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- Kopljar, Sandra
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A Centre on the margin
- 2017
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In: Lo Squaderno. - 1973-9141. ; , s. 31-33
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Through the creation of two of the world’s most advanced research facilities with synchrotron and spallation research technology, MAX IV and ESS, a leading and central position is secured within the European materials research community (Lunds universitet 2015). However, this establishment is physically realized on the outskirts of Lund, Sweden, and acting as an engine for further urban development with added functions promoted by influential and powerful stakeholders. As such, the separation of periphery and centre is in the case Lund Northeast/Brunnshög re-negotiated, creating co-existent centre and margin, and dependent on both geographical location as well as societal and situational positions.
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- Kopljar, Sandra
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Big Science, Ethics, and the Scalar Effects of Urban Planning
- 2020
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In: Urban Planning. - : Cogitatio. - 2183-7635. ; 5:4, s. 217-226
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The urban expansion currently under development around the two materials science facilities MAX IV and European Spallation Source in Lund, Sweden, surrounds two meticulously designed research facilities steered by global demands. The new urban area, together with the research facilities dedicated to science and the development of knowledge, expands the city of Lund onto high-quality agricultural land. In doing so, the municipal planning is attempting to align contemporary ideas of sustainable urban development with large-scale scientific infrastructure. This actualizes an ethical dilemma as the urban expansion onto productive agricultural land overrides previous decisions taken by the municipality regarding land use. It can also be understood as going against national land use policy which states that development on productive agricultural land should be avoided. As the planning stands today, the research facilities heavily push local urban development into the area while the intended research outcomes primarily relate to a global research community tied to international scientific demands for materials science. Although the Brunnshög area is realized through a neutralizing planning strategy, thought to balance and compensate for the development on farmland, the effects of the counterbalancing acts are primarily played out at a local urban level in terms of diverse, exciting, and locally sustainable neighbourhoods. The land use protection policies meant to secure national food production rather operates on a national scale. The argument made in this text is that sustainable development, and the intended balancing acts it involves, ought to be carefully considered in terms of scalar effects. Sustainable planning effects’ scalar extent should be taken into account through careful assessment of the step between good intentions and expected outcomes.
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- Kopljar, Sandra, et al.
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Expanding Architecture: Critical perspectives from within a school of architecture
- 2018
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In: 10:e Pedagogiska inspirationskonferensen, LTH.
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The architectural community needs to be better at managing a diversity of experiences, desires and needs associated with architecture. How can students' call for a more problematizing and inclusive education and industry be used as a basis for student and teacher collaboration, as well as an educational platform for raising diversity issues? The Symposium Expanding Architecture - Critical Perspectives Acting from Within, held at the School of Architecture, LTH in the spring of 2018, was the answer to a shortage within the education as identified by the students. The event served as an opportunity for criticism of architectural education and profession, as well as a visualization of these issues for students. It thus became an example of how teaching can address a question based on a specific position and contextualize this issue in relation to contemporary research and teaching.
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- Kopljar, Sandra
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How to think about a place not yet
- 2014
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The project How to think about a place not yet concerns the mechanisms and attitudes adopted by the professional designer in an urban design process – i.e. how intuitive and affective response in a design process delimit the range of plausible designs. The affordances of the environment are suited to the particular acting space of an individual and communicate the possibilities and capacities for an individual to act and, by extension in this work, to distinguish options for design. The consequence of accumulated possibilities inevitably involves inconsistency and contradiction, and the perception of numerous possibilities often entails the possibility of conflict as there is seldom merely one imaginable solution to a complex situation or design. Action potential, perception, experience and preferences in form of feelings and emotions can delimit distinguishable room for maneuver and steer design. I have in this work used the concept of affordance in relation to a design process and let the notion of affect put limitations to, and help explain, how we intuitively delimit the possibilities apparent to us. For the investigation of an ongoing design process I study the planning and pre-construction phase of two major research facilities and neighborhood that are currently being planned and under construction in the outskirts of Lund, Sweden. In this exemplification of a strong vision of urban development the planning relates to future implications on the science community on a world scale, but also to the scale of immediate vicinity in form of local neighborhoods. In the project I test methods of working with, and problematizing, parts of the creative design process. This is done mainly through intervention on site and through teaching within design education. By recognizing openings in the planning process a possibility for visualization and development of artistic research methods is taken advantage of. Through the formulated methods the intrinsic potential of creative design processes and the site itself are investigated. The planning rhetoric is studied, and how various stakeholders’ arguments are formulated. A problematization of the variety of scales used at various critical moments is formulated and enacted through on-site intervention. Questionnaire-based investigations together with sound simulation are used where professional designers, already active on site and non-professionals have been invited. As part of the project and as a collaboration with the artist group Learning Site Audible Dwelling – a dwelling that also functions as a stereo system - has been used and worked as a test bed for the investigations. My aim with this work is to explore the interplay between actors engaged in formulating urban design, and together with a problematization of the same process, formulate some answers in order to help the professional creative design process progress as a conscious and self-reflecting course of action.
