We have kindly been allowed to use the Labyrinth as the symbol for Higher Education for Peace, and we feel that its symbolic contents may help us to express our ideas and thoughts at this moment of time. As you may see in the pictures (links) below, this mark is something real, a place where you may go, a place for thinking and contemplation, as well as a place full of life used for gathering, discussion and for games. We hope that we will be able to live up to the ideas of the Labyrinth in our work. 

The Labyrinth in summer and winter (Photographs by Ola Røe)

• Overview - the university place.
• Detail of the Labyrinth - outer circles.
• Detail of the Labyrinth - the entry.
• Detail of Labyrinth - the centre.
• Detail of Labyrinth - practical use.
• Detail of Labyrinth - remark stones indicating rays from the centre.
• Detail of Labyrinth - getting into the centre.
• Overview - daytime at mid-winter.
• Overview - winternight.
• The source, the centre of the Labyrinth.

Related reading. The three former are international standard works, the two following discuss labyrinths in North Norway, and the final address the architecture of the Labyrinth at the University of Tromsø.

• Fisher, Adrian 1990. LABYRINTH. SOLVING THE RIDDLE OF THE MAZE. Harmony Books, New York.
• Kraft, J. 1985. THE GODDESS IN THE LABYRINTH. Åbo Academy.
• Matthews, W.H. 1970 (1922). MAZES AND LABYRINTHS - THEIR HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT. Dover, New York.
• Odner, K. 1961. TO NYOPPDAGEDE LABYRINTER I ØST-FINNMARK. Viking XXV. (in Norwegian)
• Olsen, B. 1991. MATERIAL METAPHORS AND HISTORICAL PRACTICE. A STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF STONE LABYRINTHS IN COASTAL FINNMARK, ARCTIC NORWAY. Fennoscandia Archaeologica VII.
• Sinding-Larsen, Egil 1992. EN LABYRINT SOM FOKUS. Byggekunst 2/1992. (in Norwegian)

• Caerdroia - Towards the centre of the labyrinth - including advice on how to make a classical one.