Fantastic Norway will lecture about their working methods and how to create culturally aware, sustainable and local developments.

Fantastic Norway will also be checking out a few potential projects for the practice throughout Mexico.

This year and perhaps for years to come, Fantastic Finland will continue to work with architecture from a bottom up perspective and evolving the methods established by Aasarød/Haffner in 2004-2007, futher. We expect fantastic projects and stunts to occur in Finnish forests, towns and cities during in the months to come.

We will be following Fantastic Finland closely and hope to establish Fantastic Sweden, Fantastic Denmark and who knows – maybe Fantastic Brazil in a not too distant future.

Let us know if you’re up for the challenge!

For decades the slides from the lectures remained tucked away in an attic in Nesodden. Saturday 29th of October at 1900 the slides will see the light of the projector once again, at Internasjonalen on Youngstorget.

The windows in Slide City are disjointed pieces of Per’s stories. Each window is a fragment of his life, thoughts and stories. Not unlike the fragments we see of other people’s life every day, through windows and brief meetings. Fragments you put together to new stories and fictions.

Dress up in your blackest clothing and have a glimpse at Per’s Slide City and enjoy drinks from Per’s selection of beverages!

The exhibition is designed by Fantastic Norway in close collaboration with Per Kartvedt. The project was managed by Fantastic Norway’s Lars Goossens.

The project was led by Dahl & Uhre architects (Tromsø), TNTnuuk A / S and MDH Architects (Oslo).

Additionall guests were: 42 architects + Regional associates (London), Asplan Viak landscape (Oslo), M: ARC and Arkitekti (Nuuk)) and Fantastic Norway.

Learn more about the project here!

Our design was not mainly a stand for 100% Norway, but first and foremost a flexible exhibition system that has the ability to adapt into different spaces: From small and narrow areas to larger halls and spaces.

The stand design consists of a series of triangles and squares and it employs aluminium poles and a wooden puzzle like floor. Our aim was to not make a retrospective and romantic stand, but rather create system with modern materials.

Our focus is that Norway should be promoted as a modern and hi-tech society. Throughout history our coastal culture has always had the ability to absorb new ideas, and has been adaptable during changing times. Therefore, Norwegians have in one way always been really modern.

The design and production was led by Lars Goossens (Fantastic Norway), in close colaboration with Bjørnar Gudbrandsen (NSI).

The focus on the conference was new types of processes within the field of architecture. Architects, scientists and others talked about processes using communication, exchange and participation in ways that provides architecture more power and new relevance.

For this occation Fantastic Norway made three short videos in colaboration with AntroFilm, to introduce the debates “communication, exchange and participation”.

Among others these are some of the main figures of the conference: Stefano boeri, Teddy Cruz, Jeffrey Inaba, Mark Miessen, Bijoy Jain, Eyal Weizman, Craig Dykers, Grete Female Country, Daniel DChange, Tina di Carlo and Carson Chan.

Jury statement (Norwegian):

“I år skal vi gjøre krus på en vinner som i høyeste grad har bidratt til økt arkitekturforståelse over det ganske land. Ved å stige ned fra fagfolkets høye hest og omsette akademiske termer til forståelige vendinger for folk flest, har arkitekturen kommet et stort skritt nærmere folket takket være kveldens skjermtroll.

Gjennom en flakkende nomadetilværelse har kveldens midtpunkt bedrevet oppsøkende virksomhet og arbeidet for å styrke arkitektens rolle som samfunnsbygger. Trikset er å gjøre seg forståelig der ute, noe mange av oss kollegaer har vanskelig for å forstå, uforståelig nok.

Uredd har vinneren også utfordret den fagetiske skikk og bruk ved å bedrive svært så uvanlig akkvisisjon og markedsføring. Ingen tvil om at vi her har å gjøre med noen som vet å tenke utenfor boksen og finne nye metoder og virkemidler for å bringe sine meningers mot ut i den store verden.

Vi kan formelig høre den gamle hvitfrakkede arkitekten snu seg i graven.

Alvorlig talt, slik gjør man da ikke!

Ikke bare belønnes en original måte å bedrive utstrakt arkitekturformidling på. Samtidig viser vinneren et godt grep om den praktiske siden av faget med spennende prosjekter på tegnebrettet. Merrittlisten er ikke så lang ennå, da dette er en relativt ung kandidat som, enn så lenge, hører hjemme i den lovende Wild Card underskogen.

Mye tyder imidlertid på at vi får se mange flere spennende prosjekter fra den kanten. Den uredde og utforskende tilnærmingen til enhver oppgave lover godt for eksemplarisk innovativ design i aller nærmeste fremtid.

Årets vinner(e) går heller ikke av veien for å pleie sin høye sosiale profil ved å være til de grader til stede ved de fleste sammenkomster. Det ligger i navnet at det her er snakk om noen med en ekspansiv og ublu adferd.

Snakk om linselus som liker å være i begivenhetens sentrum!

Juryen bøyer seg i nesegrus beundring for høye ambisjoner og stort pågangsmot, både på egne og fagets vegne”.