The panel questions how a visual, spatial research, might uncover the implications of technological and social change in Norrlands. It considers how political narratives of the region might be embedded in the space and propose new readings of cause, effect and values associated with relocation.
The subject matter has been selected as an extra-ordinary moment of socio-spatial displacement, through capital investments, where multiple cultural layers are shifted across a landscape through the action of Husflyttningar (House relocation).
3 short dialogue exchanges will consider,
the wider location and context of the global periphery (Arctic region),
the construction and interior of the house and
the connection between this and the demolition of traditional timber cottages (stuga)
Part of session 3: Wide Load: The wholesale moving of buildings in Norrlands (Panel 1).