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- Kopljar, Sandra
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How to think about a place not yet
- 2014
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- My PhD studies are tied to the research project The evolutionary periphery and will investigate the planning and pre-construction phase of the research facility ESS in Lund. Here the planning relates to future implications on the science community on a world scale, but also to the scale of immediate vicinity in form of local neighborhoods. As temporality and time dependent potential in urban planning process vary depending on the scale of interaction or conflict more analysis is needed about the intersection of such sometimes conflicting interests. Through recognizing gaps and openings in an inert planning process, latent possibility for visualization by artistic research methods will be taken advantage of, and in formulation and application of architectural and artistic intervention methods the affordances and intrinsic potential of the processes will be investigated. Within the project the prerequisites and temporal assumptions active in the planning process will be problematized as well as the shifting definition of periphery. An analysis of how the operative actors define themselves, which phases and concepts that are used at different levels in the planning process, and a clarification of how a variety of scales are used at various critical moments will be formulated.The project Methods for exploring potential in urban evolutionary process, aims to identify opportunities to influence the planning process (within its temporal extent) and to formulate research methods within the borders of the planning and urban evolutionary process. Here the planning rhetoric is studied, and how various stakeholders’ arguments are formulated. This is problematized through on-site interventions. As part of the project collaboration with Learning Site Audible Dwelling has been placed on Brunnshög where investigations will be made throughout May and June, 2013.
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- Kopljar, Sandra
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How to think about a place not yet : Studies of affordance and site-based methods for the exploration of design professionals' expectations in urban development processes
- 2016. - 1
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Doctoral thesis (other academic/artistic)abstract
- ABSTRACTAs a part of a democratic demand for transparency in urban development processes it is important that design professionals hold the ability to scrutinise their own work process, and at certain stages let go of predefined ideas of future realities. This work revolves around how design professionals perceive options for design in such situations. A basic assumption in this work is that a design professional continuously relates to things outside the immediate characteristics of a design task. In order to problematise a design process and investigate how design professionals are predisposed by various demands, both obvious and obscured factors surrounding the design situation are regarded. Educational background, municipal and national planning directives, regional and global developmental demands, and other profession-related expectations are thus here considered to influence design professionals perception of places yet-to-be. In this work, theories of affordance and affect have, together with interventionist methods, been used to investigate design professionals’ expectations. I have let my observations of professionals’ perception inform a theoretical diversification and reconsideration of what we mean by affordance, or action potential. In this regard, sound interventions have proved to be an effective method. Through simulations of soundscapes, participating professionals could address and express their immediate experiences. This broadening of a perceptive spectrum could thus function as a supplement to the predominant reliance on hypothetical and expected understandings of an environment. The sound interventions have in themselves become a method for unsettling expectations, as well as some of the basic predispositions that seem to reappear whenever a design situation is faced. This unsettling has been captured primarily through questionnaire-based sound interventions on location in an area under development outside Lund, Sweden that is destined to hold large-scale research facilities in the future. In addition to these informant-based, on-site interventions, two methodologically designed and performed actions comment the ongoing planning strategies related to Science Village Scandinavia and the area Lund NE/Brunnshög. The first of these, called Uttered Expectations, publically broadcast the answers gathered from the previous questionnaire-based interventions in their entirety. The other event, called Excursion to the Fictive and Factual Landscape of a Future Science Village in Lund, was a concerted reading that problematised the rhetoric surrounding an ongoing planning process. In this thesis, a set of interrelated concepts are developed for the investigation of how offers for action and alteration in a planning situation can be understood: carried affordance; environmental alteration potential; elaboratable nested affordance and vibrant affordance. This thesis, surveying a case of large-scale and global stakeholder exploitation and showing some of its driving mechanisms, has brought the existence of official as well as tacit influences on design outcomes to the fore. Emotional and situated experiences evoked through sound interventions have been seen to differ from influences that design professionals initially brought to the project. Therefore, in this thesis it is suggested that predetermined expectations of change, including established envisioning of alternative futures, together with design conventions, profoundly steer distinguishable options for designed environmental alteration, but also that these expectations are alterable in acts where “the professional eye” is given an opportunity for self-reflection.
