Welcome to Bergen School of Architecture

The 3rd year students invite you to come by their studio in 6,5 and have a look at a mini exhibition of their case studies in Complex building. The exhibition will be up all week long. Welcome!

This lecture is aimed at the diploma students, but is of course open to all interested.

BIO: I hold a PhD in Plant Ecology from the Department of Biology, University of Bergen (2009). I currently work at the Department of Biological Sciences and in 2017 I was appointed UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Heritage and Environmental Management – Nature and Culture.

My research focuses on the dynamics in coupled human and natural systems, including sustainable development, natural resource management, agro-biodiversity, sustainable land use, ecosystem services, agroecology, and food security. I work with colleagues across the social and natural sciences to elucidate links between anthropogenic activities and the environment, in Europe, as well as in Asia, North-America and Africa. I seek to gain multifaceted knowledge within ecology and associated disciplines to investigate social-ecological complexities. In addition to a PhD in ecology I have completed a minor in Social Anthropology, and the cross-disciplinary courses Ecology and Development and Resource Management and Environmental Conservation.

As the UNESCO Chair at UiB, I’m currently working on the establishment of Norway’s first Biosphere Area – Nordhordland Biosphere Area – under UNESCO’s Man and The Biosphere-programme.

I work mostly in cross-disciplinary projects, and have taken part in several collaborative multidisciplinary research and education activities:

• Scientific coordinator for the Nile Basin Research Programme 2009 (www.nile.uib.no) – working group on Biodiversity and Land Use Change, Uni Research.
• Scientific coordinator of Bergen Summer Research School 2013 (www.uib.no/rs/bsrs) – organizing PhD courses on Food as a Global Development Challenge for 70 students, UiB Global.
• Lecturer and supervisor on the NOMA (NOrad MAster) Programme 2010-2014, Regional Master Program in Biodiversity and Environmental Management, lectured three cohorts and supervised 6 Master students.
• Member of the Norwegian Scientific Committee for Food and Environment (VKM) (2015 – p.d.)
• UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Heritage and Environmental Management – Nature and Culture, appointed by UNESCO 1st Feb 2017

Join us in the auditorium for some inspiration on which school to choose for your exchange experience abroad.

PROGRAM

1200-1215: School of Architecture and Urbanism of the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil by Vilje Valland and Martin Janssen

1215-1230: Toronto Metropolitan University, Canada by Tarjei Sortland, Alyssa Verdan

1230-1245: Aarhus School of Architecture by Helene Akselsen

1245-1300: Tampere University, Finland by Emma Elina Suikkanen, Emilia Utti

Image by Dariusz Sankowski from Pixabay

This lecture is part of the master course Building Interfaces, and is given by a structural engineer. The lecture is open to the school. Welcome!

if so, you should come to the large auditorium to hear presentations of some of our partner schools.

Program

1200-1215: Oneg Altshuler – Bezalel Academy of Art and Design, Israel

1215-1230: Rikard Ostrand– lund University, Sweden

1230-1245: Janin  Töpperwein– Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany

1245-1300: Andrea Peris Escrich  and Mathias Stavis – UPM og UiC  Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain + School of Architecture, University of Catalonia, Spain

Ved Siri Skjold Lexau, Professor emerita, Dr. Art., UiB

Foto: Şefik Birkiye: Erdogans palass og residens, AK Saray, 2014. Foto: Mona Grivi Norman/VG.

Ved Siri Skjold Lexau, professor emerita, Universitetet i Bergen

Foto: V. Horodetskyi og P. Boitsov (konkurranseutkast): Nasjonalt kunstmuseum, Kyiv, 1898.

Ved Siri Skjold Lexau, professor emerita, Universitetet i Bergen

Foto: Hariton Pushwagner (Terje Brofos): Soft City, 1970-årene/2008.