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- Dahl, Caroline
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Gothenborg’s Jublieumsparken 0.5 and Frihamnen : explorations into the aesthetic of DIY
- 2016
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In: SPOOL. - 2215-0897 .- 2215-0900. ; 3, s. 73-85
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This design critique explores how a top-down approach of conventional planning coincides with a do-it-(y)ourself project that evolved from the site and is facilitated by a designated mediator working within in city administration with the purpose of bridging the city’s disconnected departments. Hence, the project calledJubileumsparken0.5was instigated in 2013 as a place making project in concurrence with urban planning undertakings in order to facilitate a redevelopment of the harbour area ofFrihamnenin Gothenburg, Sweden. The purpose of this ongoing project is to make use of the intervening period to explore the site and its specific qualities and relationships, and to test these through prototypes and events before plans and protocols are set in stone. Only three years later, at a point when this specific time period is starting to run out and the first development plans are being drafted, this article demonstrates – through a transformation analysis – that the abandoned site has been turned into a particular place through people’s engagement and the processes of building together. Furthermore, it shows that the embedded narratives of these actions are starting to challenge the planners' otherwise distant and abstract understanding of this place.
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- Diedrich, Lisa Babette
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The vicissitudes of criticism in the landscape metropolis
- 2018
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In: SPOOL. - 2215-0897 .- 2215-0900. ; 5, s. 3-6
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In the field of the arts, criticism often plays a key role in situating artistic production and instigating debate, but especially in propelling theory and practice. As Dave Hickey suggests “Criticism, at its most serious, tries to channel change.” However, in the domains of landscape architecture, architecture, and urban design, criticism seems to have a more distanced role from reflection and design. Besides a few notable examples, such as the influence of the critical writings of Reyner Banham and Alan Colquhoun on a generation of British architects and urban designers in the 1960s, criticism seems to hold a marginal position in these fields.
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- Farsö, Mads, et al.
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Defined by deviations : the Traveling Transect as a bodily research approach to appropriate and disseminate places
- 2016
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In: SPOOL. - 2215-0897 .- 2215-0900. ; 3, s. 5-22
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Based on a Travelling Transect approach, this paper explores how ample interpretations and opportunities for new thoughts about sites are developed, especially when these sites are explored along a combined material and immaterial predefined linear path that is distorted, challenged and redefined by bodily encounters and sensations on site. By using the Travelling Transect as an approach to do research and develop new understandings of sites, possible overlooked qualities manifest themselves in a series of registrations collected or inspired by encounters on site. Illustrated through a design research study around the Öresund strait, researchers exemplify how data becomes unlocked and re-interpreted through the approach. In short, the aesthetic values identified in a map, in a geometry or a static composition are displaced by the approach to values connected to an experience of site's audio or material surroundings, time-space relations and on-site reflections and sensations connected to movement.
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- Ode Sang, Åsa
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Landscape assessment in metropolitan areas – developing a visual indicator-based approach
- 2014
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In: SPOOL. - 2215-0897 .- 2215-0900. ; 1, s. 301-316
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Many studies have addressed landscape preferences in rural settings, identifying key aspects and elements of the visual landscape important for people's appreciation. Information about these characteristics of landscapes has then been used as bases for indicator frameworks linking measurable indicators to landscape aesthetic theory. However, there is a need to expand and develop these frameworks to be relevant for assessment of metropolitan landscapes. Nine key concepts, identified by Tveit et al. (2006) and Ode et al (2008), in existing frameworks for visual landscape assessment, stewardship, naturalness, complexity, imageability, visual scale, historicity, coherence, disturbance and ephemera, are revisited in a metropolitan context, identifying landscape elements and indicators relevant for measuring visual landscape character in metropolitan areas. The study reviews existing evidence of people's landscape preferences relating to urban landscapes and links this knowledge to map-based indicators that can be used by planners and decision-makers responsible for the management and monitoring of landscapes. This paper presents the key concepts in development of a theoretical framework for visual landscape assessment in metropolitan areas.
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- Rosengren, Mathilda, et al.
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Urban Space and Everyday Adaptations
- 2022
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In: SPOOL. - : Stichting OpenAccess Foundation. - 2215-0897 .- 2215-0900. ; 9:2, s. 5-24
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper addresses Jem Bendell’s concept of “deep adaptation” in the Anthropocene through the lens of everyday urban practices in contemporary Northern Europe. It proposes that this “deep adaptation” should be defined less in relation to a socio-ecological “collapse” and more through everyday occurrences in presentday urban environments.Entering into a critical conversation with Bendell’s conceptual “4 Rs” framework, the paper draws on primary data from several cities in Sweden and Germany to show how, in practice, resilience can be found in the “quiet activism” of leisure gardeners; how ingrained notions of restricted land use may be relinquished through “commoning” urban space; how novel constellations of co-living restores old ideas of intragenerational urban cohabitation; and, finally, how a path to reconciliation may be articulated through an ontological shift away from an anthropocentric urban planning, towards one that recognises other-thanhuman beings as legitimate dwellers in the urban landscape.Accounting for urbanities of enmeshed societal, ecological, and spatial trajectories, the paper reveals an inhibiting anthropocentrism in Bendell’s framework and ultimately points to how his “creatively constructed hope” for the future may be found, not in an impending global collapse, but in everyday adaptations and embodied acts that stretch far beyond the human.
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- Rosengren, Mathilda, et al.
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Urban Space and Everyday Adaptations : Rethinking commons, co-living, and activism for the Anthropocene City
- 2022
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In: SPOOL. - : Stichting OpenAccess Foundation. - 2215-0897 .- 2215-0900. ; 9:2, s. 5-24
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper addresses Jem Bendell’s concept of “deep adaptation” in the Anthropocene through the lens of everyday urban practices in contemporary Northern Europe. It proposes that this “deep adaptation” should be defined less in relation to a socio-ecological “collapse” and more through everyday occurrences in present- day urban environments.Entering into a critical conversation with Bendell’s conceptual “4 Rs” framework, the paper draws onprimary data from several cities in Sweden and Germany to show how, in practice, resilience can befound in the “quiet activism” of leisure gardeners; how ingrained notions of restricted land use may be relinquished through “commoning” urban space; how novel constellations of co-living restores old ideas of intragenerational urban cohabitation; and, finally, how a path to reconciliation may be articulated throughan ontological shift away from an anthropocentric urban planning, towards one that recognises other-than- human beings as legitimate dwellers in the urban landscape.Accounting for urbanities of enmeshed societal, ecological, and spatial trajectories, the paper reveals an inhibiting anthropocentrism in Bendell’s framework and ultimately points to how his “creatively constructed hope” for the future may be found, not in an impending global collapse, but in everyday adaptations and embodied acts that stretch far beyond the human.
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- Aries, Myriam, et al.
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Energy efficient facade lighting : highlighting facade structure
- 2014
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In: Spool. - 2215-0900. ; 1:2
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The project set out to proof that a conventional optical fibre lighting system for highlighting the structure of a façade can be operated more energy-efficiently through the substitution of the projector using a metal halide reflector lamp by a laser. This is investigated by looking into the photometric assessment of such systems as well as the electric power draw during operation. In preparation for a potential exterior demonstration installation, an additional focal point of the research was the design and testing of a weatherproof case that provides protection to the laser and the ballast. The final stage brought the different aspects of the research together and resulted in a temporary experimental setup (pilot installation) in order to showcase the validity of this novel approach.
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