Diploma project
Architecture and Landscape
Spring 2016Spring 2016
Institute of Urbanism and Landscape
This diploma explores how local food resources may be reassessed to contribute to regenerating people’s sense of place and community development in Vardø, Norway.
Drawing on an anthropologic assessment of the Varanger region and Vardø specifically, we understand that the community’s connection to the landscape is directly influenced through food resource harvesting activities and the subsequent social significances. This importance is not only economic, but plays a role in an individual’s identity. Reacting to the 1980’s cod crises and the negative consequences on the city, people, and economy of Vardø, we propose a series of food related education and processing spaces intended to reveal the now invisible food infrastructures of the city. These spaces will take on the idea of “allmenning,” open to public use and community direction.
Miles Hamaker | mileshamaker@gmail.com
Brona Keenan | bronaakeenan@gmail.com
Miles Hamaker | mileshamaker@gmail.com
Brona Keenan | bronaakeenan@gmail.com
