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- Kopljar, Sandra
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A Centre on the margin
- 2017
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Ingår i: Lo Squaderno. - 1973-9141. ; , s. 31-33
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Through the creation of two of the world’s most advanced research facilities with synchrotron and spallation research technology, MAX IV and ESS, a leading and central position is secured within the European materials research community (Lunds universitet 2015). However, this establishment is physically realized on the outskirts of Lund, Sweden, and acting as an engine for further urban development with added functions promoted by influential and powerful stakeholders. As such, the separation of periphery and centre is in the case Lund Northeast/Brunnshög re-negotiated, creating co-existent centre and margin, and dependent on both geographical location as well as societal and situational positions.
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- Kopljar, Sandra
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Big Science, Ethics, and the Scalar Effects of Urban Planning
- 2020
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Ingår i: Urban Planning. - : Cogitatio. - 2183-7635. ; 5:4, s. 217-226
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The urban expansion currently under development around the two materials science facilities MAX IV and European Spallation Source in Lund, Sweden, surrounds two meticulously designed research facilities steered by global demands. The new urban area, together with the research facilities dedicated to science and the development of knowledge, expands the city of Lund onto high-quality agricultural land. In doing so, the municipal planning is attempting to align contemporary ideas of sustainable urban development with large-scale scientific infrastructure. This actualizes an ethical dilemma as the urban expansion onto productive agricultural land overrides previous decisions taken by the municipality regarding land use. It can also be understood as going against national land use policy which states that development on productive agricultural land should be avoided. As the planning stands today, the research facilities heavily push local urban development into the area while the intended research outcomes primarily relate to a global research community tied to international scientific demands for materials science. Although the Brunnshög area is realized through a neutralizing planning strategy, thought to balance and compensate for the development on farmland, the effects of the counterbalancing acts are primarily played out at a local urban level in terms of diverse, exciting, and locally sustainable neighbourhoods. The land use protection policies meant to secure national food production rather operates on a national scale. The argument made in this text is that sustainable development, and the intended balancing acts it involves, ought to be carefully considered in terms of scalar effects. Sustainable planning effects’ scalar extent should be taken into account through careful assessment of the step between good intentions and expected outcomes.
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- Kopljar, Sandra, et al.
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Expanding Architecture: Critical perspectives from within a school of architecture
- 2018
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Ingår i: 10:e Pedagogiska inspirationskonferensen, LTH.
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The architectural community needs to be better at managing a diversity of experiences, desires and needs associated with architecture. How can students' call for a more problematizing and inclusive education and industry be used as a basis for student and teacher collaboration, as well as an educational platform for raising diversity issues? The Symposium Expanding Architecture - Critical Perspectives Acting from Within, held at the School of Architecture, LTH in the spring of 2018, was the answer to a shortage within the education as identified by the students. The event served as an opportunity for criticism of architectural education and profession, as well as a visualization of these issues for students. It thus became an example of how teaching can address a question based on a specific position and contextualize this issue in relation to contemporary research and teaching.
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- Kopljar, Sandra
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How to think about a place not yet
- 2014
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- The project How to think about a place not yet concerns the mechanisms and attitudes adopted by the professional designer in an urban design process – i.e. how intuitive and affective response in a design process delimit the range of plausible designs. The affordances of the environment are suited to the particular acting space of an individual and communicate the possibilities and capacities for an individual to act and, by extension in this work, to distinguish options for design. The consequence of accumulated possibilities inevitably involves inconsistency and contradiction, and the perception of numerous possibilities often entails the possibility of conflict as there is seldom merely one imaginable solution to a complex situation or design. Action potential, perception, experience and preferences in form of feelings and emotions can delimit distinguishable room for maneuver and steer design. I have in this work used the concept of affordance in relation to a design process and let the notion of affect put limitations to, and help explain, how we intuitively delimit the possibilities apparent to us. For the investigation of an ongoing design process I study the planning and pre-construction phase of two major research facilities and neighborhood that are currently being planned and under construction in the outskirts of Lund, Sweden. In this exemplification of a strong vision of urban development the planning relates to future implications on the science community on a world scale, but also to the scale of immediate vicinity in form of local neighborhoods. In the project I test methods of working with, and problematizing, parts of the creative design process. This is done mainly through intervention on site and through teaching within design education. By recognizing openings in the planning process a possibility for visualization and development of artistic research methods is taken advantage of. Through the formulated methods the intrinsic potential of creative design processes and the site itself are investigated. The planning rhetoric is studied, and how various stakeholders’ arguments are formulated. A problematization of the variety of scales used at various critical moments is formulated and enacted through on-site intervention. Questionnaire-based investigations together with sound simulation are used where professional designers, already active on site and non-professionals have been invited. As part of the project and as a collaboration with the artist group Learning Site Audible Dwelling – a dwelling that also functions as a stereo system - has been used and worked as a test bed for the investigations. My aim with this work is to explore the interplay between actors engaged in formulating urban design, and together with a problematization of the same process, formulate some answers in order to help the professional creative design process progress as a conscious and self-reflecting course of action.
