Writing with Exhibitions
By Ingrid Halland, Björn Nilsson, and Karoline Kjesrud
Closed for Renovation: Exhibition as Method for (Un)worlding
By Maike Statz
In Search of the Museum Object's Spark of Life
By Jason A. Falkenburg
Sandbox Exhibitions
By Adeline Lépine-Delaborde
Exhibitions as Topography: 'Mutations' (2000-2002)
By Alice Haddad
Resonance and Silence: Displaying Acoustic Heritage
By Zorana Đorđević
Maxims for Curators
By Farida Youssef
Rehearsing the Not Yet: Exhibition Making as Creating Context
By Reyhaneh Mirjahani
The Exhibition as Voice Dialogue
By Nikita Mathias
Museet som ikkje blei
Av Gunhild Moe og Marie Bønløkke
The Museum That Never Was
By Gunhild Moe and Marie Bønløkke
المعرض بوصفه نموًّا: الحياة المتحوّلة لمعرض نازح
هالة عيد الناجي
Exhibition as Growth: The Mutating Life of 'Nazeh'
By Hala Eid Alnaji
Test 2 - Closed for Renovation: Exhibition as Method for (Un)worlding
By Maike Statz
'Exhibition as Method' by Metode - Launch
Welcome to the launch of Exhibition as Method by Metode on Thursday, February 12, at 18:00 - 19:30, ROM for kunst og arkitektur (also streamed online)
ATTENTION: Currents
In Metode volume 3 ‘Currents,’ writers and artists explore how signals can be transmitted from a far through space and through time, in a manner which can offer new ideas for alternative futures. The volume is introduced by three essays written by Alison Burstein (US), You Nakai (Japan), and Sigbjørn Skåden (Sápmi and Norway), and an introduction by Ingrid Halland (editor-in-chief of Metode)
A Whale’s Hipbone: The Interrelationship Between Namibia and Norway
By Martin White
Weaving knowledge: writing letters with wool
By Åsne Kummeneje Mellem, Tarja Salmela and Gyrid Øyen
Metode + LIAF 2024
ROM for kunst og arkitektur and Lofoten International Art Festival (LIAF) proudly presents the contributors to Metode vol. 3 “Currents”! The essays will be published at 13 February 2025 at 17:00 CET
Using Someone Else’s Bathwater: A Practice of Coming After.
By Anna Ulrikke Andersen
Aether to Wires to Rust, and Back Again
By Ian Callender, Yueyang Luo and Ann Wang
Utopian Signals: Accidental Archivism of the Nyksund Ecotopia
By NODES Collective: Elisabeth Brun, Gusztáv Hámos and Katja Pratschke.
Collages by Iryna Kliui and Katja Pratschke
A Memory of Elephants
by Sol Archer
The Kitchen and its Double: Broadcasting Institutional Experimentation in "Two Moon July"
By Alison Burstein
Human Evolution
By Sigbjørn Skåden, translated by Stig Oppedal
Open Call Metode Vol. 3 'Currents'
Open Call for experimental essays for Metode Volume 3: Currents - Regenerating pasts for the not yet
Three Acts of Bathing—an-other reading
By Jeremy Sharma
Inclusive design. Discriminating architecture.
By Emma Nilsson
On Water’s Edge
By Lutz Koepnick
menneskEvolusjon
Av Sigbjørn Skåden
Open Call Metode Vol. 4 'Exhibition as Method'
We are currently writing experimental essays for Metode vol. 4 ‘Exhibition as Method', stay tuned for the launch in February 2026
Extract, Accumulate, Expel (repeat)
by Alena Beth Rieger in conversation with Jumana Manna and Drew Snyder.
Concurrencies: Mutating Methods and Latent Leverage
Introduction for Metode Vol. 3, “Currents”, in collaboration with LIAF by Kjersti Solbakken and Ingrid Halland
How to Act on Oil
by Miriam Sentler
menneskEvolusjon
Alde Sigbjørn Skåden, Kari Utsi jorgalan.
IEIE, Reflected, Reflected
By You Nakai
He Draws Himself a Bath
By David Turner
The bathroom may be a space for utopia
By Júlia Ayerbe
Post-comfort waterscapes. Navigating pleasure and discomfort.
