RAVINEVANDRING
23 & 26 September 2026
Meeting place: Tonsen Kirke
Oslo Arkitekturtriennale 2026
ROMERIKE RAVINE PROJECT (NO,2023
Romerike, the vast clay plain north of Oslo, is under major pressure. This is where collapsing ground meets Real Estate. Digging and excavation are the primary causes of quick clay landslides and has caused dozens of deaths in recent decades. Yet, Romerike is undergoing a constructin boom, dictated by money-driven developers and housing speculators.
This is also the story of the ravines: forgotten fragments of what was once a dense network of rivers and streams, carving steep corridors teeming with mushrooms, mycelium, and insects. About 80% of the ravines were leveled for agricultural purposes between the 1960s and 1980s. Today, many of those that remain are treated as invisible spaces—used as dumping sites for polluted surplus materials from construction projects around the capital - reflecting our failure to recognize their ecological and cultural value.
Climate change and increasingly frequent episodes of torrential rain are now causing ravines to re-emerge in areas where they were previously leveled or filled in. These unstable and often polluted landscapes pose growing risks, as people now live close to—or directly on—former ravine systems, exposing local communities to extreme danger.
This is also the story of the ravines: forgotten fragments of what was once a dense network of rivers and streams, carving steep corridors teeming with mushrooms, mycelium, and insects. About 80% of the ravines were leveled for agricultural purposes between the 1960s and 1980s. Today, many of those that remain are treated as invisible spaces—used as dumping sites for polluted surplus materials from construction projects around the capital - reflecting our failure to recognize their ecological and cultural value.
Climate change and increasingly frequent episodes of torrential rain are now causing ravines to re-emerge in areas where they were previously leveled or filled in. These unstable and often polluted landscapes pose growing risks, as people now live close to—or directly on—former ravine systems, exposing local communities to extreme danger.
Anne Marte