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- Bergholm, Adam, 1977-
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Key Notes on the Unruly City : Social, Material, and Spatial Transgressions
- 2023
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Konstnärligt arbete (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This research departs from three intersecting field studies in Berlin, Copenhagen, and Paris, and includes both my interventions in the urban texture and integrations with existing communities working in the subject field of the Right to the City (Lefebvre 1968). The projects explore the mutable “nature” of cities and build on political philosophies which describe egalitarian actions that have shaped what those places could be. Laid out across three chapters (X, Y & Z) are descriptions of work processes for multiple projects that locate a social and spatial phenomenon which I call “the unruly city.”Manufactured keys, trapdoors, dug-out tunnels, informal dissemination, bricolaged furniture, loopholes, pulleys, hatches, and shacks recur throughout the thesis; each of these tools, methods or architectural elements support a praxis of transgressivism and stealth. Even if the practical constructions, historical investigations, and cultural theory analyses explored in the thesis do not give access to the physical places themselves, they unlock rooms in the reader’s political imagination, by showing that such spaces exist. At the core of Lefebvre’s philosophical and political argument is the call for action. Praxis is understood here as holding the potential of critical performativity: the possibility to merge culture and politics with claims of creating access to the urban and the production of space. A promise of going beyond philosophy and theory to arrive at praxis. Jacques Rancière (2019) theorizes that which is recognized as (im)possible through sensation. In effect, Rancière addresses a regulation of what can be done. By departing from such an aesthetic order of distributed sensibility, there is the possibility to make a true politics; one which can peel off the foreclosing façades of Western democracy, where the order of things is contested by, as Rancière frames it, the part which has no part. This would be an active politics that challenges the policed order of inclusions and exclusions regarding of what is felt, seen, heard, and perceived. A politics of affect, accomplished by spatial, material, and theoretical practices. In order to imagine the unimaginable—whether it is about spaces, living conditions, or coded systems—imagination must transgress into praxis: speech acts that contributes to our perception, and the other way around. Here, each work becomes a monument to the is-possible—a concrete, non-abstract refutation of any arguments which claim another way of creating or engaging with the city beyond that which is commercially sanctioned to be impossible.
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- Frykholm, Hannes, 1982-
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Building the city from the inside : architecture and urban transformation in Los Angeles, Porto, and Las Vegas
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Positioned in the research field of “interior urbanism” (Rice, 2016), this thesis considers entrance situations that occur between buildings and cities in order to develop new ways of investigating the relationship between architecture and urban transformation. From the main research question—How does architecture mediate urban transformation?—the thesis focuses on experience-driven narratives about the city (Pine & Gilmore, 2011). Looking at the means by which architecture situates the subject in an urban experience, the thesis asks how the experience contributes to a particular attention to the city. This approach intends to shed light on architecture’s role in both mediating and challenging neoliberal urbanism (Peck, Theodore, & Brenner, 2009; Fraser, 2019). The thesis argues for analyzing large-scale processes of urban transformation by placing a sharpened empirical focus on the built environment. This is tested by a transversal research method (Frichot, Gabrielsson, Havik, & Jobst, forthcoming) that intersects multiple investigative techniques. The three cases that are addressed—the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles, the Casa da Música in Porto, and Wynn Casino in Las Vegas—each epitomize a particular discourse about architecture and urbanization. Through observations and the analysis of the three cases, the thesis unpacks three dimensions of architectural experience of the city: first, by highlighting the spatial logic of a stretched threshold; second, by considering temporality and ways of waiting; and third, by observing the labor that is necessary to keep the interior environment intact. A recurring narrative in these buildings lies in the suggestion that the process of urban redevelopment never ends. Together, the cases point to an oft-overlooked parallel between the refurbishment of building interiors and exterior urban transformations, adding empirical nuances to what has been labelled the “architecture of neoliberalism” (Spencer, 2016). The threshold between building and city is shown to be a fragile and unstable territory, which is under continuous negotiation and where the claims of multiple actors, conditions, and events come together. The thesis attempts to make a contribution in three ways: by developing transversal methods, by considering the threshold as knowledge device, and by exploring micro-scale investigations of urban transformation. The project points to how the stretched threshold of these projects speak of a transforming relationship between architecture and capitalism, where the city is reconfigured through the stretching of interiors out to adjacent sidewalks and squares. If the city is built from the expanding insides of architecture, the city is by definition an unfinished project. To think of the instability of architecture not as a shortcoming but as a virtue opens up for a continuous engagement with the city as the unfinished construction site of a democratic project.
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- Gabrielsson, Catharina, 1964-
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Från Stureplan till Brunkebergstorg : Trettio år av stadsrummets privatisering
- 2020
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Ingår i: Bebyggelsehistorisk tidskrift. - Uppsala : Föreningen Bebyggelsehistorisk tidskrift. - 0349-2834 .- 2002-3812. ; :79, s. 24-44
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- While the critique against the privatization of public space has been a recurring mantra in debates on urban development over the past 30 years, less attention has been given to how and why urban spaces undergo processes of privatization given the inherent ambiguities of the term. I argue that the privatization of urban space has undergone a significant shift, following the increased domination of private interests and market expansion that are the hallmarks of neoliberal societal restructuration. As informed by critical urban and architecture theory, the article is based on a comparative historical study of two sites in inner-city Stockholm: Stureplan (refurbished 1990) and Brunkebergstorg (refurbished 2019). By situating the spatial design of these places in their local context of decision-making and planning, a difference emerges between a first and second phase; one defined by overt manifestations of private and commercial interests, set in contrast to the present moment where modes of appropriation are cloaked under a new “generous publicness”. I argue that the emphasis on the social, rather than commercial, element in the design of contemporary urban space partakes in the construction of the new flexible and creative neoliberal subject in late-capitalist societies.
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- Gabrielsson, Catharina, 1964-, et al.
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Undead neoliberalisms
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Ingår i: <em>Neoliberalism on the Ground </em>. - Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press.
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- Hasan, Suha
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Spaces of Writing History in the Postcolonial City : Edits, Erasures, Inscriptions
- 2022
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- The search for a pre-colonial identity has occupied post-colonial cities since independence, becoming intertwined with modern nation-building projects. Consequently, an active agenda of reframing heritage has emerged that is strongly connected to the process of revisiting and rewriting the past. This requires merging fragments of memories into one collective memory, which is also called history. This is derived from the intention to create a nationalistically accepted view of how the nation should be perceived by its citizens and presented to the world. Such a singular narrative, which is viewed as essential to creating cohesion and consensus among a diversified population, entails the erasure of other urban narratives. Writing this collective memory, history, is an action in which edits and erasures are equally important as inscriptions. The built environment becomes a vital mediator through which this history is transcribed onto the city terrain. Reading the city through these processes of edits, erasures, and inscriptions constructs a nuanced urban narrative, providing insights into the interconnection of colonial and post-colonial eras on a non-linear timescale. The study of Manama’s evolution as a city lends an understanding of the dynamics through which the urban fabric has played a role in the rewriting of history. This study goes back and forth to both link the writing practices in the city today to its past, as well as to highlight identified recurring practices of rewriting history through the built environment. These writing practices are investigated through processes of restoration, demolition, and unrealisations that make visible the frictions and incoherence in the narrative; a narrative that is not produced by a single entity, but rather the dynamics of different agents over the years. History here is dismantled into layers of memory found in archives of different forms, allowing space for the echoes of distant memories to emerge. Central to this narrative is an ever-evolving relationship between the land and the nation.
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