ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses a few studio courses as examples of how the programme aims at building knowledge on specific Subarctic conditions. It highlights the work performed in remote Arctic territories, as these are the most challenging pedagogically. Arctic and Subarctic landscapes have historically formed the margins of Europe and North America, both physically and symbolically. Difficult to access, they were mythologized and conceived of as outer territories that conveyed food and fur resources to administration centres. The raw landscape of Tunheim was a perfect training ground for founding a landscape architectural approach. The studio course ‘Svalbard — Fluid Territory’ used an iterative logic of giving and receiving to explore the potential future of the hyper-networked space of the Spitsbergen territory. A studio course like ‘Svalbard — Fluid Territory’ contributes to identify and narrate the impact of forces at work in a given geographically identifiable territory.
