installing Landscape: Norway's Tourist Routes'. Mari ... http://routes.no/two-routes-papers-at-the-society-of-architectural-historians-annual-meeting/ 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 ... http://routes.no/two-phd-candidates-in-place/ [caption id="attachment_327" align="alignleft" width="150" caption=" "][/caption] "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. http://routes.no/scape-magazine/ 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 ... http://routes.no/paisajes-culturales-herencia-y-concervacion/