L’Embarcadère is a mobile and participatory architectural project that explores storytelling as a collective, sensory experience in public space. Developed as a temporary installation touring from May to August 2025, the project combines architecture, sound, and urban furniture to create moments of encounter across different territories. Inspired by the dynamics of waterways—movement, flow, connection—the pavilion acts as a listening and transmission device, collecting local narratives and redistributing them through immersive and tactile sound technologies. By activating public spaces and engaging diverse communities, L’Embarcadère investigates how temporary architecture can foster cultural exchange, social connection, and shared ownership of place.

Sensitive Territories explores how a future disused railway can become a cultural, ecological, and social corridor. Through sensory analysis, material experimentation, and mobile architecture, students investigate how atmosphere and care can shape new forms of rural community life.

Guest speakers at Bylivkonferansen 2025, the conference focuses on how we can develop health-promoting and age-friendly places across Norway. The places where we live our everyday lives have a direct impact on people’s health, well-being, and quality of life throughout the life course. The conference brings together actors from the public sector, private industry, politics, and professional fields to share experiences, best practices, and new perspectives on place-based development that supports public health and intergenerational inclusion.

Compassionate Communities: Can Art and Design Foster Care, Connection, and Belonging? Guests: Tina KM Sinclair, Christian Pagh, Amy van den Hooven, Eamon O’Kane Moderator: Jérôme Picard, Greymatter book launch: Elida Mosquera

As a part of KMD Research Week 2025, we present Compassionate Communities as part of an exhibition in Studio Forum space at the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, UiB. This exhibition presents the artistic research project across the faculty’s three departments by Eamon O’Kane, Wolfgang Schmid, Amy van den Hooven, Jill Halstead and Jerome Emmanuel Picard. This project is part of a New European Bauhaus initiative at KMD and will be on display as a part of the Open Studio series in the Studio Forum space for one month.

Greymatter Vaksdal explores how architecture, art, and design can support multigenerational living in rural contexts. Triggered by the new railway connection, the project investigates transformation, identity, and sustainability at the intersection of industrial heritage, landscape, and future mobility.

The project aims to create innovative urban narratives through a design and construction course, emphasizing social inclusion and sustainability in Bergen, and is part of the Generation Festival and FIB Festspillene Bergen 2024.

Investigating and learning from Aging in place and relocating health in NORCs Neighborhood of New-York City

Students from ENSAAMA worked with a project focused on rural development in the Fjell area of Øygarden municipality, Norway. The Greymatter Møvika & Ulveseth initiative involved transforming soon-to-be disused school buildings into community spaces, exploring sustainable residential construction, and improving local infrastructure. The project was conducted in collaboration with Architecture firm LOCAL and the Vestland Region County department for City development, aiming to address local engagement, sustainability, and innovation challenges.

Greymatter Bekkjarvik engages ideas around senior living in Norway's scenic coastal town of Bekkjarvik. Through research and student work for Bachelor diploma, it explores how architecture can support vibrant, sustainable communities for all generations.

In this book, we reflect on our journey exploring the complexities of aging. From personal commitment to a broad initiative and Master studio with Bergen Architecture School on the West coast, we share insights to inspire a dialogue on creating inclusive, multigenerational communities.

The documentary Greymatter Bergen is a project about the current state of how we grow old and live in the center of cities, using Bergen as a case study. By documenting and mapping the lives of our senior today, we want to inspire, question, and imagine an inclusive and resilient future for the city.

How rapid practice of assemblage, emphasizing the reuse of materials (ready-made) can generate speculative tools to interact with one surrounding?

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