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- Anstey, Tim, 1965-, et al.
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Architecture and Authorship
- 2007
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Book (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Architecture and Authorship comprises 16 essays that explore issues of authorship, attribution and intellectual property in architecture. The book examines how individual architects and movements, from the fifteenth century onwards, have endeavoured to maintain their status by defending what they see as their own unique territory—the origins and intentions of their work, and their signature style.
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- Bonnevier, Katarina, 1970-
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Behind Straight Curtains : Towards a queer feminist theory of architecture
- 2007
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This thesis presents theatrical queer feminist interpretations of architecture staged within a series of architectural scenes: architect Eileen Gray’s building E.1027 in the south of France (1926-29); author Natalie Barney’s literary salon at 20 rue Jacob, Paris (1909-1968); and author Selma Lagerlöf’s former home and memorial estate Mårbacka, situated in mid-west Sweden and transformed between 1919 and 1923. Interpreted as queer performative acts, or enactments of architecture, these cases bring into play the interconnectedness of material container, the setting, the deeds and the actors. A broad aim of the thesis is to explore the role played by architecture in the social and cultural constructions of bodies, in particular in relation to gender and sexuality. Architecture is investigated as one of the subjectivating norms that constitute gender performativity. The thesis is thus not only about but also operates through enactment. It masquerades as a series of lectures written in the form of scripted drama. The aim of this formal experiment is not only to explicate and critique from a detached perspective but also to represent architecture in the process of being enacted. Architecture is investigated not only as a theoretical metaphor but also as a concrete material practice always entangled with subject positions. With this exploration into the queerness and the theatricality of architecture, Behind Straight Curtains seeks to affect both the analysis and enactment of architecture and contribute to an architectural shift towards a built environment that does not simply repeat repressive structures but attempts to resist discrimination and dismantle hierarchies.
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- Burroughs, Brady, 1970-
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Architectural Flirtations : A Love Storey
- 2016
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Formulated as a feminist project, written as a pulp fiction, Architectural Flirtations: A Love Storey begins with our claim that the architectural discipline is centered around a culture of critique, which is based in what bell hooks calls “a system of imperialist, white supremacist, heterosexist, capitalist, patriarchy,” and that the values instilled by this culture not only begin with, but are reinforced and reproduced by, the education of young architects.Sounds serious. Right?In a move toward a more vulnerable, ethical and empowering culture of architecture, the project aims to displace the culture of critique, by questioning and undermining relationships of power and privilege through practices that are explicitly critical, queer feminist, and Campy. In other words, it takes seriously, in an uncertain, improper and playful way, what is usually deemed unserious within the architectural discipline, in order to undermine the usual order of things.All of the (love) storeys take place on March 21st, the spring equinox, in and around a 1977 collaborative row house project called Case Unifamiliari in Mozzo, Italy, designed by Aldo Rossi and Attilio Pizzigoni. Beda Ring, PhD researcher, constructs a Campy renovation of one of these row houses, full of theatricality, humor, and significant otherness; while architectural pedagogue, Brady Burroughs, guides a student group from KTH in an Architecture and Gender course; and Henri T. Beall, practicing architect, attends to the details upstairs.
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- Burroughs, Brady, 1970-, et al.
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Between Delft and Stockholm
- 2017
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In: Footprint. - : Jap Sam Books. - 1875-1504 .- 1875-1490. ; 11:2, s. 119-128
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Over the years, colleagues at the Architecture School of Stockholm have developed a most remarkable and inspiring approach to architecture and writing in terms of performances and the performative while integrating feminist and queer theory. Of particular interest are the Critical Studies in Architecture group, the group Fatale for feminist architecture theory and practice, and the Mycket collaboration. By way of an interview between Footprint editors Dirk van den Heuvel and Robert Gorny, and the Stockholm colleagues Brady Burroughs, Katarina Bonnevier, Katja Grillner, and Hélène Frichot questions of pedagogy, research and methodology are further investigated, how to ‘stay with the trouble’ and where to situate newly emerging knowledge models.
