Inventing Greenland

Name: Inventing Greenland
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Designing an Arctic Nation

By Bert De Jonghe

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Inventing Greenland is a critical collection of narratives exploring Greenland's evolving landscape shaped by imagination, projections, and ambitions from diverse actors. Specifically aimed at designers, the book weaves spatial understanding with Greenland's rich cultural, social, and environmental realities, addressing the Arctic nation's transformation and its historical and current challenges.

Anchored in architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism, each story reflects on how various groups—from Inuit hunters and Vikings to modern governments and investors—have perceived and influenced Greenland's unique environment, offering insights relevant to those involved in the rapidly developing Arctic.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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Ideal for architects, landscape architects, urban planners, and design professionals interested in Arctic environments, as well as scholars and students focusing on regional and vernacular architecture.

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Inventing Greenland is a critical and timely assemblage of stories highlighting a shifting landscape, one born from the imagination, projections, and ambitions of a wide range of actors. Geared towards a design audience, this book combines spatial sensibilities with Greenland's local cultural, social, and environmental realities. Inventing Greenland is a critical and timely assemblage of stories highlighting a shifting landscape, one born from the imagination, projections, and ambitions of a wide range of actors.

Today, especially within the design discipline, there is a lack of understanding of Greenland as a complex constellation of perspectives, histories, and forces. This book aims to fill that knowledge vacuum. Geared towards architects, landscape architects, and urban planners, this book combines spatial sensibilities with local cultural, social, and environmental realities. More specifically, spatial sensibility is a way of responding to and reading beyond a diverse array of relationships in the built environment.

Furthermore, Inventing Greenland provides a broad understanding of a unique island undergoing intense transformation while drawing attention to its historical and current challenges and emerging opportunities.

Distinctly, each individual story is anchored to a common thread and interest in architecture, landscape architecture, and urbanism. Such discourse may serve to prepare designers at large as they take on projects in a rapidly developing Arctic. In the past, the extremeness of Greenland's landscape did not impede the first immigration of Inuit hunting tribes, Norsemen from becoming Greenland Vikings, and European explorers from searching for new trade routes and eventually reaching the North Pole. Every single one of them read, saw, and understood the Greenlandic landscape differently, while projecting their hopes and dreams onto new landscapes, seascapes, and icescapes.

As will become apparent, similar hopes and dreams of the early settlers and explorers continue in postcolonial times in a different set of actors, among them the U.S. military, foreign investors, and an Inuit-run government.

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Midwest Book Review praises the book as "impressively researched, written, organized and presented," recommending it especially for readers interested in Regional Architecture, Vernacular Architecture, and Landscape Architecture. It is described as a unique and highly recommended addition to academic collections.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781638409892

Publisher: Actar Publishers

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 August 2022

Country: United States

Imprint: Actar Publishers

Contributors:

Edited by Mia M. Bennett

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 165.0mm

Height: 234.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 160

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About the Author

Bert De Jonghe is a Belgian landscape architect, founder of Transpolar Studio, and a graduate student at Harvard University. He earned his Master of Landscape Architecture degree at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design after completing a Bachelor of Landscape and Garden Architecture at the School of Arts in Ghent. He has worked as a research assistant at Harvard GSD's Office for Urbanization and with landscape architecture office Bureau Bas Smets in Brussels. Bert's recent publications include a co-authored article published in Marine Policy journal, called "The opening of the Transpolar Sea Route: Logistical, geopolitical, environmental, and socioeconomic impacts." Mia M. Bennett is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at the University of Hong Kong. Through fieldwork and remote sensing, she researches the geopolitics of development in northern frontiers, namely the Arctic, Russian Far East, and along the more remote corridors of China's Belt and Road Initiative. Mia received a PhD in Geography from the University of California, Los Angeles, where she was a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow, and an MPhil in Polar Studies from the University of Cambridge, where she was a Gates Scholar. She has published extensively in academic and public outlets and edits a long-running blog on the Arctic at cryopolitics.com.