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- Andersson, Lena Stina, 1978-
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The Entrance, the Floor, and the Tile : Unfolding Material Histories at Museum Renovation Sites in Berlin, Stockholm, and London
- 2024
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- What can building materials and renovation processes tell us about museums? This dissertation addresses processes of architectural and material change within national museums in northern Europe; it also provides a material history of the museum and the renovation site, through an analysis of the relationship between these places. Renovation is used as a general concept for material change, which includes many different actions. The research was structured through three case studies in Berlin, Stockholm, and London, each a delimited architectural and material renovation project in which actors from the construction industry, museum institutions, as well as global actors meet. This research has aimed to unfold reasons behind why national museum buildings change, exploring museum practices, international agreements, commodity chains, local development plans and ambitions, and hidden labour and labourers—processes which take place over decades and even centuries and are motivated by a range of global, national, and local ambitions. The first case that I discuss is the Museumsinsel in Berlin, and the Pergamonmuseum entrance in the period following the Second World War; a time of material destruction, evolving internationalisation, and global governance within the museum sector. The second case lies in the renovation work that was conducted in the 1960s at the Nationalmuseum in Stockholm, and more specifically a floor and the necessary changes to labour that this work facilitated. The third and last case study lies in an analysis of the trajectories of building materials and their commodity chains at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) in London. Here, I examine the significant roles played by building materials throughout the history of this museum, finally focusing on the tile produced for the Exhibition Road Courtyard. The research employed historiographical methods such as microhistory and archival research, as well as ethnographic methods and site visits. Through the dissertation, I argue for the need for new architectural histories that address renovation in new ways; I also propose that, if better and more critical descriptions and more informed architectural decisions are to be made, renovation must be studied as a process that includes institutional, historical, and material activities and agencies.
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- Boric, Bojan
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The Ghost Boulevard
- 2020
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- In 1947, Soviet architect Alexey Shchusev developed a large-scale urban renewal project for the post-war city of Chisinau, the then-capital of the SSR of Moldova. Part of the master plan was the construction of Boulevard D. Cantemir, which would cut through the city’s historic fabric. Only two sections of the boulevard were built before the project was abandoned. During the period of radical institutional political and economic shift towards a market economy in the early 1990s, initiatives to build the boulevard re-emerged through red lines, zoning documents, and planning regulations. The lack of political consensus caused planning paralyses over the city, creating a legal void where different actors competed to appropriate spaces. The power of the red lines has prompted various kinds of materializations of the boulevard. The real battle takes place in the sphere of the imaginary, and memory management is one of the main planning tools. Exploring the trajectory of the “Ghost Boulevard,” I reveal conflicting political and economic agendas and the many forces that constitute complex processes of planning today.
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- Fanni, Maryam, Associate Professor, et al.
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“You Can Simply Say No” : Narrating the effects and affects of Danish and Swedish housing in crisis
- 2023
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Stigmatizing narratives are now justifying major changes to the built environment, as we see again and again in large-scale, postwar housing estates all over Europe. Negative narratives and representations support renewal and demolition projects that often do not take residents’ views into account. Whose cultures and heritage will be privileged, and based on what narratives?This is our call to action: to locate alternative means and words and stories of describing the same neighbourhoods to create a messy, yet more diverse and hopeful perspective through the missing scale of individual residents and groups' experiences.In this paper, we present residents’ own narratives – as they respond to, fight against, and reimagine recent, repressive housing policies in Sweden and Denmark. The policies claim to solve urban segregation in areas built during the 1960s and 1970s and give them the stigmatizing names ‘parallel societies’, ‘ghettos’ or ‘vulnerable areas’.
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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
- 2024. - 1
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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
- 2024
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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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- Kajita, Heidi Svenningsen, et al.
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Between Technologies of Power and Notions of Solidarity : A Response to the Danish Ghetto Plan and Swedish Vulnerable Areas Documents
- 2022
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Ingår i: Architectures of Dismantling and Restructuring. - Zürich, Switzerland : Lars Müller Publishers. ; , s. 148-159
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Recently, a dramatic paradigm shift in notions of solidarity has occurred within Nordic welfare states. With this transformation, the universal notion of welfare for all, which has guided numerous welfare policies in the Nordic countries since World War II, is losing ground. We study the expression of this shift in official, government-sponsored documents that support and recommend the reshaping and redefinition of social housing estates in Denmark and municipal estates in Sweden.
