Return to Nature? The Transformation of a Post-Coal Mining Landscape: Photo Gallery

The live symposium Return to Nature? The Transformation of a Post-Coal Mining Landscape took place in Tromsø on Friday 16 September. Thank you to the fantastic audience and guest speakers, Thomas Juel Clemmensen, Professor of Landscape Architecture at UiT The Arctic University of Norway and Head of the landscape architecture programme at the Academy of Arts in Tromsø; New Mineral Collective (Tanya Busse and Emilija Škarnulytė); Maria Jensen, Associate Professor in Arctic Geology at The University Centre in Svalbard and Head of the Arctic Geology Department; LPO Architects’ Ingvild Sæbu Vatn, and Lilli Wickström; Kjerstin Uhre, Associate Professor in landscape architecture at UiT and partner at Dahl & Uhre Architects and Anatolijs Venovcevs, PhD candidate in the Institute for Archaeology, History, Religious Studies, and Theology at UiT as part of the project Unruly Heritage: An Archaeology of the Anthropocene.

This event was recorded and will be shared on the Videos page soon. The first essay as part of this project is by Svalbard based architects Ingvild Sæbu Vatn and Lilli Wickström (LPO Arkitekter) and available to read here.