We all take the natural environment we encounter during childhood as the norm against which we measure environmental degradation later in our lives. With each ensuing generation, the amount of environmental degradation increases, but each generation in its youth takes that degraded condition as the non degraded condition - as the normal experience. This psychological phenomenon is called environmental generational amnesia, and has just recently been stated as one of the most pressing psychological problems of our lifetime. More meaningful and frequent interactions with the natural environment can clarify the confusion about what Nature really is and strengthen our relationship to it, which in turn could encourage us to preserve natural environments for the coming generations. In this way, being in Nature and appreciating it could prevent environmental generational amnesia. The BA-project Towards Recollection aims to raise the question about environmental degradation as a result of environmental generational amnesia and explore how Nature in an urbanscape could be highlighted through a group of architectural interventions and the sensory experiences of Nature, to work as a tool on our journey towards recollection and in the prevention of one of the most pressing psychological problems of our lifetime.

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For the last forty years outdoor education has been investigated all around the globe. Despite intense research initiative, studies have been lacking regarding what teacher competencies are beneficial for successful outdoor education. The aim of this study is to investigate opportunities and challenges that are unique to outdoor education and teacher competencies beneficial for successful outdoor education. This was done by interviewing 5 certified biology teachers. Teachers were chosen from three different educational levels – university, senior high and high school –with the purpose to obtain a more complete perspective since they can provide different views about the research matter. Teachers from higher education has shown to focus more on the theoretical background while teachers from senior high and high school tends to focus more on the practical implementation. Thematic analysis was used to examine the interview material. The results showed that the teachers focus primarily on outdoor education’s educational opportunities and logistical challenges. To a large extent teachers emphasized learning by senses, outdoor environment enriching learning about ecology and species, and how framework factors limit outdoor education from being practiced. Secondary, it was argued by the teachers there are social opportunities and challenges with outdoor education in the form of benefiting and unfavourable for students’ wellbeing and the class’s group dynamics. Furthermore, teachers believed that a teacher’s academic and didactic competencies are the most valuable for successful outdoor education. Other competencies were also outlined by the analytic analysis how the teachers prepare and practice outdoor education. Their work practices emphasized management, relational and collegial competencies. To a large extent no noteworthy variations were found between teachers from different education levels. Potentially, teachers’ view of outdoor and indoor education as more similar than different. For further research it is recommended to investigate how teachers practice outdoor education to further build upon what types of opportunities, challenges and teacher competencies can be beneficial to consider for successful outdoor education. / Utomhusundervisningen är något som forskningen har undersökt under de senaste 40 åren. Trots detta har endast lite forskning gjorts gällande vilka lärarkompetenser som är fördelaktiga för framgångsrik utomhusundervisning. Målet med denna studie var att utforska möjligheter och utmaningar som är unika för utomhusundervisning och vilka lärarkompetenser som är fördelaktiga. Studien utfördes genom att intervjua 5 legitimerade biologilärare. Dessa lärare valdes från tre olika utbildningsnivåer – universitet, gymnasiet och högstadiet – i syfte att få ett mer komplett perspektiv. Den huvudsakliga skillnaden mellan lärare från olika utbildningsnivåer ligger i deras fokus. Lärare från högre studier tenderar att fokusera mer på den teoretiska bakgrunden i jämförelse med lärare på gymnasie- och högstadienivå där mer fokus riktas mot det praktiska genomförandet av utomhusundervisningen. En tematisk analys användes för att examinera intervjumaterialet. Resultatet visade att lärare fokuserade i första hand på utomhusundervisningens möjligheter att lära och logistiska utmaningar. I stor utsträckning betonadelärarna hur utomhusmiljön möjliggör lärande med fler sinnen, och utomhusmiljöns bidrar till ekologi- och artundervisning, samt ramfaktorer som förhindrar utförandet av utomhusundervisning. I andra hand framgick det att lärarna ansåg att utomhusundervisning har både sociala möjligheter och utmaningar eftersom det kan vara såväl fördelaktigt som ogynnsamt förelevernas välbefinnande och klassens gruppdynamik. Dessutom tyckte lärarnaatt en lärares akademiska och didaktiska kompetenser är viktiga för framgångsrik utomhusundervisning. Andra kompetenser var också identifierade under den tematiska analysen utifrån hur lärarna förbereder och utför utomhusundervisning. Deras arbetsmetodik underströk organisatoriska, relationella och kollegiala kompetenser. Möjligtvis upplever lärare att utomhus- och inomhusundervisning är mer lika än olika. Inga märkbara skillnader hittades mellan lärare från olika utbildningsnivåerna. Framtida studier rekommenderas utforska hur lärare bedriver utomhusundervisning i fält för att undersöka vidare vilka möjligheter, utmaningar och lärarkompetenser som är viktiga för framgångsrik utomhusundervisning.