By Jakub Węgrzynowicz
Open Call #2
Being, Bathing and Beyond
Displaying Deep Surfaces: Introducing a field and a method
By Ingrid Halland
The Earth, the Sky and the Ground Between
By Tim Ingold
The Cultural Technique of Flattening
By Sybille Krämer
A Dialogue with Edvard Munch
By Gustav Jørgen Pedersen
Brick Dust Matter: Тhe Disappearing Archive and the Mobile Fragment
By Pauline Shongov
The Matter of Illusion: Seeing the Surface of Facsimiles
By Nick Walkley
Deep Layers of ‘Flatland’: Scaling Up Nanomaterials
By Benjamin Blackwell
Surfaces Surfacing (Weaving Words)
By Jakob Oredsson
Epidermitecture: Co-Existing on the Surface
By Beatrice Zaidenberg and Adam Hudec
Synesthesia: An Experiment on Enacted Surfaces
By Loukia Tsafoulia and Severino Alfonso
Subterra Castle
By Jenny Perlin
I Will Acknowledge the Shallowness of My Depth: An autoimmune, spontaneous prose essay
By Marius Moldvær
A Small Old Plot
By Andreas Ervik
Thinking with Labyrinths: A Fictional-Topological Exploration
By Neda Genova
Rommet jeg er, rommet jeg føder
Av Julie Barfod
The room that I am, the room I give birth to
By Julie Barfod. English translation by Julia Morrissey and Julie Barfod
Traces of the Theatre
This essay is an english translation of Marte Danielsen Jølbo’s Norwegian essay “Teaterets spor” about Jakob Oredsson’s work Symbiotic Surfaces (Black Box teater Beings) at Black Box teater’s facade in Oslo, 2022.
Deep Surface workshops fall 2022
During autumn 2022, thirteen Norwegian and international scholars, curators, artists, and architects have gathered at ROM for kunst og arkitektur, at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design, and online to explore the status of the surface in our contemporary times as part of Metode’s first volume Deep Surface.
Open Call #1
Metode’s research project #1: “Deep Surface: Rethinking Surfaces with Art and Architecture”
Risk, Orientation, Method
Editorial statement by Metode
New publishing platform by ROM
Metode is an experimental gathering place and publishing platform for in-depth research and generative discursive practice run by ROM for Kunst og arkitektur
Fra tegl til tre
Hva syns du om løsningen da?
Jeg vet ikke om jeg liker tilbygget, det er som om arkitekturen fastlåser forståelsen av museet som noe forhistorisk.
From Brick to Wood
– So, what do think of the solution?
– I’m not sure I like the annex – it’s like the architecture has permanently defined the museum as something prehistorical.
Pasientens arkitekturhistorie - Ubehandlet
Hvordan kan den kronisk syke kroppen være et utgangspunkt for å forstå rom og arkitektur på en ny måte? Kan samtaler rundt arkitektur gjøre at vi forstår kroppen på en ny måte?
Et hus å vandre i
Dette essayet er en del av utstillingen Jävla kritiker! ved ROM for kunst og arkitektur 27.08 - 27.09.2020 - se javlakritiker.com for mer info
A House Made for Walking
This essay is part of the exhibition Jävla kritiker! at ROM for art and architecture 27.08 - 27.09.2020 - see javlakritiker.com for more info
Parlour
Dette essayet er en del av utstillingen Jävla kritiker! ved ROM for kunst og arkitektur 27.08 - 27.09.2020 - se javlakritiker.com for mer info
Parlour
This essay is part of the exhibition Jävla kritiker! at ROM for art and architecture 27.08 - 27.09.2020 - see javlakritiker.com for more info
Katedral för en ny tid
Dette essayet er en del av utstillingen Jävla kritiker! ved ROM for kunst og arkitektur 27.08 - 27.09.2020 - se javlakritiker.com for mer info
Cathedral for a New Era
This essay is part of the exhibition Jävla kritiker! at ROM for art and architecture 27.08 - 27.09.2020 - see javlakritiker.com for more info
Strippet ned, kledd opp
Dette essayet er en del av utstillingen Jävla kritiker! ved ROM for kunst og arkitektur 27.08 - 27.09.2020 - se javlakritiker.com for mer info
Stripped Down, Dressed Up
This essay is part of the exhibition Jävla kritiker! at ROM for art and architecture 27.08 - 27.09.2020 - see javlakritiker.com for more info
En dag i det skæve
Dette essayet er en del av utstillingen Jävla kritiker! ved ROM for kunst og arkitektur 27.08 - 27.09.2020 - se javlakritiker.com for mer info
In the Fringes
This essay is part of the exhibition Jävla kritiker! at ROM for art and architecture 27.08 - 27.09.2020 - see javlakritiker.com for more info
En skola att bli stor i
Dette essayet er en del av utstillingen Jävla kritiker! ved ROM for kunst og arkitektur 27.08 - 27.09.2020 - se javlakritiker.com for mer info
A School to Grow Up In
This essay is part of the exhibition Jävla kritiker! at ROM for art and architecture 27.08 - 27.09.2020 - see javlakritiker.com for more info
Fra de andre nordmennene
I et fagfelt som planlegger og bygger for alle, er det helt naturlig å stille spørsmål rundt hvem som sitter med definisjonsmakt og hvilke stemmer som blir inkludert og utelatt, og i det hele tatt hvordan inkludering og mangfold spiller inn.
From the Other Norwegians
In a field that plans and builds for everyone, it is natural to ask the question of who has the power of definition, which voices are included and excluded, and how inclusion and diversity in general fit in.