Psychogeographic Mapping, Sydney
Half semester assignment

The assignment based on ‘Project 360°’ by Frank Dresmé and produced a psycho-geographic mapping of a route through the CBD as well as dialogue with the public through distribution of these maps in the city. I mapped out… [more]

Alternative Fuel Strategy, Sydney
Main semester assignment

The building is the first stage in a long term strategy, a system that can grow at a economically sustainable rate and take on the shifts in consumer habits and trends. A franchise network of alternative fuel stations spreading from… [more]

School is a stage where the students gets prepped and ready to take part in and fulfill the work they will have afterwards. However the higher education schools also have their own inherent work, their research. Maybe giving the whole student body a chance to participate and learn through research would make a long education feel like it had more purpose at times. Many assignments bear the banner that they mimic the nature of ‘real life’ work situations, but of course you always only touch a few basic sides of a projects demands. You never get to the subtle details that would make it a full out reenactment of a ‘real’ project.

Leebus Woods’ Architecture School 401 is a series where he discuss this strategy and show examples of what he has been doing with his classes. Work that show how his classes learn both technical and theoretical lessons through more or less abstract projects. The closest I’ve been myself to these sorts of approaches have been through my 3rd semester ‘Urbanism and the City’ course with Adrian Lahoud and Frank Minnaert at UTS where we made a Psychogeographic Map and a video presentation of our reading of the city.

Lately I’ve seen several voices that comment on this kind of approach and in Germany this summer the DIA holds a conference called ‘Design Education as Research Lab’ with speakers from many of the most famous schools of architecture around the world.

I’ve visited an exhibition and synopsis at HCU Hamburg ‘Explorationen: Tendenzen und Potentiale der Architekturforschung’ and ‘Stop Making Sense’ which showcased a project of theoretical work with essays and graphics.

It’s fascinating to see good fusion of theory, design and built items and I really hope for less separation of the parts in school as well as a more research oriented approach in the earlier stages of architecture school. The essentials of architectural practice should be possible to teach through more though provoking means than emulating the work life and also be valuable to the schools research output in the long run.

In an attempt to get AndersSletbak.com up and going I’ve decided to make this temporary (for now at least) blog. The aim of the site will in time be to document my own work, both individual and in co-operation with others in a portfolio as well as a blog/news part. At the moment I don’t have time to set up a full site and get into how all of that will work so I figured that it will be easier to keep the blog active for now.

I’m a norwegian architecture-student at AHO in Norway after starting my education at UTS in Australia in 2007. Both sites include a little online gallery where some student work is available. The AHO Arena is currently updating with work from the last weeks Diploma project Exhibition.

I hope I’ll update the blog with content from my production as well as links to curiosities i come across. At the moment my class is doing our preliminary research for the semesters design assignment based on 70°N arkitektur‘s 1st Prize proposal for Nordhavnen development in Copenhagen, Denmark. I’ll try to update on the status of that as the assignment progresses.

That’s all for now, hope it’s gonna be many shorter, single-theme updates instead of this length from now on.