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ARCTIC STATES SYMPOSIUM
Arctic Design Group | University of Virginia
April 17-19, 2015
www.arcticdesigngroup.org
FRIDAY, APRIL 17
@ OpenGrounds, 1400 University Avenue, UVA
6:30-9pm: KICK-OFF RECEPTION + POSTER EXHIBITION
7-7:30pm: OPENING REMARKS
Elizabeth K. Meyer // Dean & Merrill D. Peterson Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia School of Architecture
David J. Hayes // Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, Stanford Law School / Former Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior
John W. Farrell // Executive Director, U.S. Arctic Research Commission
SATURDAY, APRIL 18
@ Newcomb Hall Gallery, 3rd Fl., 180 McCormick Road, UVA
8:30am: COFFEE + LIGHT BREAKFAST
8:45am: INTRODUCTION BY ARCTIC DESIGN GROUP (ADG) DIRECTORS
Leena Cho + Matthew Jull // University of Virginia School of Architecture, USA
//////SESSION I ////// ONTOLOGIES OF SPACE, CARTOGRAPHIES, OFFWORLD, EXTREME TERRAINS
9am: “Land-Water-Ice: Making space for architecture in the Arctic”
Philip Steinberg // Professor of Political Geography, Durham University, UK
9:25am: “Operational Landscapes: Towards an Alternative Cartography of World Urbanization”
Daniel Ibañez // Research Manager, Harvard Urban Theory Lab, USA
9:50am: “Out of This World”
Geoff Manaugh // Writer, Curator, and Founder of BLDGBLOG, USA
10:15am: “Looking at Future Norths”
Janike Kampevold Larsen // Associate Professor, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway
10:40am: Discussion
Alex Wall, Moderator // Visiting Professor of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia, USA
11:05-11:15am: BREAK
//////SESSION II ////// MEGACITIES, EXPERIMENTAL TOWNS, URBAN FORMS AND TRAJECTORIES
11:15am: “Arctic Urbanization in Russia: Background, Cases, Prospects”
Sergei Sitar // Theory & History Module Leader, Moscow Architectural School, Russia
11:40am: “Contemporary issues of architecture in the space of the Siberian Far North and Arctic Russia”
Alexander Slabuha // Professor of Architectural Design, Siberian Federal University, Russia
12:05pm: “Urban Experiments: Through the Lens of Erskine’s Ecological Arctic Town”
Matthew Jull // Assistant Professor of Architecture, University of Virginia / Co-Principal, KUTONOTUK, USA
12:30pm: Discussion
Manuel Bailo Esteve, Moderator // Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Virginia, USA
12:55-2pm: LUNCH
//////SESSION III ////// SURVEYS, PROTOTYPES, ADAPTATIONS, AUTONOMOUS LIVING
2pm: “Designing a Resilient Future”
Judith Grunau // Project Manager, Cold Climate Housing Research Center, USA
2:25pm: “Many Norths: The Making of an Arctic Vernacular”
Lola Sheppard // Associate Professor of Architecture, University of Waterloo / Co-Founder, Lateral Office, Canada
2:50pm: “First Measures: Approaches and Pedagogies in the Far North”
David Garcia // Head of Institute, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts / Founder, MAP Architects, Denmark
3:15pm: “Polar Research Stations: Meeting the challenge of isolated living”
Hugh Broughton // Principal, Hugh Broughton Architects, UK
3:40pm: Discussion
Leena Cho, Moderator // Lecturer in Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia, USA
Matthew Jull, Moderator // Assistant Professor of Architecture, University of Virginia, USA
4:05-4:15pm: BREAK
4:15-5:30pm: POSTER PRESENTATIONS
Grga Basic + Ghazal Jafari, Harvard University, USA
Henry Brazer + F2013 Studio, University of Virginia, USA
Sean Chia, Olivia Heung + James Murray, SAMPLE / Harvard University, USA
Brandon Eck, Christina Griggs + F2014 Studio, University of Virginia, USA
Swarnabh Ghosh + John Farrace, Patent Office / Yale University, USA
Marthe Fjellestad, University of Bergen, NO
Zannah Matson + Christina Geros, Harvard University, USA
Anastasia Grigoryeva, McGill University, CAN
Susane Havelka, McGill University, CAN
Victoria Herrmann, University of Cambridge, UK
Katie MacDonald, Erin Pellegrino + Frederick Kim, Harvard University, USA