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Life Among Urban Planners : Practices, Professionalism, and Expertise in the Making of the City
- 2020
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (refereegranskat)abstract
- Urban planners project the future of cities. As experts, they draft visions of places and times that do not yet exist, prescribing the tools to be used to achieve those visions. Their choices can determine how a city will merge its public transit and automobile traffic or how it will meet a demand for thousands of new dwelling units as quickly and with as little avoidable damage as possible. Life Among Urban Planners considers planning professionals in relation to the social contexts in which they operate: the planning office, the construction site, and even in the confrontations with those affected by their work. What roles do planners have in shaping the daily practices of urban life? How do they employ, manipulate, and alter their expertise to meet the demands asked of them? The essays in this volume emphasize planners' cultural values and personal assumptions and critically examine what their persistent commitment to thinking about the future means for the ways in which people live in the present and preserve the past.Life Among Urban Planners explores the practices and politics of professional city-making in a wide selection of geographical areas spanning five continents. Cases include but are not limited to Bangkok, Bogotá, Chicago, Naimey, Rome, Siem Reap, Stockholm, and Warsaw. Examining the issues raised around questions of expertise, participation, and the tension between market and state forces, contributors demonstrate how certain planning practices accentuate their specific relationship to a place while others are represented to a global audience as potentially universal solutions. In presenting detailed and intimate portraits of the everyday lives of planners, the volume offers key insights into how the city interacts with the world.
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- Mack, Jennifer, Associate Professor
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A "Border Concept" : Scandinavian Public Space in the 21st Century
- 2020
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Ingår i: Architecture of Coexistence. - Berlin : Architangle. ; , s. 172-183
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- In July 2000, the Öresund Bridge opened between Sweden and Denmark, symbolizing the new borderless Europe and allowing a regional way of life. In 2015, this same bridge instead became the site of intense xenophobic attention. When asylum seekers fleeing the Syrian Civil War began crossing from Denmark to Sweden en masse, the border was hastily closed, clarifying that – for some – migrant publics were never included in the imaginary of this “public” transit space. In this chapter, I examine three new public spaces in Sweden and Denmark that – in contrast to the bridge – explicitly include migrants as part of the public both creating and using them. Traveling, like the migrant, from arrival to settlement, I begin with Sandi Hilal’s Living Room for refugees in the northern Swedish city of Boden, where the right to hospitality is reclaimed in a private space made public. I then investigate Disorder Collective’s renovation of two public squares in a stigmatized Malmö neighborhood, where migrant children are included in an interactive design process. Crossing to Copenhagen, I conclude with Superkilen, which relies on the “extreme participation” of diverse local residents to create a park. Drawing on Giorgio Agamben’s notion of the refugee as a “border concept,” I argue that, as designers and migrants collaborate in these works, they also redraw the borders of both publics and public spaces for the Scandinavian 21st century.
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- Mack, Jennifer, Associate Professor
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An Incomplete Guide to Stockholm Architecture
- 2019
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Ingår i: Rethinking the Social in Architecture. - Barcelona : ACTAR. ; , s. 248-255
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Bokkapitel (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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- Mack, Jennifer, Associate Professor, et al.
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Att bygga om Sverige
- 2015
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Ingår i: Arkitektur. - 0004-2021. ; , s. 82-87
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- Mack, Jennifer, Associate Professor
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Breaking the Rules, Making the Ruler : Syriac Single-Family Homes and the Limits of Welfare State Planning
- 2020
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Ingår i: Life Among Urban Planners. - Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press. ; , s. 137-159
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- The Swedish town of Södertälje is arguably the capital of the diasporic Syriac Christians, who have arrived from across the Middle East for decades. While Syriacs have usually resided in standardized apartments in high rises, this paper examines the controversial, Syriac-dominated neighborhoods of custom-designed, single-family houses now under construction, drawing on ethnographic research among both planners and residents. While Swedish planners have long imagined immigrants to have a valuable “voice” during renovations of older neighborhoods, Syriac participation in new areas has radically exceeded such expectations, blurring the boundary between resident and planner. Here, both residents and planners navigate the limits of the plan, where not only neighborhood aesthetics, but also questions of nationalism, class, and professionalism are at stake.
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- Mack, Jennifer, Associate Professor
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Det nya förortscentrum : Äta, be, handla
- 2016
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Ingår i: Utvandrat och invandrat. - Stockholm : Historiska Media. ; , s. 174-187
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- Mack, Jennifer, Associate Professor
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Det nya periferin
- 2018
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Ingår i: Arkitektur. - 0004-2021. ; , s. 62-67
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- Mack, Jennifer, Associate Professor
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Formen följer tron
- 2016
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Ingår i: Arkitektur. - 0004-2021. ; , s. 42-45
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- Mack, Jennifer, Associate Professor
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Making "Mesopotälje"
- 2010
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)
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- Mack, Jennifer, Associate Professor
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Modernism in the present tense : “Dangerous” Scandinavian suburbs and their hereafters
- 2023
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Ingår i: Environment & Planning. D, Society and Space. - : SAGE Publications. - 0263-7758 .- 1472-3433. ; 41:4, s. 656-682
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- Has modernism evolved from a means to create a utopian future to an architectural discontent co-opted for racist purposes? The planners who built mid-20th century Scandinavian, modernist suburbs conceived of them as places of innovation, possibility, and visionary thinking. By the 1970s, however, this assessment had shifted dramatically: near-monolithic media and popular representations depicted environments of failure, insecurity, and ugly architecture – despite the half-finished states of the projects at the time. As these opinions evolved into “facts,” the areas became linked to ideas of intractably dangerous designs and, later, dangerous people. This set the stage for near-continuous physical and social interventions, beginning in the 1970s and continuing into the present. Today, in Sweden and Denmark, modernist neighborhoods are labeled “problem areas,” “concrete suburbs,” “vulnerable areas,” or even “ghettos,” where residents, often with family histories of migration, live in so-called “parallel societies.” Politicians have persistently positioned them as perilous places that never joined the present. This attitude renders them symbolically malleable sites, paving the way for recent radical densifications, privatizations, and demolitions, whereby the (half-century) histories of these suburbs are typically ignored. This history of the recent past focuses on how the “blame” for the problems of modernist urbanism – especially around perceived dangers – has shifted from buildings to people to a politically convenient combination of the two, or what I label “hereafters.” I contend that discourses of “unfinished” and “dangerous” places with “criminal” residents have made modernist urbanism a perfect target for xenophobic political discourse, where buildings and landscapes have become scapegoats for less socially acceptable feelings and concerns. Yet caricatures of modernist suburbs as “dangerous” obscure the fact that these supposedly failed cities of the future are now, decades later, places with both long histories and abundant everyday life. I therefore call for new “hereafters” for modernist suburbs: narratives that understand them as living neighborhoods in the present tense.
