Metode

Essay

Displaying Deep Surfaces: Introducing a field and a method

By Ingrid Halland

The Earth, the Sky and the Ground Between

By Tim Ingold

The Cultural Technique of Flattening

By Sybille Krämer

Surfaces Surfacing (Weaving Words)

By Jakob Oredsson

Epidermitecture: Co-Existing on the Surface

By Beatrice Zaidenberg and Adam Hudec

I Will Acknowledge the Shallowness of My Depth: An autoimmune, spontaneous prose essay

By Marius Moldvær

The room that I am, the room I give birth to

By Julie Barfod. English translation by Julia Morrissey and Julie Barfod

Deep Layers of ‘Flatland’: Scaling Up Nanomaterials

By Benjamin Blackwell

The Matter of Illusion: Seeing the Surface of Facsimiles

By Nick Walkley

Thinking with Labyrinths: A Fictional-Topological Exploration

By Neda Genova

This essay is an english translation of Marte Danielsen Jølbo’s Norwegian essay “Teaterets spor” about Jakob Oredsson’s work Symbiotic Surfaces (Black Box teater Beings) at Black Box teater’s facade in Oslo, 2022.

Risk, Orientation, Method

Editorial statement by Metode

From Brick to Wood

– So, what do think of the solution?

– I’m not sure I like the annex – it’s like the architecture has permanently defined the museum as something prehistorical.

From the Other Norwegians

In a field that plans and builds for everyone, it is natural to ask the question of who has the power of definition, which voices are included and excluded, and how inclusion and diversity in general fit in.