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- Ekelund, Björn
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Rumslig legitimitet : när hållbar utveckling medvetandegörs
- 2010
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The political ambition for sustainable development is dependent on new attitudes and behaviors, as well as new physical environments. Sustainable development has, therefore, become increasingly important to analyze and describe within the fields of planning, urban design, and architecture to contribute to a positive attitude and to gain democratic approval throughout society. Sustainable development was explored through three studies of sustainable energy facilities; looking at space, place, and architectural design.In the first study planning and energy systems (production and distribution facilities) was in focus. This study dealt with the current practice of energy decisions based purely on political will in comparison to the effects on physical environment. The study attempts to illustrate how truly sustainable energy systems are dependent upon ties to space and place within the planning process. This was studied empirically on six comprehensive municipal plans. In these examples large infrastructure policies are emphasized over place-based energy planning, leading to non-sustainable growth. A connection between planning and the spatial placement of future facilities seems to be central to sustainable development. The second study dealt with urban design and the specific placement of energy facilities in local communities. This study indicated that facility placement in the public realm affects public attitudes. Spatial analysis was empirically used to study the location, position, and visual presence of distribution and production facilities in three Swedish communities and all three communities had well-integrated and visible energy facilities. According to the space syntax analysis certain facilities had more potential than others to develop into positive sustainable development icons. This finding further emphasizes that the potential to create awareness for sustainable development is place specific. The third study dealt with the architectural design of specific energy facilities. A theoretical review of previous research showed that the perception of sustainable development does not coincide with the individual experience of a specific representation of sustainable energy. The perception of sustainable energy systems was more positive than the reality experienced in the physical environment. This dissonance suggests that architectural design must play an integral role in the development of energy systems in order for them to be truly sustainable. In an empirical study individuals experiences of an architecturally designed power line compared to their previous attitude towards power lines. The results highlighted the potential to reverse negative associations of energy facilities by aesthetic and place-specific architectural design. A positive perception of sustainable development might, therefore, correspond with a compelling experience and not necessarily with long held attitudes.The theoretical and empirical results presented can be described by the term spatial legitimacy. This term explains the ability of the planning, urban design, and architecture fields to rearticulate physical form and function within a specific cultural context, thus allowing actual experience to correspond with held preconceptions. How communities design affects how communities plan and vice versa. Spatial legitimacy underscores the central connection between placement and architectural design in personal experience. The fields of planning, urban design and architecture have the potential and responsibility to further the field of sustainable development by helping us understand that design is as important to individual response and collective perception as is technology.
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- Erixon Aalto, Hanna, 1975-
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Projecting Urban Natures : Investigating integrative approaches to urban development and nature conservation
- 2017
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)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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- Frichot, Hélène, 1970-, et al.
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Feminist Practices : Writing around the kitchen table
- 2017. - 1
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In: Feminist Futures of Spatial Practice. - Baunach : AADR - Art Architecture Design Research, Spurbuch Verlag. - 9783887784898 ; , s. 171-198
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- Gabrielsson, Catharina, 1964-
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Att göra skillnad : det offentliga rummet som medium för konst, arkitektur och politiska föreställningar
- 2006
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Transgressing the borders between politics and aesthetics, imaginary and physical forms, this dissertation pursues a broad interdisciplinary exploration of the construction of public space. In order to confront the dual character of public space – a physical realm with unclear borders, as well as an evasive concept, imbued with ideas of freedom, critique and democracy – the dissertation addresses public space as a ”medium”, that is, as a material for aesthetic practice and in terms of communication, as a “projective screen” of society. Using the refurbishment of Stortorget in Kalmar as its generative case, the dissertation examines the conditions for making and thinking such a space, whereby the hidden assumptions of public space are brought to the fore. Due to the hybrid character and complexity of the Stortorget project, carried out as a seamless collaboration between art and architecture, it in addition raises issues that are highly significative for the identity and legitimacy of the respective disciplines. Focussing on the concept of “place”, and tracing its role within art and architecture theory and practice since the paradigmatic shift between late modernity and postmodernity, the dissertation examines the conflictual relationship between art and architecture in order to gain an understanding of them as different, yet intimately connected, ways of producing new forms of reality. The claim made throughout the dissertation is that public space cannot be “reconstructed” on the basis of historical forms and ideals – rather it must be continuously reinvented in accordance with a critical understanding of democracy. Ultimately, the dissertation is an examination of how, and why, public space can be defended as an indispensible form of society and of the complex coalition of its aesthetical and political effects.
