Cityasbiotope Ebook

mosaïc::reading // mindfield malmö
mosaïc::reading // mindfield malmö

70°N and D&U with students from BAS, 2009/2010 mosaïc::reading // mindfield malmö

M O S A Ï C : : R E A D I N G - T H E C I T Y A S B I O TO P E

- a master studio at Bergen Arkitektskole run during the
autumn term 2009 by Gisle Løkken and Magdalena
Haggärde, 70°N arkitektur, Kjerstin Uhre and Knut
Eirik Dahl, Dahl & Uhre arkitekter.

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 has been discussed and
discovered - at the school in Bergen, on study trips to
Malmö and Paris and on the blog:
http://www.cityasbiotope.blogspot.com/.
The blog has grown with the students’ work, the
presentation of new themes, texts and comments - an
ongoing conversation!

Students:
Kristian Bekkenes, Tone Berge, Zlatan Dikic, Helene
Dillner, Tove Helen Dyb, Herman Hammer, Kolbjørn
Haug, Mathias Kempton, Miao Teng, Kuo-Chen Mo,
Stine Fyrde Nilsen, Roberto Ovalle, Tove Patterson,
Ragnhild Roald, Christian Røren, Martin Johannes
Sverdrup, Miia-Liina Tommila, Laura Ve and Gaute Aas.

Produced and edited by Gisle Løkken and Magdalena Haggärde
// 70°N arkitektur
Design and realisation by Magdalena Haggärde in collaboration with
all contributors
Printed by Molvik Graﬁsk AS www.mgraﬁsk.no
With the support of BAS

Bergen / Tromsø 2010

Copyright note
This publication may be cited or quoted in line with the usual academic
conventions. The content must not be published elsewhere without the
authors’ explicit permission. Each author holds the liability of his/hers
contributions to this publication.
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PREFACE 01 SEPTEMBER 2009

City as biotope might be an ambitious title of the welcome
autumn master class at BAS – 2009, seeing the whole
“Every schoolboy knows”
city, with its urban, suburban and peri-urban areas,
as an interconnected and living organism. The studio This is a phrase from the anthropologist Gregory Bateson who you may
language, or terminology of topics and themes, has meet as a reference in our master studio.
This expression can be interpreted in such a way as every architect,
been built up on the etymology of our, 70°N + D&U,
every taxi driver, every kid now knows that global challenges have to be
previous experience from planning competitions in the met with full innovative force on every local level, including the smallest
Øresund region, and has been utilized as a working biotope. It’s an awareness in the air. This involves rethinking, research
tool for the students. The intention has been to test out and new kinds of explorations in the urban field, thus conceived as
both built up structures and the landscape. The city is under pressure and
new methods of investigation and a new language to
has to be redefined continuously.
communicate and express planning. Yesterday we read an article by the researcher Maria Hellström, SLU/
Alnarp, entitled The diverging common (Den avvikende allmenning)
This catalogue is a summary of the work and travels where she discusses Christiania in Copenhagen as representative of the
urban non-ownership as a creative disturbance.
done during the semester, and is based on the studio’s
An eye and an ear to deviations, divergence and that you may see as
primary working tool, -the studio blog important undercurrents should inform our studio and enter the blog.
www.cityasbiotope.blogspot.com. For more When the studio is going to explore change as opposed to limitless
growth this joint blog for you students, us teachers and invited guests
profound understanding of the content and the work of
can be conceived as a library, a library of change. This library of
the students, it is recommended to use time studying
change is then formed by the participants and will act as a common Idea
the blog even more closely. We see the studio as Universe, with a reference to the mosaïc reading.
a comprehensive experience and investigation of So the moral of this blog is to launch your findings here. The expression
visualizing change can be fine to have in mind. We look forward to meet
layers of information that sometimes goes beyond the
you on the blog and in Bergen.
immediate reading of the city. The method accepts
the complexity in planning, and tries to be a hands-on KEU/KED
tool for new experiences and a continuously work-in-
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mosaïc::reading - the city as biotope
Mosaïc::Reading serves as a metaphor both for understanding the complexity and significance of a place, as well Mosaïc::reading is about methods and structures that open up instead of proposing closed images. The method
as an open and inviting planning process. accepts the subjective interpretation as a legitimate contribution to the methodology. Through the subjective, visual
notions are elevated as important elements of communication, and the idea of openness reveals the possibility
A new focus on urban life forms is partly based on the fact that there has been an extreme growth in the urban for a new, corporate and communicative language. The open dialogue and the inviting planning model are about
populations in the post war period. It is also a fact that the escalating environmental crisis in the world calls for a surveying, discovering, evaluating and preparing the plan for unknown futures.
new awareness both for the social and environmental conditions in the cities, but also for the increasing pressure
that production and recreation lay on the rural and nature landscapes. The way this is handled is finally a matter of MH/GL
survival.

On the background of these global realities the aim is to challenge the existing planning regime that often is too
incomprehensive, hierarchic and linear, and therefore makes plans that are not expedient to the real needs and
themes: page:
challenges. We will work with a construction of thoughts and ideas that accepts the complexity and relates to a new hierarchies 6
broad field of knowledge and investigation. The idea is to work out new strategies for planning that are more hands- Malmö Voices, dialogue with Christer Larsson I 19
on the real situation, more elastic and more adaptable to changes that will come.
imbedded information 20
There is a need for developing a continuously renewed urban language. Combined with a comprehensive and Malmö 36
open process and dialogue, the planning process offers an opportunity for communication and accumulation
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of knowledge that is difficult to achieve in more traditional and linear processes. Engaging a broad diversity of
competent voices, rarely heard in planning processes, gives an enlargement of both the democratic dimension and elasticity 48
the competence base of the plan. Creating different arenas for debates and broad experimentation, forms the basis dynamic of small cultures 58
for developing new knowledge and finally a more advanced foundation for decisions.
Malmö Voices, dialogue with Christer Larsson II 57
Openness and invitation are used as underlying methods to graft the plan with meaning and competence, and are Paris 62
used extendedly to find new, non-linear, ways in and around the conventional, hierarchic planning – and always, at
every moment, be able to implant the most up-to-date and relevant solutions.
points of departure 74
vulnerability 82
Through this methodical investigation new answers and concept concerning the survival landscapes can appear, charging the landscape with new energy 88
including the production landscapes and the recreational landscapes, and their relation to each other. The same
ideas for investigating the landscape can be implemented on the social and cognitive strata of a city, or a region. Malmö Voices, dialogue with Christer Larsson III 90
It is never a complete picture, but can be seen as cartography over the possibilities embedded in the concept’s Literature/references 128
fundamental structure. A fundamental structure that addresses several scales of time and geography and which
Student index 129
has as its intention to be at every single moment operative, but never concluded.
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new hierarchies
Mapping the hyper normal In an open plan-network it is possible for anyone to take position and to act (that means to influence the decisions)
-the strategy of the open and unfinished plan – a computer-assisted web is a necessity for this type of processes.

A traditional planning strategy is, even if it is based on laws and formal democratic processes, hierarchical and The amount of data and knowledge is limitless – the strategy is to make operational systems to receive, handle,
linear, and ideas and investigations are interpreted and implemented by a bureaucracy of experts. store and re-call the information that is relevant, - like a librarian that that can find a book on the theme that you,
at any time, need. The interesting evolves in the meeting and the crossing points (the folding) of information and
In addition to the formal democratic structures in the society there is an infinite web of knowledge and informal action. In these connection points and foldings new things and exiting possibilities always exceed.
processes that creates a limitless amount of interfering, weak connections.
Through a rhizomatic thinking where former hierarchical systems no longer are valid, new ideas of validation, new
As an experience of the computer technology and the internet’s structure of collecting and storing data and encounters and new priorities will become relevant.
knowledge, it should be possible to develop new, open and unlimited web-structures of planning. This again should
open up for an infinite input and output of knowledge, where there has to be more focus on the process than on the Deligny´s use of lines differ from any other form of mapping exactly because they do not pretend to represent
final product (as a fixed plan). anything other than our own ignorance about what is mapped. Rather than a negative thinking, it is an active form
of negative mapping of what is common within the members of an ‘impossible community’.
A hyper-mapping might be more subjective and give focus to values related to the context of the plan, than (Losing control, keeping desire, from Architecture and participation, D.Petrescu, Routledge, London oct 2004)
being strictly neutral and objective. All layers of processes, programs and events contribute to an open web. All
citizens and all professionals can use the web and make their input of ideas, events, wishes, visions and specific GL/MH

hierarch
knowledge. The knowledge becomes endless and un-abrupt. The idea would be to access the knowledge by the
google method, and to make it for everyone to use by the wikipedia method.

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By working within the hierarchical planning system, but at the same time continuously develop the weak networks
outside the system, an elastic, but continuously more robust rhizome structure will grow. The plan will not be
enclosed and conclude fixed images but work along a Deleuze/Guattarian ‘lines of flight’ model. Doina Petrescu
(Losing control, keeping desire) describes; Guattari and Deleuze’s ‘lines’ challenge the usual designer thinking
about ‘lines’. They are an abstract and complex enough metaphor to map the entire social field, to trace its shapes,
its borders, its becomings. They can map the way ‘life always proceeds at several rhythms and at several speeds’.
They map individual cracks and collective breaks within the segmentation and heterogeneity of power. The ‘line
of flight’, ligne de fuite, is defined not only as a simple line, but as the very force of a tangle of lines flung out, literature:
transgressing thresholds of established norms and conventions, towards unexpected manifestations, both in terms Rhizome, by Gilles Deleuze / Félix Guattari, from A Thousand Plateaus / Mille Plateaux
of socio-political phenomena and in individual destinies. I would prefer not to, article by Iñaki Abalos, from Natural Metaphor: Architectural Papers III
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new hierarchies
rhizome summarize
Here’s the quote from yesterday’s rhizome lecture/discussion, from Introduction: Rhizome, A Thousand Plateaus (Mille
Plateaux) by Gilles Deleuze & Félix Guattari:
Let us summarize the principal characteristics of a rhizome: unlike trees or their roots, the rhizome connects any
point to any other point, and its traits are not necessarily linked to traits of the same nature; it brings into play very
different regimes of signs, and even non sign states. The rhizome is reducible neither to the One nor the multiple.
It is not the One that becomes Two or even directly three, four, five etc. It is not a multiple derived from the One, or
the to which One is added (n+1). It is composed not of units but of dimensions, or rather directions in motion. It has
neither beginning nor end, but always a middle (milieu) from which it grows and which it overspills. It constitutes linear
multiplicities with n dimensions having neither subject nor object, which can be laid out on a plane of consistency,
and from which the One is always subtracted (n-1). When a multiplicity of this kind changes dimension, it necessary
changes in nature as well, undergoes a metamorphosis.
Unlike a structure, which is defined by a set of points and posistions, with binary relations between the points
and biunivocal relationships between the positions, the rhizome is made only of lines: lines of segmentarity and
stratification as its dimensions, and the line of flight or deterritorialization as the maximum dimension after which the
multiplicity undergoes metamorphosis, changes in nature. These lines, or lineaments, should not be confused with
lineages of the arborescent type, which are merely localizable linkages between points and positions. Unlike the tree,
the rhizome is not the object of reproduction: neither external reproduction as image-tree nor internal reproduction as
tree-structure. The rhizome is an antigenealogy. It is a short-term memory, or anti memory. The rhizome operates by
variation, expansion, conquest, capture, offshoots.
Unlike the graphic arts, drawing, or photography, unlike tracing, the rhizome pertains to a map that must be produced,
constructed, a map that is always detachable, connectable, reversible, modifiable, and has multiple entryways and
exits and its own lines of flight. It is tracings that must be put on the map, not the opposite. In contrast to centered
(even polycentric) systems with hierarchical modes of communication and preestablished paths, the rhizome is an
acentered, nonhierarchichal, nonsignifying system without a General and without an organizing memory or central
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automation, defined solely by a circulation of states.
some mapping reminders
Here you’ll find some of the references, terms, expressions, names etc from yesterday’s
A plateau is always in the middle, not at the beginning or the end. A rhizome is made of plateaus. Gregory Bateson
mapping/observation lecture. From top left: public space - interior and exterior: Nolli’s map of uses the word “plateau” to designate something very special: a continuos, self-vibrating region of intensities whose
Rome 1748, ‘inside information’ on aerial photos: Google map Paris, the Situationists’ plaques
tournantes / dérive / parcour: Guide psychogéographique de Paris by Guy Debord, experience development avoids any orientation toward a culmination point or external end.
time: ‘One Hour’ - stroll/walk/car/train by MH, parts and entity: Place Fürstenberg by David best
Hockney, be the follower: Suite Vénetienne by Sophie Calle, scale / zoom: Powers of ten by
Ray and Charles Eames, google map situationists: Parkour / Traceurs, microurbanism / instant GL/MH
urbanism: by atelier bow-wow //MH
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1st Plateu
Actions of a high pitched intensity conducted by the initiating group.

2nd Plateu

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Reactivation of the cause by other groups or individuals.

3rd Plateu
The dynamism of the afterimage activates another kind of reality.

Brasilia

Tove Helen Dyb Christian Røren
Brasillia

The Miracle in our brain
New York
New York
Missisippi
Missisippi
Tripoli

fed by stimuli, they disconnect and die.
Lebanon
Boston
Washington

Chronological list of events.
Germany
Germany
Germany
Germany

to keep growing. Besides food, it needs stimuli through
Germany
Tokyo

lines that makes our brain grow. The brain needs nutrition
From birth, our brain is an intricate network of connecting

sound, touch, smell and sight. If these connections are not
Spania
Toronto
Kuala Lumpur
Tokyo
Frankfurt am Main
Miami
Article in the The Times
Riots in Hamburg and Bonn
Murder on journalist in Frankfurter Allgemeine
Paris
Stockholm
Sheffield
Munks commiting harakiri in Tokyo
Aboriginals besiege palace in Djakarta
International financial crisis
Rio de Janeiro
This is a mapping of selected events from the novel Mengele Zoo by Gert Nygårdshaug. The

Bogota
Bogota
Mobile
Native american writes article in NYT NYimes
Mayor in London severely injured
Wellington
Medoc, France
Hamburg
Istanbul
New Zealand got 12 butterflies
Barents sea
Istanbul
Afterimage of a Novel

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new hierarchies
“Rhizome” in
Traditional Chinese Architecture Art & Culture
some tracing of Rhizome in my background culture to help me to understand the thinking of rhizome
and also to use it to offer a new angle of my own culture.

1. As an Opposite Side: “Tree” in Traditional Chinese Architecture
Before I talk about rhizome, it is important and necessary to discuss the opposite side of rhizome:

apparatus (building) of the empire in thousand years.

2. Interlaced Segments: “Rhizome” in Traditional Chinese Gardens
Interlaced Segments:
Without the signs of politics and tracing of power, those gardens in Suzhou had never been planned
under one uniform purpose, even the mind of the owner or architect. They ware assemblages of a
group of talents from different craftsmen, interlaced segments learned from nature, traditional culture
essence and desiring of backing to nature.
Instead of Grand narrative, those garden more like a series segments which is always changing.
Give you a new image of landscape in every second when you walk through.

