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Territorial Agency is an independent organisation established by architects and urbanists John Palmesino and Ann-Sofi Rönnskog. Territorial Agency combines contemporary architecture, art, spatial analysis, advocacy and action to promote comprehensive territorial transformations in the Anthropocene epoch. Their work focuses on the integration of science, architecture and art in the challenges posed by climate change. 

The work of Territorial Agency is grounded in extensive spatial and territorial analysis through remote sensing technologies. Its focus is on complex representations of the transformations of the physical structures of contemporary inhabited territories. Through its work Territorial Agency engages different polities to re-evaluate the relations to the complex material, energy and information fluxes that mark contemporary territories.

Territorial Agency is awarded the STARTS PRIZE 2021 – Grand prize of the European Commission honoring innovation in technology, industry and society stimulated by the arts.

Recent projects include Oceans in Transformation commissioned by TBA21–Academy, in collaboration with ZKM Critical Zones and Taipei Biennial 20; Sensible Zone with Biannale di Venezia and Seoul Biennale Architecture and Urbanism, Museum of Oil with Greenpeace, ZKM Reset Modernity and Chicago Architecture Biennial; Anthropocene Observatory with Armin Linke and Anselm Franke at HKW Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin, BAK Utrecht and in the collection of Centraal Museum Utrecht; Plan the Planet with AA Architectural Association supported by Graham Foundation; North anon in Kiruna Forever at ArkDes; the Museum of Infrastructural Unconscious; and the integrated plan for the Zuiderzee region Unfinishable Markermeer. John and Ann-Sofi  are Unit Masters at the AA Architectural Association School of Architecture, London.

https://www.labiennale.org/en/architecture/2021/across-borders/john-palmesino-and-ann-sofi-r%C3%B6nnskog

https://www.ocean-space.org/exhibitions/territorial-agency-oceans-in-transformation-1

https://www.territorialagency.com/oceans

Mutual support is a tradition where people come together for collective work in order to achieve a common goal. It exists in multiple forms around the world and has been a way to cope in the face of disasters and in everyday life. In the Philippines this tradition is called Bayanihan and in Norway it is called Dugnad. The question of how we live together is also a question of how we build together. As such, mutual support traditions can inform the way we practice architecture because they are alternative ways for us to build and live together. The talk will share some of our work with communities in Norway, Philippines, Vietnam and Brazil through their traditions of mutual support. It aims to show how we can learn from them and inform the way we create architecture. 

Bio: 

Alexander Eriksson Furunes and Sudarshan V. Khadka Jr. run a shared architectural practice rooted in principles of collaboration and mutual support. Khadka was an associate at Leandro V. Locsin partners and co-curated the Philippine Pavilion for the 2016 Venice Architecture Biennale. Furunes studied at the AA School of Architecture before getting his degree at NTNU, Norway. He is currently doing an artistic PhD, titled “Learning from Bayanihan/Dugnad” (2016-2021). Through projects in Brazil, China, India, Norway, Philippines and Vietnam, they explore critical construction as a means to express shared meanings through architecture. Khadka and Furunes are the curators and architects of the Philippine Pavilion for the 2021 Venice Architecture Biennale, titled “Structures of Mutual Support”

FALA is a naïve architecture practice based in Porto, led by Filipe Magalhães, Ana Luisa Soares and Ahmed Belkhodja. Established in 2013, the atelier works with methodic optimism on a wide range of projects, from territories to birdhouses.

https://falaatelier.com/

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Public lecture co-hosted by the Bergen School of Architecture (BAS) and Bergen Arkitektforening (BAF). Curated by Cristian Stefanescu (Assistant Professor, BAS / Architect, a-works)

Det skal holdes rådsmøte på BAS høsten 2021. Lunsj blir servert i kantinen for de som deltar på møtet.

Saker som ønskes behandlet må meldes rådsleder Marina Bauer mb@opaform.no innen 24.11.2021.

Dagsorden med vedlegg blir publisert en uke før møtet.

And the winner is .......

THE WINNER HAS BEEN CHOSEN – STATSBYGG`S STUDENT AWARD OF NOK 20.000, - - for one of the diploma projects from 2021.

*Statsbygg wishes to encourage innovative and experimental studies of architecture among future generations of architects. The Student Award will be handed out to one or more student projects at the master level for particularly innovative and well executed project work performed in accordance with state guidelines within the field of architecture. In the evaluation, emphasis is placed on clarity in quality and form, in terms of identity, practical usefulness and aesthetic value.

Statsbygg will announce the winner, which will receive a check of NOK 20.000,-.

The nominated projects are:

Anne-Lea Pfistner and Annika Sakashita: Multiplicity of Moments. Spatial Engagement of a Contested Place Caught in Time

Chen Li-Cheng: Interweaving Two Worlds - Imagining Taipei as a Zoo City

Bent Ståle Brørs: Building fragments and the timber box

The winner of the award will give a presentation of the project.

 Statsbygg is a public sector administration company responsible to the Ministry of Government Administration, Reform and Church Affairs, Statsbygg provides appropriate, functional premises to public sector enterprises, as well as realising prevailing sociopolitical objectives in relation to architecture, governmental planning interests, preservation of heritage sites and the environment.

http://www.statsbygg.no/Om-Statsbygg/About-Statsbygg/