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Landscape Sprawl – An Artistic Response to Living in the Anthropocene / PhD Project (2011-2014)
Landscape Sprawl – An Artistic Response to Living in the Anthropocene is a PhD project which, based on the making of works consisting of landscapes in the scale of 1:1, examines how landscapes can play a much more pronounced role in the urban development of the future. Landscape Sprawl – An Artistic Response to Living [...]
PhD Dissertation (2014)
The dissertation is divided into four parts: Part 1/4 (p. 1 – 48), Part 2/4 (p. 49 – 96), Part 3/4 (p. 97 – 144) and Part 4/4 (145 –192). Though the dissertation follows a structure according to page numbers, I have found it meaningful to divide the dissertation into four parts and thereby making [...]
PhD Dissertation / Abstract (2014)
The dissertation addresses how landscape can have a more prominent and present role in the urban space and create new connections in otherwise fragmented urban areas. The dissertation is based on three artistic works made during a PhD employment at the Aarhus School of Architecture (AAA) in the years 2011 – 2014: The first work [...]
PhD Dissertation (2014) / Foreword
“…geologist told us that we are now in the Anthropocene… that what human beings did to what used to be called nature is so tremendous that we have entered a new geological time.”[i] (Krasny,[ii] 2/2013) In the 2013 documentary Expedition to the End of the World,[iii] a three-masted schooner full of artists, scientists [...]
Credits
I would like to thank the Aarhus School of Architecture for giving me the opportunity to be a PhD student; it has been three years full of possibilities and discussions about some of the topics that are of most importance to me. Also, I would like to give the school credit for giving this possibility [...]
Seminar / Urban Agriculture: Edible Estates and the Mega Cities of Tomorrow (2013)
To define the context of this PhD, the seminar Urban Agriculture: Edible Estates and the Mega Cities of Tomorrow and the exhibition Hands-on Urbanism by Elke Krasny were organized in 2013 as part of this PhD project. The aim was to place the discussion about urban agriculture, urban farming and gardening in a Danish context [...]
Traffic Island Edible Landscape (2012) / Description
The work Traffic Island Edible Landscape is located on the traffic island in the middle of the road called Noerreport – one of the most heavily trafficked roads in Aarhus. The work extends over approximately 100 square meters and forms a long strip across Noerreport. This road area is a junction for light and heavy [...]
Traffic Island Edible Landscape / Diary (2011-2014)
September-October 2011 To start this PhD project, I have decided that the core of the research should be based on the making of works of art in the form of landscapes at a 1:1 scale in the urban area. I decided that the first work, an edible landscape (Traffic Island Edible Landscape), is to be [...]
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