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- Kopljar, Sandra
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How to think about a place not yet
- 2014
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- My PhD studies are tied to the research project The evolutionary periphery and will investigate the planning and pre-construction phase of the research facility ESS in Lund. Here the planning relates to future implications on the science community on a world scale, but also to the scale of immediate vicinity in form of local neighborhoods. As temporality and time dependent potential in urban planning process vary depending on the scale of interaction or conflict more analysis is needed about the intersection of such sometimes conflicting interests. Through recognizing gaps and openings in an inert planning process, latent possibility for visualization by artistic research methods will be taken advantage of, and in formulation and application of architectural and artistic intervention methods the affordances and intrinsic potential of the processes will be investigated. Within the project the prerequisites and temporal assumptions active in the planning process will be problematized as well as the shifting definition of periphery. An analysis of how the operative actors define themselves, which phases and concepts that are used at different levels in the planning process, and a clarification of how a variety of scales are used at various critical moments will be formulated.The project Methods for exploring potential in urban evolutionary process, aims to identify opportunities to influence the planning process (within its temporal extent) and to formulate research methods within the borders of the planning and urban evolutionary process. Here the planning rhetoric is studied, and how various stakeholders’ arguments are formulated. This is problematized through on-site interventions. As part of the project collaboration with Learning Site Audible Dwelling has been placed on Brunnshög where investigations will be made throughout May and June, 2013.
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- Kopljar, Sandra
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How to think about a place not yet : Studies of affordance and site-based methods for the exploration of design professionals' expectations in urban development processes
- 2016. - 1
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- ABSTRACTAs a part of a democratic demand for transparency in urban development processes it is important that design professionals hold the ability to scrutinise their own work process, and at certain stages let go of predefined ideas of future realities. This work revolves around how design professionals perceive options for design in such situations. A basic assumption in this work is that a design professional continuously relates to things outside the immediate characteristics of a design task. In order to problematise a design process and investigate how design professionals are predisposed by various demands, both obvious and obscured factors surrounding the design situation are regarded. Educational background, municipal and national planning directives, regional and global developmental demands, and other profession-related expectations are thus here considered to influence design professionals perception of places yet-to-be. In this work, theories of affordance and affect have, together with interventionist methods, been used to investigate design professionals’ expectations. I have let my observations of professionals’ perception inform a theoretical diversification and reconsideration of what we mean by affordance, or action potential. In this regard, sound interventions have proved to be an effective method. Through simulations of soundscapes, participating professionals could address and express their immediate experiences. This broadening of a perceptive spectrum could thus function as a supplement to the predominant reliance on hypothetical and expected understandings of an environment. The sound interventions have in themselves become a method for unsettling expectations, as well as some of the basic predispositions that seem to reappear whenever a design situation is faced. This unsettling has been captured primarily through questionnaire-based sound interventions on location in an area under development outside Lund, Sweden that is destined to hold large-scale research facilities in the future. In addition to these informant-based, on-site interventions, two methodologically designed and performed actions comment the ongoing planning strategies related to Science Village Scandinavia and the area Lund NE/Brunnshög. The first of these, called Uttered Expectations, publically broadcast the answers gathered from the previous questionnaire-based interventions in their entirety. The other event, called Excursion to the Fictive and Factual Landscape of a Future Science Village in Lund, was a concerted reading that problematised the rhetoric surrounding an ongoing planning process. In this thesis, a set of interrelated concepts are developed for the investigation of how offers for action and alteration in a planning situation can be understood: carried affordance; environmental alteration potential; elaboratable nested affordance and vibrant affordance. This thesis, surveying a case of large-scale and global stakeholder exploitation and showing some of its driving mechanisms, has brought the existence of official as well as tacit influences on design outcomes to the fore. Emotional and situated experiences evoked through sound interventions have been seen to differ from influences that design professionals initially brought to the project. Therefore, in this thesis it is suggested that predetermined expectations of change, including established envisioning of alternative futures, together with design conventions, profoundly steer distinguishable options for designed environmental alteration, but also that these expectations are alterable in acts where “the professional eye” is given an opportunity for self-reflection.
