Course code: AAR4540 Course title: Urbanism/Byutvikling Credits: 15.0

Course responsible: Ole Møystad Teachers: Jørgen Skatland Erik Hofsbro

Language: Norwegian or English Web page: www.urbantriggers.net

Theory course: AAR4851 Urban Triggers Credits: 7.5 GASTRONOMY AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT IN TRØNDELAG

SYMBIOSIS LEVELS One common denominator of lively The course is based upon a and sustainable cities is that they stratification of the region in three develop through a close exchange, levels: the primary city (), a symbiosis, with the region secondary cities and towns and rural surrounding them. Together with areas. The difference between city their surroundings, these cities form and surrounding areas is constituted an urban field of man-made by density and ecological balance environments. Any development rather than cultural, political or within this field is driven by the social distinctions. tension between homogeneity and difference, between simplicity and TRØNDELAG complexity. The region around the Trondheim has been the foodbowl of Central since the stone age. No region in Norway has an equally

stable climate and correspondingly

stable yield of food.

THE HUB REGIONAL CENTRE THE COURSE The Trondheim fjord furthermore The combination of safe ports and will explore the exchange between forms a hub with secure ports, a reliable supply of food from both sea Trondheim as regional capital and direct access to the coast of the and land on one hand, and the the field of secondary towns and north and south, as well as the strategic network of sea and land surrounding areas with agriculture, ocean to the west. On land the routes from north, east, west and fisheries and industry. The framing valleys eastwards to Sweden and south made Trøndelag a natural of the study will be production, southwards through the inland centre as the new kingdom of processing, transportation, trade regions all the way down to Oslo and Norway was formed during the late and consuming of food, with a main the Oslo Fjord. 700s. The centre of the region emphasis on the role of agriculture became, and still is, the city of and gastronomy as drivers of the Trondheim. urban development between centre and periphery in Middle Norway. . URBAN TRIGGER TOOLS AND METHOD

The course will adopt methods and The semester will be structured in 6 tools developed by the Urban work packages (WP). WP1 and Trigger Group (see the Urban WP2 are based on digital tools. Trigger Group Anthology). The first WP1 is an exercise in harvesting half of the semester will provide relevant information from internet. lectures and exercises in UTG WP2 is an intensive course and methods, based on project exercise in using digital tools to examples. These inputs are part of visualize, analyse, and the 15 ects composing the studio communicate the information from course. In addition there will be a WP1. 7,5 ects lecture course, AAR4851 Urban Trigger Knowledge. The course as a whole is structured complexity. The course is based as teaching-based R&D. The first upon a stratification of the region half consists of data collection, in three levels: the primary city mapping and analysis directed (Trondheim), secondary cities (such towards identifying interesting as ) and towns and rural problems. This part is completed by areas. The difference between city designing and presenting a project and surrounding areas is proposal for the mid-term crit. The constituted by density and second part of the course, WP6, ecological balance rather than consists of working out the project cultural, political or social proposal and present a strategy for distinctions. actual project-based urban development. Ill.: Ane Aasen, Trine Breen, Margrete Fauskanger, Eva Vanderheyden

The course as a whole is structured as teaching-based R&D. The first half consists of data collection, mapping and analysis directed towards identifying interesting problems. This part is completed by designing and presenting a project proposal for the mid-term crit. The second part of the course, WP6, consists of working out the project proposal and present a strategy for actual project-based urban development. WP1 WP2 WP3 WP4 WP5 WP6 Homework, gathering Urban Trigger tools Investigate Strategy in selected Project proposal Project design information on Middle and methods. gastronomy/agriculture cases Norway, Trondheim Exercise in using the in selected towns. and its region - from tools and the Mid-term FINAL JURY - 30.11 internett. methods on the JURY 2 - 25.09 JURY 3 - 01.10 JURY 6 - 15.10 FINAL GRADES 07.12 material collected in FIELD WORK 1 WP1. Excursion in week 41 25-26.08 in Trondheim and its region. JURY 1 - 03.09 Planned excursion to Amsterdam-Brussels (if possible) FIELD WORK 2 16-18.09 Visit to AMS Project office (Advanced Metropolitan Solutions) and (case studies) project office forThe Amsterdam Doughnut Plan. See also The Guardian on Amsterdams doughnut model. For more about the Brussels and Flanders region: https://urbact.eu/belgium For more information see: WWW.URBANTRIGGERS.NET