EVENT/ International workshop in collaboration with the Research Centre for Manors in the Baltic Sea Region at the Alfried Krupp Insitute for Advanced Studies, 8–9 Novembre 2023

In recent years, resilience has experienced increasing meaning and has become both a buzzword and a guiding principle in the face of various crises and hazards. The workshop focuses in the question how to adapt the term to analyze historical and ongoing transformation processes of Nordic landscapes. By asking how to build the capacity to deal with and how to shape change, we are interested in examining how the trajectories of preservation, resistance, and transformation relate to each other. 

Although interpreted differently in human science and planning professions, the common ground is the ability of systems to adapt and recover from shocks. Thus, resilience is also captured in research as a learning process and an option to withstand future unpredictable catastrophes.

The workshop will focus on urban and rural landscapes in northern Europe (Baltic Sea region and Scandinavia) to determine whether resilience can be made sustainable as a guiding principle and model for coping with the profound changes in landscapes in the Anthropocene. By asking what makes cities, gardens, and landscapes resilient, we aim to address how change is to be understood as an immanent characteristic of resilience in the landscape context: is it about short-term reactions or long-term transformation? Is it about stability through transformation or maintaining certain qualities despite transformation? What is and how does it deal with the connection of design interventions, nature, and society?

Therefore, resilience will be examined as a cultural and planning practice on the one hand and as a negotiation process on the other. Combining the humanities, natural sciences, and planning professions, we want to explore the capacities of resilience concerning reflecting resilience strategies and discourses in the humanities and in planning professions on their transferability and differences between various landscapes.

PROGRAM

Wednesday / 8. November 2023

16.00 Welcome and Introduction

16.30–17.30
Chair: Gesa zur Nieden  

• Art and Existential Resilience: Three Lessons from the Realm of Aesthetics
  Max Liliefors (Lund)

18.00 KEYNOTE LECTURE
Chair: Martin Schnittler (Greifswald)

• Northern Europe as a Landscape
  Hansjörg Küster (Hannover)

Reception

Thursday / 9. November 2023

9.30–11.00 
Chair: Wibke Müller

• Resilience, Climax Thinking, and Landscapes
  Hannes Palang (Tallinn)
• Architectural Resilience As Principled Approach – Experiments In Research, Teaching And Practice Exploring The Potential Of Seasonality In Baltic Vernacular Architecture
  Susanne Brorson (Hamburg)

Tea&Coffee Break 

11.30 – 13.00
Chair: Thomas Wilke

• Imaginations of Transformation? Urban Development Models and Resilience
  Katja Bernhardt (Lüneburg)
• Integrating Cloudburst-Water into a New Urbane Area
  Anne Dorthe Vestergaard (Aarhus)

Lunch

14.15 – 16.45
Chair: Antje Kempe

• Electric Pridescapes
  Friedrich Kuhlmann (Tartu)
• Scandinavian SciArtscape: Social-Ecological Resilience as Conveyed Through Art. A Critical Multimodal Perspective
  Marta Skorek (Gdańsk)
• The Resilient Historic Garden - the Future of Garden Monument Preservation?
  Caroline Rolka (Neubrandenburg)

Concluding Remarks