Through projects from the Nordic countries, the EXPO exhibition New Nordic Landscapes demonstrates how landscape architecture is about so much more than making things look pretty. Landscape architecture can supply sustainable solutions, promote health and create better living conditions for people in both cities and rural regions.
Through projects from the Nordic countries, the EXPO exhibition New Nordic Landscapes demonstrates how landscape architecture is about so much more than making things look pretty. Landscape architecture can supply sustainable solutions, promote health and create better living conditions for people in both cities and rural regions.
Closely linked to the title of the EXPO in Shanghai 2010, “Better Cities, Better Life”, the exhibition presents sensuous experiences of landscape design and calls attention to the importance of finding new and alternative planning methods: Strategies that emphasize conscious use of natural resources and combines the latest in technology and global know-how with awareness of local conditions, culture and identity.
“The Nordic Countries are frontrunners in relation to sustainable urban development and efficient land use. Particularly within the field of design, architecture and landscape planning, creative and innovative Nordic forces are thriving. The exhibition ‘New Nordic landscapes’ is an excellent example of this, which I am certain, will prove inspirational to the many thousand visitors to the World EXPO in Shanghai”, says the Danish Minister of Culture, and Chair of Nordic Council of Ministers’ cultural collaboration, Per Stig Møller.
Exhibition highlights:
- Biodiversity in an urban context
- interaction between infrastructure and landscape, process urbanism,
- a closer look at Iceland’s utilization of geothermal energy
- and the deployment of residues from the Norwegian oil industry.
New Nordic Landscapes is one of three important efforts designed specifically to highlight Nordic Culture internationally. The other two being; High Five - A new international cinema distribution support scheme - launched at Toronto International Film festival in September 2009 and Nordic literature at the Paris Bookfair in 2011, which will feature especially Nordic literature and thus provide the perfect setting for branding Nordic Literature to the French-speaking market.
All three efforts are part of an overall strategy formulated by the 8 Nordic ministers of Culture to acknowledge the Nordic cooperation of culture as an important – perhaps the most important – common ground for Nordic cooperation in all.
