#1 // Anna Liisa // Caring about place

I am a tourist in Norway.
When about to explore Lofoten from a distance for this assignment, I went to the tourist info point and asked for materials on Lofoten. I received a brochure, as most tourists do. 
It had many useful pieces of information in it. Maps, possible travel routes, accommodation facilities put into comparative tables, possibilities for horseback riding.
The brochure taught me all about the parameters of place - the facts and figures, the most important attractions to visit.

But what I was after was the significance of the place. Why would it interest me, how could I relate? In this question I saw an opportunity to turn a root-tree structure of the brochure into a rhizomatic one.

I spent some days finding ways to form an impression on Lofoten. Commercials, internet comments, articles, Wikipedia, GoPro kayaking clips on Youtube. With those images and words on the back of my mind, I set about destroying the brochure, making collages and drawings as my I let my mind wander.
The brochure became a basis for my own connections - about Lofoten, places in my native Estonia, or just in my mind.

Seine

[over]water roads

review #1: complexity + assignment #2: imbrication

Layered Landscapes Lofoten

6 1/2

January 17 Tuesday - Review assignment #1: complexity

all students and teachers

08.45-17.30  Individual reviews in plenum, 15 minutes each

11.20-12.00  Lunch

January 18 Wednesday - #2: imbrication

lille auditorium

10.00-10.45  Assignment #2: imbrication       Gisle / all teachers

10.45-11.00  Break

11.00-11.45  Lecture imbrication - part 1       John Pløger

11.45-12.30  Lunch

12.30-13.15  Lecture: imbrication - part 2      John Pløger

13.15-14.00  Literature seminar                     John Pløger / all teachers 

q&a

Dear students,

we’ve received some questions:

- Assignment reviews will take place Tuesdays - your project should be uploaded no later than Monday evening. Introduction to the next theme and literature seminar Wednesdays.

- The study trip starts in Svolvær February 20 at 8.30. The last days of the trip will be spent in Fredvang/Ramberg (Flakstad kommune), we recommend you to stay at least Friday March 3 included (accommodation in Fredvang available until Sunday March 5 - mandatory tverrkurs starts in Bergen Monday March 6).

best regards from Lofoten

G+M

assignment #1 - complexity

Picture your self in any connection with Lofoten:

/ make a rhizome with a new production of subjectivity / consider the rhizome as a spatial connectivity of lines and plateaus / bring into play very different regimes of signs / connect any point, feature or trait to any other point / pursue complexification and reject reductionism

Tutoring Monday 9th January

Dear students, looking forward to talks with you on Monday. You split into groups of five. Please sign up for a time slot by clicking the link below. Then enter your name and pick an available slot. You can only reply once, so if you need to change groups you just fix that among your selves. I will be at BAS from 9 am on Monday. See you!

- Tone

#1 Complexity - Sign up here for tutoring