INFRASTRUCTURAL URBANISM IN THE ARCTIC

Infrastructural Urbanism could hold potential for guiding a rapidly transforming Arctic, but its popular manifestations are tailored to very different regional paradigms and tend to sidestep infrastructure’s sociocultural agency.

This research asserts that for the movement to have worth within the Arctic paradigm, it must incorporate the material practices that are an essential part of existing infrastructures, suggesting furthermore that the creative reappropriation of material practices prevalent in the broader cultural landscape, can lead to more socioculturally cognisant infrastructural planning.

Aligning with Doreen Massey’s recognition of place as continually reproduced through everyday actions and practices (Massey, 2005), this PhD posits that the incorporation and reappropriation of material practices would enable an embedded, place-specific Arctic Infrastructural Urbanism that remains pragmatic rather than a romantic ‘return to innocence’.

Supervisors

• Professor Peter Gall Krogh
• Associate Professor Boris Brorman Jensen (External)