Maynard Leon, Harvard University, USA
Jennifer Livingston + Rachelle Trahan, University of Virginia, USA
Jamie McFadyen, University of Calgary, CAN
Pamela Ritchot, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
Alex Webb + Christopher Stewart (contributor), University of New Mexico, USA
5:30pm: CLOSING REMARKS
SUNDAY, APRIL 19
@ Newcomb Hall Gallery, 3rd Fl., 180 McCormick Road, UVA
9am: COFFEE + LIGHT BREAKFAST
9:30am: ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION: CRITIQUES, TRAJECTORIES, COLLABORATIONS
Leena Cho & Matthew Jull, Moderators // Arctic Design Group Co-Directors, University of Virginia, USA
10:30-12pm: CONVERSATIONS WITH STUDENTS
LUNCH + SNACK Editors // University of Virginia, USA
The Arctic States symposium is hosted by the Arctic Design Group at University of Virginia
School of Architecture, and is generously supported by the UVA Jefferson Trust and UVA
Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation. Our sincerest thanks to ADG advisors, Howie
Epstein, Baxter Gilliam, Jr., David Hayes, and John Norton Moore, and to our ADG team,
Karilyn Johanesen, Benjamin Scott, Henry Brazer, Dixi Wu, Artem Demchencko, Aigul
Kenzhegaliyeva, Mary Jo Bateman, Chrissie Holl-Hult, and Cynthia Smith.
HUGH BROUGHTON. Founder, Hugh Broughton Architects, United Kingdom.
Hugh Broughton set up his practice in 1995 in west London. Early projects included new visitor facilities at Blair Castle in Scotland and the British Council’s South
East Asia headquarters in Kuala Lumpur. More recently the practice completed the award winning gold copper alloy shingle clad East Wing of Maidstone Museum in
the south of England. In 2005 the practice won the international competition for the design of a new British research station in Antarctica, Halley VI. This extraordinary
project responds to awesome environmental challenges to create the first fully relocatable research base in the world and has led to other commissions in Polar Regions,
most notably for an Antarctic research station for Spain in the South Shetland Islands and the design of an atmospheric laboratory for the USA on the Greenland Ice
Cap. As a result Hugh is now considered one of the world’s leading designers of research facilities in the Polar Regions. Alongside their extreme portfolio, the practice’s
current workload includes an art gallery, the HQ for the Institution of Structural Engineers, a training centre for lawyers and an archive and visitor facilities for the
Foundation of the acclaimed artist, Henry Moore.
JOHN W. FARRELL, Ph.D. Executive Director, U.S. Arctic Research Commission, USA.
Dr. John Farrell is the Executive Director of the U.S. Arctic Research Commission, an independent federal agency of Presidential appointees that advises the White
House and Congress on Arctic research matters and works with executive branch agencies to establish and execute a national Arctic research plan. The Commission
also facilitates cooperation with local and state governments and recommends means for developing international scientific cooperation in the Arctic. Farrell previously
served as the Associate Dean of Research and Administration at the Graduate School of Oceanography at the University of Rhode Island. Before that, he was Director
of the international Ocean Drilling Program that involved over 20 nations and had an annual budget of approximately $65M/yr. The program was dedicated to advancing
scientific understanding of the Earth. Farrell helped organized and conduct the first successful international scientific ocean drilling expedition to the high Arctic in 2004.
He also participated in a US ocean mapping effort aboard the icebreaker US Coast Guard Cutter Healy in 2012. He obtained a Ph.D. and Sc.M. in geological sciences
from Brown University, and a B.A. in geology from Franklin and Marshall College. He was a NSF-funded Post-Doctoral Fellow at Brown University and an NSERC-funded
Senior Research Associate at the University of British Columbia, in Vancouver, Canada.
