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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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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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- Erixon Aalto, Hanna, 1975-
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Projecting Urban Natures : Investigating integrative approaches to urban development and nature conservation
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Doktorsavhandling (övrigt vetenskapligt/konstnärligt)abstract
- Projecting Urban Natures is a compilation thesis in critical studies in architecture. It comprises three journal articles and four design proposals in which I have taken an active part. The point of departure for this thesis is the renewed emphasis on social-ecological interaction and resilience that is currently taking place within ecological systems science, and the opportunities that these paradigmatic insights in turn have opened up within urbanism and design. The thesis argues that although they are promising, these emerging integrative frameworks are seldom brought into mainstream planning and urban design practice. Instead, the structuring of “nature” and “city” into a dualistic balance relationship still permeates not only the general planning discourse, but also makes its way into planning documents, notably influencing distinctions between professions. In response, this thesis sets out to rethink and explore more integrated approaches to human/nature relationships, through the utilization of design-based and transdisciplinary research methods. While this core aim of the thesis remains the same throughout the work, the task is approached from different perspectives: through different constellations of collaborative work as well as through parallel case-based explorations that emphasize the relational, anti-essentialist and situated articulation of values of urban natures and how these forces come into play. The work has been propelled through workshop-based, site-specific, and experimental design processes with professionals and researchers from the fields of e.g. systems ecology, natural resource management, political ecology, urban design, architecture, and landscape design, as well as planners, developers, local interest groups, and NGOs. Specifically, projects performed within this thesis include: Nature as an Infrastructural Potential – An Urban Strategy for Järvafältet; Kymlinge UrbanNatur together with NOD, Wingårdhs, MUST and Storylab; Årsta Urban Natures with James Corner Field Operations and Buro Happold; and Albano Resilient Campus — a collaboration between Stockholm Resilience Centre, KTH and KIT.
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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
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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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- Kajita, Heidi S., et al.
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Between Technologies of Power and Notions of Solidarity : A Response to the Danish “Ghetto Plan” and Swedish “Utsatta Områden”
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Konferensbidrag (refereegranskat)abstract
- Over the last decades, a significant paradigm shift about notions of solidarity as a core value of the “classless society” within Nordic welfare states has occured. Global economic shifts, climate change, and forced migration challenge earlier conceptions of the boundaries of welfare state communities. This is reflected in the rise of assimilation policies with the Swedish categorization “utsatta områden” (vulnerable areas); and in the drastic example of the Danish so-called “ghetto plan”. Officially entitled, “A Denmark without Parallel Societies – No Ghettos in 2030,” the plan applies to designated “hard ghettos” by reducing their stock of family dwellings, by enforcing mandatory childcare for families on social benefits, and by requiring longer sentences for local crimes.To support its initiatives, the “ghetto plan” uses infographics along with photographs of deteriorating concrete and children with certain words (like “vulnerable” and “reform”). In response, we study evolving notions of solidarity by closely examining documents related to the “ghetto plan” and “vulnerable areas” with particular focus on the pairings of images and words that government actors use to present statistical findings, social orientations, and spatial hierarchies. These documents are positioned as political tools connecting tech-nologies of graphic design, architecture, and planning to concepts like “parallel society,” “segregation,” and “mixed city,” often simplifying complex conditions in ways that causally link the built environment and social problems. How do images and words work in parallel to create the sense of inevitability Between Technologies of Power and Notions of Solidarity: A Response to the Danish “Ghetto Plan” and Swedish “Utsatta Områden”that underscores documents such as the “ghetto plan”? How do extreme practices of coercion and demolition become normalized when translated into visually appealing action plans? The presentation critically concludes by calling for an ontological reframing of solidarity that values, nourishes and adds to ‘what is there’.
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