Porous Kirkenes: Crumbling Mining Town or Dynamic Port Cityscape?

The great number of actors in port city regions, such as authorities, municipalities, national governments, private companies, societal groups, and flora fauna, need to develop shared visions. Collaborative approaches that focus on combined values can help achieve long-term resilience enable a sustainable just coexistence within the same territory. However, sheer economic profit generated by activities overshadows ignores equally essential cultural, societal, environmental needs. lack pluralities planning decision-making processes creates challenges for cohabitation many their interests port-city regions. On one hand, contemporary spaces cities cannot be classified defined traditional dichotomies anymore. other perception spatial institutional boundaries between leads positivistic-driven definition rigid inflexible, line-like interface physically mentally separating from urban stakeholders, neglecting inseparable character parts our society. By investigating re-imagining future port-development plans historic mining town Kirkenes, located around 400 km above Arctic Circle Northern Norway, aim this article is explore combine concepts negative positive porosity liminality arrive at renewed cityscape, which function dynamic thresholds inbetween multiple dualities realities various actors. bridges theoretical/conceptual sphere practical liminal design. using Design Fiction tool creating new, innovative, pluralistic narratives, contributes research aims imaginary, value-based, history-informed designing future-proof, resilient, just, cities.