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- Kopljar, Sandra
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Sound interventions : How to think about a place not yet
- 2018
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Artistic work (other academic/artistic)abstract
- As a part of a democratic demand for transparency in urban development processes it is important that design professionals hold the ability to scrutinize their own work process, and at certain stages let go of predefined ideas of future realities. The work of Sandra Kopljar’s dissertation revolves around how design professionals perceive options for design in such situations. A basic assumption that is applied to Kopljar’s research, is that a design professional continuously relates to things outside the immediate characteristics of a design task. In Kopljar’s work, theories of affordance and affect have, together with interventionist methods, been used to situate and investigate design professionals’ expectations in regard to educational background, municipal and national planning directives and regional and global development demands. Kopljar have let observations of professionals’ perception inform a theoretical diversification and reconsideration of what we mean by affordance, or action potential. In this regard, sound interventions have proved to be an effective method. Through simulations of possible future soundscapes participating professionals could address and express their immediate experiences. This broadening of a perceptive spectrum could thus function as a supplement to the predominant reliance on hypothetical and expected understandings of an environment and the sound interventions have in themselves become a method for unsettling expectations. In addition to these informant-based, on-site interventions in the area of development in Lund NE/Brunnshög outside Lund in Sweden, two performed actions comment on the ongoing planning strategies related to Science Village Scandinavia and the area Lund NE/Brunnshög. The first of these, entitled Uttered Expectations, publicly broadcast the answers gathered from the previous questionnaire-based interventions in their entirety. The other event, entitled Excursion to the Fictive and Factual Landscape of a Future Science Village in Lund, was a concerted reading that problematised the rhetoric of an ongoing planning process. In Kopljar’s research, it is suggested that predetermined expectations of change profoundly steer distinguishable options for designed environmental alteration, but also that these expectations are alterable in acts where “the professional eye” is given an opportunity for self-reflection.
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- Kopljar, Sandra, et al.
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Uttered Expectations - a performative event through broadcasting of spoken rendering of written answers
- 2016
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Uttered Expectations was a reading event performed 27 June 2013, as part of a PhD project at the Department of Architecture, Lund University. Within the frame of the PhD project a series of research interventions were pursued about the establishing of a large-scale science park in an agrarian area just outside the city of Lund, Sweden. In Uttered Expectations written comments from participants that had participated in interview interventions in this area were read by the researcher Sandra Kopljar at the site of the future Science Village and broadcasted to the City Centre of Lund as a symbolic return of voices to the city, operating in parallel to official planning procedures. Uttered Expectations was realized through several cooperative and collaborative steps. In an initial request to the artist group Learning Site the research project leaders asked if it could be of interest for Learning Site to share this kind of situation by having a sound-emitting building unit placed at the site of the future Science Village, at the same time as they had an exhibition going on at a gallery in the City of Lund. Learning Site agreed to the idea of making a transmission. This decision in turn started a negotiation with the City Planning Office in Lund about placing the sound-emitting module in this exploitation site, which at the time had only scarcely begun its life as a construction site. This three-fold co-operation – between researchers at Lund University, artists and Lund Municipality generated further necessary collaboration with other actors, such as persons within the Science Village leadership, the art gallery in the City Centre, people active at the construction site, archaeologists, and agencies handling transport, insurance and building permit, etc. In this presentation we tell the story of this co-operation, and some of the societal and organisational issues it addressed. We also reflect on the fact that the mode of research and the methods in the PhD project as a whole was formed partly as a consequence of the co-operative efforts.
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- Kärrholm, Mattias, et al.
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Built Environment, Ethics and Everyday Life
- 2020
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In: Urban Planning. - : Cogitatio. - 2183-7635. ; 5:4, s. 101-105
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Journal article (other academic/artistic)abstract
- In the wake of global crises concerning, for example, inequalities, migration, pandemics, and the environment, ethical concerns have come to the fore. In this thematic issue, we are especially interested in the role that the planning, design, and materialities of the built environment can take in relation to ethics, and we present four different openings or themes into urban ethics that we also think are worthy of further interrogation. First of all, we suggest that new ethics evolve around new materialities, i.e., urban development and new design solutions are always accompanied by new ethical issues that we need to tackle. Secondly, we highlight different aspects involved in the design and ethics of community building. Thirdly, we address the issue of sustainable planning by pointing to some its shortcomings, and especially the need to addressing ethical concerns in a more coherent way. Finally, we point to the need to further investigate communication, translation, and influence in participatory design processes. Taken together, we hope that this issue—by highlighting these themes in a series of different articles—can inspire further studies into the much needed field of investigation that is urban ethics.
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- Mottaghi, Misagh, et al.