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- Gilboa Runnvik, Ann-Charlotte
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Rum, rytm och resande : Genusperspektiv på järnvägsstationer
- 2014
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Järnvägsstationer är att betrakta som offentliga platser och regleras av transportpolitiska målsättningar om jämställdhet och tillgänglighet för alla (Prop. 2008/09:93). Trots det saknas forskning om hur genus påverkar resenärer vid deras vardagliga vistelser på järnvägsstationer. Det övergripande syftet med denna avhandling är därför att ur ett genusperspektiv undersöka hur manliga och kvinnliga resenärer i sin vardag använder och upplever järnvägsstationer som fysiska platser och sociala rum. Det empiriska materialet baseras på resedagböcker, intervjuer med resenärer, deltagande observationer och intervjuer med planerare och förvaltare av järnvägsstationer. Kimstad pendeltågsstation, Norrköpings järnvägsstation och Stockholms Centralstation ingår i studien. I avhandlingen kombineras olika teorier som gör det möjligt att betrakta genus som rytm. Genom detta teoretiska ramverk undersöks hur genusmaktordningen återverkar i tid, rum och mobilitet. Resultaten av studien visar att resenärer är påverkade av genusmaktordningen, som återfinns såväl i kollektiva föreställningar som i materialiserade objekt som möter resenärer när de vistas på järnvägsstationerna. Sammanfattningsvis visar studien att såväl manliga som kvinnliga resenärer påverkas av denna maktordning. Även om denna ordning påverkar alla tycks kvinnor vara de som påverkas mest negativt, eftersom de genom en manlig normerad blick betraktas som antingen ärbara eller sexuellt tillgängliga objekt, därutöver att de är tvungna att förhålla sig till risken att utsättas för sexualiserat våld från män. Av dessa anledningar tenderar kvinnors livsrum att inskränkas, oavsett ålder och plats.
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- Grillner, Katja, 1970-
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At the Western Side a Dead-end Park-slot : On 'Situated Knowledges and the Science Question' in Architecture and Design
- 2018. - 1
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In: Rethinking the Social in Architecture. - Barcelona : ACTAR. - 9781940291994 ; , s. 190-211
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Book chapter (peer-reviewed)abstract
- In her 1988 article, ‘Situated Knowledges’, Donna Haraway calls for a ‘doctrine of embodied objectivity’, where ‘objectivity turns out to be about particular and specific embodiment /. . ./ Feminist objectivity’, she continues, ‘is about limited location and situated knowledge, not about transcendence and splitting of subject and object’ . We need to move, she argues, beyond those simple dichotomies and understand that empirical knowledge is objective even though it is always situated and embodied. With this view, it is possible to build up objective knowledge on real conditions and to act on this information. Here our concern is primarily with place and spatial transformation. What does it mean to know a place, and who is expected to act on such knowledge? Using Haraway’s notion of situated knowledges provides an opportunity to frame epistemologically what is at stake in conflictual cases of urban transformation. The chapter studies the case of western Rosenlundsparken in Stockholm and accounts for the planning process 2012-2014 involving a housing development on park land and the construction of a new street running through the park. The case has been studied as a research, mapping and design project that concerns this particular site and situation in the midst of urban transformation and gentrification taking place in central Stockholm. Laying out preliminary facts and developing narratives of power and resistance, framed epistemologically through Donna Haraway’s notion of ’situated knowledges’, Rosi Braidotti’s ’nomadic subject,’ and Graham-Gibson’s feminist ’project of belonging’, the project aims at disclosing competing notions of what is perceived to be at stake. What specific values are described as being ‘under threat’ or ‘about to be developed’? On what grounds, and in whose interests, are these arguments put forward? On a more general level the research project seeks to contribute to an expanded epistemological view on architecture and urban design practice and research in particular relation to questions of siting, place-production and urban transformation. Developing a critique visavi current practices the project wishes to contribute to this field with enhanced conceptual clarity concerning the nature of 'knowledge ground' in relation to architectural projections of possible futures for specific sites and situations.