Wasp and Orchid: Nature and Garden
Art in Chinese philosophy did not always imitate nature, but offer a medium between the owner and
natural.

structure to reterritorialize the nature. The purpose of build gardens is not only to present the desire

and keep the comfortable and civilized living style at the same time.
They are sedentarities, but built for nomadism.
Through a process of abstraction and reconstruction, the aesthetics of nature come back to city in
“In an open plan network it is possible for anyone to take position and to act”
the status of a substantive.

3. Scroll Painting: “Rhizome” in Traditional Chinese Art to be celebrations or sudden, coincidential gatherings, rather
This Scroll Painting described the city living beside the Bian River in Capital of Song dynasty. than protests or organised demontrations, arguing to not need
We use especial furniture to appreciate it which keeps the scroll steady. You could never see the
whole work at the same time, but any part of this work could be an independent image. It was the required approvals form police or authority.
meaning that people could go into this printing from everywhere. It showed multiple entryways and
Flash mobs may not be politically or idealogically founded
This dominating point for perspective did not exist in this painting, which made it more like a map. - often just for fun - but they still represent a need to make an
Comparing with normal map in a plan, this one included more information from different directions. It A flash mob is in its very essence rhizomatic. A leaderless
is a recording of a rhizome. expression in public space. Similar more politically oriented
mass event, dissolving as quickly as it appeared. A group of
I use color point to make the characters on the printing, than I got an antigenealogy image. movements like Critical Mass evolved throughout the ‘90s
Every point is a connotative central of a happening. It is detachable, connectable, reversible, and
people suddenly gather in a public place performing an un-
to reclaim the streets, and may be traced all the way back to
usual, often funny act. The initiative is usually posted on the
The sample I give out maybe is not the ideal model for rhizome, but is a introduction for this big the ‘70s.
discussion. internet, and spread via mail and SMS. The starting point
will be difficult to identify, and once it’s started you can not
stop it. 500 people freeze in a trainstation for five minutes.
Thousands of people gather to silent rave in London. Pil-
low fights in the middle of the street. Ninja’s fighting on a
campus or zombies roaming around in a mall, and recently
Michael Jackson dance tributes all over the world.This is
considered an undergroup to smart mobs - a term introduced
by Howard Rheingold in his book “Smart Mobs: The Next
Social Revolution”.
The self-organising structure allowes (the events) to claim

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Internet inspiration

new hierarchies
Magdalena said...
What jG says about narratives, expressions and stories in the city
Graffiti: redefining the official channels is really interesting - and relevant for our studio. If you (studio
students) remember the ‘messages’-slide from my lecture it
was about that: different stories told at different levels and
layers in the cityscape, crossing and blurring the hierarchies
of the acknowledged and recognized channels of information
and influence. The comment above on ‘reverse-graffiti’ makes
me think of somebody I could have mentioned as well at the
lecture: Jacques Villeglé and his ripped and lacerated posters,
where the anonymous and marginalized is visible (‘des réalités
collectives’) in what’s no longer there. Which could be linked
to today’s adbusters and other anti-advertising activists, quite
clearly working within the legacy of the Situationists’ tactic
of détournement.. ..to put it briefly..! This could be another
example of what we talked about Wednesday - nowaday’s urban
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phenomenon possible to link back to the Situationists and the
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idea of activating urban space. (Today’s Parkour discussed http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBWFaU893kM
5 Comments jG said... through the Situationsists’ ‘parcours’ and ‘dérive’ for instance.) http://jasoneppink.com/pixelator/
Gisle said... A friend of mine in Oslo made Graffiti for norwegian architects
September 7, 2009 9:25 PM
Graffiti is a true anarchistic way of distorting the hierarchy of by making a “What would Sverre Fhen do?” sticker. Sverre Fhen
whom to decide the feature of the public space… is both well known within architectural networks, but is also Herman said...
somewhat known amongst the general public. Put the sticker OBEY-Shepard Fairey When it comes to graffiti it is a well known
September 7, 2009 10:31 AM on a building as a way to question if this is the best one could idea that it spreads throughout the city and the world with an
achieve, and if any alternatives ever were sought out. If one unstoppable speed. Graffiti started on the streets and on the
Roberto said... manages to detach oneself from assumptions of what graffiti is, N.Y trians in the late 70´s and was thaught of as something wich
One of the aspects I found most important about graffiti in the and rather asks the question of what narratives and expressions was unique to New York. With the help of the books Spraycan
context of new hierarchies, is how it affects the way humans are visible in the city, I think it becomes more interesting. Like Art and Subway Art both by the photographers Cooper/Chalfant.
communicate in an urban (and sometimes rural) context. Some what are the neon lights in Japan, if not a kind of graffiti ? They documentet the movement through interwievs and photos
graffiti pieces have gained relevance as social criticism (look What about newspaper stands placed everywhere, filled with of the pieces and this is one of the main reasons that it spread
for “One nation under CCTV” on Google), historical revisionism, stories and expressions ? Asking theese questions in relation to throughout the world and inspired kids everywhere to take
political manifestation (“Fuera Yankees” - Yankees out) identity hierarcy reveals the issue of thinking in systems, where Graffiti part in the ideas. Later, after the computer and with that the
and territorial redefinition, humor and unexpected results (as is free of hierarchy in some sense. Still, graffiti is an illegal form internet became a common household object it spred with a
in Nancy Reagan’s “Just Say No” campaign’s use of graffiti), of expression, and thus on beforehand placed in a hierarchy more intense speed and exchange of works across the borders.
or cultural presence across different countries (as in the case sociologically and culturally. What is not illegal by juridical The american artist Shepard Fairey started a project he called
of freight train graffiti, which can carry a message through word, is reverse-graffiti, where walls and streets are cleaned the OBEY campaign in the early 90´s as a an art research to see
thousands of kilometers). Throughout the years, graffiti has been from city dust as opposed to painted. In a way the act becomes
how stickers and art can be spread across the globe. Nearly 20
taboo and countercultural; but also it is increasingly accepted in a “good deed”. There are also graffiti methods that are more
years later you can check out the world wide phenomena known
public and private spaces and even small architecture projects, charged with dilemmas like graffiti made with moss-water that as OBEY at his webpage: http://obeygiant.com/ (...)
used in advertising (by companies such as Nike or Coca-Cola), and grows on concrete surfaces and the like. There are all of a
in general, has come to establish itself as a code and channel of sudden more layers than just the graphics and the message. September 15, 2009 3:51 PM
communication among human groups. http://www.malmostreetsproject.se/

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15 SEPTEMBER 2009 “A credible map of sustainability has yet to be drawn.” The title of his text implies that this map is maybe not one of

new hierarchies
technology, but one related to perspectives of value.
Architecture as a philosophical contribution to sustainability
All this thinking was trigged when Ragnhild presented Malmø’s ambitious environmental goal of 25% reduction in
Trying to locate a point of departure (or rather point of entry) for the upcoming investigation of Malmø, I found a need CO2 emission within 2012. I therefore wish to investigate how Malmø seeks to ﬁll their goal, and at the same time
to pause and move backwards in my line of thought. try to map Malmø with Kurokawa at the back of my mind, trying to ﬁnd any existence/non-existence of “atomic power
stations”.
This spring I wrote a essay at the University of Bergen titled “Sustainability and perspectives of value – Architecture
as a foundation for an environmental ethic.” The main source of inspiration for the text was an interview I read many AT 10:36 PM 0 COMMENTS
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Japanese Architects in Dialogue”, which in my previous investigation was found to have very high emotional value, 16 SEPTEMBER 2009
but only medium practical value. Using a quote here possibly increases this value..) Kurokawa states the following, an
antithesis to modernistic planning: Malmö Voices, dialogue with Christer Larsson, urban planning director of Malmö, #1
”Let´s take the example of mixing factories and housing which would normally be prohibited by functional town- Question KED: The Fourth Space.
planning theories. Ordinarily a factory should be located far away from housing, but I think that only by living with the The UN Climate Conferance is underway a cross the bridge in three months from now, it is tempting to start this
factory can we control its pollution. If we needed a big atomic power station we should build one right in the center of intervju with questions on your strategic and hands-on thinking related to these challenges. But – on the telephone
Tokyo. There you can see it and feel its output and only then does it really come into people’s consciousness. Under you put forward a concept on public spaces called The Fourth Space, which I understood as a kind of new strategic
these conditions we might be able to control what’s going on around us and take action concerning such things as and practical guideline organising Malmö urban spaces. Can you open up some of your thoughts on this?
power stations. This is the basic idea of symbiosis – the very antithesis of Functionalism.”
Answer, Christer Larsson: Of course I will, The Fourth City space is related to attractiveness and the changes in
The main argument of my text was that sustainability in an architectural context is not primarily a question of workplaces and lifestyles. Speaking about sustainability as I consider, it´s necessary to always speak about social,
technological nature. Like Kurokawa states in the interview above, the potential of architecture is much greater. What economic and ecologic issues at the same time. As a background for this is the attractivity of the city connected to
Kurokawa is implying, relates to the theory of virtue ethics; we act according to how the world is presented to us. workplaces and the global competition between regions and cities. So we have sustainability and attractiveness as
Architecture does not only impose physical opportunities or restraints, it presents us to a hierarchy of values. This one driver in the process another is the knowledge based economy with the change of workplaces, lifestyles, urban
hierarchy can be either explicit or implicit, but it is always there in one way or another. The hierarchy of value I am and social capital. We have a triangular connection between; Attractivity, Florida, creative class, public spaces etc.
talking about is not intrinsic value, in the sense that “this building is good or bad in it self”, nor is it necessarily political Innovation, innovative structures for new lifestyles and work, innovative methods in planning and social issues.
either. It can be as simple as a chair being 43 cm high, and in that way saying something about the average height of Culture/social capital, how people act together to strengthen relations, innovations and growth. So that means that
a Norwegian adult (but this could of course be political). Just like I found when rearranging my bookcase, some sort of if we with spacial planning should meet all this its necessary to have an idea about the structure and the relation
hierarchy will always be present when dealing with physical objects; some things must necessarily be above, below or between buildings and public spaces. This relation are we addressing as the 4th city space.Spaces where you live is
next to other things, they can’t all be at the same spot (neither in time, nor in space). the 1st, work is the 2nd, public spaces is the 3rd and the interaction is the 4th. My idea is that the 4th should promote
new lifestyles and the new workplaces. Where you work 24 hours a day in meeting places, cafes, libraries etc – the
Today we build factories where they can’t be seen. We put our waste in the dustbin and a day later it is gone – from 4th space.There is a lot more to say about this, and I add some ppts as well. This is also an ongoing discussion in
our house and our mind. We buy food in the supermarket, and we don’t have a clue where it comes from. (My British the NordicCityNetwork.Finaly, the sustainable city is always dense and mixed. It consume less transports, land and
aunt living in London was disgusted when she saw me eating a blueberry straight from the bush – she would “never energy. Remember that 80% of energy consumption is related to buildings and structures for transportation. God luck
have eaten anything that was not bought in a shop.”). Electricity forms maybe the best example, it presents itself to with the work and come back with some new tricky questions.
us as a highly abstract phenomenon; I plug my computer into the wall, turn it on, and write these words. I don’t really
even think of it as consuming energy, I simply press the “On-button”. In reality this energy has a highly concrete origin, AT 12:16 AM 0 COMMENTS
it is water falling down a hill and into a turbine. Or it is coal being burnt, heating up water, producing steam. LABELS: #2 / IMBEDDED INFORMATION, / MALMÖ VOICES

The modern world detaches our actions from their effects; there is no apparent link between me drinking this
electrically heated cup of coffee and the rise of the ocean. As Kurokawa states, we can only “take action” when the
world is presented to us as moments of relation, or interdependence. These thoughts are related to what Ábalos
writes in the text “I would prefer not to”, when he states what has been quoted many times during the last two weeks:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVgR4_S2rXI
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imbedded information
Found papers and texts, and parts of texts, gives direction and connects to a way of thinking, to a concept, a Related to the global financial crises the critical journey that researchers, journalists and critics now explore – in the
project. The notions we introduce in this studio was not apparent and clear, ready for use, when we started out metadata - discover a problematic embeddedness between economic action and social structure to put it mildly.
on our two explorations in the Öresund metropole. They evolved and appeared through series of readings and Therefore the philosopher Jürgen Habermas can be interviewed on www.signandsight.com under the heading Life
experiments with a kind of hyper awareness and eagerness related to change. after Bankruptcy!
In Florian Sauters conversation with Stan Allen the notion imbedded information relates to what a concept, a
project, introduces and opens for: When we discovered Iñaki Ábalos, El Paix chronicle “I would prefer not” as part of the up-front Mosaic reading, a
“One of the things we learnt from Bateson is that he understands ecology as information exchange. He is paper document, we discovered his conclusion: “ A credible map of sustainability has yet to be drawn, but
essentially applying a kind of cybernetic model to natural ecologies. This seems to me very powerfull for a number there can be no doubt that other aspects already trailed and trialled have run out of whatever credibility they had”.
of reasons.: first of all it does not idealize natural ecology as opposed to social ecology or any other kind of ecology. This lines, imbedded in the text, was presented as the headliner for the mosaic concept and informed our project,
In other words you can understand all of them as systems of informational exchange. For example if you look at gave a direction to it.
Central Park: it is a landscape with a certain amount of imbedded information. That imbedded information could
be comprehended from the fact that the traffic is separated at different levels or that there is a way people have of In the Nordhavnen project the imbedded information concerning the status of Öresundet in different scientific
using it with big open spaces that provoke one kind of activity and dense landscapes that provoke another kind of research, in the text and images from our guest writer Peter Sylwan showing a dying biotope, with surface earth
activity. floating into the sea and warnings from the biologist Peder Agger on the possible dystopic futures alerted our
concept, informed it and gave birth to the introduction of the edge dynamics between land and sea – and the
You can separate Central Park from its sort of cultural or historical context and then you can understand what introduction of the archipelago of biodiversity. The deep structure of knowledge, the imbedded information on the
works about it. The brilliance of Central Park arises from this continued usability” and Stan Allen summons up in seascape informed our project, and gave its direction.
this way:
“Olmsted hit the dynamic just right: there is enough information to keep the system alive, but not to much In the Mosaïc reading the guest can be seen as the project’s imbedded information. Each guest opens their library
to overdeterminate the uses”1. exploring the mosaic-concept. A conversation in the mosaic concept with professor Carola Wingren, who we will
meet at SLU in Malmø, is titled When beauty arrived in town ends like this:
From our side the introduction of this notion is directed to what is to come, it is forward orientated. To keep in
the terminology of landscape we can say that temporality, concepts that can give a direction, an architecture Mosaic team:
and landscape attitude that invites multiple actions, interpretations and programme represent this kind of “And what is such a new topography in a landscape that is to be strengthened as a network of biotopes, that must
embeddedness. be understood as a productive landscape of a new type, and that shall “farm out” new urban qualities?”
That what is imbedded in also introduces a kind of research that evolves between surface and deep structure. CW:
When it comes to the discovery and observation of how things relates the notion can be described in this way, from “That we apparently don’t know. That’s what it is about. To give opportunities and game rules so these
another field of knowledge: processes can gain speed. I would like to describe it as a mesh of….why not “biotopes”, that can be looked upon
“Metadata represents a crucial difference between electronic and printed documents. All the information in a paper and changed in different layers, and where every human being is a significantly more important actor than we have
document is displayed on its face. Not so with electronic documents. Electronic documents carry their history with seen up to now in Malmø”.
them. Paper shows what a document said or looked liked – metadata tells where the document went and what it
did.” (Embedded information in electronic documents. Why metadata matters by Scott Nagel in Law Practice today/2004)
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It is a fact that 30% of the inhabitants of Malmö lives in a kind of diaspora (Carolas phrase), with imbedded 1 Comment
information that can reformulate attitudes and actions in both the urban setting and its landscape that informs her D&U said...
thinking. Its our attitude toward the migrant that encloses or unfolds this embeddedness as creative force. Kristian: Very clear diagrams. This is information you can read
Related to discoveries in the Malmø DNA, how our rethinking, research and new kinds of explorations unfolds, We directly out of the areal view. But is there a strategy behind
will propose this kind of attitude towards conceptual thinking: Our method is to launch some initial decisions that what you can see? What kind of discussions can you find about
can expect to release a reaction both in the excisting urban landscape and in the city to come – to hit the right Västra Hamnen in the local press? VH has been in the searchlight
dynamic, with traces to follow so to speak. for Malmös urban development for a long time, so there exists