DAVID A. GARCIA. Founder, MAP Architects | Head of Institute, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture (KADK), Denmark.
MAP Architects is a young and dynamic practice run by Architect David Garcia. Our work often focuses on extreme environments, from the Arctic to deserts, from
flood zones to highly polluted areas. The studio spans various scales, aiming to challenge the status-quo through inventiveness and a constant collaboration with
pure and applied sciences. We truly believe that what exists is only a small part of what is possible, and we design driven by this principle, to deliver resilient and
innovative solutions for the built environment. Architect David A. Garcia was born in Barcelona, Spain in 1970, and raised in Canada. He graduated from The Bartlett
School of Architecture, London in 2002. He has worked at Foster and Partners, London and was an associate partner in Henning Larsen Architects until 2011. He has
been an active docent since 2002, being program director in Lund, Sweden, and at The Bartlett, UK. Since 2013, he is an Associate Professor, Head of the Institute of
Architecture and Technology at the Royal Danish Art Academy, School of Architecture, Copenhagen, where he also directs a two year Master course in Architecture and
Extreme Environments. In 2007 he was awarded a prestigious 3-year bursary grant from the Danish Art Council, and was selected to represent the Danish pavilion at
the 13th Venice Biennale of Architecture “Future Greenland.”
JUDITH GRUNAU. Project Manager, Cold Climate Housing Research Center, USA.
The Cold Climate Housing Research Center (CCHRC), located in Fairbanks, AK, is an industry-based, nonprofit corporation. Its mission is to promote and advance the
development, use, and testing of energy-efficient, durable, healthy, and cost-effective building technologies for people living in circumpolar regions around the globe. It
was conceived and developed by members of the Alaska State Home Builders Association in 1999 and represents more than 1,200 building industry firms and groups.
Alaska’s diverse climates offer an excellent testing ground for cold-climate technologies and products. The organization has an interdisciplinary approach with programs
focusing on building science research, sustainable design and construction, policy research, and education. Judith is an Architectural Designer and Project Manager at
CCHRC. Her career has focused on humanitarian relief, green building, and sustainable community design. After earning her Bachelor of Architecture at Virginia Tech,
she developed her professional skills and green-building knowledge through architectural practices in India, Virginia, and Alaska. She is a LEED AP BD+C, a former
Board Member of the Cascadia Green Building Council, and current Co-Leader of the Living North Congress of the International Living Future Institute. At CCHRC,
Judith leads projects in the Sustainable Northern Communities Program, working closely with the residents of Anaktuvuk Pass to create energy efficient, culturally
appropriate, healthy housing, and in the village of Crooked Creek and for Aviation Student Housing in Bethel, Alaska.
DAVID HAYES. Distinguished Visting Lecturer, Stanford Law School | Former Deputy Secretary, U.S. Department of the Interior (2009-13), USA.
David J. Hayes is a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Stanford Law School. He is also a Visiting Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress. Prior to
teaching at Stanford, Hayes served as the Deputy Secretary and Chief Operating Officer of the Department of the Interior from 2009 until July, 2013. Hayes focused
on energy, climate change, conservation and Indian issues during his tenure at Interior. On the energy and climate change front, he was a key leader in facilitating the
approval of more than 13,000 megawatts of renewable energy projects on public lands and offshore waters. On the conservation front, Hayes worked to protect sensitive
landscapes and resources by introducing new planning approaches for energy and water development. Hayes was designated by the President’s Executive Order
13580 to l​ead the Administration’s energy development and permitting activities in Alaska and, in discharging those responsibilities, he advocated for a comprehensive
“Integrated Arctic Management” approach to addressing conservation and development issues in the Alaskan Arctic. Hayes also helped develop the U.S. response to
the international wildlife trafficking crisis, and is currently serving as Vice Chair of the President’s Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking. On American Indian and Alaska
Native matters, Hayes worked with the Alaska Native community to develop small-scale renewable energy projects for off-the-grid, diesel power-dependent villages.
