succession
Herman Hjorth Berge
”How have I become so fundamentally antagonistic to nature, life, and ecosystems? ’An intergenerational séance on extractivism’ explores my positionality within a rural landscape and my relationship to nature from my family’s cabin in Ryfylke, Norway. Through engaging with my heritage, inheritance, and whiteness, I am attempting to understand the processes that have rendered me a tourist in my ancestral land. Working through the concept of succession, the research project outlines the simultaneous developments of ecological destruction and extractive industrial practices by delving into historic processes of colonialism and modernism. These unfold into the tangled present, shaping my current unsustainable lifestyle in a country still so closely aligned with the imperial modernism envisioned by Hitler.”
During the spring semester Decolonizing Architecture shares the concepts that informed this year individual and collective research.