Neringa Forest Architecture Tours in January
- Published on Friday, 06 January 2023 10:57
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Photo by Luka Jefremovaitė
NAC continues Neringa Forest Architecture tours with foresters, landscape planners, biologists, artists, architects, and designers. Every Saturday, 12 pm professionals from various fields lead the tours in Curonian Spit, sharing their experience and knowledge about its history, landscape, features, and imagined future of infrastructure. Tours are free of charge and open to everyone. Registration is mandatory via email
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Upcoming tours:
Saturday, 28 January 12:00 pm
Nida - a settlement located in the amphitheater of Parnidis, Urbas and Angys dunes
During the tour Gražina Žemaitienė focuses on Nida, the settlement located in the amphitheater of Parnidis, Urbas and Angių dunes while discussing the Curonian Spit and the questions surrounding its existence today. Žemaitienė answers question: what draws people here - the forest, dunes, sea or the settlements and a different way of living compared to mainland Lithuania.
Meeting point: Lotmiškis str. 1, next to the UNESCO World Heritage monument, Nida
Gražina Žemaitienė was born in Šilutė, studied at Kaunas University of Technology and moved to Neringa in 1989. Žemaitienė’s areas of work encompass the planning and realisation of landscape projects in the Curonian Spit and recreational objects in the forest as well as urban areas, and preventive work for visitors of the Curonian Spit.
Saturday, 21 January 12:00 pm
What Curonian Spit pines murmur?
A tour, with a forestry specialist Gražina Banienė about the Curonian Spit's pines, in forests surrounding Pervalka and the edge of the Nagliai Nature Reserve. During the tour, you will get to know the characteristics of the mountain, Banks', black and Baltic pines.
Meeting point: Pervalka bus stop
Gražina Banienė was born in Seiniai, Poland and continued her studies at Lithuanian University of agriculture. Applying her knowledge of silviculture in practice, she works as a forestry specialist at Valstybinė miškų urėdija. Every spring, Gražina organises the National forest planting festival, inviting the public to get to know the forestry profession by planting trees.
Saturday, 14 January 12:00 pm
Forest as a Space
In this tour Anton Shramkov explores the spatiality of the forest. The forest is understood as a place with its features and spatial compositions and immediate influence on humans.
Meeting point: Neringa Sport School, Lotmiškio str. 2, Nida
Anton Shramkov was born in Moscow and graduated in architecture from the Moscow Institute of Architecture. He worked as a lecturer in Russia and Sweden. He has been living in Preila since 2007.
In collaboration with Nida Culture and Tourism information Center “Agila” and Curonian Spit National Park NAC is launching a series of free Neringa Forest Architecture tours.
As discussions surrounding human intervention and activities in the natural landscape gain increasing significance, NAC is hosting a new research and residency programme called Neringa Forest Architecture. The project positions the Curonian forest as an experimental case study; an opportunity for participants to analyze the broader scope of forest-as-infrastructure including topics such as growth, transformation, policy making, management, technology, art and design in the Baltic-Scandinavian region.
As a part of the programme, NAC is facilitating a series of guided tours. Using the onsite woodshed as a literal and figurative departure point (the shed houses Neringa timber and is itself an object and location made using local wood), this series of walking expeditions is designed to cultivate inquiry and discussion about the unique juncture between ecological, political/managerial, recreational and industrial narratives associated with the Curonian woods, landscape and the built environment.
Guided by forestry and national park experts, and architects living and working in the Curonian Spit in dialogue with pupils from Nida Gymnasium, Neringa Forest Architecture Tours facilitate conversation as well as exploration and education. The excursions, while an opportunity to observe the unique qualities of the Neringa Forest, are also a chance to engage in critical dialogue with professionals and pupils while traversing shifting geographical landscapes. Discussions will focus on the Curonian forest and its distinct eco-socio-political features including the complex legal and managerial processes behind its picturesque façade: How were the forests of Neringa planted? Why does the Neringa Forest and its pathways look this way? Why do trees need to be cut down? How does the local (human and animal) community participate in the making of Neringa Forest? What state and civic agencies and institutions are responsible in shaping it? What architecture is envisaged but currently not built? What do people in Neringa desire most in terms of infrastructure and why can it not be realised?
The excursions are free of charge but with a limited number of places available. Registration is mandatory by email
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Neringa Forest Architecture is co-funded by NERINGA Lithuanian Capital of Culture 2021, Lithuanian Council for Culture and Nordic Culture Point.
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