Narrativer om natur, ressurser og verdi
Hvordan blir arkitekturen hvis naturens interesser får sette premissene?
I samarbeid med Oslo arkitektforening inviterer vi praksisene fra vårt pågående LINA-samarbeid til å møte lokale stemmer til en tverrfaglige samtale, der vi utforsker hva som skjer når vi tenker naturen som en reell aktør i utformingen av våre omgivelser.
Arrangementet avholdes 13. mars klokken 18 på Arkitektenes hus. Filmene fra årets LINA-samarbeid vil fungere som utgangspunktet for den videre samtalen. Les mer om filmprosjektene som vil danne underlaget for samtalen her:
Studio kuidas.works presents a short film that explores our relationship with raw materials and material sourcing —focusing on earth. It invites reflection: Where do the materials around us come from? How do they take shape? What is the process of extraction? How does something untamed, vast, heavy, and tens of thousands of years old — like raw earth — become tangible? And ultimately, how do we return these materials to nature, recognizing that they are only borrowed, never truly owned?
Divided into three chapters — Extraction, Processing, and Returning — the film traces the journey of earth, taking place in a clay quarry in Estonia, visually simplifying its transformation while underling the fact that most materials, once processed, become waste — discarded, downcycled, or lost to landfill. By re-establishing our connection to the materials we build with, the film urges us to rethink the full lifecycle of materials and structures, advocating for mindful sourcing and responsible use.
kuidas.works is a research-led design and architecture studio based in Tallinn, Estonia, founded in 2021. Specializing in site-specific, earth-based building solutions, the studio explores how excavated, left-over earth can be transformed into sustainable materials — from rammed earth and compressed earth blocks to plasters and paints. The film is created by studio members Maria Helena Luiga (architect), Aimur Takk (graphic designer), and Henri Papson (designer).
The short film by Harvest Salon for the Oslo Triennale’s pre-program builds on historical shifts in Swiss dairy farming. From 1914 until its dissolution in 1999, the Käseunion (cheese union) played a key role in stabilizing prices for Swiss milk farmers and promoting cheese exports. While this strengthened the farmers' bargaining power, it also led to the standardization of cheese production, reducing both regional diversity and the signifiers of its production context.
By the 1980s, a set of advertising campaigns led to the further detachment of cheese production and consumption - the image of cheese was no longer defined by the farmers’ realities but by urban narratives. To address the Triennale’s theme, “What if nature comes first?”, the film brings everyday stories of a farmer's reality in a Swiss mountain village to an urban setting. By recontextualizing these stories the film highlights the importance of engaging with the environment that sustains the resources we consume.
The film project by girlscanscan collective is dealing with the Hungarian term lomi *. The term stands for the informal bulky waste reuse practice established as a parallel structure to the formally organized one by the municipality of Budapest. For one night a year, each neighborhood turns into an informal market. People claim waste, even resell strangers' things to passersby on site or transfer them to rural regions for repurposing before the official collection at dawn. Everything else ends up in the landfill.
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Lomi * is an interface between urban consumption, overbuilding tendencies, and shrinking cities in rural Hungary, container of unused building units and a building material depository. The people working in the informal lomi * industry are carriers of unmapped knowledge and practices of the circular economy. The knowledge accumulated through decades of multi-generational lomi * tradition could be a much-needed impulse to the government's top-down and globally oriented waste discourse since they already know that nature comes first.
