The next Artica Writings essay is out now: Landscaping transition and (geo)politics / Grunnarbeid for omstilling og (geo)politikk by Cecilie Gro Vindal Ødegaard
Bildet viser slaggsteindeponiet i Lundbakken i Svea, og skuer over Braganzavågen mot Crednermorena og Rindersbukta i sør. Foto av Ingvild Sæbu Vatn
We are pleased to share the next Artica Writings essay Landscaping transition and politics / Grunnarbeid for omstilling og politikk by Cecilie Gro Vindal Ødegaard, translated by Olivia Lasky.
“In 2017, when the then-Minister of Trade and Industry Monica Mæland announced the decisions about Svea, she stressed that continued operations could no longer be justified due to low coal prices. The activities related to the clean-up and “returning to nature” would also give society time to adapt to the “changeover” – that is, the transition from coal mining to other energy sources and economic activities.”
Continue reading the essay here.
This essay is 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.