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Abstract

The study explores an alternative methodological approach towards the nuclear landscape of Barsebäck. The investigation aims to contribute to knowledge about how changing energy landscapes and specifically nuclear
landscapes methodologically can be approached and be reimagined in landscape architecture. The power plants relation towards landscape is thus central in the study. The creative abductive method interweaves past and present representations of the power plants relation towards landscape, inspired by Walter Benjamin’s Historic materialism, into new insights of how the nuclear landscape can be perceived. The methodological approach combines several studies from a case study executed by bike to a literate study, to a semiotic analysis of Per Friberg’s drawings of the nuclear landscape from 1966. Furthermore, to a visual montage of the nuclear landscape with collages and drawings. The relation between the power plants and the landscape is made throughout the study according to relations of dichotomy, border and distance. Moreover, the investigation combines landscape architects and cultural theorists such as Sylvia Crowe, John Wiley, Umberto Eco and Giorgio Agamben that contextualise the nuclear landscape with ideas of experience and sovereignty. The nuclear landscape is contradictory, defined by experiences of alienation while being an object of imagination. The nuclear landscape is the dialogue between the experience and the power plants. By encountering the nuclear power plants a dialogue that seems unfamiliar, unknown and somehow out of reach, presents itself.