Oslo Architecture Triennial 2016 – After Belonging Intervention Strategies

Lecture Date: 2016-06-02

A Forum on Arctic Negotiations

Organised by the After Belonging Agency (Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco, Ignacio González Galán, Carlos Mínguez Carrasco, Alejandra Navarrete Llopis, and Marina Otero Verzier)

The 2016 Oslo Architecture Triennale After Belonging designs the objects, spaces, and territories for a transforming condition of belonging under global regimes of circulation. The triennale examines both our attachment to places and collectivities—Where do we belong?—as well as our relation to the objects we own, share, and exchange—How do we manage our belongings?

For the first public presentation of the Triennale in London, After Belonging invites a group of architects and spatial practitioners to reflect on one of the proposals selected through an International Call for Intervention Strategies and that are being developed throughout the Triennale period. Nature, Labour, Land: A Public Spatial Archive for Kirkenes seeks to produce a forum of discussion for the construction of a new eco-political Arctic governance by operating on three negotiations in the region: the melting of the Arctic ice (Nature), the expected global shipment along the Northeast Passage (Labor), and the indigenous conception of the territory (Land). Participants will critically consider the intersection of non-human nature, indigenous rights and transnational labor.

Nature, Labour, Land: A Public Spatial Archive for Kirkenes is part of an ongoing series of forums and workshops initiated in January 2016 by Nabil Ahmed and Dámaso Randulfe, selected as one of the winner teams of the Call for Intervention Strategies of the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016, and whose program of activities, interactions and interventions in each of the sites is developed throughout the year and culminated in an exhibition at the National Museum – Architecture in Oslo in September 2016.

Speakers include: Nabil Ahmed and Dámaso Randulfe (Authors, Nature, Labour, Land), Lindsay Bremner (Westminster University), Katya Larina, (U:lab.spb), Territorial Agency (John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog).

Along with the curators of the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2016: Lluís Alexandre Casanovas Blanco, Ignacio G. Galán, Carlos Mínguez Carrasco, Alejandra Navarrete Llopis, and Marina Otero Verzier. With an introduction by: Director of the Oslo Architecture Triennale, Hanna Dencik Petersson

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