Mari Hvattum Brita Brenna Beate Elvebakk
Janike Kampevold Larsen Lars Frers
Torild Gjesvik Even Smith Wergeland
Mari Hvattum
project leader
Mari Hvattum
Professor in architectural history at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. Diploma architect from the Norwegian Institute of Technology in Trondheim (1993), with studies in philosophy and aesthetics at the University of Bergen. Completed an M.Phil. in ‘The History and Philosophy of Architecture’ at the University of Cambridge, U.K. in 1995, followed by a PhD in 1999. Hvattum has taught architectural history and theory at The Architectural Association, London, Mackintosh School of Architecture, Glasgow, University of Edinburgh, University of Strathclyde, and Central European University, Prague. Her study within the Routes project deals with 19th century Norwegian railway architecture. Download individual project description (pdf)
Research interests
* contemporary architectural discourse and practice * historicism * modernism * phenomenological and post-phenomenological aesthetics
Recent publications (selected)
Books: * Gottfried Semper and the Problem of Historicism. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press 2004. Edited Books: * w/ G. Lauvland and K.O. Ellefsen, An Eye for Place. Oslo: Pax 2009. * w/ C. Hermansen, Tracing Modernity: Manifestations of the Modern in Architecture and the City. London: Routledge 2004. Articles: * “Stedets Tyranni” Arkitektur N no 4/2009. * “Genius Historiae: Christian Norberg-Schulz and the historiography of modern architecture” in: Lauvland, Ellefsen, Hvattum (eds.) An Eye for Place: Christian Norberg-Schulz as Architect, Teacher and Historian. Oslo: Pax 2009. * ”The Pleasure of Surprise” In: Positions -On Modern Architecture and Urbanism Histories and Theories, University of Minnesota Press/NaI, no 1/2008. * “Stilstrid og tidsuttrykk: noen temaer fra historismens arkitekturtenkning” in: Kunst og Kultur no 3/2008. * “Veiled Works and Blurred Contexts”, Journal of Architecture vol. 13, no 2/2008 * “Unfolding from within: Modern Architecture and the Dream of Organic Totality”, Journal of Architecture vol. 11, no 4/2006 * ”Origins Redefined: a Tale of Pigs and Primitive Huts”, in Primitive: Original Matters in Architecture (eds. F. Samuels, J. Odgers, A. Kerr) London: Routledge 2006. * “Museet som Erfindungsmethode” In: Agora – Journal for metafysisk spekulasjon no 3/ 2006 * ”Historisme og Modernisme i moderne arkitekturhistorieskriving” Nordisk arkitekturforskning (Nordic Journal of Architectural Research) no 1/2006
Brita Brenna
senior researcher
Brita Brenna
Born 1963 Vestre Slidre, Norway. M.Phil in History of Ideas 1994. PhD on Norwegian Participation on World’s Fairs and International Industrial Exhibitions in the 19th century, 2002. Researcher and post.doc. at Center for Technology, Innovation and Culture at University of Oslo 2001 through 2007. Currently associate professor of museology, Institute for Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo (UiO). Her study within the Routes project deals with 18th century topographical literature. Download individual project description (pdf)
Research interests:
* Cultural history of science and technology, esp. the cultural history of natural history * Material culture * Museology, * Feminist science and technology studies.
Recent publications (selected):
Edited books * Asdal, Kristin, Brita Brenna, and Ingunn Moser, (eds.) Technoscientific Cultures. The Politics of Intervention, Oslo University Press, Oslo 2007. * Myrvang, Christine, Sissel Myklebust og Brita Brenna: Temmet eller uhemmet. Konsum, kultur og dannelse, Pax forlag 2004. [Tamed or transgressive. Consumption, culture and bildung] Dissertation Verden som ting og forestilling. Verdensutstillingene og den norske deltakelsen 1851-1900. Acta Humaniora, PhD thesis, UiO, 2002. [The world as thing and imagination. The world exhibitions and the Norwegian participation 1851-1900] Articles * ”Fysikoteologi, bibelsk fysikk og ’en stor og betydelig Fisk’ ” i DIN 4, 2007. [Physicotheology, Biblical Physics, and ‘a large and considerable Fish’”] * “Halvannen tekopp av kokosnøttskall. Vitenskapelige og sosiale gjenstander i 1700-tallets samlingskultur”. Agora 2006(3) [Scientific and social objects in the 18th century collecting culture] * “Situated knowledges. From science critique to new knowledge practices, or how to tell a story?” in Siri Gerrard et al., Situated Knowledges: Gender, Culture and the Production of Knowledge, Delft: Eburon Press 2005.
Beate Elvebakk
senior researcher
Beate Elvebakk
Beate Elvebakk has a master in philosophy from the University of Oslo, and a master in European Studies of Science and Technology (ESST) from the University of Oslo and Rijksuniversiteit Limburg, Maastricht. Her doctoral thesis, Virtual Chemistry. A Phenomenological Analysis, was defended at the University of Oslo in December 2004. She is presently working as a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture at the University of Oslo, and as a senior researcher at the Institute of Transport Economics. In the context of the Routes project she works on road aesthetics as practice and discourse in the Norwegian Public Roads Administration. Download individual project description (pdf)
Research interests
* Science and technology studies * The intersection between science and politics * Roads, traffic and safety as politico-material systems * Internet research
Recent publications (selected)
* w/ T. Steiro: “First Principles, Second-Hand. Perceptions and Interpretations of Vision Zero in Norway” Forthcoming in Safety Science. * “Spørsmål om liv eller død. Brukerrollen i veisystemet”. In Asdal og Moser (eds): Den nye brukervendinga. Unipub, 2008. * “Philosophy Democratised?” First Monday, * “Vision Zero: Remaking Road Safety.” Mobilities, vol.2, no. 3, 2007. * ”Networks of Objects. Practical Preconditions for Electronic Communication”. In Hine (ed.) New Infrastructures for Knowledge Production: Understanding E-science. Idea Group, 2006.
