The final Artica Writings essay for 2022 is out now: EMBRACING ENTROPY by Thomas Juel Clemmensen

The dune-like topography proposed by Feicht is not foreign to the area. South of the mining settlement, one can experience a so-called kame and kettle topography resulting from a glacial surge approximately 600 hundred years ago. This unique topography forms when ice trapped inside the glacial deposits slowly melts. The airstrip was established on top of material from this glacial surge. From this perspective, it is interesting how this topography would re-emerge in a new form. (Photo: Thomas Juel Clemmensen)

We are very pleased to share the final Artica Writings 2022 essay EMBRACING ENTROPY by Thomas Juel Clemmensen, Professor, cand.arch. ph.d. at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Academy of Arts. 

“In 2019 I was responsible for a master's course in landscape architecture at the Academy of Arts in Tromsø. In this course dealing with landscape transformation, we worked with alternatives to the proposed mining reclamation or “clean-up” project at Svea, launched by the Norwegian Government in 2018.”

Continue reading the essay here.

This is the final essay commission as part of the wider programme of events in collaborate with LPO Arkitekter and UiT - The Arctic University of Norway, Academy of Arts, landscape architecture programme. The programme entitled Return to Nature? The Transformation of a Post-Coal Mining Landscape invited leading experts from the Nordics in architecture, ecology, archaeology, history and the arts to discuss the Store Norske Spitsbergen Kulkompani environmental project and related issues.

You can read the other commissioned essays from this series here.