| Abstract: | This essay discusses the Oslo Opera House building designed by Snøhetta (inaugurated 2008) as one of three monumental buildings in EU's Eco Culture Program and a so called demonstration building for ecological solutions in architecture. The most visible result in the Opera building is a large-scale glass wall with integrated solar cell panels, producing electricity as well as providing sun shading. The real ecological values, however, are hardly to be measured in money or watt, nor in reduced emissions or climatic change. This solar wall is first and foremost putting a strong ecological intention on display. With its giant ecological footprint Snøhetta's building can never be defended within a rational, environmental discourse. It is a contradictory example of sustainable architecture measured up against crucial factors like situatedness, construction and materials, energy consumption and costs. But this spectacular monumental construction which presents a new urban space in a former industrial part of the city, needs to be studied in accordance with deep ecology theories like Félix Guattari's Les trois écologies (1989). Guattari's extended definition of ecology, including sociocultural conditions and human mentality, gives an opportunity to discuss ecology not first and foremost as a rational and ethical challenge in architecture but as an aesthetical. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10037/4044 |
| Abstract: | This article investigates public architecture in Sápmi from the 1970s until today, with particular emphasis on building materials and their discourse. Although the materials chosen for clothing or for revealed construction follow Nordic and inter¬national architectonic trends, the wood, stone, concrete and glass are ascribed a set of meanings to fit the Sami context. The question is to what degree these materials mediate conventional and even stereotypical understandings of Saminess, or produce awareness of new Sami architecture and identity. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10037/5083 |
| Abstract: | In his book from 1865 Johan Kulstad tells the story of a hunting expedition to Spitzbergen in 1853. The mother ship disappears, and in desperation Kulstad and his six men starts rowing their small hunting boat back to Norway. After six days of incredible suffering, they are rescued by a Danish ship a few miles off the coast of Finnmark. After outlining the main sides of this story, the article comments briefly on the way Kulstad tells his story: There is a mixture of pre-realistic and naturalistic narrative, there is a mixture of genres, and the text is without the heroism which is so prevalent in later Arctic narrative. Interesting detail: The way a Sami member of the expedition is portrayed. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10037/5044 |
| Abstract: | Knut Hamsuns sterke binding til Hamarøy og Nordland kommer fram på flere måter i hans forfatterskap. I dette foredraget skal jeg peke på noen av de trekkene som viser hvordan Hamsun forankrer sine bøker i et nordnorsk folkeliv og i en nordnorsk dialekt han kjente fra innsida. Hans solidaritet med landsdelen kom iblant fram som en ganske aggressiv polemikk mot usynliggjøringa av Nord-Norge og mot den hovedstads-dominans som var like tydelig i norsk offentlighet den gang som i dag. Gjennom sine bøker og artikler bidro Knut Hamsun mer enn noen annen i hans samtid til å endre det negative bildet av Nord-Norge og nordlendingene. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10037/2151 |
| Abstract: | Artikkelen tar utgangspunkt i Hanne Lauvstads doktoravhandling "Helicons Bierge og Helgelands Schiær. Nordlands Trompets tekst, repertoar og retorikk" |
| Description: | Artikkelen er en postprintversjon av artikkelen i Edda. |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10037/1380 |
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