a world of ideas “out there”. What kind of plans does already
exist in this area? There is a lot of information to be found
KED/KEU on the web. The sea, the background is not a blue hinterland
anymore. Adding to your observations on land you can do a smart
cartography of the seascape and the sea bottom, its quality and
potential. Adding to this information you may find information
for the joint Malmö-Copenhagen strategies on harbour activities.
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Points of Departure (PODs). There is at any given moment time
interesting and possible formative features and lifeforms (in VH)
which you can discover and which can inform your next step.
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Laura said...
I like it! A unexpected developement and nice and different way
to show a space! September 16,
2009 12:11 PM

COMMENTS TO THE BLOG POSTS ON IMBEDDED INFORMATION D&U said...
Zlatan: A hopefull, charged and positive title for your text here.
Encircling the Dynamics of your findings You ask some stunning questions for you to touch yourself. Like
how can we generate new influence in the city? (for whom?). How
When Rem Koolhaas was invited to lecture on and debate on sustainability at Harvard earlier this year he architecture influence neighbourhoods facing economocal, social
wondered why he was invited on this topic, as an architect representative for one of those forces that has brought and physical decline? Etc. In the last number of MARG on the
us into this disturbing global situation – the architects. He went back to his days at AA and told the audience about city (which KEDc edited) there is two articles you can read to
the hands-on attitude of the teachings at the department of Tropical Studies in the sixties related to this topic, as an get some interesting views from. The article “New York - and
example of forerunners in this field that could have been much more appreciated (this is our interpretation) the right to the city” is observant and intelligent on exploring
how voices, communities and fluent organisations enters into
In Aftenposten yesterday Ingunn Økland addresses the lack of continuous debate on the Norwegian oil exploitation
this field. The text by rector of BAS; Marianne Skjulhaug also has
with Stavanger as its epicenter, and she sais: “At last the Litterature Festival Kapittel dare to direct a critical a enlightening text on the questions you raises titled “Complex
searchlight on the near surroundings, in fact the Oil City Stavanger”. Here she discusses that the critical phase in connections that seek form”. Take a look at them. Your questions
the oil industry poses a problem with freedom of speech! in your text and the elements of importance that you describe
Does the exhibition in Louisiana bring a new, observant, critical and daring agenda to our table. We are now is actually so clear that it is possible for you, without any
eagerly going through your blogposts on Imbedded Information and sending our comments to all of you – it’s in the trouble, to do a wider research on examples – follow up your own
questioning and bring us to an a new plateau related to this.
making. We look forward to see you in Malmö.
KED/KEU September 20, 2009 8:22 PM
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Zlatan Dikic

Reading Malmö through the novel Tett Inntil Dagene by Mustafa Can. Five Keys to Rosengård
Identity of Education Price of Migration Parallell Societies Domestic Temporality Hidden Competence
#2
The novel is a primary narrative from Mustafa Can who migrated to Sweden with his family. The novel is carried by
the portrait Mustafa draws of his mother Güllü. Güllü is laying on her deathbed, and Mustafa is confronted with
supressed feelings and deep memories as he goes searching for who his mother really was. She was not
alone in beeing a woman who was seen but not noticed and who paid a high price for leaving her
origin. Wary but direct, the novel provides an understanding of the people and their lives in a

Swedish suburb, faithfully resembeling the everyday life.

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report is the first step in an analysis of the allegation that anti-
D&U said... D&U said...
democratic power structures are developing within Rosengård.
Tone: Literature gives us indeed the opportunity to look with Tove Helen: We like this slightly questioning phrase in your
Additionally it seeks to be a document on which means can
another person’s eyes. It can bridge emotionally between cultural text: “For an observer like me that yet knows Malmø just through
be implemented to turn the development into a more positive
differences. Have you also done a cross reading between the using the internet, it seems like the city has not yet seen the
direction. There is an attempt to discuss these topics on a level
scientific report on gender and migration, that you were refering potential of the migration and the diversity of different spaces
of nuances, but it leaves the reader (me) with a disillusioned
to in our discussion at BAS, and the novel itself? The notions of in the city”. We think you’re your exploded mapping of Who
impression of Rosengård. What the report led me into thinking
imbeddednes you have found in these text(s) in your own reading lives in Malmö and where is stunning and informative, new to us.
about in a constructive manner was to investigate the womens’
with the eyes of an architect are highly relevant: Domestic With the possible statistics and observations at hand, and even
roles in order to find keys to understanding social structures. The
Temporality / Identity of Education / Parallell Society / Hidden naming the different enclaves, your mapping opens some line of
reading of “Tett inntil dagene” has empowered me to have a
Competence / Price of Migration. It lies a genourosity from thoughts. Other aspects of this exploded city can be introduced
much more balanced understanding of the mechanisms within
your side in communicating with the rest of us in this diagram of and inform your project a lot. Your mapping pinpoints limitless
migrational enclaves, such as Rosengård. The information in the
imbedded information How can the Hidden Competence become possibilities behind the statistics – nice and personal. The forces
diagram “Keys to the novel” and “Imbedded information” is not
a resource in the communities? Your map “The blend of two behind The Naked City would appreciate this little research of
mixed with information from the report.
structures and the rise of something new” is charged with desire, yours. May be the city has not seen the potential, but there will
have a look at Tove Helenes exploded map which also contains a September 30, 2009 1:54 PM be voices from many fields that can impart this first step of yours
possible cartography of desire, in our reading of it. with meaning – charge your information with new energy, so to
speak.
Tone said...
The report I referred to in our discussion at BAS, “Hot mot
democrati och värdegrund -en lagesbild från Malmö” from
Centrum for Assymetriska TerrorismStudier(CATS) dated 2009-28-
01 was found and taken into interest merely by coincidence. The
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Herman: In the Mosaïc – Concept we discussed the impact of Kuo-Chen: If we can look at Malmö as a leading agent when it
movement in this way: “Den inneboende informationen om comes to exploring solar energy (which we don’t know yet), we
det som kan förbinda de två kusterna får ett nytt lyft med ‘det will assume that they have some explorations along the whole
varslade logistiska sammanbrottet’. Begivenheten Metroringen known aspects of renewable energy. It could be an interesting
påverkar nu tankarna redan innan den uppstår. Ringen förskjuter path to follow to find this rhizome of experiments from the
trafikbilden från bil till snabbtåg. Denna tillsamman med

smallest initiative to the city at large. The United Nations
ett nytt, högt utvecklat nätverk av gång-, cykelbanor och Climate Conference is in Copenhagen in December (COP15).
annan kollektivtrafik är det normala år 2040. Nya stads- och Malmö’s political and planning stakeholders are orientated
landskapsformationer är utvecklade av den avancerade arkitekt- towards this global summit, and they are surely eager to present
och planläggarmiljön i Øresund. Med världens ögon riktade the advantages of Malmö at this event. This means that the
mot København år 2009 i samband med COP-15 och ett ‘nytt scope of what Malmö is initiating in the field of renewable energy
Kyotoavtal’ underskrivet, blir Metroringen Øresunds bärkraftslogo should be detectable. Have a look at Mathias cartography, or
på den ‘trovärdiga karta som återstår att uppritas’. Alla små diagrams, related to this.
och stora samhällen är stadsdelar i Landskapsmetropolen och
Metroringen öppnar för urban korsprogrammering i stadnätet September 21, 2009 2:19 PM
tvärsöver gränser, allt kan äga rum överallt. Metroringen är en
egen upplevelsesvärld och blir i sig själv en företeelse med egna
ritualer - ett eget språk. ‘Jag får inte mina kickar i København
längre’ kan bli resultatet av nya diversiteter i stationslandskapet.
Lätt förflyttning, och en dag på stranden, är goda hjälpare” (not
translated to english yet) At BAS we discussed movement related
to the researcher Oddvar Löfgrens three stages of the impact
of the bridge. You ask this intriguing question in your text: Does
this difference the area and its inhabitants from more “closed” 1 Comment
Commuting labour to the researcher Oddvar Löfgrens three stages of the impact
cities and gives it an ephemeral state of existing?” When the In the wake of the Öresundbridge D&U said... of the bridge. You ask the intriguing question of Sleeping city
mosaic text was conceived we actually entered into such and opening in 2000 the cities of Kolbjørn: The first part of this post is similar to the one we and Brain Drain as a consequence for Malmö. Our interpretation
interpretation as “Everything can take place everywhere” in a Copenhagen and Malmö launched a plan sent to Herman on Movable Impact In the Mosaïc – Concept we that “everything can take place everywhere” explores a
larger geographical scale. So with a transition to new forms of of ”Integration of the Öresund region”. discussed the impact of movement in this way: “Den inneboende possible diversity and equality in the region both related to new
transport and a smart combination in this new web lies possible The aim is to create a comprehension
informationen om det som kan förbinda de två kusterna får programs, education, research and lifeforms. But as Løfgren
undetected life forms and concepts of the city as such. In a way among the population that the region
ett nytt lyft med ‘det varslade logistiska sammanbrottet’. observes, there are obstacles on many levels that may not
like this with a quote from a friend: “The urbanite has many functions as one city.
Begivenheten Metroringen påverkar nu tankarna redan innan support this optimistic view.
addresses”.
den uppstår. Ringen förskjuter trafikbilden från bil till snabbtåg. September 21, 2009 3:04 PM
low tax
September 21, 2009 1:55 PM The typical work commuter Denna tillsamman med ett nytt, högt utvecklat nätverk av gång-,
cheap
tends to be; sweedish, male, dwellings cykelbanor och annan kollektivtrafik är det normala år 2040. Nya
steady job, 25-44 years of age, stads- och landskapsformationer är utvecklade av den avancerade
medium or higher level of better arkitekt- och planläggarmiljön i Øresund. Med världens ögon
education, no children. Also they paid riktade mot København år 2009 i samband med COP-15 och
are engaged in IT, transport or jobs ett ‘nytt Kyotoavtal’ underskrivet, blir Metroringen Øresunds
commerce. bärkraftslogo på den ‘trovärdiga karta som återstår att uppritas’.
When migrating across Öresund Can Malmö become a “sleeping city” Alla små och stora samhällen är stadsdelar i Landskapsmetropolen
the Danish focus on lower cost of Copenhagen. Or; will there be a och Metroringen öppnar för urban korsprogrammering i stadnätet
of housing as well as lower taxes, matter of education, income and tvärsöver gränser, allt kan äga rum överallt. Metroringen är en
the Sweeds go for more chal- social status as to where people in egen upplevelsesvärld och blir i sig själv en företeelse med egna
lenging and better paid jobs the Öresund region live and employ ritualer - ett eget språk. ‘Jag får inte mina kickar i København
themselves?
längre’ kan bli resultatet av nya diversiteter i stationslandskapet.
http://www.malmo.se/kommunfaktapolitik/internationelltsamarbete/oresundssamarbetet/vision
http://www.kk.dk/FaktaOmKommunen/KoebenhavnITalOgOrd/StatistikOmKoebenhavnOgKoe-
Lätt förflyttning, och en dag på stranden, är goda hjälpare” (not
benhavnere/UdgaedePublikationer/Oeresundsregionen.aspx translated to english yet) At BAS we discussed movement related
26 Herman Hammer Kuo-Chen Mo 27
Kolbjørn Haug

Through a series of investigations Behind bicycles (China and Malmö)

Sustain what? I examined and compared the
physical footprint required by various
technological solutions for cutting C02
Few years ago, China was called “country of bicycles”. In my memory, bicycle
is extremely important vehicle for normal people. But nowadays, with the
expanding of city and the increasing of economy, instead of bikes, more and
more people choose other vehicle for private vehicles such as electric bikes,
emissions in Malmø. My aim was to motorcycles and cars.
Malmö is Sweden’s third-largest city and one with a bike culture to be proud
illustrate that a cut in consumption may of. Using 140 kilometers of cycle paths and good bike infrastructure, about

be wiser than “solving” the problem 40% of Malmö’s population chooses the bicycle every day to take themselves
to work and studies.
with technology.
- juxtaposing facts and numbers

Covering 25 % of Malmø’s energy consumption Economy behind bike .........
Malmö was changed from gray industrial city to green sustainable city,
Approaches to sustainability

with PV-cells would require 1,6 km2. especially after 1980s’ end (Kockum’s closed and thousands of workers were

At the same time, china was going to the super industry gardens. Although
the chinese government had found that sustainable plans are very important
for the country but they are still on initial stages. They have no power to
stop people to aspire after a comfortable modern life style as American. The
expanding of city is also a reason of bicycle’s disappearing.