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Blue-Green Playscapes : Exploring Children’s Places in Stormwater Spaces in Augustenborg, Malmö
- 2021
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In: Urban Planning. - : Cogitatio. - 2183-7635. ; 6:2, s. 175-188
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Journal article (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The urbanisation of cities increases the demands on, and complexity of, urban land use. Urban densification is challenging urban green space. Cities have responded to this challenge by adopting a multiple-use strategy where different functions share space. Shrinking open space has to contain solutions for everyday functions such as bicycle parking, waste sorting, blue-green stormwater systems, and playscapes. Values and functions that can reinforce and amplify each other are therefore of interest to study. The present article explores the possibilities for blue-green solutions (BGS) to be used as part of children’s playscapes. BGS are aboveground, ecological stormwater facilities, introduced to prevent flooding and support biodiversity while adding recreational and aesthetic qualities to the urban environment. The objective is to discuss the extent to which ecological and social values can reinforce each other in terms of encouraging children to engage with BGS natural elements. The researchers have studied the Augustenborg residential neighbourhood in Malmö. The area was primarily investigated through a postal survey, which identified a remodelled park with a floodable sunken lawn as a potentially attractive area for children’s activities. The park was analysed as a potential playscape and supported by on-site observations. The study shows that even if BGS largely meet children’s play values, due to existing socio-spatial structures, children are not using the offered play features. The article discusses the results in terms of how stormwater management may enhance the actualisation of play potentials in children’s everyday living environment.
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- Nilsson, Emma, et al.
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Architecture Animated, bushes/horses
- 2017
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Artistic work (other academic/artistic)abstract
- Architecture Animated aims to explore different methodsof photography, i.e. photographing as a way of discoveryrather than narrative or confirmation. These are some ofour first findings.Animals have agency, a will of their own and they takeshape and make sense by their own practices and byothers’. They open up for investigations on architectureswithout a given sender and thus no given image. This is anambiguity we feed on and take as our point of departure.Since we all want/need to explain images’ meanings, theinability to interpret an image may create states ofunsettledness. Thus the viewer tends to make a semioticreading where the image refers to aspects outside itself. Inthis study the semiotic readings are afterthoughts. Theimages’ points of indeterminateness were initiallyoverlooked and we did not try to interpret the unfamiliarshapes.The intriguing shapes of bushes generated unexpectedencounters with other makers. The creators of shapeshave – to us – unknown agendas. But we ask: Do horseswant bushes? Do bushes need horses?
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- Sandin, Gunnar, et al.
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Agentic and visual effects of large-scale science research facilties
- 2019
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- Large-scale science research facilities, such as those for investigation into the smallest components of physical matter, often consist of buildings with quite extraordinary features as regards shape and scale. These architectures are semiotically interesting in several ways: they have extraordinary outer forms that reflect the their inner activities; they require forms of mediation and planning that are able to handle their significant impact on cities and landscapes; and they contain activities that - metaphorically or factually - suggest human futures and promises of better products. How, then, more precisely, is future reflected in the planning and actualisation of these facilities, and how may their realisation have an impact on regional and global spatial change? These questions are here approached as a study of the visual properties of architectural proposals, and the affordance given in the establishment of these types of research facilities, sometimes labelled Big Science Labs. The paper’s empirical focus lies on a large scale nanoscience and particle physics science park in Lund, Sweden, labelled and spatially enveloped as “Science Village Scandinavia”, which includes two large scale accelerators that can be seen as “giant cameras” registering the inner constitution of matter. Through agency-based visual semiotics that explores the medial, social, economic and political consequences of architectural design (Latour 2005; Yaneva 2012; Sandin 2013; Kopljar 2016), it is here suggested that the politics of large scale science facilities can be seen as spatial problems that reflect larger political dilemmas, not least by requiring unique planning procedures.
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- Sandström, Ida, et al.
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Existential Sustainability: An investigation of Loneliness and Belonging in Relation to Sustainable Housing
- 2022
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In: ; , s. 20-20
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- The strive to create sustainable societies is often addressed through the lens of social, economic-, or environmental sustainability. However, this division fails to acknowledge existential dimensions of sustainability, i.e., the fundamental concern to sustain a good and meaningful life. This paper expands the notion of Existential Sustainability in relation to socio-material dimensions and built environments. The paper responds to a double crisis in Sweden with growing loneliness and a severe housing crisis. 40% of Sweden’s households are single households and the production of new homes is characterized by small apartments. At the same time mental health problems among young adults haveincreased, as well as the experienced loneliness among elderly. This paper explores the rich relation between housing and existential sustainability through earlier research, statistics, and data from an ongoing project with Uppsala municipality. By doing so this paper aim to further expand and deepen the discussion on existential dimensions of housing in relation to UN’s SDG.
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