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- Brolund de Carvalho, Sara, Adjunkt, 1974-, et al.
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Solidarity Report : Two Witness Seminars on Danish and Swedish Welfare Housing in Crisis
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Bok (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This report documents the conversations that occurred during two seminars, “Caring for Plans: Narratives of the Parallel Society Package”, held at the Copenhagen Architecture Festival CAFx, October 17, 2021,1 and “Solidarity in Times of Repressive Politics: A Seminar on the Effects of the Concepts ‘Particularly/Vulnerable Areas’”, held at Folkets Husby, October 15, 2022, in the Stockholm suburb of Husby.Narratives about the “failure” of large-scale housing from the postwar decades are now guiding major physical, social, and economic changes in neighborhoods all over Europe. Denmark and Sweden have long been known for their welfare-state systems and benevolent housing policies. However, in recent years, both countries have enacted new national “anti-segregation” measures that call for major physical and social changes to neighborhoods built in the 1960s and 1970s. In these processes, the opinions of local communities and residents of the neighborhoods have seldom been heard. By working with “witness seminars,” a method adopted from oral history, it is our aim to foreground residents’ perspectives and how they have enacted solidarity and collective resistance to these measures.
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- Brolund de Carvalho, Sara, Adjunkt, 1974-, et al.
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‘You can simply say no’ : Narrating the effects and affects of Danish and Swedish housing in crisis
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Ingår i: Radical Housing Journal. - : Radical Housing Journal. - 2632-2870. ; 6:1, s. 201-219
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Narratives about the ‘failure’ of large-scale post-World War II housing are now guiding major physical, social, and economic changes in neighborhoods all over Europe. This is true even in Denmark and Sweden, which have long been known for their welfare states and benevolent housing policies. Today, however, both countries have enacted new national anti-segregation measures that call for major physical and social changes to neighborhoods built in the postwar era, even as the opinions of local communities and residents of such neighborhoods have been only sparsely heard – if at all. By working with the method ‘witness seminars’, we – as the research collective Aktion Arkiv – foreground residents’ perspectives and their collective resistance: the effects and affects of top-down changes. While sharing their lived experiences and actions, residents say that architects and planners can ‘simply say no’ and thereby refuse to participate in these actions.
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Caring for Communities
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In summer 2017, we followed an invitation by Angelika Fitz and Elke Krasny to take part in the public workspace of their project Care+Repair in the Nordbahnhalle; a project connected to the Vienna Biennale and organized by the Architekturzentrum Wien (Az W). In this way, the group Action Archive from Stockholm began to collaborate with the city planner and activist Beatrice Stude from Vienna. Our work followed a joint interest in common rooms and the commons. Since 2014, Action Archive has been exploring the history and role of common rooms in Swedish welfare housing. This publication collects the notes from our ethnographic field studies of summer 2017 of newly built common rooms in the Nordbahnviertel (the Northern Railway District) in Vienna. It comprises excerpts from guided home tours and interviews with representatives of the Nordbahn district management and a non-profit housing developer. This publication serves as point of departure for a Forum Theatre piece, which deals with common rooms as a conflict area between bureaucracy and community action that is shown in connection with the exhibition Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet (Az W, 2019).
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Caring for Communities
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Konstnärligt arbete (refereegranskat)abstract
- The exhibit "Caring for Communities" is an outcome of the workshop Care+Repair, public workspace, at Nordbahnhalle in Vienna, 2017, curated by Angelika Fitz and Elke Krasny, shown at Architekturzentrum Wien, April 24 - Sept 9, 2019, featured in the catalogue Critical Care: Architecture for a Broken Planet, pp. 198-199.
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- Schalk, Meike, Docent, et al.
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BiG : Living and working together
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Ingår i: Architecture and Collective Life. - London : Routledge. ; , s. 195-204
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- Schalk, Meike, et al.
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From Collective to Common Rooms : The Swedish and Viennese Models
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Ingår i: Caring for Communities | Für Gemeinschaften sorgen. - Stockholm : Action Archive Publishing. - 9789151927169 ; , s. 11-31
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- This publication is dedicated to the study of common rooms (Gemeinschaftsräume) in recent examples of subsidized housing in the Nordbahnviertel (the Northern Railway District) in Vienna, against the backdrop of the historical Swedish welfare state model. We illustrate how collectivity and community are influenced by the legal framework and the division of labour. In doing so, we emphasize that collectivity and community do not mean the same thing: while sharing spaces, tools, and services can be described as collective uses, creating community requires greater effort, the provision of appropriate space, and the investment of free time.The legendary Swedish welfare state model was based, at the micro level, on an infrastructure of “common rooms”. Inspired by the socio–spatial concept of commons that the American political scientist Elinor Ostrom investigated starting in the 1970s, we argue that common rooms supported the early Swedish welfare state model up to the 1990s. Furthermore, we argue that the separation of the spatial dimension from the administrative apparatus of the Swedish welfare state — through the privatization of housing and the commercialization of common areas — has contributed not only to the individualization of the residents, but also to the loss of one of its strongest social political instruments. In contrast, there is still a vibrant culture of common rooms in Vienna, activated since 2009 through non-profit property developer competitions to uphold the fourth pillar, i.e., social sustainability, which must be taken into account when reallocating land.2 Nevertheless, the relationship between the welfare bureaucracy — i.e., laws, house rules, and prohibitions — and the everyday use of common rooms is a field of conflict in which the various needs of residents and boundaries of non-profit housing administrators are expressed.
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