"Architecture of Acupuncture" refers to one way an architect may begin a design project. This thesis was a one-year collaborative effort with my Masters Diploma Professors, Peter Zumthor and Miguel Kreisler, at the Academy of Architecture in Mendrisio, Switzerland, in 2001. To begin, a surgical study of a place just south of Pavia, Italy, was conducted and analyzed to determine the most appropriate program for that place, and again analyzed to determine the most appropriate image and material for that program. I located points in the immediate area of the site where 1.water, 2.road, 3.built mass, and 4.event, intersect on the site and called these "points of convergence." The points of convergence were used to map out a unique way in which the site can be read. These are the acupuncture points on the body of the place. The project is an Industrial Fish Farm. It is the largest fish farm in Europe and sells fish to all of Northern Italy, Switzerland, Germany, Austria and France, while also serving fresh fish daily to the small towns of Mezzana Corti, Tre Re, and Cascina della Colonne approximate to it. The Farm is one and a half kilometers of concrete water-filled fields inserted into an irregular shaped land-form between two 18 foot tall existing earth dams. The attitude of the Farm is a sensitive one in regard to the flat and quiet farming communities around it. The space the Fish Farm occupies cannot be seen unless from the roads which each run on top of the dams themselves. Two new structures are the only things that can be seen from outside the dams. One is a tower building. One is a line building. The line building is a restaurant, ninety meters long. The Restaurant enhances the industrial program by offering back to the people of the nearby towns an opportunity to actively interact with the new farm. The Restaurant is clamped to the South Dam Road, which is used for public traffic around perimeter of the site. The tower building is the Operations Building. It acts as an aircraft control tower does for an aircraft carrier, consolidating all built mass into one central structure. The Operations Building is a landmark at the midpoint of the concrete fields. It is clamped to the North Dam Road, dedicated to the daily functioning of the Farm. Both structures are shack-like and cheap; both made well of steel and corrugated metal. All built things inside the body of the Farm, including the two buildings, adopt in their appearances an "insect image" from the machines used to harvest the fish. They are raised up on long and thin steel legs so as to lightly touch the still water they stand in. / Master of Architecture

Design of the spa complex in the town of Yverdon. In the city, which lies on the shore of Neuchatel Lake. However, our plot is located off the coast. Place the design looks like taken out of context the development of the city. Spa react to immediate surroundings and situation within the parcel that is. This is the regular structure of the volume of a rectangular shape with a shed roof. Objects are abstractly as discussed in industrial halls, which are in the form of individual features of the program are mounting

The design of my proposal was deeply influenced by the typical character of spa pavillions in urban recreational parks. Neveertheless i combine such a character with contemporary more conceptual way of architecture. With maybe bigger scale, but having reasons for that. Into the center of park i place a house of baths, where all the activities typical for paths take action - massages, rehabilitation, swimming and wellness. Other parts of the project such as two new proposed buildings for a hotel have the same character of a pavillion in a park. Their interdependant relationships creates new story in a city.

Spa building as a symbiotic organism of the park. Principle pouring mass between the trees comes from finding intimacy important for the spa, and the genius loci of the park. The dialogue and the interpenetration of interior and exterior, walking in the park and inside the building, the play of light and vistas are the subject of this work, which produces organic architecture, not as a mere form, but as a result of a thorough analysis of the Site. Park becomes part of the building, creating green bays, thanks to which all the rooms gain the same qualities. Architecture defined by the flow of air and light, scent of spa water. Visitation of the spa as an irreducible complex of impressions that stimulate our senses.

This ethnographic study examines the state of entomophagy in Sweden amongst a group of ‘middle-class’ individuals living in urban areas of the country. In this endeavor, an analytical perspective that focuses on the embodied cultural-sensorial processes which influence how people perceive and engage with insects as food provides a richer picture, as opposed to an approach that privileges exclusively symbolic or discursive representations. The rejection of insects as food is not considered to be a fixed state, but instead as something continuously made in everyday life, and therefore subject to change. It is found that those that currently do not eat insects experience notions of aversion at the prospect, and this is because the presence of insects in food, and in places associated with eating, go against the sensibilities they have embodied as members of their cultural group. The absence of insects as food in Sweden is contextualized by discussing the history of entomophagy in Europe, the politics of commercially produced and sold insects, as well as the consequent non-existent market of insect-based food products in Sweden. The incorporation of insects into a number of enthusiasts’ consumption of food is also examined, focusing on the perceptual and sensorial negotiation that underlies this culinary integration. What is argued is that further attention should be given to the contextually situated bodily experiences associated with food and eating that determines the potential presence of insects in people’s consumption of food.

The program of the proposal is a small recreational facility with a restaurant,conference facilities, a reception, hotel rooms and a bath.The size of the program is approximately 1200 m2.Rough approximation:- Staff and information building: 200 m2- Hotel rooms (10 á 25 m2): 250 m2- Bath building: 210 m2- Conference building: 300 m2

Recent research in both geography and in neighbouring disciplines argues that we need to pay more attention to the cultural and symbolic significance of home in order to understand domestic energy consumption. In this thesis I consider how ideals of home are renegotiated in times of increase energy prices. By focusing on the experiences of the body-subject I describe how ideals of home and the flow of energy interact in people’s everyday homemaking practices. I build my analysis from a combination of semi-structured interviews, walk-alongs and photo-elicited interviews with people living in detached houses in Sweden. Although often producing feelings of stress, rising energy price also allowed the participants to ascribe their home new meaning and to feel a sense of connection to others. Often the participants express feelings of being part of a shared societal effort. By finding a new less energy intensive routine the participants interact with their home in new ways and ascribes their home new meanings. These new routines become a way to creatively engage with and reflect on long entrenched embodied ideals of home.