Fields of Exploration - Limits of Exploitation

0047 is this winter together with Dahl&Uhre leading a course at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. The course explores the global and local impact of a mining industry expanding on unprecedented scale. Continuously venturing into new and uncharted territories, the industry now has its eyes on the circumpolar areas of Norway.

Through mapping of future landscapes impacted by mining the course will create an instrument for a debate on the far reaching territorial consequences of modern mining. The course will map local infrastructure, deposits, mines, and global networks of mineral distribution and processing. The studio aims to unfold the moral, legal and environmental implications of an increased extraction. The course looks for new discoveries seen through the lenses of the landscape and will provide a tool for an open debate on the new pressures in the northern territories. 

Follow the course blog HERE

Illustration: Found silver, Finnmark and Troms