Bicycle Stratagem .........
Like in most cities in the West, increased car-use has even made a mess
around the city’s schools. Parents feel that there are so many cars around
the schools that they must drive with their children to and from school.... The
Roads Department has therefore run the campaign “Friendly Way to School”
to persuade parents to walk or cycle with their children. It’s been successful. At
my youngest daughter’s school, car driving has reduced by 50% thanks to the
The Øresund bridge accounts for 1,1 % of We would need a 287 km2 forest to absorb campaign, which focused on health, safety and the environment.
(Malmo’s Bicycle Mom, Cycling Through Malmo’s Eco-Friendly History , By
Malmø’s Co2 emmisons. 25 % of Malmø’s CO2 emissions.
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our guest in the mosaic that you will meet at Alnarp said this 2 Comments Hey Miao After our discussion on Behind Bikes we send this
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in his text in Mosaïc::Region: E-DENs Lustgård Tur-Retur: ”Det D&U said... Question 2 in our continuos dialogue with the Director of City
Sustain what Here we also refer back to our discussion on
som saknas i den visionen är inte brist på naturens egna resurser. Miao. we place our mail dialogue as a comment to your Behind Development in Malmö, Christer Larsson. This question and his
your text On Architecture as a philosophical contribution to
Solinstrålningen på en bråkdel av mosaikregionens mark bikes, so all the students is informed. Hey Knut Thanks a lot for coming answer will appear on the blog under Malmö Voices. How
sustainability, in your earlier blog post. At BAS we had an
motsvarar hela regionens energibehov. Och en välvuxen skog this help! The question you send out is exactly what I want to is your bicycle path evolving?
interesting discussion on how “to be detached from effects”
på bra mark producerar mer biomassa än den mest produktiva know. The surprising thing for me is that I almost can not find any
(your phrase) originating from your Kisho Kurokawa readings. September 20, 2009 3:34 PM
åkermark. Det som saknas i den här visionen är kunskap. Kunskap researching of bike system in chinese city urban. Contrarily I find
You end your text with a possible research on if there is another
och teknik för odling och landskapsvård som inte finns idag – men many Malmo’s plans for improving the cycling environment and
dimension in Malmö related to any existence/non-existence of D&U said...
som kan finnas där om 30 år om vi bestämmer oss idag för hur vi encouraging people to use bike more. I guess something should
“atomic power stations”. The last we discussed as a metaphor Question 2: Accessibility, new forms of transport and The Fourth
vill leva 2040”. Your dramatical diagrams on a large geographical hide in economy reason. I also read some staff about how Malmo
for not seeing, observing and acting on seriously problematic Space: A global example?In your last mail you told us that you
scale have imbedded information on a larger timescale that was changed from a gray industrial city forward green direction,
situations. You said you where exhausted after writing this where on your way to a meeting on Climate Change. In the
opens for some systems of informational exchange worthy of especially after 1980s’ end(Kockum’s closed and thousands of
text. We can imagine that, it’s a challenging one having in mind Mosaïc::Region concept we discussed all kinds of new transport
exploring, to keep with Bateson. Don’t be afraid on testing out workers were fired). At the same time, China was going to the
Kurokawas title of his book “Shaking foundations….etc. With the forms, in both Malmö and Copenhagen and the possible new
more diagrams of the shaking foundations type. super industry gardens. Although the chinese goverment had
comprehensive research of the IPCC, with the satellite images Øresund Metro with the new connection between Helsingborg and
found that sustainable plan is very important for the country but
at every moment describing effects of climate change, with September 20, 2009 8:00 PM Helsingör. We challenged the use of cars versus new and more
they still on initial stages. They have no power to stop people to
series of researchers and public voices giving input to a possible coordinated webs of transport; walking, cycling, trams, busses,
aspire after a comfortable life style as American. Of course, the
new cartography of sustainability – why does this detachment metros etc. One of our students from China is now exploring the
expanding city also make it impossible to use bike in traditional
continue. Or is it a new alertness that we introduced in our dynamics of Malmö on the cities policies on extended bicycling,
way, but in some of the Malmo experience I already find is really
welcome text “Every schoolboy knows”? We like your diagrams of as you know Copenhagen is so proud of. The student is doing a
interesting on it. I will observe it during the trip. I will not
consequenses. Sun=Good in a way shows how “far” we have come surprising study of Malmös possible good example on bicycling
take my computer with me and renew the bloge when I am in
on photovoltaic cells. Your foresting forecasting of Malmö goes related to the policies in large Chinese cities. He says that the
malmo. But after the trip, I could have deep understanding and
green is pedagogical disturbing, but may shake some foundations. bicycle is loosing its importance in China as the cities get bigger,
some idea. I also looking forward to the answer from Christer
Abandon the ship opens for experimental fields of a type not but is gaining importance in Malmö. So, how do we visit your
Larsson. Best Regards! Teng Miao
seen before, introducing nomadic city systems. Peter Sylwan,
28 Mathias Kempton Miao Teng 29

Fourth Spaces: by car or in a totally new concept on transport
forms. Are you exploring a Malmö concept where the car use
and consequent amount of street asphalt is challenged? How is
your policies on coordination of all light and collective transport
forms. Is Malmö such an example for the world, as our students
hope it is? Can he return to China with your city as the leading
example?


Is Rosengård a city within a city?
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follow to gain new knowledge on the future of the seascape and 2 Comments an exploded cartography that, in our interpretation is an eye-
D&U said...
Stine: The Kockum landfilling, or as you call it, the sand is bottom. In your Emerging Students blog it would have been fine Johannes said... opener. The diagram, made up of statistics, shows that what you
if you could have come up with some thoughts on Malmö as a I think your topic reflects a very important angle of view; the call “a rhizome-like cultural pattern” defines in different ways
left. Our Nordhavnen concept is made on such a landfill, now
knowledge city. Malmö lies between Lund and Copenhagen, and openminded awareness as attitude and tool to discover the all part of the city-scape of Malmö. To follow up your question if
partly full of waste and toxins – a dump so to speak. May be so
is part of a web of research and teaching. Challenge your own “imbedded” information... the study of the microcosmos and the Rosengård is a microcosm (or a multitude of microcosms) inside
in the western harbour to? You ask what is the next challenge
questioning. interactions between them. September 19, Malmö related to countless other microcosms, you are touching
between sea and land at the western harbour. A search in a
larger geographical scale on the net and in your library would 2009 2:36 PM questions that Doreen Massey, Geographer and professor at “The
September 21, 2009 10:55 AM
have opend at least comparative knowledge from other cities Open University”, are discussing in the article “A Global Sense of
by the sea. For many years this kind of transition of industrial D&U said... Place”, From Space, Place and Gender, Minneapolis: University
sites from one state to another has been the urban sport nr Roberto: You are following your cultural path from your questions of Minnesota Press, 1994. “For what is happening is that the
1, boosting new city brands and profiles. BO01 in Malmø is in your latest post, taking it to the urban fabric surrounding geography of social relations is changing. In many cases such
such an example. Our Nordhavnen concept reformulated such Rosengård. The question is if the overlapping, mingling or relations are increasingly stretched out over space. Economic,
a traditional, offensive transformation with urban ideals and clashing of different cultures happens in the liminal zones or if political and cultural social relations, each full of power and
ideal lifeforms, and launched instead a concept in a permanent they happen elsewhere? As you have pointed out, studying the with internal structures of domination and subordination,
dialogue with the changing seascape. A terminology on behalf visible codes that are expressed in Rosengårds walls might give stretched out over the planet at every different level, from the
of the landscape and seascape. I don’t know Malmös plans and you a clue. You might also find clues panning through the eniro. household to the local area to the international.” You can find
strategies along the coast. But a do know that Christer Larsson, se aerial photos. Where do one place end and the next place the paper here: http://onedaysculpture.org.nz/assets/images/
Stadsbygnadsdirektøren, has been introducing an archipelago in begin (to refer to Calvino)? Where are the threshold zones you reading/doreen%20massey.pdf Study also Tones Post “Seeing
front of Malmö relating to changed sea levels. To your question want to study? In his article “New York and the right to the city” Malmö through the eyes of another” where she uses literature to
of what destroys the sea as a living biotope: When you ask such (MARG) the author Peter S. Jørgensen discusses initiatives from understand the dynamics of cultures and kinds of Diasporas.
a question you should go behind it and speculate more openly individuals, communities, groups (like the friends of the High
with yourself. The relation between agriculture, plowing, Line) that appear, also with graffiti as a tool, and continuously
rivers and Øresundet is, as all over the world, a main poluter. launches their own urban strategies and actions. It’s both here,
Now introducing International Coastal Management – a path to there and everywhere in the multiethnic NY. Tove Helene has
30 Stine Fyrde Nilsen Roberto Ovalle 31

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D&U said...
Tove, you say: “The way for a city to grow, both in economy and
in vitality was not through specializing, separation and renewal
but through diversity, density and restoration of what is already
there”. With this Point of Departure in your text, if you stick to

that, it implies an exploration in the western city of today – with
Malmö as the field of exploration – that opens up for a critically
sharp reprogramming of growth, as we now it, programs of what 2 Comments
is to be constructed and strategies for transformation on a large D&U said...
geographical scale and time scale. Challenging, and here you can Martin Johannes: On making choices, if you see Malmö as a
be supported be researchers as Thomas Ziewerts and his texts continuos Work (of Art) in Progress. We opened one of our
on Zwischenstadt (heavily used in the Aarhus schools research projects in 1994 with this phrase from Six Walks in the Fictional
project on The Borderless City). May be its more than your shoes Woods: ”There are two ways of walking through a wood. The
that has to lead you forward here. first is to try one or several routes (so as to get out of the wood
September 20, 2009 2:00 PM as fast as possible, say, or to reach the house of grandmother,
Tom Thumb, or Hansel and Gretel); the second is to walk so as
to discover what the wood is like and to find out why some paths
are accessible and others are not … (Umberto Eco; The Charles
Eliot Norton lectures). We had an interesting discussion at
BAS on your chosen path, so we look forward to your promised
sketch(es) to be posted very soon, as you say.
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malmø
Herman said... September 21, 2009 11:43 AM
goes
http://sydsvenskan.se/malmo/article550248/Trottoarer-ska- green
rensa-luften.html
D&U said...
Malmö sketches Interesting tentative sketches you send out.
D&U said... Your discovery in stalking Malmö can possibly be seen under the
Ragnhild: Have you explored deeper on this one since our With the outspoken goal to reduce co2 emissions by 25% in heading “a pattern that connects” (a Bateson interpretation on
discussion on Tuesday? What lies inherent in the information our behalf). The criss-crossing paths in our Nordhavnen concept
you have found? You should enlighten yourself and us some
2008-2012, Malmö has been ranged 4th greenest city after
as part of the six strategies in the structure plan was named a
more… PS: You might be interested to know that there is a Reykjavik, Portland & Curitiba, Brasil by grist.org. The mea-
pattern that connects with the ability to discover possibilities in
FLASH MOB event at Malmö Central Station, Monday 21, see: sures to reach this ambitious goal are many, several already
the different biotopes and the whole concept of edge dynamics.
http://www.avaaz.org/en/sept21_rsvp/?id=136839 this event put into action. Green energy test sites have been established In our discussion with Christer Larsson on Friday morning we
is a part of the Global Climate Wake up Call. Images and videos at Western Harbour, Hyllie, Sege park and Augustenberg. discussed possible patterns and paths that could connect the
from the Global Wake-Up Call events will be combined, in a With 4000 m2 solar thermal, 4000 m2 solar thermal with a
matter of hours, into a short movie to be shown in 700 satellite- cultural potential of the migrant in a new way to the Malmö
linked cinemas at the Age of Stupid’s global premiere! In Malmö
peak production of 500 kW and 70 % governance funding mosaic. If you look up Christer Larssons answer to our second
the movie will be shown at Spegeln Tuesday 22, http://www. of PV installation, they claim to be Solar City Malmö. The question you will find that the whole new transport system
ageofstupid.net/screenings/cinemas/1269 See also the Wake-Up city is also big on bike with 40% commuter trafikk and 30% (trams, metro, bicycle, train etc) in an optimistic reading, have
Call event map at http://www.avaaz.org/en/tcktcktck_map. everyday travels on two wheels. Other priorities are bio gas such a connecting possibility inherent in itself.
September 20, 2009 5:32 PM from local waste, green roofs, wind turbines, plating green, September 28, 2009 10:43 PM
water surfaces and ponds.
Merely political slogans, or a sustainable society?
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Ragnhild Roald Martin Johannes Sverdrup

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D&U said...
Laura: Nice, or should we say brilliant, of you to introduce Gilles
Clément to our studio. Our bookshelves contains some of his
books. In the magazine Scape 2007/2 (which also contains an
intervieu with D&U) it is an interesting intervieu by Loretta Coen
with Gilles Clément titled “The Planetary Gardener”. You ask:
How does decide what matters more, and how will one learn

about all this ingredients. In the Scape text Cléments attitude
is described in this way: “He bases his position on the work of
sustained observation, patient experimentation, a knowledge fed
by all sorts of cross-disciplinary relationships. This complement
the knowledge he acquired during his constant travels – to which
Algeria, which he saw as a child, South Africa which he saw as
an adolescent, and Nicaragua as a development aid volunteer,
constituted the prologue. His attitude is the opposite of that of
a specialist”. Gilles Clement notion “The Third Landscape” may
contain some answers to your question – check it out. At Alnarp
on Thursday you will encounter “all sorts of cross-disciplinary
relationships” that can enlighten your questions. Your link to
the Malmö Street Project reflects on what you can refer to as
“sustained observation”.
1 Comment
2 Comments D&U said...
represented. I wonder if it might benefit the prosess of discussing
D&U said... Gaute: “A new desire to lift the background to the surface, in
Rosengård to see the phenomena rising there as something
Miia-Liina We appreciate your drawings trying to carve out how short, to turn the ground and the surface into the object of
swedish rather than something foreign. Also, to distinguish
ideas and events travel the worlds, locate, are being transformed the project” is you last phrase and as we understand it a kind
between and accomodate for the differences within “easy-
and appear in new versions. One year ago, when we received of research and possible concept guideline. When we where at
to-regard-as-but-not-really-homogenous” becomes rather
the 1.prize in the Øresund visions 2040 we attended a lecture BAS we discussed how a landscape is out of the searchlight until
meaningless: That would mean 111 categories. It might be more
by one of our guests in the mosaic, Jørgen Primdahl, prof. and a project appears, and we discussed this as shadow landscapes
rational to consider the inhabitants in Rosengård as individuals
researcher on the effect of global farming and global markets and stated that the landscape lacks a terminology of its own.
rather than members of an ethnic minority? When discussing
in Danish agriculture. He refered to Manuel Castels in his You have read Peter Sylwans text Return to Eden, where he with
culture and ethnicity one can define culture as something that
research. You may well now that Castels travelled the worlds consequence and ambition explores such a new terminology on
manifests ethnicity. And one can further divide between the
in five years before he wrote his acclaimed book on global behalf of the agricultural landscape. We also mentioned the
cultural content of an ethnicity and the strategies for ethnic
impact and all its aspects. If you go to this website, http:// experience that Gisle and Knut Eirik had with Herbert Dreizeitl
self-identification. A research carried out in Great Britain in 1997
northernexperiments.0047.org/, you will find a marvellous work and his project of following only water, as an aspect of a new
shows how these two aspects were intimately connected among
on the IKEA global Kingdom, located to the Northern regions, urban terminology and urban design. We find it very interesting,
1st generation immigrants, whereas in the second generation
done by the artist Arvid Sveen if we interpret and stretch your text and diagrams, that it lies a
ethnicity had more importance as a symbol than anything else.
possibility to see the cities as occurances in the landscape and
September 20, 2009 1:57 PM In parcticality their cultural behaviour did not differ much from
that the landscape through your searchlight is on an offensive
that of Britons of the same age. (Modood et al. (1997:337)) The
path. That means that a kind of 3D math (not our invention),
Tone said... reading of Bateson has cast another light on this topic through
a thickness of ground, surface and space may be explored as
Your discussion about originality of a culture when placed in a his definition of social ecology. He regards the development of
biotopes and strategies, and has to work with temporality in a
new setting has made me think about the multicultural society subsystems within civilisation as something that eats up flexibility
different way than that of built structures. The ground/surface
in Malmö. I have been pondering about Rosengård and how it and there for must be controlled. Malmö has now it’s bridge to
attention can be understood via different means, from simple
is so easy for us to describe something unfamiliar as something Europe. How does the bridge from Rosengård to Malmö look?
cartography to ownership to lifeforms etc. It will be interesting if
homogenous when it is really not. Within Rosengård for example,
September 30, 2009 2:40 PM you could try to invent and describe you next step. We think the
60% of the population is born abroad and 111 countries are
word desire is a key in such a discovery.
34 Miia-Liina Tommila Laura Ve 35
Gaute Aas

Malmö findings

Malmö findings
Introducing five sites in Malmö:

The five sites in Malmö are immensely different in terms of time and space, and are characterized and shaped
by different historical events, different labour activity, different inhabitants and cultural influence. Seen as future
comings, the sites have different prosperity, as landscape for urbanization, recreation, or production.

