New Artica Writings Essay out now

One of the control operator’s cabins being moved from Svea to Longyearbyen. Photo: Store Norske

The first essay for Artica Writings 2022: Svea | post | Mine by Svalbard based architects Ingvild Sæbu Vatn and Lilli Wickström (LPO Arkitekter) is now available to read here.

Sveagruva – lit: “The Swedish Mine” – was the pride of Store Norske and the most productive mine in Svalbard’s history. Over 100 buildings, constructions, and miles of infrastructure including an airport, docks, and storage areas will soon be removed from the face of the earth.

This essay is part of the our 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 will invite 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.

To find out more about this project, future essay commissions and the live public symposium see here.