Showing posts with label #6 / vulnerability. Show all posts
Showing posts with label #6 / vulnerability. Show all posts

28 November 2009

In the Search for Vulnerability

My discoveries in Möllevången have lead me towards a strategy for resisting gentrification.


27 November 2009

I have discovered this...

I had to take som steps back, and start analysing my earlier findings in mapping the demography of Malmö. The reason for this is, that I could'nt move forward, before I found out what the connections between the layers of statistics actually could tell me. What are my findings, and how can I use them further in a project that I want to become "sosial sustainable".

Of vulnerability and complexity

entropic rhyzomes

What is my discovery

Face-lift do Möllevången attractive !


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What I have discovered

My hypothesis is that by introducing programs to educte and advocate for a garden revolution in Rosengård it will be possible to deal with the problem of parallell societies, domestic temporality and the identity of education -all of them key issues that I discovered through reading the novel of Mustafa Can in #2 Imbedded Information.

The knowledge and need for food production is a universal concept and therefore well suitable for the situation in Rosengård which has been mentioned as dispersed and diverse.

Knowledge about gardening and food production is one of many hidden competences who has traveled a long way to Rosengård. According to the discussion of today and to my point of departure a revelation of this rhizom of knowledges could be something that Rosengård could take advantage of to stand out as something different in a positive way.

I have many desires for Rosengård, and I believe that facilitating a garden program with suitable programs and their physical manifestation will introduce an energy dealing with many of these.

When I presented the task "Pionts of Departure" after returning from Paris I was on a track where exchange of knowledge -the hidden competences, and facilitating a structure fore that to happen was the main concern.

After the two weeks with crosscourse and DAV I realized that there was much potential left to discover in the forestgardening of Rosengård.

My attitude towards the project at this moment is to pursue the consequences of making Rosengård the starting point of a new Garden Movement.

Urban and rural biotopes at risk

what is my discovery

vulnerability

18 November 2009

Face-lift do Möllevången attractive ! Concept 20091118

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Face-lift do Möllevången attractive !

About Möllevången

The most colorful district inMalmö. The market trade is lively here and the shops and restaurants have roots all over the world. Möllevångenwas the first planned, large-scale working class neighborhood in Malmö and the result of the growing industrial city in the late 19th century. The labor movement gained tremendous influence here. The worker's newspaper Arbetet and the cooperative association Solidar were founded in Möllevången, which was also the site of the firstFolketsPark ("Community Park") in Sweden.

The best neighborhood of Malmö- Möllevången, or short as "Möllan". It's packed with markets, restaurants, bars and nightclubs, and is arguably the most integrated and multicultural inner city neighborhood in all of Scandinavia.

Möllevångstorget is the plaza as the heart of this living area, and therefore people use the public open space in a beneficial way and give the same space more elasticity. In the morning, the plaza plays a role as an open market, and afterward it becomes a common place of the community.

Malmö Folkets Park is the entertainment park has plenty for all the family. There is a fairground, Northern Europe’s biggest Ferris wheel, a reptile centre, a miniature farm, children’s theatre and entertainment.

District Context

Möllevången is a high density district, and therefore peoplehave so few open space for public use. Besides “MalmöFolkets Park”, there are several points of public green lands distribute in the north and the south of Möllevången.

There are just two public squares for people using, “Möllevångstorget” is located in the beginning of the main street as the heart of this district. Most restaurants, clubs…etc, are opened around “Möllevångstorget”.

The Project Program

Purpose: Do Möllevången attractive !

Action: Promote & structure the local image.

Divisions:

  1. The Edge -To clear the edge of Möllevången, and therefore to promote the clear-cut area.
  2. The Corner - Intend to make a clear invitation by rethinking the image of each corner.
  3. Main Street - Rethink people’s activities and the main commercial behavior here, and therefore to fit in with the theme of the main street.
  4. Green Land - Enhance the green land to invite people using, promote family entertainment and enjoy sunbath in the summer.

The Plans - Do Möllevången attractive !

  1. The Pattern Plan - By using different materials, colors…etc to give new meaning of local image, and therefore inspire people to come.
  2. The Facade Plan - By cleaning, improving, or adding on buildings’ façade to give new dialogue between each living unit.
  3. The Lighting Plan - By lighting plan to give Möllevången different looking from day and night. Make Möllevången has more attractive.
  4. The Plants Plan - By lighting plan to give Möllevången different looking from day and night. Make Möllevången has more attractive.
  5. The Sustainability Plan - By using sub-energy to create multi-using of resource. Besides, people can save more money in facility maintaining cost.
  6. The Traffic Control Plan - By controlling the traffic, it can provide pedestrianzed streets in the inner Möllevången in the night time, and therefore give people relaxed and more comfortable walking space.
  7. The Image Promotion - By using the meaningful colors, icons, diagram, or slogan to express the new Möllevången’s image inspire new invitation. Besides, promote the hotdog shops, hamburger stores to provide restaurant service.

16 November 2009

#6 / vulnerability

Architecture and planning interacts with a wide range of disciplines. As an architect you need to get an overlook, an understanding of the dynamics in fields far outside our own discipline. How to get there? We already, by keeping updated on the news, know too much about climate change, injustice, financial crisis, poverty and wars to be touched by it. Only rarely something floats up, an image, a story, and moves us. We know too much and it does not exist. But in the undercurrent of this flow of information it is possible to find people, experts on their field, researchers, humanitarian workers and artists that lend their eyes and voice to for us invisible people. You have all done discoveries on the web, and we have shared with you our findings through the tests we have introduced. These observations and findings can bring the dynamics of wast theoretical fields and actions within range, opening up for a possible cartography of vulnerability – a discovery.

PDF vulnerability

You will get an introduction on the theme vulnerability at 09.00 Wednesday november 18, in lille auditorium. We will have supervision both days. There will not be a new assignment, the theme is introduced to inform and evaluate your projects. I am looking forward to see you all!
Kjerstin

28 August 2009

mosaïc::reading


mosaïc::reading is about discovering and appreciating, - it is about how the landscape must be explored again and again, and how the plan can prepare for the unknown futures. It is about a method and a structure that open up instead of proposing ready made images and scenarios, it is about creating acting space where the big challenges of the future are possible to solve.

mosaïc::reading serves as a metaphor both for understanding the complexity and significance of a city or a region, as well as an open and inviting planning strategy.


mosaïc::reading - the city as biotope is a master studio at BAS run during the autumn term 2009 by Gisle Løkken, Magdalena Haggärde, Kjerstin Uhre and Knut Eirik Dahl.

Under the themes of new hierarchies, imbedded information, elasticity, dynamic of small cultures, points of departure, vulnerability and charging the landscape with new energy different aspects, ideas and possibilities of planning will be discussed and discovered - at the school in Bergen, on study trips to Malmö and Paris and on this blog. The blog will grow with the students' work, the presentation of new themes and your comments - join the conversation!

PDF - studio intro