1. In discussing the potential of empty structures, I am met with the relative potential
of vacancy. Can empty spaces become anything? And furthermore the opportunity
to replicate a filling found elsewhere. Could your favourite shopping boardwalk be
reconstructed anywhere? What do you see in the empty, when you try to look for
something else, something unexpected, something new.

2. If we start questioning the way we percieve the potential of space, attempting to avoid
our inclination of replicating previously experienced compositions of space and pro-
gram, we may begin to realise other potentials. The sorry state of Vardøs vacants, the
abundance of empty spaces, or scraps, boards, and trash laying around, also repre-
sents a potential, however qualitatively different.

3. In what way could we best
approach and explore
this potential, while at
the same time avoiding
the trap of framing it, and
responding to it, in an all
too familiar fashion? This
might be a cliché, but if so
a neccessary one, see-
ing as we should always
be required to strive for
excellence in the ability to
free ourselves from past
perceptions, and discover
familiar circumstances
anew.
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4. Could it be that unique circumstances require unique approaches? Should we allow
ourselves to dwell in this investigation, rather than apply tools and ideas we know
only too well from other contexts?

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These five photos are an attempt to problematize the image of how all projects end
up looking; happy, healthy, rich and elegant middle class people populating the
proposed space. Is this what we want for Vardø? Is it even possible? Other photos
look at the empty spaces as a potential for totally different possibilities. Some even
explore the absurd in an attempt to broaden the scope through which we browse our
opportunities, recognizing the demand for innovation in redefining spaces and places.