Trajectories, 2025

During the run of across, with, nearby, Bergen School of Architecture (BAS) becomes public in ways that go beyond both Bergen Assembly and the city of Bergen itself. Besides acting as an assembly convenor and venue, the school creates a clearing in the curriculum, freeing up time and space for the introduction of 11 new elective courses, collectively titled ‘BAS Trajectories’. The new courses operate across cohorts, bringing together students from all five years creating new opportunities for shared learning and unlearning. Engaging with different sites, themes, and scales, the Trajectories cultivate various techniques of ‘speaking nearby’ by means of architectural thinking and making.

Each course’s cohort acts as convenor of one public event as part of the Trajectories programme within across, with, nearby, extending the thematics of the electives beyond BAS and to a broader audience in Bergen. Held every Wednesday throughout the Assembly (11 September – 9 November) at ROMMET, the events include lectures, workshops, performances, and conversations, which together seek to extend the school’s work beyond its walls and to solicit the participation of a wider community. In the final weekend of Bergen Assembly 2025, the whole school goes public, sharing the outcomes of the semester’s inquiries and the pedagogies of BAS through an exhibition at USF Verftet, addressing the key question: What is the public need for architectural education?

BAS Trajectories comprises 11 cross-cohort elective course offerings as a major new addition to the Bergen School of Architecture curriculum. The courses look beyond the traditional domain of architectural pedagogy to engage subjects as diverse and urgent as the politics of migration and displacement (Architecture of Migration), the imagination of new human-ocean relations (Ocean Space), and the idea of the common good as it pertains to processes of urban development (Hungry Neighbours). Considered together, the new courses aim to re-articulate and renew existing collaborations with bodies outside BAS, including such partners as Osterøy Museum, Havrå, ROM for Kunst og Arkitektur, KAT18, Sailor Press, NORTHING, Floating University, Sogn Friluftsråd, and ROMMET. At the same time, the Trajectories seek to establish new partnerships, becoming tools for institutional neighbouring as well as sites to forge new alliances and critical friendships.


Architectures of Migration — Vibeke Jensen, Emma Esmeralda Domino

Material Explorations — David Rios, Asha Sumra

Studio Practice — Tom Chamberlain, Aleksandra Ivashkevich

Biotic Neighbouring — Cecilia Andersson, Trond Oalann

Writing Architecture — Emma Nilsson, Anders Rubing

On Composition — Andrea Spreafico, Guillaume Eckley

Hungry Neighbours — Licia Soldavini, Sarah Bovelett, Jeanne Astrup-Chauvaux, Markus Bader

What is the Vernacular? — Espen Folgerø, Pavlina Lucas

Opportunities in Eidet — Åsmund Hårklau, Carmen Isabel Roman Olsen, Clara Lamprecht

Ocean Space — Nancy Couling, Bernice Donszelmann

How to Cook a Radio Station — Karen Werner