Janike Kampevold Larsen
post doc
Janike Kampevold Larsen
Born 1966, Poughkeepsie, USA. Master in Comparative Literature from University of Bergen, Dr. art. in Comparative Literature from University of Oslo. Kampevold Larsen has been a guest researcher at Department of Philosophy, University of Essex (1999), and has worked extensively within the literary field in Norway, as a critic, editor and consultant. She has been the coordinator of the Fehn-symposium, Oslo School of Architecture and Design 2007 and 2008, and from august 2008 she is a Post Doctorate fellow at Oslo School of Architecture and Design. Her study within the Routes project deals with the Norwegian National Tourist Routes. Download individual project description (pdf)
Research interests:
* Post-phenomenological theory * Aesthetics * Nature-aesthetics
Recent publications (selected):
Books: * Å være vann i vannet. Forestilling og virkelighet i Tor Ulvens forfatterskap, [Imagery and reality in Tor Ulven’s work] Oslo: Gyldendal Norsk Forlag, 2008. Articles: * “The road to nature”, in: ‘Scape magazine, forthcoming 2008.
Lars Frers
guest researcher
Lars Frers
Born 1973 in Cuxhaven, Germany. Civil service as a Ranger in Wadden Sea National Park. Studied sociology in Kiel, Freie and Humboldt Universität in Berlin, and Indiana University Bloomington (USA). From 2003 to 2006, Frers had a Ph.D. scholarship at the Post-Graduate School “Technology and Society”. From 2006 to 2008 he held a postdoctoral scholarship at the Post-Graduate School “Topology of Technology”. In fall 2007 he was a guest researcher at the TIK Center, University of Oslo. In the context of the Routes project, he will study the ways in which the road and the landscape acquire aesthetic and cultural agency. Download individual project description (pdf) | Visit Lars Frers’ homepage
Research interests
* materiality (with an aesthetic twist) * environment * social theory * science & technology studies * video analysis * ethnomethodology (with a phenomenological twist) * Ibn Khaldun
Recent publications (selected)
Books: Einhüllende Materialitäten : Eine Phänomenologie des Wahrnehmens und Handelns an Bahnhöfen und Fährterminals. Series: Materialities. Transcript Verlag, 2007. Edited Books: * w/ Lars Meier: Encountering Urban Places – Visual and Material Performances in the City. Series: Re-Materialising Cultural Geography. Ashgate Publishing, 2007. * w/ Helmuth Berking, Sybille Frank, Martina Löw, Lars Meier, Silke Steets and Sergej Stoetzer: Negotiating Urban Conflicts – Interaction, Space and Control. Series: Materialities. Transcript Verlag, 2006. Articles: * »Herausfordernde Materialitäten – Gegenstände, Methoden, Konzepte.« In: Themenheft »Die Neuthematisierung der materiellen Welt in der Humangeographie«, Berichte zur deutschen Landeskunde, 2009. * »Video research in the open: Encounters involving the researcher-camera.« In: Ulrike Kissmann and Charles Goodwin (eds.) Video interaction analysis: And how to do it. Peter Lang, 2009. * »Perception, Aesthetics, and Envelopment: Encountering Space and Materiality.« In: Frers, Meier (eds.) 2007: 25-45 * »Pacification by Design: An Ethnography of Normalization Techniques.« In: Berking, Frank, Frers, et al. (eds.) 2006: 245-258.
Torild Gjesvik
PhD researcher
Torild Gjesvik
Born 1964, Oslo, Norway. Master in Art History from the University of Bergen (1997). Gjesvik has taught Art History, Arts Communication and Curatorial Studies at the University of Bergen and at Telemark College. She has also practiced as a freelance art historian, critic and curator. Her study within the Routes project deals with the reciprocal relationship between road design and artistic representation in 19th century Norway.
Research interests
* museology * nature-aesthetics * the still-life tradition * contemporary art
Recent publications
Edited book: Torild Gjesvik, Unni Grøneng and Søren Ubisch (eds.): Kunst til stede. Om teorifagbyggets kunstsamling ved Universitetet i Tromsø/Art in Place. The Teorifagbygget Art Collection at the University of Tromsø, Pax, Oslo 2008.
Even Smith Wergeland
PhD researcher
Even Smith Wergeland
Born 1981, Bryne, Norway. Master in history of art from University of Bergen 2007, followed by employment at the same institution, where he gave lectures on architectural theory, the historiography of modern architecture and visual rhetoric. Smith Wergeland has also worked at Rogaland Museum of Fine Arts, Stavanger. His latest engagement was at the city planning department of Stavanger municipality, where he worked as advisor and planner. Within the Routes project, his study will deal with the motorway as a work of art in 20th century urbanism.
Research interests
City planning and urbanism * 20th century and contemporary architecture * Industrial landscapes and sports facilities, esp. Olympic arenas * Visual rhetoric * The Aesthetics of audiovisuality
Recent publications
Articles: * “Beijing-2008 – arkitektonisk posisjonering i olympiadens prolog” in: Replikk, spring 2008 * “Bevaring og byutvikling” in: Stavanger Aftenblad, Nov 4th/2008
Criticism: * ”Olympiaden og imagebygginga” in: Ny Tid no 29/2008 * “Jan Groth-utstillinga: Streken og teiknets mange dimensjonar” in: Stavanger Aftenblad, Nov 17th/2008