Every landscape and every townscape contains a comprehensive web of knowledge that is interesting for a
planner to know about. This will of course be information of very different kind, of very different interest and on very
different scales, but nevertheless it is an obligation for a planner to find and take use of what Deleuze describes
as; every thing that comes in our way, without being prejudiced. Jumping to conclusions is not compatible to an
open planning process, and we can never predict what will inform us most, and what will be of most interest for the
process.
When the leader of the town planning office in Malmö; Christer Larsson, talks about ‘The Fourth City Space’ he
talks about an intermediate space of a possible new kind that lays as an interconnecting field among all the spaces
of human activity we already know about. Projected on the landscape it opens up for a new dimension of folding
and connectivity that has the possibility of being limitless. Planners (…) could play along the folds and (…) become
swept up by the variable consistency of a certain context: a Deleuzoguattarian ‘voyage in place’ opening up
potentialities for ‘people-to-come’. (Dole in Hillier: Stretching Beyond The Horizon)

The otherness of a situation is obviously becoming a bigger and bigger part of the contextual understanding, either
it is new strata of culture and under currents, or the impact of ecological changes on the landscape. Change and
adaptability have become inevitability linked to survival. To remind on Batesons words; We are not outside the
ecology for which we plan – we are inevitably a part of it. And; The new invention gives elbow room or flexibility, but
the using up for that flexibility is death. (Both in: Gregory Bateson, Ecology and Flexibility in Urban Civilization in Steps to an ecology
of mind. 1972/2000)
GL/MH

litterature:
Walking in the city, by Michel de Certeau from The Practice of Everyday Life, Part III - Spatial Practices

36 37

“Places are not homogenous as in Florian Sauter: ‘Do you see in

Malmö findings
VÄSTRA HAMNEN being experienced equally by its ROSENGÅRD landscape urbanism movement a SEGE Å / TOARP
inhabitants. Groups from different possibility to regain a sort of power
social layers, different ethnic to structure our environments ,
background, of different ages and as opposed to simply erecting
sexes would describe the place in beautiful and iconic objects that are
different ways. They would belong functioning along corporate market
to different practices, they would conditions?’
have different understandings of the Stan Allen: ‘Absolutely. I think that it
world and value the surroundings inserts architecture into questions of
differently. They would have different infrastructure and the construction of
stories, memories and experiences, the site itself. It blurs the boundary
and would thereby live in different between the object and the field.
places even if they inhabit the same All these aspects I think are here
location.” to say that there is a very broad
Region and Identity, from Mosaïc::Region, by
category of architecture that is not
Odd Are Berkaak – prof. socialanthropology per se a building. That could be
surfaces, roads, infrastructure, and
construction in the site’
Theory, Practice and Landscape, Natural
Metaphor - Architectural Papers:

”The Implications of this new “It is important to identify the lacks “Beautiful, not strictly in the sense
definition of waterfronts is that they in representation, what and who is/ of an aesthetic quality resulting from
can no longer be seen as narrowly are not represented, and to not only the sensational, but because the
defined terrestrial margins, but make them visible, but to use this dispersed city, when it knows how
rather as fluid Zones, subject to opportunity as creative potential to to accommodate this mixture of
forces and circumstances (…) The benefit previously invisible actants”. uses and meanings, can open onto
littoral Zone is the Zone in which Stretching beyond the Horizon, Jean Hillier the landscape and the industrial
these forces are most actively countryside, ensuring a strong
engaged. We argue that the future transition.”
for the contemporary waterfront lies Intermediate Natures – the landscapes of Michel
within this rethinking, the opening of Desvigne
new design possibilities through an
understanding of and privileging of
the different hydrological forces at
work in the littoral zone…”
Littoral machines, how waterfronts becomes
coasts, IFLA 2008 Proceedings of the 45th
World Congress of the International Federation
of Landscape Architects - ‘Transforming with
water’ MÖLLEVÅNGEN YTTRE RINGVÄGEN
38 39

Malmö ﬁndings
From top left:
on the stairs outside Louisiana with Malmö on
the other side of the Öresund strait; lecture
and discussions with Johanne Løgstrup and
Nis Rømer of Publik; Västra Hamnen - Turning
Torso by Calatrava, skatepark and harbour
walk; Möllevången market; Rosengård

From top left:
Ringvägen / Fredriksberg trafﬁc junction;
Toarp - pear picking, housing in the agricultural
landscape, naked earth; Alnarp arboret and
park - Magnolia fruit, a walk in the park, garden
of the annuals; Scandinavian symposium at
Alnarp co-arranged with prof. Carola Wingren,
Sabina Jallow and the landscape architecture
students of the course ‘Places loaded with
energy’,

All photos by Miia-Liina Tommila, Laura Ve,
Magdalena Haggärde and Gisle Løkken
40 41

DAV - The walk as a method and an artistic practice

Malmö findings - DAV
THE
How do we approach a space? How do we make research of a specific place in the best way? What kind of impressions
WALK
and experiences create the sense and the character of a certain place? How do we physically experience places? How
do our own body, experience and personality influence our experiences of the new places that we explore?

By the beginning of modernity and the rise of the cities a new term was made for a specific group of men that walked or
strolled around in the city. They were given the name ‘flaneur’. A person with a certain self-consciousness who had time
and peace to just walk around and watch the life of the city and the ever changing character of the city – and thereby
stood out of the mass but at the same time was the quintessence of the city. The perfect flaneur combined empathy and
distance. Often the persons were writers or artists who would depict their experiences in text and pictures. The movement
is the essence for the flaneur and his strolling through the city in contrast to the life of the city that he moves through that
constantly haste by him. This gives him the possibility to voyeur the city but also to take it in on his own conditions.

Concurrently with the rise of the city sociologists, theorists, artists, urban scientists and city-planners have found a
profound interest and core research material in the space of the city and the changes as well as the urban population way
of taking over the space of the city. Important to mention is the French theorist Michel de Certeau’s thoughts in his book
‘The Practice of Everyday Life’ where he analyses how people as individual has a need to create his or her own rolls and
rituals in a mass-society such as the city. So when the citizen goes against the planned paths in the parks and makes her
own ruts by walking across the lawn she takes in the place in her own way and creates her own rules.

Today many artists still use the walk as a method and an approach for an artistic practise. Here plays the artists
personality an important roll for the outcome of the artwork. This becomes clear in the choice of frame or thematic the
artist wishes to present. One of the most important and contemporary artists using the walk, as a method is the Mexican
based artist Francis Alÿs. He has been doing his city walks in a lot of cities such as London, Mexico City, Jerusalem,
Copenhagen, Berlin and Lima – just to mention a few. Before doing his work he first walks the city where he research for
the character and the special sphere of the city. Then he sets a certain complex of problem in play of that specific place
and often combined with an existential and self-referring approach. As for instance his walk through Mexico City where he
pushed a big ice cube, which due to the high temperature quickly became smaller and smaller. This doing for no reasons
points at mankind’s ever lasting wondering around with no goal. The walks of Francis Alÿs are afterwards turned into
videos, photos, drawing and paintings.

With this workshop we aim to make a research on Malmö as a city through the walk and the walk’s forms and methods.
You will be introduced to various artist strategies in this field. We will take you for a walk. You will be put into teams
working together to make up a theme for an area of research. You will use the area of research on a walk and represent it
in your own chosen format.

By this workshop we wish you to try out and test your ideas on reality by using the walk and thereby choosing an optic to
see the city through.

The workshop is made by publik – a Danish organisation producing contemporary art for public spaces in Copenhagen
since 2005. publik initiates and produces temporary art projects that has a debating and researching approach towards
the boundaries of today’s public spheres. www.publik.dk

Nis Rømer and Johanne Løgstrup
42 Kolbjørn Haug Ragnhild Roald 43
Martin Johannes Sverdrup Gaute Aas

44 Herman Hammer Christian Røren Zlatan Dikic Miao Teng 45
Laura Ve Kuo-Chen Mo Roberto Ovalle

A Sunny Day at Fredriksberg Aspire by Stine, Tove Helen, Tove og Helene then the land appeared
Västra Hamnen
The traffic junction in Fredriksberg is one in a series “The Western Harbour”
of large traffic machines located along the Outer
Ringroad of Malmö. The site covers an area of
300 000 m2, a consumption of land that needs to be Through observations in
discussed. Through a series of evocative actions the the Western Harbour, and
hidden qualitative layers of the site are examined and
the mono-programmatic appearance of the site is
ongoing discussions in the
questioned. group, we came to a point
Heading for picnic Playing badminton
First there was the sea where we found that some-
Google Maps acts as a database, recording and
representing the actions that took place on on the
thing was missing, or not
25th of September 2009. The project can also be a industry carpet landed present there.
found in Wikipedia. The area is arranged, but
still not established.

A question occured;
Getting directions
where is the human influ-
for a while...
ence?
a picture of history remained
a cold scenery of
a future starting
We started to fold colorful
to appear swans (origami). The swans
was ment to be a symbol of
life. We placed out all the 40
Romantic moment Sunbathing Reading in between
of them in different spots,
and they also became a sym-
bol of human scale interfer-
ence.

the aspect of life was yet to bee Our investigations resulted
seen
Looking for fishing ponds a colorful carpet
in a cartoon that tells about
about to arrive... our discussions, and how
we look at the situation in
The Western Harbour

to new opportunities of life

Picking berries The activities documented in Google Maps
46 Tone Berge Kristian Bekkenes Helene Dillner Tove Helen Grande 47
Mathias Kempton Miia-Liina Tommila Stine Fyrde Nilsen Tove Patterson

elasticity
A ‘high’ civilization shall contain whatever is necessary (…) to maintain the necessary wisdom in the human Bateson talks about survival not in resisting change, but in terms of accommodating change. It means that your
population and to give physical, aesthetic, and creative satisfaction to people. There shall be a matching thinking has to be every bit as fluent and adaptive as the kind of systems you are talking about. In other words you
between the flexibility of people and that of the civilization. There shall be diversity in the civilization, not only can not apply rigid or dogmatic principals to systems that are themselves fluent, adaptable, changing and always
to accommodate the genetic and experimental diversity of persons, but also to provide the flexibility and incorporating feedback. (…) It is a way of thinking that mirrors the dynamism of ecological systems themselves.
‘preadaptation’ necessary for unpredictable change. (Gregory Bateson, Ecology and Flexibility in Urban Civilization (Stan Allen in dialog with Florian Sauters, ‘Theory, practice and landscape in Natural metaphor’, architectural
in Steps to an ecology of mind. 1972/2000, p.503) papers III, 2007)

Even though Bateson wrote this paper in 1970 it contains a strong prediction of the coming climate changes and a The basic purpose of the plan as a dynamic process will always be as a tool, in opposition to how it often works
foreseeing of the challenges that planners and architects have to deal with concerning profound ecological matters. today; as a goal in it self. The idea of the plan should change from creating rigid structures to process a continuous
Bateson prescribe the survival of our Civilization as closely linked to our understanding of natural processes; We work in progress.
are not outside the ecology for which we plan – we are inevitably a part of it. (IBID p. 512) The new invention gives
elbow room or flexibility, but the using up for that flexibility is death. (IBID p. 503) GL/MH
asticity
The mosaic-metaphor is a picture of everything that happens, both on a physical and on a metaphysical level. A el
mosaic inspired planning must contain a strategy for seeing, finding, and adapting everything that goes on. If one
piece of the mosaic is painted in a different colour, the picture changes, - not much, but the sum of many small
pieces changed, eventually gives a totally new picture. The colours of the pieces are depending on political visions,
local initiatives and the collective will in the region.

Our postulate is that the Öresund region is anti-generic but adaptable. Anti-generic means multifarious and unique,
generated of specific landscapes, long impact of historical events and individual performance. In addition the
region has an opening towards the world through economical, political and technological structures. The success
of adaptation, sturdiness and change in the region, is dependent on the will to develop open structures, and on literature:
the self image and collective hubris of the people living there. Today’s region is not homogeneous and in a mosaic Ecology and Flexibility in Urban Civilization, by Gregory Bateson in Steps to an ecology of mind
inspired planning it will open up for a wider equivalence in how the different pieces are perceived and treated.

Any system of nature and culture is in reality based on interaction and dynamic. It is therefore easy to argue that a
planning method that is going to handle such dynamic systems has to be elastic and dynamic. This in opposition
to a more traditional, linear and hierarchical planning regime, that to a far extent is built up on simplification and
limitation.
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life will improve biodiversity. It
can create a recreational cross
connection of Malmö.

Elasticity of city public space in the Centrum of Malmö City by Walking & seeing Building a high-rise area of “Turning A forest of willows could treat 2/3 of
The plaza is the heart of this living area, and there- Torsos” with the same density as the sewage from Oxie Kirkeby and
fore people use the public space in a beneﬁcial way Manhattan could provide homes for feed a 0,16 MW power station.
and give the same space more elasticity. 50 000 people.
In the morning, the plaza plays a role as an open
market, and afterward it becomes a common place of
the community.
It’s much difﬁcult to get more public open space for
this old area. By different use and functions people
adapt to the change of the plaza, and therefore bal-
ance their life.

PS10 solar, Seville, Spain. Scaled down to our site: Projecting a “little bit of Bergen” on the Fredriksberg Junction
11 MW, 624 heliostat mirrors. PS30 solar, Malmø, Sweden. could provide homes for 4000 inhabitants in a low-rise/medium
Covers 500 000 m2 of land. 2,15 MW. density residential area.