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- Kopljar, Sandra
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Sound interventions : How to think about a place not yet
- 2018
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Konstnärligt arbete (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- As a part of a democratic demand for transparency in urban development processes it is important that design professionals hold the ability to scrutinize their own work process, and at certain stages let go of predefined ideas of future realities. The work of Sandra Kopljar’s dissertation revolves around how design professionals perceive options for design in such situations. A basic assumption that is applied to Kopljar’s research, is that a design professional continuously relates to things outside the immediate characteristics of a design task. In Kopljar’s work, theories of affordance and affect have, together with interventionist methods, been used to situate and investigate design professionals’ expectations in regard to educational background, municipal and national planning directives and regional and global development demands. Kopljar have let observations of professionals’ perception inform a theoretical diversification and reconsideration of what we mean by affordance, or action potential. In this regard, sound interventions have proved to be an effective method. Through simulations of possible future soundscapes participating professionals could address and express their immediate experiences. This broadening of a perceptive spectrum could thus function as a supplement to the predominant reliance on hypothetical and expected understandings of an environment and the sound interventions have in themselves become a method for unsettling expectations. In addition to these informant-based, on-site interventions in the area of development in Lund NE/Brunnshög outside Lund in Sweden, two performed actions comment on the ongoing planning strategies related to Science Village Scandinavia and the area Lund NE/Brunnshög. The first of these, entitled Uttered Expectations, publicly broadcast the answers gathered from the previous questionnaire-based interventions in their entirety. The other event, entitled Excursion to the Fictive and Factual Landscape of a Future Science Village in Lund, was a concerted reading that problematised the rhetoric of an ongoing planning process. In Kopljar’s research, it is suggested that predetermined expectations of change profoundly steer distinguishable options for designed environmental alteration, but also that these expectations are alterable in acts where “the professional eye” is given an opportunity for self-reflection.
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- Kopljar, Sandra, et al.
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Uttered Expectations - a performative event through broadcasting of spoken rendering of written answers
- 2016
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Uttered Expectations was a reading event performed 27 June 2013, as part of a PhD project at the Department of Architecture, Lund University. Within the frame of the PhD project a series of research interventions were pursued about the establishing of a large-scale science park in an agrarian area just outside the city of Lund, Sweden. In Uttered Expectations written comments from participants that had participated in interview interventions in this area were read by the researcher Sandra Kopljar at the site of the future Science Village and broadcasted to the City Centre of Lund as a symbolic return of voices to the city, operating in parallel to official planning procedures. Uttered Expectations was realized through several cooperative and collaborative steps. In an initial request to the artist group Learning Site the research project leaders asked if it could be of interest for Learning Site to share this kind of situation by having a sound-emitting building unit placed at the site of the future Science Village, at the same time as they had an exhibition going on at a gallery in the City of Lund. Learning Site agreed to the idea of making a transmission. This decision in turn started a negotiation with the City Planning Office in Lund about placing the sound-emitting module in this exploitation site, which at the time had only scarcely begun its life as a construction site. This three-fold co-operation – between researchers at Lund University, artists and Lund Municipality generated further necessary collaboration with other actors, such as persons within the Science Village leadership, the art gallery in the City Centre, people active at the construction site, archaeologists, and agencies handling transport, insurance and building permit, etc. In this presentation we tell the story of this co-operation, and some of the societal and organisational issues it addressed. We also reflect on the fact that the mode of research and the methods in the PhD project as a whole was formed partly as a consequence of the co-operative efforts.
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- Kärrholm, Mattias, et al.
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Built Environment, Ethics and Everyday Life
- 2020
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Ingår i: Urban Planning. - : Cogitatio. - 2183-7635. ; 5:4, s. 101-105
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Tidskriftsartikel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In the wake of global crises concerning, for example, inequalities, migration, pandemics, and the environment, ethical concerns have come to the fore. In this thematic issue, we are especially interested in the role that the planning, design, and materialities of the built environment can take in relation to ethics, and we present four different openings or themes into urban ethics that we also think are worthy of further interrogation. First of all, we suggest that new ethics evolve around new materialities, i.e., urban development and new design solutions are always accompanied by new ethical issues that we need to tackle. Secondly, we highlight different aspects involved in the design and ethics of community building. Thirdly, we address the issue of sustainable planning by pointing to some its shortcomings, and especially the need to addressing ethical concerns in a more coherent way. Finally, we point to the need to further investigate communication, translation, and influence in participatory design processes. Taken together, we hope that this issue—by highlighting these themes in a series of different articles—can inspire further studies into the much needed field of investigation that is urban ethics.
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