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- Grillner, Katja
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Cities and films
- 2003
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In: Dagens Nyheter. - Stockholm.
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- Grillner, Katja, 1970-
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Fluttering butterflies, a dusty road, and a muddy stone : Criticality in distraction
- 2007. - 1
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In: Critical Architecture. - London : Routledge. - 9780415415385 ; , s. 135-142
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- “Buildings are appropriated in a twofold manner: by use and by perceptions –or rather by touch and sight. Such appropriation cannot be understood in terms of the attentive concentration of a tourist before a famous building.”[1] In this passage of “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” Walter Benjamin suggests that the experience of architecture points humanity to a very particular and acutely relevant mode of appropriation, ‘mastered’ by habit and by impressions caught in ‘an incidental fashion’. His observation, that architecture shies away from attentive contemplation, and demands to be perceived rather as a back-drop to life than as an object in life, points to an interesting dilemma facing the architectural critic: If the object under debate, architecture, offers itself as a mere background event, appropriated primarily by habitual use and occasionally by attentive visual perception, how are we to capture it? How could such an delicate phenomena be scrutinized if it cannot be held firmly before the eyes of the reader? It appears nearly impossible to represent and to critically engage with. Yet, as architectural critics, we are challenged and inspired to experiment with this condition. We construct in different ways temporary frames or lenses through which a critical point can be perceived. The phenomena of architecture often then comes into focus, for a moment, then fades away again. My contribution to the ‘Critical Architecture’ volume is propositional: it performs a mode of writing in architecture which consciously address the dilemma of capturing an architecture, or other spatial phenomena, for the purposes of a critical engagement with the reader, while essentially remaining ‘out of focus’ (in the margin). The essay takes place in Haga Park, Stockholm. This park constitutes one of the most interesting examples of 18th century landscape gardening in Stockholm. The sites have however been chosen on the basis of rather vague (unimportant) personal memories from my own ‘distracted’ uses of this park as a child and teenager. Memories of past use are thus called forth by writing, in an attempt to ‘defocus’ the scholarly gaze of the grown-up critic. It is approached as an actual and a remembered place. The park is written as a site of everyday experience, not in the eighteenth century, not for Stockholmers today, but for myself (here ‘the distracted critic’). What is the Haga Park that follows me around? - the remembered place that I store in my mind, a place which expands, evolves, even disappears in part, as her time and life goes on. The author of the essay relates to the reader an account of a Haga Park that obliges the reader to follow her train of thought, which moves between remembered and present time, as well as reflecting on the particular mode in which it is being told and why. It addresses the notion of distracted experience and its critical and political function for Walter Benjamin. The text thus make a double-layered performance. The particular effect of distractedness here is the allowance it makes for the telling of parallel stories, and of making observations sometimes by association rather than argument or narrative.[2] There is thus ample space for the reader herself to assume a critical position in relation to the landscape that is written for her imagination. But the narrating voice also carefully guides the reader among these impressions and creates a critical space where some conclusions are drawn and arguments are put forward. In what way might the resulting text convey a distracted mode of experience? By drawing on personal memories and experiences as a primary source, the author can only hope that the resulting account might bear a significant relation to potential readers who can recognize in it ways of experiencing and understanding particular places and landscapes. The choice of such an auto-biographical method is based on a recognition of the importance of a cultural specificity in any discussion of spatial experience.[3] While these kinds of sources in some sense are always unique, the process of writing them, giving in some sense a ‘faithful’ account, is of course wholly dependent on mediation. As soon as a memory is evoked and retold, it is severed from any original ‘impression’, which is also the only way that it may ever become useful. The distracted nature of the essay is also present in the way that it makes use of both a particular place, Haga Park, and a particular person’s experiences, the authors, without having any ambition of giving any complete or truly exhaustive account of either. It employs them merely to point at and give materiality to certain phenomena and experiences, which in turn demands the evocation of a certain interest in both the specific park and the author. The reading act might then in itself provoke a certain uneasiness, another level of distraction, which has to be carefully balanced (and obviously also stops some readers from ever reading through). _____ 1. Walter Benjamin “ The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” in Illuminations, Schocken Books, 1968, p 240. [2] If one might write in such a way that brings to the surface several phenomena at once, and at the same time the presence of a distracted subject amidst all this, a text that reflects the filmic effect Benjamin relates, could be a possible result. This is not undone. Even Benjamin had several examples among his contemporaries. Virginia Woolf’s stream-of-consciousness writing in novels such as The Waves, Mrs Dalloway, Jacob’s Room for example, appear to be aiming for a similar effect. At the same time her essay-writing allows for considerably less distraction.[3] Other modes of working with such a specificity (experience grounded in a named, gendered etc, subject) may be through discussing characters from, film, literature etc, or documentary characters, based on interviews, and relating the accounts of other individuals thaw we know or come to know.
