A home for many; a destination for explorers; a site of extraction; a monument deprived of its glory; primeval rock; data. This project reflects on displacement, dispersal, and translation of a place transformed by extraction, violent interventions, and forced relocations. Stuor Muorkegårttje - once a powerful waterfall between two northern lakes in Sápmi - now a nearly dried-up gorge. 3D recordings from its west-dipping rock are translated into clay, shaped by local pigments and digital craft of western Iberia. The site’s colonial history is both echoed and subverted through the technique of scanning. Instead of measuring and surveying for control, scanning is used to reveal the atmospheric and immeasurable traits of place.
Brrum
Brrum is a Stockholm-based architecture practice run by Ulrika Karlsson and Cecilia Lundbäck that engages in diverse projects spanning architecture, art, design, and artistic research. The practice combines its interest in architecture, technology, culture and artistic experimentation, with a strong engagement in methods for sensibly taking care of what already exists - whether built structures, knowledge, cultures or ecologies.
Ulrika Karlsson, architect and principle of Brrum, professor at KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm. She has lectured and exhibited widely such as at the Venice Biennale, Centre Pompidou, ArkDes, Storefront, SPARK. Previously prof. at Konstfack, Stockholm, Guest Prof. at Städelschule, Frankfurt, and UTokyo. With Architecture degree from Columbia University, New York, Landscape Architecture degree from SLU.
Cecilia Lundbäck, architect and principle of Brrum, researcher and educator. Her work has been shown at the Venice Biennale, ArkDes, Bonniers konsthall, SPARK. She has taught architecture at institutions such as KTH School of Architecture and Konstfack, Stockholm, and Syracuse University in Florence. She held her Architecture degree from KTH School of Architecture and is also a trained furniture maker.