Hayes previously served as counselor to the Secretary of the Interior and then as Deputy Secretary from 1997 to 2001 in the Clinton Administration.
DANIEL IBAÑEZ. Research Manager, Harvard Graduate School of Design Urban Theory Lab, USA.
The Urban Theory Lab (UTL) at the Harvard Graduate School of Design in Cambridge, MA seeks to promote experimental theoretical forays into emergent urban
conditions and urbanizations around the world. Through a combination of research and pedagogy, the Lab’s aim is to mobilize the resources of theory to help advance
the collective project of understanding and shaping the contemporary urbanization process. Daniel Ibañez is a research manager at UTL, practicing architect and
urbanist, and a Doctor of Design candidate and teaching fellow at Harvard University. As part of his doctoral efforts, Daniel has organized conferences on Projective
Views on Urban Metabolism (Harvard GSD, 2014) and Wood Urbanism: From the Molecular to the Territorial (Harvard GSD, 2014). He is on the editorial board of New
Geographies journal, co-editor in chief of New Geographies 06: Grounding Metabolism (HUP, 2014), co-editor of Thermodynamics Applied to High-Rise and Mix-Use
Prototypes (Harvard GSD, 2013) and co-editor of Third Coast Atlas (forthcoming Actar, 2015). Daniel received his Masters of Architecture from Escuela Técnica Superior
de Arquitectura de Madrid in 2007. In addition, he holds a post-professional Master in Advance Architecture from the Institute for Advance Architecture of Catalunya
with distinction. In 2012, he completed a Masters in Design Studies in Urbanism, Landscape and Ecology with distinction from the Harvard Graduate School of Design.
JANIKE KAMPEVOLD LARSEN. Associate Professor, Institute of Urbanism and Landscape, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, Norway.
Janike Kampevold Larsen is Associate Professor at the Institute of Urbanism and Landscape at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design. She is project leader for
Future North, a research project observing and mapping changes in settlements and territories in subarctic regions. She is also project leader of the newly established
Tromsø Academy of Landscape and Territorial Studies. Recent research includes work on the Norwegian Tourist Routes as part of the research project Routes, Roads
and Landscapes, aesthetic practices en route 1750-2015. The 2012 project Landscape Journeys invited an interdisciplinary group of researcher to perform collaborative
and investigative travels on Iceland and the Kola Peninsula, investigating the journey as a method for observations of landscapes of energy and entropy. Recent
publications include: Routes, Roads and Landscapes, Hvattum, Brenna, Elvebakk, Kampevold Larsen (eds), (London: Ashbury Publishing Ltd 2012), “Global Tourism
Practices as Lived Heritage: Viewing the Norwegian Tourist Routes”, in Future Anterior, Otero-Pailos (ed), Vol IX, No1, Summer 2012, and “Imagining the Geologic”, in
Making a Geologic Now, Ellsworth/Kruse (eds), (New York: Punctum Book, 2013), and “Geologic Presence in the 21centry wilderness garden,” in Studies in the History
of Gardens and Designed Landscapes, John D Hunt (editor), 2014.
GEOFF MANAUGH. Writer, Curator & Founding Author of BLDGBLOG, USA.
Geoff Manaugh is a freelance writer and curator. His work has appeared in The New York Times, New Scientist, Popular Science, Domus, newyorker.com, and
many other publications, including multiple books, exhibition catalogs, and artist monographs. He lectures regularly on topics related to architecture and landscape
at venues around the world, including the Australian National Architecture Conference, Harvard GSD, and the Bauhaus Universität inWeimar. Manaugh is also the
author of BLDGBLOG (http://bldgblog.blogspot.com), a long-running online catalog of spatial ideas and innovations at various scales and in many genres. In 2010,
in collaboration with Nicola Twilley, Manaugh curated an exhibition exploring the spatial implications of quarantine for New York’s Storefront for Art and Architecture.
In 2012, he curated a 2,000-square foot exhibition called Landscape Futures, exploring the intersection of digital technology and landscape design, for the Nevada
Museum of Art in Reno. Manaugh is former director of Studio-X NYC at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation, and his
newest book, investigating the relationship between burglary and architecture, is forthcoming from Farrar, Straus and Giroux in October 2015.
