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Who we are?
Measuring Social Entrepreneurial Impact
New Framework Tested with a Norwegian Case Study 01.09.2011 4.1 Allgrønn
Kristinn Jón Ólafsson, Raj Kumar
Thapa:
Master Thesis
www.allgronn.org/historien/master-bi-allgronn.pdf
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preserving buildings to protecting communities
Our surroundings are constantly being
threatened by builders and architects who show little respect for the
uniqueness of local communities and our cultural heritage. New buildings
materialise like foreign bodies in well-established and harmonious
neighbourhoods – with little regard for scale and size, and often with
contrasting and extreme design and use of materials.
Read more
"Allgreen" was the
name our old Norse gods used for the planet earth. We have borrowed this
name to form a non-political, non-commercial movement.
Our primary
concern is to take care of our cultural heritage and to influence
developers to do the same. About some of the Allgreen Projects:
Arendal, the town with the canals.
The idea to dig up and revive the South Coast town of Arendal's ancient
canals was launched in 1989. "The Canal Association for the
enrichment of Arendal's environment" has now more than 2500 members
and supporters and is encouraged by the Department of Environment. More images here
Dale-Gudbrands Gard,
Hundorp.
The Centre for Norse Mythology was opened in Gudbrandsdalen in 1991,
initiated and designed by Allgrønn.
Images here
Oslo Harbour. In 1991 we initiated
the effords to visualise Oslo Harbour Corporation's dispositions in the
capital's seafront and its negative consequences. Our six reports have
resulted in an initiative by the Council of Oslo to reconsider the plans
for a new harbour development.
See a photograph of the plans for Oslos seaside that we stopped on this
page.
The Villages.
We have realised the demand for a renewed debate about human environment
and its influence on the quality of life. Our objective is to establish
competence to develop the Village concept in Norway. Format and scale
present problems in large developments. We would like to see new
developments where the civic qualities of the ancient villages are
maintained.
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Our helper from ancient
norwegian myths:
The Norse mythology presented us
with Skade, daughter of the Jotun. She enjoyed skiing and hunting in the
Norwegian mountains. The fairies hailed her as "Ondurdis", the
godess of skiing. She keeps an eye with the activities of Allgrønn, her
earth. Now she has returned from the mountains to patronize the conditions
of life in villages and urban areas. We give Ondurdis to people or
organizations that we like.
See the names of those who recieved the prize here.
This is s start.
Some of the pages are in English.
Please send us links to good sites showing and debating architecture and
urban development in human scale and proportions. The following pages
include some texts in English:
Leon
Krier about a kanal project
in Arendal Norway.
Several
quotations on architecture
Allgrønns
Ondurdis-prize given to "Urban Villages Group"
Allgrønns
Ondurdis-prize given to
"A Vision of Europe"
Hundertwasser
on architecture
and architects
Please also visit www.avoe.org
&
www.intbau.org
for more information about architecture and city planning.
There is hope..
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