I am rooted, but I flow : Exploring the need for alternative ways of ecosystemic valuation by interdisciplinary representational methods, embracing nomadism, refusing fixity

• Main Author: Juntti, Tuvalie
• Format: Bachelor Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: UmeÃ¥ universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid UmeÃ¥ universitet 2024
• Subjects: posthumanism; anthropocentrism; transdisciplinarity; situatedness; regional planning; Architecture; Arkitektur; Jokkmokk; Norrbotten
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-227082

The growing global affliction of ‘inhumanism’ is shaking our surroundings. Landscapes of resource extraction, agroindustrial production, energy and information circulation, waste management and geopolitical strategies, also known as Operational Landscapes, has made it an urgent necessity to reclaim human agency and accountability to resist environmental and social collapse driven by contemporary capitalist geopolitics and biotechnologies of control. This report utilizes a rural place far north - Gállok, situated in Jokkmokk Municipality, Norrbotten County, as a case study to explore alternative methods of being present on and representing place. Site-writing, as a methodology is used to test as well as to inform the structure of this thesis and its research. Through the site-writings of Gállok a set of acts (I-V ) serves as parallel narratives to the scientific research, emphasizing the importance of each chapter of the report. Gállok was chosen as case to highlight the challenging relationship between a place and its embodiments, to the broader environmental and socio-political context as it potentially faces a completely new and challenging function, as a mining site. The research aims to explore and reveal the impacts that human-orchestrated use of space has on nature, why these impacts occur and how they can be rethought through transdisciplinary approaches. Through the design project, the layers that are part of a place are the layers that are part of Gállok, as a place, are further explored, as how disturbances affect the layers among themselves, to finally speculate on how an increased understanding of the embedded layers and their conditions can influence architecture and urban and regional planning processes. The design project, called The Air We Breathe, focuses on air and its quality as one of the most important common denominators for all life on Earth, yet a system that we, through anthropocentrism, are destroying to our own detriment. The idea of this essay and the design project is not to ...