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Kuo-Chen Mo

Lines of flight
intersect each other
in different points
inside and outside
of Rosengård,
creating new situations
and connections
that may intensify
the urban life

elasticity
in the neighborhood.

The text was written by Felix
Guittari in 1989, when environ-
OF MALMÖ
MAPPING SUSTAINABILITY IN THE MALMÖ DNA

mental problems became current
and we were moving away from
the industrial age of production.
New post-industrial territories
emerged as the industry became
more centralised, realted to tax
payment, competent workforce
and airports.
MENTAL ECOLOGY SOCIAL ECOLOGY ENVIRONMENTAL ECOLOGY
Guittari argued that the commer-
human subjectivity social relations environment
cial system (Integrated World
Capitalim) controls us, but by subjectivity is a process pluralistic society solving environmantal issues
changing our view on the world, - constant becoming - multiplicity
we won’t need them. This change technical solutions
commercial system controls us interaction, engagement - not sustainable in itself
towards sustainability, consists
- passive subjectivity, conformity - productive conﬂict
of both a mental and a social, as we as species are also in danger
well as an environmental part; a more participary system global issues - local solutions of becoming extinct
Three interrelated ecologies.
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24 SEPTEMBER 2009

Malmö Voices, dialogue with Christer Larsson, urban planning director of Malmö #2
Question, Knut Eirik Dahl: Accessibility, new forms of transport and The Fourth Space: A global example? In your
last mail you told us that you where on your way to a meeting on Climate Change. In the Mosaïc::Region concept we
discussed all kinds of new transport forms, in both Malmö and Copenhagen and the possible new Øresund Metro
with the new connection between Helsingborg and Helsingör.We challenged the use of cars versus new and more
coordinated webs of transport; walking, cycling, trams, busses, metros etc. One of our students from China is now
exploring the dynamics of Malmö on the cities policies on extended bicycling, as you know Copenhagen is so proud
of. The student is doing a surprising study of Malmös possible good example on bicycling related to the policies in
large Chinese cities. He says that the bicycle is loosing its importance in China as the cities get bigger, but is gaining
importance in Malmö. So, how do we visit your Forth Spaces: by car or in a totally new concept on transport forms.
Are you exploring a Malmö concept where the car use and consequent amount of street asphalt is challenged? How is

elasticity
your policies on coordination of all light and collective transport forms. Is Malmö such an example for the world, as our
students hope it is? Can he return to China with your city as the leading example?

Answer, Christer Larsson: Here are some very quick answers: Bicycling is still an important way to commute to the
daily work, about 40% of all commuting is done by bicycles. In our planning we try to give priority to bicycles and
pedestrians and of course public transports. It is very important to develop an attractive system for public transport,
today this is busses driven by biogas but in the near future it will be a tram system as well. Next year the City tunnel
Internet inspiration will bee opened and that means that we will have three nodes in the city structure to use. Combined with the trams
this will be attractive for daily transports in the city and the region. Concerning the trafﬁc I will also say that it is of great
importance for developing the 4th cityspace that the cars will reduce their impact of the attractive spaces. Cars take
a lot of space.Your Chinese student could absolutely use Malmö as an example of a sustainable city, I guided the
Chinese Minister of Housing and Urbanism, Qiu Baoxing in the Western Harbour last Sunday and we had a very nice
discussion with him.

LABELS: #2 / IMBEDDED INFORMATION, / MALMÖ VOICES

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dynamics of small cultures
Our research and observations in the Mosaïc period set a searchlight on different aspects of how to aquire are in the core (the internal life) of the mosaïc and discuss examples that strengthen the considerations.
knowledge, how to enlargen our views and how to direct our studies, summoned up in this phrase : What informs Elasticity of thought where ‘everyone can have a position’ can thus lead to a rupture in the planning regimes. ‘The
our project? Plan’ must therefore extend its elastic field, and recognize the ‘discursive nature’ by opening the different bases,
Inherent in this lies a critical approach to planning statements and strategies that is more reductionist in its cultures and practices - and understand this as the ‘gift’.
approach and methods. At a certain point in our Mosaïc explorations we discovered the urgent need for voices ‘Almost immediately, reality collapsed at several points - the truth is that it wanted to give way (Borges)”
and capacities in fields unknown to us. Through an advanced research and with a little help from knowledgeable
friends we discovered a series of possible guests all over Scandinavia, hitherto unknown to us, who were invited to When KED guest-edited the magazine MARG, on the city, he was introduced to a story about an owner of a
enter our concept, charge it and transform it. Peter Sylwan, who you met at Alnarp was one of these guests, who bookshop in Beirut who had as his ambition and intention to keep his bookshop open during all periods of war in
we met in person for the first time at this event. Beirut, which he mostly has managed. Keeping open this tiny little bookshop as a continuous feature and vibrant
location in the (dramatic) changing cartography of the city. The beauty of this stamina, this tiny culture, confirms the
The introduction to this kind of offensive discovery of unknown voices (for us) had as its stepping stone our joint possible discovery of importance on all levels of the activities in a city that can inform our way of thinking. To learn
research under “The Year of City Development in Tromsø. Most significantly in what we called The City of to appreciate and observe different events and activities that can repaint our mosaic, charge it with new meaning.
Chronicles, in this one year time-out and reflection on the appearing city. With KED as editor 40 articles from
sources usually not known as informators in the world of planning appeared every Saturday in the main newspaper In the Mosaïc concept we described this attitude under the heading The Dynamics of small cultures:
in the Northern region. These voices, a pressure from inside the city, interpreted the outside pressure, a changing “Research on premature infants in Lund is world leading, a reference culture in dialogue with a network of other
world, as formative for the planning strategies for the future city. One interpretation of the notion weak voices premature cultures. This mini culture is trying to increase the population growth in the Öresund region, in a
lies inherent in that these voices where not heard before – they appeared through an intense research for new simultaneous dialogue with the leading research journal ‘Pediatrics’.
competence. We discovered them, so to speak. The small culture of the Art Academy in Malmö has allied itself with a handful of state of the art art scenes
worldwide and is growing out of its pre-stage.
The attitude towards these voices was described in this way in the Mosaïc::Region under the heading The The multi-cultural youth movement in Copenhagen has been out every Thursday to defend and develop the small
elasticity of the thought and the plan: vulnerable biotope “Ungdomshus”. Attempts at normalization of Christiania have the intent to direct that earlier
“We pinpoint our guests from a field of knowledge, an energy network, and we are the receiving station. For us attraction into a disappearing landscape.
earlier ‘weak voices’ become meaning-bearing and visible. The anthropological term ‘the gift’ may be meaningful The region’s immigrant model, Malmö, is a universe of small cultures merging into the cityscape after Friday
in our dialogue between adaptive performing spaces and mind fields. We have learned that only an ongoing prayers in the mosque - and become something else than a superstructure.
and loving openness in this mosaïc must be the norm. Although not ‘everyone’ involves in the open network, The mosaic Metro-Polis quality is the small worlds of cultures and their networks and intersections, locally and
an (op)position developes that in the mosaïc-search is in a moving conversation with the superstructures - and globally. However, demarcations and the distance to small (vulnerable) cultures dominate the larger political
undercurrents. picture in the metropolis.
When we ‘charges the landscape with new energy’ and discusses ‘the producing landscape’, we are in a discourse If the border between the two countries is to be challenged, the political challenge will be the sensitivity for the
of the larger time span, in a larger shared scale between the two countries in the region. We open the discourse diversity in small cultures and the perceiving of their dynamics.
in an era in history where the imbalance is a recognition, that planning institutions of all types are challenged to When the COP-15 launches “what we must understand and what we must do” in December 2009, it is the energy
take in. The tableau of images of change generated by our visits in the future pinpoints the need for new types of and talent in urban habitats, their motivations, that can emerge as a reliable map of a sustainable Metro-Pole, in a
collaborations between hegemonic institutions both in the region and in the wider European field. Meanwhile we new premature situation”.
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The notion The dynamics of….. is our transformation of the title of the classical landscape study from 1988 by Next week we are visiting Paris, a city known historically as an attractor on different migrants who has shaped and
Peder Agger and Jesper Brandt titled The Dynamics of small biotopes in the Danish agricultural landscapes, formed French life and culture, we will explore The dynamics of small cultures and we will meet Doina Petrescu.
where they say in the introduction: Magdalena opens up our Paris journey in this way:
“Hedges, roadside verges, drainage ditches, small brooks, bogs, marl pits, natural ponds, thickets, prehistoric
barrows and other small uncultivated areas laying within and between the fields in the Danish terminology are The micro politics of small cultures - aaa and urban tactics
named ‘small biotopes’. Conceptually they correspond to the ‘network’ that is embedded in a ‘matrix’ of How to discover and make visible the small cultures and develop their dynamics, to capture desires, know-hows,
cultivated fields as defined by Forman and Godron (1986). They can also be described as “ecotopes”, the relationships and skills?
smallest unit to be studied in the landscape (Naveh 1984)…..”
In our interpretation refering to ‘systems of informational exchange’ (Bateson) this set a possible searchlight for When the ‘small culture’ is not a network of researchers eager to put into play their knowledge but people invisible
our observations on what is embedded in the Malmö matrix. not only in the political and planning processes but even in the public space and life: illegal immigrants, women
confined by cultural expectations or people linguistically and/or socially restricted. People that for different
In our contiunos interwiev with Stadsbyggnadsdirektør Christer Larsson the next question to him is titled Does she reasons never show up on those citizen meetings (that most of the time is the only, and compulsory, outcome of
speak Arabic. Refering to how Malmö explores the network that is embedded in the migrant community. We have ‘participation’ in planning) to claim their point of view or knowledge, but still living a strong, pertinent and parallell
asked Tove Helen on bases of her cartographic exploration, to enter into this question and she asks: reality in our cities.
“I see the numbers, where are the facts?
Visiting Malmö through the internet, I got to know that people from 171 different nations live in the city. These Doina Petrescu and her studio aaa (atelier d’architecture autogerée – studio for self-managed architecture (http://
people represent almost 40 % of all ”Malmöers”. Getting to know Malmö by diving in to the world of statistics, I urbantactics.org/) in Paris are using the tactics of micro-political acting and participation to ‘create relationships
understand that ”new malmöers” are representing 12 - 60 % of the population in every township. At least 38 nations between worlds’.
are represented in each township by more than 10 persons. Centrum got inhabitants from 94 different nations.
The nation that is biggest represented in one township, is Irak with 2881 persons. Encircling the city of Malmö and By the use of everyday activities such as gardening, cooking, playing, chatting etc they make it possible for those
being a visitor that sees all the different townships by foot, by cycle, by buss, I find the expression of different social previously excluded to participate and even change roles in an ongoing process of architecture and (local) politics:
layers, different life situations and different ways of living. But, I can’t see and I can’t stop wondering, where does the cook becomes a debater, the inhabitant an architect and the urbanist becomes an activist. Attending by one
the diversity, richness and potential of all the new malmöers come to expression? By using Knut Eiriks formulation accessible entry releases the possibility of participation on another level of collaboration and exchange. Disused
“ Does she speak Arabic?”, I wonder... Where is her cultural treasure expressed? How is her cultural treasure urban spaces in disadvantaged areas are transformed into poetic and political gardens of urban biodiversity.
expressed? When is her cultural treasure expressed?. MH
small
The dynamics of small cultures introduces an awareness both related to expertise, unknown voices and voices of
usually unheard of. The interior of this notion demands a new type of observation and definitely it demands a

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asignment, Points of Departure, after Paris, we want you to charge the aspects that are important in your Malmö literature:

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City Reader and address how they will inform your project and your next step. Losing control, keeping desire, by Doina Petrescu from Architecture & Participation
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Paris
Grands Projets – Grand Paris
In Paris politics and architecture have always been inseparable. Historically with the power establishing buildings of
ancient kings and Haussmann’s boulevard system cutting open the intricate medieval streets to avoid subversive
and revolutionary movements to grow in the hidden. In modern time presidents have had the tendencies wanting
to leave their mark on Paris. Mitterand is the one who has up to now been the most grandiose builder with an
impressive list of architectural projects realized or started during his governance (the Louvre glass pyramide by
IM Pei, the Musee d’Orsay, La Villette (a complex at the northeastern edge of the city that includes a vast science
museum and an exhibition hall. It also has an extraordinary park by Tschumi, a music center by Portzamparc, and
the latest is a concert hall by Nouvel), the Institute of the Arab World by Nouvel, l’Opéra de la Bastille by Carlos
Ott, the Grande Arche of la Défense by Spreckelsen, headquarters for the Ministry of Finance at Bercy by Paul
Chemetov and Borja Huidobro, la Très Grande Bibliothèque by Dominique Perrault).
These were called ‘les Grands Projets’ and Mitterand stated architecture as ‘le premier des arts’. If Mitterand had
his ‘Grand Projets’ Sarkozy now takes it to another scale with his ‘Grand Paris’ project. One of his ﬁrst presidential
acts was to invite teams of world famous architects, both for a conference and debate on Paris’ architecture and
urbanism, and also to create parallell proposals for Grand Paris.

The power of architecture is to be a barometer of the society’s well being. It is an advanced indicator, one of the
great nuclear/core questions of our time. Nicolas Sarkozy

Infrastructural change
In parallell Mayor Delanoë lanced a project less grandiose and glittering in appearance but surely of a greater

dynamic... / Paris
importance in the everyday lives of the parisians – the remodeling of the parisian trafﬁc systems. A, at the time,
provocative act was to take space from the already perturbated car streets to create bus corridors and bicycle
lanes, today considered a success. From the start in year 2000 there was 200km of bicycle lanes in Paris, this
has been almost doubled until today, and another 200km will be added before 2014. This in addition to the Vélib’
system of rental bikes (about 20 000 bikes with stations about every 300 meters) has contributed to a change in the
way parisians transport themselves, and even think of their city.

Parks and public space
In many big cities projects of public space implemented on different scales have alltogether had an impact both
on the appearance and the citizens’ possibilities for using the city. In Paris the (re)making of several important
parks (La Villette, Citroën, Bercy) and the covering of parts of the périphérique ring road are part of a structural
transformation on a city scale. On a more local community scale gardens and participatory projects are working on
the use of small public spaces as well as democracy through practice and acting.
MH/GL
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From top left:
on the stairs of Palais de Chaillot / Cité
de l’architecture et du patrimoine and the
exhibition Grand Pari(s), Musée du quai Branly
by Jean Nouvel and its garden by Gilles
Clément and the planted wall by Patrick Blanc,

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La Très Grande Bibliothèque / Bibliothèque
François Mitterand by Dominique Perrault with
its wooden plaza and Palais de Tokyo rebuilt
by Lacaton & Vassal (with roof installation by
Laurent Grasso).

From top left:
Cité de la mode by Jacob/MacFarlane,
Jussieu university extension by Périphérique
architectes, La Grande Mosquée, La
promenade plantée and 56 St Blaise by atelier
d’architecture autogerée (aaa) and the citizens
of St Blaise, where an evening conference was
co-organized with Doina Petrescu, Constantin
Petcou and students from the Architecture
School University of Shefﬁeld.

