Architecture has been really discussed in the local media during 2011. The Norwegian Architecture Association NAL has its 100-year anniversary this year and the local Architect Institute Working Group held a series of events focusing on architecture and landscape architecture in Tromsø.
Among the events we can mention the 
Landscapes in Change conference, the Beach Promenade cultural trek, the Open House event, the Film + Architecture event, the Spire Box, the Pecha Kucha Night architecture lecture, the Landscape architecture exhibition by students from Ås and the architecture exhibition Where is Tromsø going".
The events have created an interest and debate in the city's population that has not been seen since the Byutviklingsår was held in 2005. They have also helped to awaken, to some extent, Tromsø awareness of urban planning and the importance of participation.
(photo: NAF)
My active participation in the Beach Promenade 
(Strandpromenade) allowed me to experience the interest of our fellow citizens in these events giving me the idea to promote and organize a series of architecture exhibitions which will start next year with the exhibition called: På villspor?
(photo: Nordlys newspaper and iTromsø newspaper)
The municipality of Tromsø received more than 100 name sugestions for the path in which we walked that day. A committee choosed by them has decided to call the path Ishavspromenade, which means polar see promenade.
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