Learning from Hamar
”(…) Educated as an architect and urban designer I have the same experience as most architects have – dealing with projects shifting from conception to realization. Up until now any project I have worked on had a similar way of developing: Meeting he clients, receiving the programme, site and budget, researching and developing it with other experts, making it work together in the most creative and innovative way.
With dreamhamar, the network design methods, and the fact that we are going to be physically onsite, the project is due to undergo many alterations in addition to the ones that usually take place.
“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans” said John Lennon, This is what I feel is happening in Hamar. We have made preliminary design, we are holding workshops and other activities locally and globally – some of them were planned, some of them are spontaneous -, but what really matters is the community that is bein created around Stortorget Square through this process. To build a square we need to build a community first. A community is the foundation of a square. And the truth is, that the steps for building a community are impossible to plan. We can provide the setting, we can offer activities, but is up to you, to the people, to create that community or not.
For me, an architect, this is also about learning from Hamar. I can see Hamariens looking at themselves, defining themselves. I am also an outsider looking at and trying to understand Hamar. Like the pizza network design style, it is about tasting the igredients before mixing them together, and about getting people to think, work and enjoy a pizza long before it gets in the in the oven. People are curious about me too.
Some of them have asked me “What do you dream for Hamar?””
Excerpt from Learning from Hamar | dreamhamar by @dolceoblio
Source: dreamhamar.org