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From top left:
Parc André Citroën by Clément / Provost,
jardins d’Éole by citizens of 18e and 19e
arrondissements, Centre Pompidou and its
square by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers,
Pont Simone de Beauvoir by Feichtinger,
students on Passerelle Debilly and Parc de la
Villette by Bernard Tschumi.

dynamic... / Paris
From top left:
Métro aérien at Stalingrad, planted wall
alongside Boulevard Périphérique, bicycle
lanes and Vélib’ rental bikes, le Baron Rouge
wine bar, 12e arrondissement ambience, la
Courneuve suburb, view over la Chapelle
from Sacré Cœur, Eden Bio social housing
and artists’ studios and Hôtel Fouquet both by
Edouard François and Citroën showroom by
Manuelle Gautrand.
All Paris photos: Laura Ve, Martin Johannes
Sverdrup, Roberto Ovalle, Magdalena
Haggärde and Gisle Løkken
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Kristian Bekkenes Tove Helen Dyb
Zlatan Dikic Kolbjørn Haug

IMPRESSIONS

vs

Paris & Malmö
- how do they compare?

romantic Paris and
kebab town Malmö.
Is it so?
Malmö has a strong
sustainable agenda
made visible with
improved conditions
for pedestrians and
bikes
In paris the cars
dominate the
locomtive picture.
champs elysees - 6 lines of traffic cyclepaths connects the city

Malmö Paris Comparison
Points of conciousness in Malmö and Paris, by orientation and sites of interest. Dots: Stations with transfer. Symbols: Other Sites of interest.
#4

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Folkets Park, Möllevångstorget, Ystadsgatan/Södra Palais de Tokyo, Avenue Gustave Eiffel, Musée du quai Branly, Rue de la Pompe, Centre Pompi-
Malmö

Paris

Parkgatan, Svävarterminalen, Södervärn, Turning dou, Rue du Chevalier-de-La-Barre, Rue de Lyon, Parc André Citröen, Avenue Corentin-Cariou,
Torsoe, Rosengård Centrum, Pildammsparken, Rue d’Aligre, Mo Palais-Royal - Musée du Louvre, Rue Taitbout - Arc de Triomphe, Porte de
Gustav Adolfs Torg, Stora Torg, Lilla Torg, Malmö Vanves, Rue de Cotte, Rue de Grenelle, 56 rue Saint Blaise, Promenade Plantée, Villa Savoye,
Centralstation La Défense

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Mathias Kempton Roberto Ovalle
Miao Teng

Mapping Paris-London
time/space/intensity

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Paris is what happens when people move across its space.

CLAIMING TERRITORY
beautyfying the urban experience

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....or a question of surviving
and a strong will to create a life
- a space for oneself - in the city ?
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Miia-Liina Tommila Gaute Aas
Laura Ve

Time has become money. High speed is the right speed. Impressions of the big and professional
Grand Pari(s) exhibition in Paris the group was visiting in november 2009. Infrastructure and trans-
portation in an almost virtual world in and around paris. But what about nature and the time it takes to
grow and change. Is it natural for humans to live and move in high speed.


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points of departure
-what informs your project?
The dynamics of small cultures
The term Points of Departure used as a planning tool is an invention made by 70°N/D&U for the competition entry The urban utopia created for Nordhavnen comprises a diversity of small cultures and programmes not easily
Excentral Park - Edge Dynamics, in the Nordhavnen competition, Copenhagen 2008/-9 - (though used by others attainable in usual developer-run processes. In the competition programme for Nordhavnen both Århusgade
with partly different meaning; - e.g. Henry Lefèbvre in Urban Revolution, as a theoretical starting point for analyzing and Fiskerihavnen are mentioned as ideal milieus one wants to preserve in the coming plan. In our strategy for
urban conditions; taking real life as the point of departure, (Lefèbvre, Critique of Everyday Life, Volume One)). Nordhavnen we insert small enclaves (sociotopes) of free, imaginative and provocative structures to be established
now, and continuously, - independent of the plan’s timelines. These Points of Departure can be seen as
The intention of the PoD is to confront the recent processes and ideas on urban planning and the strong belief embedded resistance and meaning in the future urban fabric. The coming urban structure has to embrace and
in making long-term and rigid images of urban development structures. It is an attempt to define urban planning meet these programs in the same way as the Barcelona Cerda-plan is dispersed in the meeting with the old village
as something more than urban design. By creating and defining the Points of Departure we are investigating and of Gracia, and Paris’ Haussmann axes deviate when meeting ‘les buttes’ (aux Cailles/Montmartre). Strategically
looking for entries to a process and a project that contains a sort of otherness, -but which are strongly connected to
this is a new way to establish constructive resistance in large urban projects, learning from historical urban
the situation and the landscape. The PoDs could represent an open attitude to the imbedded information there is,
renewal processes.
and lift the importance of weak voices and small cultures (see previous texts).

In the Nordhavnen competition the PoDs were a reaction to the programme invitation to make plans for a period Complex, dynamic fields of life forms and accumulated knowledge exist on several levels in Copenhagen and its
of 50-60 years. Instead of creating a fixed urban fabric for the future, we opened for a long-term strategy of region. Through such action this may evolve into a sustainable voice in the urban development process, and at the
adaptation, changeability, resistance from nature and culture, and in general; -a planning strategy of elasticity. same time disturb a unilateral and defined developer-run process and imprint it with new meaning. This evidently
In addition to the physical information we find, the cognitive aspects of the situation open for a comprehensive is true for those people who through time will settle in the area, but also for those landscape structures and events,
approach, e.g.: -the historical relevance of the site, -the idea for an ideal urban life, -the context of neighbours and which will be initiated. In planning terms it represents the importance of weaker economies and voices that, allowed
inhabitants and so on. to work on all timescales in Nordhavnen, representing an archipelago of formative opportunities in a constructive
resistance to all linear development. This gives us the possibility to create what the voices of the citizens express
Creating PoDs is an exercise in investigating the hidden possibilities in a situation, -for making a starting point and as: ‘No-regulation Zones’, ‘Use temporary functions and features’, ‘A bit rough, messy and unpolished, it would be
an entry to the plan and the project, and finally create a consciousness about; -what informs your project? great to be able to plan the unpolished’, ‘The unexpected is attractive’.

Urban woods
From the competition text to the (70°N/D&U) entry; Exentral Park - Edge Dynamics, describing the use of PoDs in In preserved places within a demarcation one invites to tree planting. This might be initiated somehow as a land
art experience from the start and provides a possibility for the inhabitants of Copenhagen to acquire a physical
Nordhavnen:
and mental belonging to Nordhavnen. In the later urban development the woods planted will yield resistance in
the structures and become programmatic crossings. The urban woods of Nordhavnen will belong to the mythical
Points of Departure / PoDs - Activating the Field narrative constituting the identity of Nordhavnen from the beginning.
Activating the Field is to create a ‘hyper responsive milieu’ where it is possible to leave an imprint - something
that one can return to, charge with energy and follow in time.
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In citizen meetings, quoted in the competition programme, strong wishes arose: ‘Nordhavn might become the green
part of town’, or as a field which ‘one might set aside for experimentation’.
In a demarcation of fields and lines, an urban farming and gardening strategy can be explored with two options:
Cleaning the infected ground over time and establishing temporal, seasonal large scale qualities in the global field
Nordhavnen - gardens of urban delight. Both Excentral Park and the delimited fields for built-up structures will
in time be introduced for intermediate actions, landscapes and programmes that due to its quality might give a long
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The five keys from #2 Imbedded Information

instigation: Parallell Society
challenge: Domestic Temporality
resource: Hidden Competence
empowerment: Identity of Education

mythos: Price of Migration

The dynamics in a Forest Garden works in the
same manner as in a natural ecosystem. The task
in Rosengård is to increase the capacity of social
and environmental carachter, by strengthening
the interaction between the inhabitants. This
cooperation includes the relationships between
the people, the buildings and the environment.
Competences and qualifications are the nutriences
that flow in this system. Universal and low tech: the
Forest Garden concept opens up for the possibility
of all the five key elements.
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points of departure
Dreaming of
Rosengård:

a neigh-
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identity,
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and the
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new hierarchies imbedded information
“man acts upon the world and

elasticity
change it, and is in turn
changed by the consequences
of his actions”
Skinner, 1977

dynamics of small cultures

decomposing laboratory icon
the borderland of malmö can the borderlands can a new urbanity
where to go? may seem of low value and be a laboratory for become the future
monotonous - however, future existance? icon of Malmö?
breaking it up can reveal -food production
numerous properties hidden -bio diversity
of the obvious. How can
specific interventions
influence this landscape?

finding hidden beuty
image from alotment gardens in
the malmö borderland

78 Zlatan Dikic Roberto Ovalle 79
Herman Hammer Kolbjørn Haug Miao Teng Kuo-Chen Mo

points of departure
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DISTANCE / TIME / MEMORY
In order to make this area accessible to be
claimed by the Malmö population, it must be made
habitable for people, both travelling and staying. Farmland
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3: HIDDEN TREASURES 4: MONOTONY

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80 Stine Fyrde Nilsen Tove Patterson Martin Johannes Sverdrup Mathias Kempton 81
Ragnhild Roald Christian Røren Gaute Aas

vulnerability
This text is written with the possible vulnerability of the event taking place in Copenhagen in December, the United conditions. When this information is put together, a new geography is revealed, a geography where vulnerability
Nations Climate Conference in my mind – be aware. comes in the foreground. This cartography spans from the local to the international. Researchers enter this
geography from different disciplines, with different tools, traditions and interest. Vulnerability mapping and
Vulnerability is one of the basic conceptions of survival. It is an aggregate measurement that indicates susceptibility assessments are produced in all sectors of society. They are made to provide decision makers with necessary
to be harmed. Vulnerability is an intimate term in the sense that it is rooted in deep human experiences. At the knowledge to protect and strengthen vulnerable social, economic and natural systems.
same time it applies to systems of all scales from the smallest biotope to global systems, on all categories and all
sectors of society. It floats through language, adapting content from the given context and it always occurs with When the impact from climate change and variations becomes manifest, it comes on top of already existing
specific sets of associations borrowed from the context it appears in. stresses, interacts with them and makes them worse. As the insight of climate change began to make its presence
throughout the 1990s, vulnerability assessments began to focus on vulnerability in relation to environmental
Architecture and planning interacts with a wide range of disciplines. As an architect you need to get an overlook, changes combined with socio-economic vulnerability of individuals and groups.
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 IPCC’s 4 report from 2007, provides an overview on the geography of vulnerability under climate change. Here they
to be touched by it. Only rarely something floats up, an image, a story, and moves us. We know too much and it use a specific definition on the term vulnerability in relation to adaptive capacity:
does not exist. But in the undercurrent of this flow of information it is possible to find people, experts on their field, Adaptive capacity is the ability of a system to adjust to climate change (including climate variability and extremes)
researchers, humanitarian workers and artists that lend their eyes and voice to for us invisible people. You have to moderate potential damages, to take advantage of opportunities, or to cope with the consequences.
all done discoveries on the web, and we have shared with you our findings through the texts we have introduced. Vulnerability is the degree to which a system is susceptible to, and unable to cope with, adverse effects of climate
These observations and findings can bring the dynamics of wast theoretical fields and actions within range, change, including climate variability and extremes. Vulnerability is a function of the character, magnitude, and rate
opening up for a possible cartography of vulnerability – a discovery. of climate change and variation to which a system is exposed, its sensitivity, and its adaptive capacity.

In mosaic::region, we related to vulnerability issues in this way: The impacts of climate change have big regional variations, but are registered in the whole biosphere. Developing
Vulnerability mapping is a part of our anti-generic mindset where plurality and diversity is crucial, and where the countries, those who have contributed least to the co2 emissions, are worst affected by the consequences. Large
mosaic’s unique strength is to be grown and processed. This applies of course the maintenance and protection of a and growing populations are climate refugees. The human potential of entire regions is used up in a daily fight
diverse nature, but it applies just as fully to the Sociotopes of different origins that are vulnerable to economical and for survival. When a country is preoccupied to tackle drought, flood, famine and conflict, it loses the creative
political pressure and change. In both cases, it is all about strengthening by linking together and open up for expression of entire generations and the potential to work their way out of poverty and bring the world forward.
new opportunities, rather than to preserve.
Vulnerable potentials for change
Through a hyper mapping of the super normal the survey answers with a flexible and evolving strategy, where the The concept of vulnerability has a built-in appeal to do something about a situation; it is a concept that mobilizes
vulnerable, first and foremost are protected by active intervention, and not primarily through boundaries. into action. This makes it a political tool. It is implicit that if something is highlighted as vulnerable, it is entitled to
some form of protection. How this call for action are received, the ways decision makers relate to the information,
Vulnerability is the new Geography will be dominant in terms of priorities. In planning and politics there will always be overlapping interests and needs
While the vulnerability on the personal level is universal, the geography of vulnerability is specific. Stresses and in relation to territory and economy. When resources are under pressure, sector interests will impact on priorities
resources are unequally distributed. Global forces and local dynamics interact and produce varying regional and policy guidelines. Vulnerable landscapes often end up as the loosing part in priorities.
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National states do not only attempt to protect their territory, population and production, but also the global systems
that they feed on. If those systems are based on global injustice it is inevitable that they have negative impact in
other regions of the world. Energy conflicts are an example of this: All big military and political conflicts from First
World War up to now have been related to the control of the world’s oil-reserves. (Ryggvik). A system that is not
sustainable will over time become vulnerable. Biological, social, economic, technical and cultural systems overlap
and affect each other in structural dependencies. Many of the systems we are dependent on are unsustainable,
and as a consequence the vulnerability of communities and ecosystems increases.

vulnerability
Decision makers are often ignorant to undercurrents in society as opportunities to redefine the future. When
processes are closed, structured and formalized, the experimental and not yet displayed potentials are ruled out. It
is crucial to open up and create a reception apparatus for vulnerable initiatives as potentials for change.
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We need to find the ideas that is in the making, under the surface, the things that we don’t yetn it
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new directions, to meet future challenges which can only be met through a hitherto unseen dynamism and flexibility
in planning, international cooperation and development.

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From Depleated Soil to Forest Garden
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Forest gardening is much more efficient and elastic than traditional agriculture. A Forest Garden maintains itself -no ploughing, no use of chemical fertilizers
or pesticides. It is a 10 times more efficient food producer than a traditional field. The role of the human is to design the forest. This aquires skills about the
layers of a forest garden, water harvesting, enhanced use of animals, food harvesting and food preparation. If the buildings are considered to be natives in
the forest as well, there are numerous amounts of interesting behaviours they could take on, for instance serving as water suppliers for the forest garden .

Water Use 183 litre/person/day 151,5 litre/person/day Vattenver- vacuum
rainwater greywater
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Kristian Bekkenes Tone Berge

Rosengård
is a place
where identity
and sense of
community are
being redefined

vulnerability
everyday.

