From the top of the high building in Nuuk
October 8, 2011 Leave a comment
TWO WHALES SWIMMING OUTSIDE NUUK
October 3, 2011 Leave a comment
We met these two whales and some icebergs and birds just outside Nuuk and Greenlander Nive Nielsen sings for us.
Block P in NUUK, our place of visit
September 30, 2011 Leave a comment
A front of the block photo.
Here are a few images from the flat-fronts.
Imagined space is a project about “Blok P” in Nuuk, Greenland, and the people who have or are living there. Blok P was the largest residential building in all of Greenland, and the largest building in Nuuk. It contains around 150 apartments and it is said that approximately 1% of the total population of Greenland lived in this building. During next spring it will be demolished and all the inhabitants will be relocated along with a lifetime of memories. Many of the inhabitants had been living there for most of their lives. The blok is now a ghost town with only few families left. It will be our home while we portray some of the people who have or are still is living there. Hopefully we will end up with an honest document of the lived life in within a historic apartment blok in Nuuk, based on interviews, sound field recordings, photos and video.
ACTION NUMBER TWO HERE
September 28, 2011 Leave a comment
This autumn we are continuing our project in Nuuk – (and hopefully wider in Greenland at a later date). Three students from Copenhagen are in Nuuk now studying one block of apartments and they are collecting the material on one special site named IMAGINED SPACE.
Imagined Space is a project about “Block P” in Nuuk, Greenland, and the people who have or are living there. Block P was the largest residential building in all of Greenland, and the largest building in Nuuk. It contains around 500 apartments and it is said that approximately 1% of the total population of Greenland lived in this building. During next spring it will be demolished and all the inhabitants will be relocated along with a lifetime of memories. Many of the inhabitants had been living there for most of their lives. The block is now a ghost town with only few families left.
The action designers this time are: Sarah Bodil Hansen (graphic designer), Matylda Rasmussen (graphic designer) and Käthe Stougaard Kofoed Espersen is filming for documentation.
We want to involve designers and creative people more in the work that the locals are doing in developing communication and presentation of the culture and living in Greenland. This is just first introduction to this second step in developing design-action in the country by our schools and hopefully we will be able to gain access to support both from the local culture and from the outer specialist institutes that can help the development.
Here is a small image from the other blog:
