muddy zoning plans, uncanny building regulations, dancing with urban development codes, training unknown muscles, opening unknown eyes
Photo: Thor Brødreskift
I’m happy to participate in another Cross-Course with Floating University at Kristiansholm!
From the programme at Bergen Assembly’s website:
“Neighboring to BAS lies Kristiansholm, a site which soon will undergo radical changes. Dense private housing combined with public spaces will grow out on land, filled in where the sea once was.
Carrying forward the collective discoveries made on Kristiansholm during the last cross courses, we will explore the complex dynamics of urban planning, legal frameworks, and community engagement around its future development. Looking through the lens of Floating University's contested site in Berlin, we will navigate the layers of law, time and power at play here on the Bergen shoreline. We will critically examine the tensions between private interests, municipal agendas, and the supposed "common good".
What strategies do different actors (municipalities, developers, residents, planners, legal experts) employ to advance their own agendas. With conflicting laws, regulations and codes, how are community interests protected or sidelined? How can we create situations of empowerment, where architecture and planning show the actualisation of potentials?
The zoning plan for Kristiansholm, Sandvikstorget, and Rosegrenden has been submitted for public consultation and review and the second hearing round will take place at the end of January, just before our course.”