OSLO TRIENNALE + WORKSHOP WITH CRISTOPHE GIROT

A new event for your calendar : the seminar (Re)presenting landscapes of motion / wednesday 29.09 / kl. 12-14, @ AHO Big Auditorium. This seminar is organized by AHO as part of the Oslo Triennale 2010 program, and invites three international guests to talk and debate around current landscapes of mobility and the representation of them. Taking part in this seminar is very recommended (actually compulsory) to all of you!

here a link to the event webpage:

> (Re)presenting landscapes of motion

Besides - we will have the privilege and pleasure to spend an additional hour after the seminar in conversation with Prof.Christophe Girot from ETH-Zürich. This small session - taking palce the same wednesday between 15 and 16 - has been specifically organized for our landscape students (i.e. you!) and it ir super-important that you take part, and also prepare for the discussion to be as informative and interesting for you as possible.

Christophe Girot is Full Professor and Chair of the Landscape Architecture at ETH Zürich since 2001, after having chaired the Landscape Design Department at École Nationale Supérieure du Paysage, Versailles 1990 – 2000. He holds a double masters degree in architect and landscape architecture, and is a consistent mediator between practice and theory and an inventive contributor to the theoretical field in landscape urbanism. Emphasis lies on new media in landscape analysis and perception, recent history and theory of landscape design – as well as contemporary large-scale urban landscapes. Girot practices landscape architecture in Zürich.
His built projects include Invaliden Park in Berlin, as well as several projects in and around Paris. His current projects include the 1000 hectare Landscape Study of Quartu Sant’Elena in Sardinia , a 34 hectare Deposito di Sigirino for AlpTransit in Tessin and a landscape park in Rorschach for the Würth headquarters on Lake Constance with Gigon-Guyer architects.
Publications include Landscape Video from Zürich, Cadrages II: Blicklandschaften ZH, (with Zabine Wolf), ETH, 2010, and contributions to numerous international publications such as Landscape Urbanism, A Reader, Charles Waldheim (ed.) and Future Cities – Kerb 16.

In “The margins of Vision” Christophe Girot argues that “our aesthetic detachment from the landscapes of the present in tremendous and […] requires a re-education of the eye of the observer”, implying a profound critique of the two dimensional representation. The text is based on the ongoing work at ETH to explore video as a tool for landscape representation, one that is able to convey our contemporary experiences of speed, movement and of ordinary roadsides.

Here is a link to the LandscapeVideo research lab at ETH, where you can find some informative texts, and video examples from Zürich students' works.

> LandscapeVideo

Just start browsing through the website! Then on friday afternoon we will more specifically discuss with you how the time with Prof.Girot will be organized and how to prepare for the workshop, and we will also distribute two printed texts for you to read on the theoretical framework of Prof.Girot's research at ETH.

Looking forward!