If a city is moved, would be better to break with the past or still to be linked to the same imaginary?
Latitude has been invited by Polis – the study association of Urbanism and Landscape Architecture at the Faculty of Architecture of Delft University of Technology, NL – to lead a workshop as part of the activities of the Urbanism Week 2014.

Making use of ad hoc design tactics, Latitude, in collaboration with arch. Daniela Maiullari and arch. Emanuele Paladin, proposes to reflect on the case of the city of Kiruna, in the extreme arctic conditions of the far North of Sweden, will be reconstructed 2 miles away. What initially seemed an utopian experiment is becoming real. However, it has to be accounted that the new city and its inhabitants have been exposed to the hydrogeological instability due to the intense mining activity. Institutions and inhabitants agree on the point that the image of the new Kiruna -as the old one- should be grounded on the lake, a new lake. This identity issue should be confronted with the underpinning question of what is a lake in these extreme conditions especially when the ambition is to give for to a resilient urban configuration.