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Current
Sea of opportunities
In the 2011/12 academic
year, laba`s investigation
on ocean territories led to
the Barents Sea, north of
Norway, in collaboration
with the Oslo School of
Architecture and Design.
Student groups developed
five Territorial Constitutions
for the Barents Sea and
went on to develop thirteen
architectural projects
exercising the articles of the
constitutions within the topic
“Exploring Infrastructure-
Living and Working in the
Barents Sea”. A 10-day
workshop to the Barents
region took place between
the two project phases.
CH16M2048
We will be studying a
hypothetical Switzerland
in 2048 with 16 million
inhabitants. It is clear that
this increase in population
will put enormous pressure
on the existing urban,
suburban and rural areas.
We believe that simply
continuing today’s planning
policies and practices for
the next 40 years is not an
appropriate response, given
the scale of the predicted
changes. It seems to us, that
a more radical reevaluation
and proposal is needed.
CH16M2048 will thus
be raising fundamental
questions about how our
territory is planned and how
it develops.
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