LOLA SHEPPARD. Associate Professor, University of Waterloo | Founding Partner, Lateral Office, Canada.
Lateral Office is a design-research studio maintained by Lola Sheppard and Mason White and based in Toronto, Canada. Lateral Office are co-authors of “Pamphlet
Architecture: Coupling / Strategies for Infrastructural Opportunism” published by Princeton Architectural Press; and authors of the forthcoming “Many Norths” published
by Actar. The studio has been recognized with several awards and merits including: the 2013 Progressive Architecture Award; the 2012 Arctic Inspiration prize; the 2011
Holcim Foundation for Sustainable Construction Gold Award; the 2011 Emerging Voices award from the Architectural League of New York; the 2010 Canada Council for
the Arts Professional Prix de Rome. The firm was selected to represent Canada with “Arctic Adaptations” at the 2014 Venice Biennale in Architecture, which received
a Special Mention from the international jury.
ALEXANDER SLABUHA, Ph.D. Professor of Architectural Design & Chair of Institute of Architecture and Design, Siberian Federal University, Russia.
Alexander Slabuha is Professor or Architecture and Chair of Institute of Architecture and Design at the Siberian Federal University. He supervises Master’s program
“Restoration and Protection of Architectural Heritage”, and postgraduate preparation on the scientific specialty of “Theory and History of Architecture, Restoration and
Reconstruction of Historical and Architectural Heritage”. Professor Slabuha’s research is concentrated within architecture of Siberia and Far North - from historical
experience of town-planning development of remote provincial territories, and preservation and restoration of unique objects of historical and architectural heritage, to
modern problems of architectural environment for adaptation in severe climatic conditions. He is an adviser of the Russian Academy of Architecture and Construction
Sciences; State expert in carrying out the state historical and cultural examination; member of the Union of Architects of Russia; and author of books and scientific
articles about architecture and professional works of architects of Siberia and Far North in the 20th century.
SERGEI SITAR. Theory & History Module Leader, Moscow Architectural School | Theory Editor, Project International, Russia.
Sergei Sitar is a Russian-born architect and urban planner. He graduated from the Moscow Architectural Institute and studied at the Southern California Institute
of Architecture in Los Angeles. Since 1995, he has been collaborating with Bart Goldhoorn on the architectural magazine Project Russia, combining this work with
architectural and design practices, various exhibition projects and architectural criticism. He participated in international research projects on education and urbanism,
including the project Shrinking Cities, implemented in 2002-2005. Since 2001, he has worked as deputy editor and later as a head of the theory department of
architectural magazine Project International. Sitar lectures, teaches and participates in development of strategic plans for regional Russian cities. He is a Theory and
History module leader at the Moscow Architectural School (MARCH) - a collaboration with London Metropolitan University, and is a member of Russian Union of
Architects.
PHILIP STEINBERG, Ph.D. Professor of Political Geography + Director, IBRU: Centre for Borders Research, Durham University, United Kingdom.
Philip Steinberg (http://philsteinberg.wordpress.com) is Professor of Political Geography at Durham University and Associate Editor of Political Geography. At Durham,
he is Director of IBRU: Durham University’s Centre for Borders Research and he also coordinates the ICE LAW Project (the Project on Indeterminate and Changing
Environments: Law, the Anthropocene, and the World). Phil’s research focuses on the projection of social power onto spaces whose geophysical and geographic
characteristics make them resistant to state territorialisation – spaces that include the world-ocean, the universe of electronic communication, and the Arctic. His
publications include The Social Construction of the Ocean (Cambridge, 2001), Managing the Infosphere: Governance, Technology, and Cultural Practice in Motion
(Temple, 2008), What Is a City? Rethinking the Urban after Hurricane Katrina (Georgia, 2008), and Contesting the Arctic: Politics and Imaginaries in the Circumpolar
North (I.B. Tauris, 2015), as well as recent articles in journals including Annals of the Association of American Geographers, Society & Space, Ocean Development &
International Law, Antipode, Polar Geography, Polar Record, and Atlantic Studies.