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- Mack, Jennifer, Associate Professor
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New Swedes in the new town
- 2013
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Ingår i: Use Matters. - London : Routledge. ; , s. 121-137
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Bokkapitel (refereegranskat)abstract
- Million Program boosters and designers explicitly intended to use architecture and urban design to level differences between people previously divided along socioeconomic and regional lines, providing housing affordable to all. A sense of swedish national belonging would emerge through the built environment, and the centrum became a social and spatial focal point. to follow philosopher Charles taylor, the swedish public sphere expanded from a mere “moral orderâ€-regulations defined by politicians and implemented by bureaucrats-to a “modern social imaginaryâ€-whereby citizens understood themselves as belonging to a retooled swedish nation.4 Forms of “spatial governmentality†seeped into the collective consciousness through standardized architectural forms.5 Jubilation around Ronna Centrum’s opening, then, celebrated more than just the opportunity to shop; the town center connected residents to their compatriots using similar services and spaces across the country.
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- Mack, Jennifer, Associate Professor, et al.
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Rethinking the Social in Architecture
- 2019
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Ingår i: Rethinking the Social in Architecture. - Barcelona : ACTAR. ; , s. 18-35
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- Mack, Jennifer, Associate Professor, et al.
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The right to the garden : Allotments and the politics of urban green space in Sweden
- 2016
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Ingår i: Green Landscapes in the European City, 1750-2010. - London : Routledge. ; , s. 87-104
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- While community gardens are today often conceived of as bottom-up spatial reclamations,the tradition of allotment gardens in Sweden began with the top-down interventions of early20 th century social reformers. They sought to encourage newly urbanized populations topreserve rural agricultural practices while also addressing wartime food shortages. In thispaper, we examine gardens in and around Stockholm, postulating that two forces in post-warSweden – the rapid growth in food security and large-scale immigration since the 1960s –eventually resulted in two spatially and formally distinct types of allotments that reflectevolving definitions of Swedish “urban green space.”Today, most centrally located, historic allotments have shed their productive function,becoming surrogate private flower gardens for older, middle-class Swedes. Meanwhile,allotments in suburbs developed during the “Million Program” – the Social Democraticprogram that produced one million dwellings between 1965 and 1974 – are often the domainof immigrants, who typically cultivate vegetables. Thus, while earlier allotments reinforce aSwedish rural vernacular, more recent allotments include imported crops and techniques.What happens when Thai basil appears in gardens imagined as repositories for Swedishpotatoes? We compare these two types of allotments as reflections of a new cultural politicsof landscape and public access to green space. In Stockholm, “Swedish” gardens are cast asnostalgic, decorative spaces for a nation of nature lovers, or, more reproachfully, asunnecessary hobby grounds. Later allotments are officially represented as healthymicrocosms of a newly pluralist society, or critically perceived as unsightly, “un-Swedish”places in the urban margins. As such, these gardens raise questions about the right to the cityand notions of class and nationalism, replayed as rights to cultivation space.
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- Mack, Jennifer, Associate Professor
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Urban Design from Below
- 2015
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Konferensbidrag (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)
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Re-thinking the Social : Making Effects
- 2019
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Samlingsverk (redaktörskap) (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Architecture in Effect presents research on the co-constitution of architecture and the social by addressing concrete problems and forwarding explorative theories and methodologies. The book compromises a wide-ranging collection of essays emerging from a multi-year research collective that has brought together partners from Sweden, the Nordic countries, the United Kingdom, Europe and the United States.The socially oriented perspective of Volume #1, Rethinking the Social, is complemented by discussions of architectural and transdisciplinary theories and methodologies in Volume #2, After Effects. Together these twin volumes reflect on topics such as the utopian idea of a welfare state, the role of intersubjective and non-human points of view, and the impact of historical and current images on the making of realities. The task of these books is to present a wide range of research topics that combine historical, material, and critical research approaches that respond to our current crises and challenges. Ultimately, this enables new modes of knowledge production within architecture to be advanced in its relation to societal transformation.
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