Programme Northern Housing Forum/Borealis Conference 2012

March 5th – 9th, Alta Norway

Monday 5

08.00 – 22.00 Technical tour:The Sapmi experience: Visit to Sámi University College in Kautokeino and The Sami Parliament in Karasjok.

Tuesday 6

08.00 – 17.00 Technical tour:   Melkøya, The LNG fabric of Snohvit, Arktisk Culture Centre, The museum of reconstruction for Finnmark and Northern Troms.

19.30 – 22.30: ICE BREAKER PARTY- Student House City. Speaker: Special Advisor Arne O. Holm, Norwegian Center of High North Studies, Bodø, Norway

Wednesday 7

08.00 - 09.00 Finnmark University College Alta
Registration

09.00 – 09.15 Culture Hall, Finnmark University College, Alta, Norway

Opening addresses by Sveinung Eikeland, Principal of Finnmark University College, Cultural program

Before lunch

09.15 – 12.00


SESSION 1 – NORTHERN DESIGN

Moderator: Senior Researcher Cecilie Flyen Oeyen, SINTEF Byggforsk, Oslo, Norway

  • Presentation of Arctic Culture House in Hammerfest A-Lab Architects, Oslo,Norway
  • Presentation of The Sami Parliament in Karasjok Architect Stein Halvorsen, Stein Halvorsen Architects, Oslo, Norway
  • Planet North and Spaceships that land there Architect Tony Zedda, Kobayashi Zedda Architects, Whitehorse, Canada
  • How to create resilient places that are livable today and sustainable tomorrow? Associate,Architect Kristian Skovbakke Villadsen, Gehls Architects, Copenhagen, Denmark.


12.00 – 13.00 Lunch at Finnmark University College 

After lunch

13.00 – 17.00

SESSION 2 – CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE NORTH

Moderator: Energy Specialist Mimi Burbage, Alaska Housing Finance Corporation, Anchorage, Alaska, US

  • Continuity and change in the image of the High NorthProfessor Kjell Olsen, Finnmark University College, Alta, Norway
  • Sustainable Housing and CommunitiesA Northern Design Process, Senior Researcher Bill Semple, Canada Mortage Housing Corporation, Montreal, Canada
  • Documentary film Ass. Professor Kristin Nikolaisen/Beate Nesheim, Finnmark University College, Alta, Norway
  • Indigenous Wisdom – 21th Century Technology President Jack Hebert, Cold Climate Research Centre, Fairbanks, Alaska, US

19.00
Dinner at Sorrisniva
Speaker during dinner: Exercises in Indigenuity: Building Homes for Community Life-Enhancement
Keynote Speaker  Dr Daniel Wildcat, Haskell Indian Nations University, Lawrence, Kansas, US

Welcome by Head of Finnmark College University

Thursday 8

Before lunch

09.00 – 12.00
SESSION 3 – SOCIAL HOUSING, MOBILITIES AND RURALITIES

Moderator: Dean Ingvar Hauge, Finnmark Univesity College, Alta, Finnmark

  • Housing People First in a Northern Climate Director Mark Romick, Planning and Program Development, Alaska Housing Finance Corporation, Anchorage, Alaska, US
  • Highly Skilled Migrants Entering the Labour Market: The role of Gender and Place Ass. Professor Marit Aure, University of Tromsoe, Norway
  • “Ways of Knowing”: design and self-determination in Denendeh Professor Gavin Renwick, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada
  • Demographic changes in the High North Professor Gunhild Hagestad, NOVA Institute, Oslo, Norway

12.00 – 13.00, Lunch at Finnmark University College


After lunch

13.00 – 17.00
SESSION 4 – PASSIVE HOUSING, ENERGY AND ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY

Moderator: Group Leader Fritjof Salvesen, KanEnergi/AsplanViak, Oslo, Norway

  • Passive Housing in Alaska Passive House Builder Torsten Clupp, Fairbanks, Alaska, US
  • Passive House and Zero-Energy House in East-Finland Director Søren Pedersen, Passivhus.dk Aps, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Climate engineering technologies for building energy-efficient and user comfort in buildings, Diplom Engineer Matthias Rudolph, Transsolar Energietechnik GmbH, Stuttgart, Germany
  • Advanced Housing Renovation - From demonstration projects to volume market. Project Manager Are Rødsjø, Husbanken, Norway

    Closing remarks:
    The Arctic Sovereignty, Global Warming and The Limits of The Industrial Revolution
    Senior Consultant Oliver Drerup, Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada

Friday 9

Optional post conference programme

09.00 -12.00

Parallell workshops and networking
a)Architects, Planneres, Policy Makers and Builders:“Energy Efficiency for Existing Housing in the North”

  • Retrofitting for Energy Savings: An Alaskan Perspective
  • Super Energy Retrofits: How Far Can We Go?
  • Ventilation: The latest and Greatest for Keeping Tight Northern Buildings Healty

b) Researchers: “Social Housing, Mobilities and Ruralities in the  North”


12.00 – 13.00
Lunch at Finnmark University College 

13.00 – 16.00
TECHNICAL  TOUR 3,
The Alta area: focus on construction in Cold Climate/ Low Energy Housing and Social Housing.
arallell workshops before lunch
a) planners, architects and politicians
b) researchers

Technical tours after lunch in the Alta area

Head partners:
Finnmark University College
Norwegian State House Bank
The Executive Committee for Northern Norway

Co-partners:
Canada Mortage Housing CorporationNorthern Housing Forum
North Western Territories Housing Corporation, Canada
Alaska Housing Finance Corporation
Cold Climate Research Center

For registration form click here

Find the invitation here  

Opprettet: 07.12.2011 - Sist oppdatert: 25.01.2012