Landscape Healing
<p>‘Landscape Healing’ is a cinematic documentary film following the largest act of rewilding in Norway, by BAFTA-nominated film director Richard John Seymour and produced by 3RW arkitekter.<br /> A multidisciplinary group of people has been quietly conducting a project that could set a precedent for humanity’s next great challenge: the rewilding of our planet back to a sustainable level.<br /> After decades of efficiency adjustments, in the early 2000s most of the Norwegian Defence Estates Agency’s sites were left abandoned yet unsuitable for public use.</p> <p>The film follows the process of healing these wounded landscapes, the restoration of these huge areas of land across Norway containing polluted soil and water, unexploded ordnance, and abandoned buildings.</p> <p>Within a team of historians, archaeologists, scientists, engineers, politicians and soldiers, 3RW arkitekter play a central role in using architectural methods for the re-imagining of these spaces for nature and other societal uses.</p> <p>The film follows the process of restoring these wounded landscapes, the strange and curious practices that had to be pioneered for a project without precedent.</p>
Authors: 3RW arkitekter, Richard John Seymour
Richard John Seymour, 3RW arkitekter
Part of: Enough: The Architecture of Degrowth