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- Grillner, Katja
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Lewerentz
- 2002
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In: Dagens Nyheter. - Stockholm.
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- Grillner, Katja
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Ramble, linger and gaze
- 2000
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Ramble, linger, and gaze explores a method of architecturalresearch based on narrative dialogue and examines the gardentheories and literary garden representations of ThomasWhately (Observations on Modern gardening 1770) and JosephHeely (Letters on the Beauties of Hagley, Envil, and theLeasowes 1777). The thesis has the form of a narrated dialoguebetween these two writers and the narrator, and it is situatedat Hagley Park, Worchestershire, England. The work does nothave a strictly art-historical aim, but wishes to provide newinsights in the field of architectural research on both amethodological and an historical level. While the dialogicalmode of writing is explored as an hermeneutical research methodfor the field of architectural history and theory, thetext in itself discloses a world of reflections and ideasthat surrounded the English landscape garden in the1770’s, and engages, from our present-dayposition, in a dialogue with that world. The beginnings of diverse and opposing phenomena of our timecan be traced to the culture of the 18th century. Asconstructions of the 18th century, Hagley Park, as wellas Whately and Heely’s texts, lead us closer to thehorizons of the individuals and the society that producedit. But the landscape garden and the texts, as they standtoday, are also sites for alternativeepistemological models. Through its fictional character, thelandscape garden provides a possibility to move withininterpretative layers and spiralling horizons. It celebrates apoint of view on the move, both literally (physically) andimaginatively. The dissertation demonstrates thepossibilities of articulating this spatio-temporalphenomenon within the field of architectural research.
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- Grillner, Katja, 1970-, et al.
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Samtal om ’28 rum’ : En katalog över nutida Slussens rumsliga potential
- 2010
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In: Röster från Slussen. - Stockholm : A5 Press. - 9789163369643 ; , s. 104-119
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Book chapter (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Hur planerar vi för framtiden? Med vilka verktyg kan vi påverka hur staden utvecklas? Detta är några av de frågor Sara Vall behandlar i sitt examensarbete från Arkitekturskolan, KTH, där hon har studerat Slussen och den debatt som pågått i snart 30 år om vad platsen ska bli i framtiden. I sitt arbete har hon kartlagt det upplevda Slussen och det faktiska Slussen, och upptäckt att de flesta stockholmare inte känner till att betongkonstruktionen, känd som Slussen, består av ett stort antal rum med olika verksamheter. Syftet med undersökningen har varit att skapa verktyg för den fortsatta diskussionen om Slussens framtid. Genom att i katalogform presentera 28 rum med olika förutsättningar, visar projektet på platsens potential att redan idag förvandlas till den levande mötesplats som vi drömmer om att den ska bli i framtiden. Med katalogen i handen ställs frågan på sin spets, vem har makten över planeringen och framförallt vad får spridandet av den här typen av information för konsekvenser? I den här texten diskuterar nyutexaminerade arkitekten Sara Vall sitt projekt tillsammans med Katja Grillner, Professor i Kritiska Studier i Arkitektur på KTH.
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