MANUEL BAILO ESTEVE, Ph.D. Moderator; Associate Professor & Director, Urban Design Certificate Program, University of Virginia | Co-Principal, BailoRull ADD+.
Manuel is Founder of BAILORULL ADD+ in Barcelona in 1995 with Rosa Rull. Their design work includes a wide range of projects, from urban to interior scales. Some
examples are: GardenHouse 0.96; Hotel Ciutat d’Igualada, and Façade-Steps Landscape of Manresa Town Hall. Their works have been widely published and acclaimed,
including the exhibitions at On Site:New Spanish Architecture, MoMA Museum of New York in 2006, and have been awarded the prestigious international Contracworld
Award, First “Annual Commercial Space Award”, and Spanish Award FAD. His Ph.D. research “Urban Catalyst” investigates contemporary urbanity and public spaces.
Prior to joining UVA, Manuel taught for 14 years at the Urban Department at the Escola Tecnica d’Arquitectura de Barcelona.
LEENA CHO. Moderator; Lecturer in Landscape Architecture & Co-Director, Arctic Design Group, University of Virginia | Founding Principal, KUTONOTUK.
Leena Cho is a founding partner of the design practices KUTONOTUK and TempAgency, and is a Lecturer in landscape architecture and urban and environmental
planning at the University of Virginia. Her research focuses on hydrodynamics, water infrastructure, water and weather, and arctic landscape and urbanism. Her design
work has won numerous awards such as Europan 11 (First Prize) , Helsinki Guggenheim Museum Competition (Honorable Mention - 2015), Helsinki Central Library
Competition (Honorable Mention - 2013), and MoMA PS1 Young Architects Program (Runner-Up - 2013), and has been published internationally including in MARK,
Shinkenchiku, ELA, and Domus, as well as being exhibited at MoMA New York, Bunkkeri Helsinki, Kunsthalle Helsinki, and the Danish Pavilion at the 2012 Venice
Biennale. Prior to joining UVA, she was a landscape architect and urbanist at Maxwan / Rients Dijkstra in Rotterdam, NL. She served as 2014 research fellow at the
Landscape Architecture Foundation based in Washington D.C.
MATTHEW JULL, Ph.D. Moderator; Assistant Professor of Architecture & Co-Director, Arctic Design Group, University of Virginia | Founding Principal, KUTONOTUK.
Matthew Jull is a founding partner of the design practices KUTONOTUK and TempAgency, and is an Assistant Professor in the School of Architecture at the University
of Virginia. His research focuses on systems and processes of architecture and urbanization in extreme environments, specifically in arctic Russia and North America.
He is co-founder of the Arctic Design Group at UVA with Leena Cho, and his design work has won numerous awards such as those from the Helsinki Guggenheim
Museum Competition (Honorable Mention - 2015), Helsinki Central Library Competition (Honorable Mention - 2013) and MoMA PS1’s Young Architects Program
(Runner-Up - 2013), and has been featured in publications internationally, as well as being exhibited at MoMA New York, Bunkkeri Helsinki, Kunsthalle Helsinki, and
the Danish Pavilion at the 2012 Venice Biennale. Jull received his MArch from Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design and his PhD in theoretical geophysics
from Cambridge University. Prior to joining UVA, he was an architect and project leader at OMA/Rem Koolhaas in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, where ihe is currently
a registered architect.
ALEX WALL. Moderator; Visiting Professor of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, University of Virginia.
Alex Wall received his Diploma at the Architectural Association, London. He is a former Professor of Urban Design at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany. He
has been a partner of UMnet, where together with `asp` Stuttgart, he has won several national and international design and planning competitions. His books include
Cities of Childhood (1989), Victor Gruen (2005), and in preparation with Sabine Mueller, Welcome – urbanisms and sustainabilities. His articles include “Programming
the Surface” (1999) and, with Susan N. Snyder, “Emerging Landscapes of Movement and Logistics” (1998) and “The Future is Already Here” (2014).