Aleksander Bern

• Hauge, Atle Jensen; Calignano, Giuseppe; Bern, Aleksander & Lønningdal, Karl Henrik Heberg (2023). Small cities: Regional motors or sponges? The case of Inland County, Norway. GeoJournal. ISSN 0343-2521. doi: 10.1007/s10708-023-10975-7. Vis sammendrag

  In the innovation and regional development literature, regional areas that lie between prosperous core regions and struggling peripheral areas have been largely neglected, both theoretically and empirically, in recent innovation and regional research. In this paper, we analyse the role that small cities play as agents in regional development in their hinterland. Are they catalysts for growth, or do they drain the surrounding cities and villages? One concept or analytical tool that deals with this issue more explicitly is ‘sponge cities’, which refers to small and medium-sized cities that appear to ‘soak up’ talent and resources from the surrounding hinterland. By adopting and expanding this largely unexplored concept, we analyse the role of regional cities in the Norwegian context. Building on the original concept, we believe that adding commuting to migration patterns provides a more nuanced and precise assessment of whether small cities and regional centres are a blessing or a curse for their hinterlands. Using regional data, we classify cities as ‘motors’ (those that positively afect the hinterland thanks to well-balanced commuting and migration patterns at various spatial scales) or ‘sponges’ (those that soak up people from surrounding areas through migration). Further expanding our analysis, we label a third group of municipalities as ‘local mobilizers’, as they seem to have the potential to infuence positively the growth of adjacent areas, and a fourth group as ‘moderate attractors’, which show moderately positive external commuting and migration fows.

• Bern, Aleksander (2022). Art and Politics in Architectural Competitions. Nordisk arkitekturforskning. ISSN 1893-5281. 34(2), s. 43–74. Fulltekst i vitenarkiv Vis sammendrag

  This article analyses how architectural competitions serve as a context for architectural work embedded in broader strategies of urban development. The post-political mode of depoliticization has been argued to be important for contemporary practices in both urban theory and in architectural discourses. This article critically assesses how architects work within competitions and what potential lies in the process of challenging the post-political consensus. It uses a series of architectural competitions held within the Fjord City planning area in Oslo, Norway, as cases. Drawing from the work of Jacques Rancière, the article uses a framework for understanding political architecture that views aesthetics and politics as interconnected. The article argues that architecture can be political when this understanding is embraced and that architectural competitions, despite often leading to a depoliticized architecture, contain space for an architecture of dissensus

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• Bern, Aleksander (2022). Frokostdebatt 9. mars: Arkitektkonkurranser.
• Bern, Aleksander (2022). Hvor står arkitektkonkurransen i 2022? Arkitektnytt. ISSN 0004-1998.
• Bern, Aleksander (2022). Arkitekturkonkurransens kommunikasjonsproblem. Plan: Tidsskrift for samfunnsplanlegging, byplan og regional utvikling. ISSN 0805-083X. doi: 10.18261/plan.54.2.5.
• Bern, Aleksander (2022). Tas for gitt at konkurranser fører til bedre arkitektur. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
• Overvåg, Kjell; Higdem, Ulla; Syssner, Josefina; Bern, Aleksander & Tholstrup, Line Marie (2024). RURALPLAN - Methodological framework and knowledge . ESPON.eu. Vis sammendrag

  The Targeted Analysis RURALPLAN aims to produce evidence on how strategic planning regarding rural areas respond to shrinking (decreasing and/or ageing population), leading to a model for knowledge-based strategic planning and policymaking. We anticipate that the model, which is called RUPIL – Rural Planning and Innovation Lab, could be applied to European regions experiencing demographic challenges related to shrinking. The RURALPLAN project is addressing the diverse challenges faced by three pilotcases, which include Os municipality in Innlandet, Norway, Malung-Sälen municipality in Dalarna, Sweden and the Albula region in Switzerland (see map 2.1). The pilotcases have been selected because they represent different contexts and shrinkagesituations, and thus increases the transferability of the planning model to other European regions. Further, the selected municipalities/region showed interest in cocreating new planning and policy responses to shrinkage, in cooperation with the stakeholders and service-providers (research-team) in RURALPLAN.In this report the outcomes of Task 1 are presented. Based on the knowledge this task provides, the report ends with a suggestion on what to focus on for RUPIL in general and for the three pilot-cases (chapter 5). The outcome from Task 1 provides a solid and valid basis for the rest of the RURALPLAN-project

• Overvåg, Kjell; Bern, Aleksander; Higdem, Ulla; Niederer, Peter & Syssner, Josefina (2024). RURALPLAN - Methological framework and knowledge. Basis for the pilot cases (Task 1). European Commission Joint Research Centre.
• Eide, Trude Hella; Tholstrup, Line Marie; Samuelsen, Nora Warhuus; Wold, Lisa Knatterud & Bern, Aleksander (2024). Unge stemmer fra Innlandet - en perspektivmelding. Høgskolen i Innlandet. Vis sammendrag

  De unges perspektivmelding er et samarbeid mellom Agenda Innlandet*, Høgskolen i Innlandet, NTNU Gjøvik og Sparebankstiftelsen Hedmark. De unges perspektivmelding har som formål å: • involvere unge voksne i samfunnsutviklingsdebatten ved å bringe inn deres stemmer i arbeidet med å forme Innlandet. • få økt kunnskap om hva som har betydning for unge voksne med tilknytning til Innlandet når det gjelder valg av bosted, utdanning, jobb, fritid og livsstil. Prosjektets resultater skal blant annet danne grunnlag for anbefalinger til politikere, kunnskaps- institusjoner og næringsliv om de unges løsninger for å skape attraktive og inkluderende samfunn. Perspektivmeldingen består av en kunnskapsoppsummering av statistikk og tidligere forskning på unge voksnes bostedsvalg, samt resultater fra workshops og intervjuer med unge voksne med tilknytning til Innlandet. De unges perspektiver er ikke nødvendigvis representative for alle unge voksne med tilknytning til Innlandet, og bør tolkes med dette som forbehold. Likevel kan perspektivmeldingen gi nyttig innsikt i faktorer som et bredt utvalg av unge voksne vektlegger i en fase av livet med høy grad av mobilitet og refleksjoner rundt fremtidige bostedsvalg.

• Bern, Aleksander & Lund, Per Olav (2023). Analyse av reiselivsnæringen i Vågå kommune. Høgskolen i Innlandet. Vis sammendrag

  Østlandsforskning ved Høgskolen i Innlandet har på oppdrag fra Vågå kommune gjennomført en analyse av reiselivsnæringen i kommunen. Formålet med arbeidet er å få belyst betydningen av reiselivet med hensyn til koblinger mot andre næringer i og utenfor kommunen. Det er hentet inn grunnlagsmateriale fra flere kilder som SSB, infoland, Proff Forvalt, samt bruk relevant forskning til å besvare utredningsspørsmålene. Det er intervjuet syv representanter fra reiselivsnæringen og en representant fra forvaltningen.

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