On tour. Part 3

Små Spor visits Bodø

Små Spor exhibition is visiting Bodø Kunstforening in April and May

The exhibition has been sponsed by the local Husbanken!

Sailing along the northern coast

Små Spor is now sailing at the coastal express (Hurtigruten) MS Nordnorge.

Små Spor has been invited to be on board this northern costal express ship during the Northern Lights Festival. My dream is to exhibit Små Spor at all coastal express ships in Norway permanently.

(foto: Michele Widerøe)

More information about the Northern Lights Festival in the costal express:
http://www.hurtigruten.no/norskekysten/korte-reiser/spesialseilinger/nordlysfestivalen/

Visiting the Arctic Frontiers conference in Tromsø

 

I am very happy to have been invited to present The Små Spor exhibition at the Arctic Frontiers conference last night. I had the possibility to get in touch with a lot of interesting people and tell them about this project. I am very grateful to Reinhold Friele, manager of Arctic Frontiers, for his open mindedness in inviting an architecture exhibition to this conference.

(foto: Erik Widerøe)

On tour. Part 2.

The second place Små Spor will be visiting is The Museum for Northern Peoples:

(Foto: Ørjan Bertelsen)

"The Museum for Northern Peoples is a newly-established museum which opened in July 2011. The museum documents and communicates aspects of the culture of the northern people as well as regional Sami culture and history. The cultural aspects of the northern peoples are communicated by temporary exhibitions, whilst regional Sami culture and history is presented in a permanent exhibition. The temporary exhibition rooms will be dedicated to artists from the circumpolar areas or exhibitions relating to topics concerned with northern peoples." (http://www.senterfornordligefolk.no)

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The opening:

Små Spor has just arrived at the Center for Northern People on January 2013. This center is located on the same municipality as another of the architectural "beads" shown in the exhibition. This municipality has also sponsered the exhibition and will like to show it in one of the best museums in the area. 

 (Foto: Erik Widerøe)

and a film: 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHGjFcB1PGE

and in the news:

http://www.framtidinord.no/kultur/article6944309.ece

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!!!

"Små Spor" the catalog

For orders please send an email to michelewi35@gmail.com
Prices: 200 kr for one
150 kr for several

Click here to see the digital edition:
http://issuu.com/michelereneewideroe/docs/sm__spor_bok

Some pictures from the book launch last friday:

Both my mentor and the North Norwegian society of architects gave a speech that evening.

Små Spor for Kids

Creating an educational plan for Små Spor

 The Små Spor exhibition was shown today at the Institute for Children Education in Tromsø. Together with Kari Doseth Opstad (Senior Lecturer in arts and crafts) and her students, we will create an educational plan for Små Spor. The goal is to use the exhibition as a tool to awaken children´s curiosity on architecture. This is part of a larger project about making architects (and designers) more known in our region.

(foto: Kari D. Opstad, Michele Widerøe)

The students are beginning to test some of their ideas:

(foto:Michele Widerøe)

 

This time they invited a group of children from Bjerkaker school to test one of their concepts.
The idea was to show to the kids the video Små Spor and talk to them about  architecture. Then the children could choose a project from Små Spor and try to make a modell out of it. I was very happy to see how interested and dedicated both the students and the children were. I can´t wait to see the other projects!

 

Exams

Las week I was invited to observe the presentation of exams the students gave on “Små Spor”. There were 3 groups in all. Each group presented a suggestion on how they think Små Spor can be used to teach children and youngster about architecture.

I was happy to see how they  use their creativity to teach architecture in a practical and fun way.

Små Spor is all about presenting local projects to local people. It is important that children learn how to look for architectural qualities in their own communities and not only in the big cities.

By learning  more about good architecture projects in their communities children will appreciate it better and hopefully they will take better care of it.

(foto: Kari Doseth)