As a community
with a strong
migrant presence,
Rosengård is a
thermometer for
natural and
cultural
vulnerability
around the world.
Rivers and streams
rural and urban biotopes
at risk
t Human activity
threatens the
dynamics of
which the
waterways
watercollection
function as
area of
biotopes. This
Risebergabäcken
results in
flooding and
erosion.

Running trough hard urban surfaces for Create a parklike landsacpe
FOSIE
more permeable surfaces. along the stream that can
Industrial site; area inbetween rural
The capacity is a maximum of 1,5 litres of handle flood
and urban Malmö, surrounded by
water running into the stream per minute key words:
heavy infrastructure.
per hectar. In heavy rain the numbers today erosion control
Penetrated by the stream
are 10 times this measure. constructed floodsones
Risebergabäcken.
The city aims to create several wetland storm water management
areas working as absorbants for excess biodiversity
water (green spots in map) rainwater harvesting
86 Zlatan Dikic Roberto Ovalle 87
Kolbjørn Haug Martin Johannes Sverdrup

charging the landscape with new energy
“The Landscape is not focussed until it becomes “necessary” to do so, and in this respect is not prepared In the article A journey through the picturesque (2003), Iñaki Àbalos and Juan Herreros, observes the landscape
for the future. The present map proposes to develop a new legend that seeks to enlighten the shadow. in the periphery of the city, unprotected landscapes that have been influenced by the city growth before urbanity
The landscape must be prepared for and resist the next leap by remaining the superior space in an has appeared:
unforeseeable future. This will force an aesthetics which will have to operate on a large scale, and which They are formerly degraded zones, endowed with a new urbanity by the gaze of new social subjects. Look at
must deal with more temporal than the constructed world.” the wasteland beyond the outer suburbs; look at the way almost all the emerging forms of socialization have
been constructed in them (although – or precisely because- they are degraded territories). We are tempted to
Knut Eirik coined the term “charging the landscape with new energy” for the first time in the international idea ask whether they might contain a metaphoric model, or whether it is possible to think of it of their complement,
competition “The Helsinki Tampere Visions” in 1993, where the matter of concern from the Finnish government de–edification, given that the term” wasteland” embodies a fascinating concept: land that has lost its
was: How can we avoid irreversible damage to land and landscape by the creation of the planned TGV track attributes before the approach of the city, that is sterilized as the occupation proceeds, but also given a
between Helsinki and Tampere? The term has proved itself sustainable, has followed our practice and entered the transcendental role in its new context. We ask ourselves whether architecture could be constructed the same
idea universe which we share with Gisle, Magdalena and a wide range of collaborating partners, including you. way.
In a discussion of the origin and interpretations of the term, I asked him: “Was it a new mental relation to the
landscape you were referring to back in 1993?” To see the landscape as foreground means to examine the ecosystems opportunities for survival through human
KED: “The concept emerged during a four days slow journey Nils and I did into the strangest, forgotten paths and intervention. With this background we entered the Øresund region with the mosaic::team.
places between the two cities. The Suomi summer was really hot,+ 30 °C, and Nils took these stunning beautiful
photos of disappearing landscapes that were absolutely not in the searchlight of those forces planning the TGV. When we are ‘charging a landscape with new energy’ and discussing ‘the producing landscape’, we are in a
The ultimate speed compresses the landscape, and we asked ourselves whether it was possible at all to establish, discourse in a larger time range, in a larger common scale between the two countries in the region. We open
in this landscape, a mental condition through interventions which could define entire scenarios in this field for future up for discourse in an era in history where imbalance is a recognition, as planning institutions of all types are
use –preparing the landscape for what is to come, so to speak. The human activities which to the present had challenged to act on. The tableau of change generated by our visits in the future underlines the need for new types
shaped it were in a process of change and apparently constituting disappearing mental landscapes.” of collaborations between hegemonic institutions both in the region and in the wider European field. At the same
(In an even warmer August of 1993 Gisle helped KED putting together the water colour collages for this competition time we are deep into the mosaics inner life and discusses examples that strengthen the line of thought.
and then stated: I have never seen anything like this!)
These three different Works is based on various indepth research and slow hyper-observational journeys, as
A very slow progress from Helsinki to Tampere along this walking line is a mental quest to gain understanding you now are deeply into. I have made a cartography of your concepts and discoveries, and charged the Malmö
about cultural change. Theoretically it leads toward the Arctic Sea, touching a landscape which the future should land and cityscape with your research, as I observe it. This cartography is only tentative and should be seen as a
be able to investigate as such; it is all about how to recirculate the uniqueness of this nature, which is both challenge for you all to create a challenging common “ tableau of change”. The blog contains research that can
exhaustible and vulnerable. With a view to a near future it is uncertain where Helsinki ends and Tampere begins charge this kind of reconsidering and remapping of Malmö; A new Malmö Legend.
--’one arrives before spotting the city.
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The new energy is first and foremost your own research and discoveries, and positively you can read them that ”new malmöers” are representing 12 - 60 % of the population in every township. At least 38 nations are
together as systems of informational exchange (G. Bateson). What you do in your projects is in fact to charge the represented in each township by more than 10 persons. Centrum got inhabitants from 94 different nations. The nation
landscape. Ask yourselves; “What is my discovery?” How can a new interpretation of the landscape penetrate that is biggest represented in one township, is Irak with 2881 persons.
the linear understanding of development? How can resistance be transformed into an offensive, as a necessary Encircling the city of Malmö and being a visitor that see all the different townships by foot, by cycle, by buss, I find
deviational act. As I discussed related to the offensive and creative understanding of vulnerability? How do you expressions of different social layers, different life situations and different ways of living. But, I can’t see, and I cant
prepare the landscape for future potential impacts, how do you open for new type of dynamics? Adaptation to stop wondering, where does the diversity, richness and potential of all the new malmöers come to expression?
climate change has obvious become a key challenge of this image at large (The COP 15 is very soon taking place
By using Knut Eiriks formulation “ Does she speak Arabic?”, I wonder...
in Copenhagen). A quotation from Mathias et al, introducing a contrary logic, can underline this charging of Malmö
”Where is her cultural treasure expressed?”
with new energy: “Through a series of evocative actions the hidden qualitative layers of the site is examined. In this
”How is her cultural treasure expressed?”
way the monoprogramatic appearance of the site is questioned”.
”When is her cultural treasure expressed?”
And to end this charger with Borges: “Almost immediately, reality collapsed at several points - the truth is that
it wanted to give way “.
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So our dear friend Christer; Can you elaborate on your thinking, your planning strategies, your innovations end
explorations into the migrant, the stranger, as a force in the appearing Malmö?

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It is a tricky question and can´t been answered so precise, I mean we have a lot of positive effects from foreign
cultures in Malmö. A lot of new restaurants, a lot of new shops etc, many of the small shops has been closed if not
immigrants decided to run it. We also have a lot of cultural events and I also believe that the Malmöer have been
24 NOVEMBER 2009 much more open minded than before.
We have a big challenge in our comprehensive planning, one idea is to engage all the citizens in the process so how
Malmö Voices, dialogue with Christer Larsson, urban planning director of Malmö #3
is that possible, one way is to reach the younger people through f ex new media. We know that there is a lot of thing
KED and Tove Helen asks, in question 3 going on in music and media and will try to find and engage them. Malmö has also been famous fore the rap-music f
Does she speak Arabic? ex Timbuktu.
This question is related to my reaction when you presented us to one of your young colleges, working with the migrant Integration is really a difficult issue and the key question is the labor market, it so essential that all people will have the
communities in Malmö. opportunity to have a daily work to be integrated and learn the language.
And I asked; does she speak Arabic? A question you said you have thought a lot about afterwords. In a lecture at I also believe that it is a long process of hard work in many issues at the same time and it´s not easy. My goal is that
Harvard this spring an Indian researcher said that the global quality of a city is to be measured on how she (the city) Malmö should be a multicultural and cosmopolitical city in a positive way, we will see. One way is to combine special
treats the migrant. Our students have been exploring Malmö and done discoveries in this field, they have visited Paris planning and social economy, f ex to work with connections engagement and dialogue in our Dialogue-PM, you can
and done comparative studies and observations. I asked one of our students to enter into this question to you, and see this PMs on our web.
she wrote (before we travelled to Paris): We mustn´t forget that our welfare was created by immigrants during the 60ths were we had a lack of workers in
Europe´s industry and needed to import Italians, Yugoslavs etc, don’t forget that.
I see the numbers, where are the facts? I also suggest that you goes to Möllevångstorget next time, it is an exciting square with a lot of commerce.
Visiting Malmö through the internet, I got to know that people from 171 different nations live in the city. These people
represent almost 40 % of all ”malmöers”. Getting to know Malmö by diving in to the world of statistics, I understand LABELS: #4 / DYNAMICS OF SMALL CULTURES, / MALMÖ VOICES, / TEACHERS’ TALK
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charging.. / ﬁnal project
Existing seabed

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The Greening of Rosengård and the MIllion Programme Existing green typologies
A New Understanding of the Garden
#7 #7
public park

liminal zones

neighbourhood garden


private gardens

allotment gardens
private gardens

Million Programme (1965-1974)
and The Greening of Rosengård

The Million Programme was conducted neighbourhood gardens
by the Swedish government as a strategy
to deal with housing shortage. I million
apartments were built within the period
of 10 years. Most of the apartments were
standard three room apartments of 75 m2,
intended for a family of two adults and two
children. Rosengård is physically structured
How can the lesson the ecology gives direct how to act with the buildings? as a prime example of the modernist idea,
Original Layers in a Forest Garden but the social structure in Rosengård has
1. climax forest over a long period of time suffered from
2. understory trees instability.
3. shrubs and bushes
4. herbatious plants The Greening of Rosengård is a Forest homes for forest gardeners
5. ground cover Plants Garden Program run by a resource
6. climbers agency that partners with federal, state
and local agencies, corporations and
foundations. Through tree planting The Greening of Rosengård
Additional Layers in The Greening of Rosengård projects and educational programs it assists
7. the human -the designer neighborhoods, schools and individuals in neighbourhood gardens with grey water cells
8. ducks, chickhen, worms, insects their efforts to improve the ecosystem and
9. constructed wetland with subsurface irrigation produce food in Rosengård. school garden
10. wet compost
The Greening’s mission is to guide and inspire soil preparation site
others to create a ‘greener’ Malmö through
planting and educational programmes homes for urban farmers
environmental leadership, advocacy, and by public park
Any of these layers are necessary for a healthy soil. building community capacity. Public park with educational purpose -the park has a connected pathway between the train
station Persborg to Herregården, the resource centre for “The Greening of Rosengård.”
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Harvesting The capacity of waste KEEP
Exhisting wood kept and further developed.
picture shows present “woodstock”
-retain water
-slows evaopration

wasteland ADD
Risebergabäcken 500 m
covering critical erosion
point by creating a lake about
can improve biodiversity 3,5 - 4 hectars
Vulnerability assessement of Fosie and serve as retention
Fosie is subjected to flooding, a target for the city of Malmø. basin

Excess waterlevels are thought to be related to environmental 150 m
changes of which Fosie has lacking adapting capacity to
15 m
comprehend. Attributes and spatial identifications of the area
are approached to increase the adapting capacity for water. CHANGE
flood control sone
2m
bank stabilisation - plants
erosion control

alotments

pathways
retention

resource
culturte
perma-

centre
wood/
basin

trees
Fredriksberg/Fosie
The water collection area of Risebergabäcken in
-a fragmentet picture Fosie is 330 hectars (outlined in blue).
According to Malmö city Risebergabäcken has
a capacity of 1,5 litres of water per hectar per
Chasing the wasteland, harvesting it`s possibillities
Wasteland minute. However, in wet periods the stream rev- The flooding as well as the suggested architectural steps, effects landowners, puplic
leftovers eives over 15 litres per hectar per minute, more management, businesses, the prison, kindergartens and schools as well as
vacuum - heavily present than 10 times the estimated capcity!
individuals. Through the involment of the above mentioned, incorporating biological,
inbetween spaces social, economic, technical and cultural systems, new structures can emerge
searching for meaning As a consequence Risebergabäcken can reveive
4500 litres more than its capacity every minute pinpointing possibilities waiting to be explored. New communication channels can
when very wet. Or 270 000 litres every hour. apear. Approaching Fosie as a mosaic structure while processing spatial interventions,
(Malmö city) new ways of understanding can be discovered. As such the development of waterways
establishes new meeting points. Directly - by making space accessible, secondly by
inviting the community to participate rather than have the roll of a passive audience.
A demanding process - no doubt, as it involves many different sectors and individuals
with different goals and focus points. It’s a challenge - daring the planners, architects
Wasteland Prison and the users of Fosie to step out of their own enclosed hierarchies to be active par-
Farmed land Alotment gardens
ticipants in the search to prevent flooding. Through flexibility and evolving strategies,
spatial interventions can provide participation and approaches nor yet identified. It is
Trees Riding facility we shall not cease from exploration an approach to meet the demands of environmental changes with solutions and
and the end of all our exploring
Water Hard surfaces will be to arrive where we started consciences beyond water management alone;
Newly developed and know the place for the first time. - unforeseen result of harvesting wasteland
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I say:
Lets rethink the specialization of our cities.
That’s the only way to bring the concept of the
ecological footprint out of abstraction and into
experienced reality. If we see, hear and feel
the ecology which we are an integrated part
of, our actions will not be detached from their
effects.

Using local resources is not only sustainable
at a practical level, it also has a level of
meta-sustainabiltiy; encouraging us to act
sustainable. Fosie Industriby
104 Mathias Kempton 105

Malmö has been changed to a bicycle dominant city. New hierachies in urban structure is changing. With

with the bicycle system which will be consummated and enhanced in 10 years.

106 Miao Teng 107

Face-lift do Möllevången attractive !
The most colorful district in Malmö. The market trade is lively here
and the shops and restaurants have roots all over the world.
Möllevången was the first planned, large-scale working class neigh-
borhood in Malmö and the result of the growing industrial city in the
late 19th century.
The labor movement gained tremendous influence here. The work-
er’s newspaper Arbetet and the cooperative association Solidar were
founded in Möllevången, which was also the site of the first Folkets
Park (“Community Park”) in Sweden.

Möllevången’s Surrounding
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.

Möllevången is a high density district, and therefore people have so few open space for public use. Besides “Malmö
Folkets 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”.
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.

Master Plan Master Plan Terms & Ultimate Purpose

Crossing Corporation
Corporate with different business or industries to
get the crossing corporation. The 1st step can com-
bine with banks, make some fair-trade deal with
each other.
Promote the Co-Branded Card for increasing and
inviting people to come to Möllevången, when peo-
ple who have the “Möllevången Attrativa Card” can
have discount in most consumption in Möllevången
area. Besides, people can also have discount in
taking the city bus by use this card.

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Stine Fyrde Nilsen

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Rosengård invites you to take a walk through the corridor...
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Tove Patterson

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INNER RINGROAD NATURE INC. INVERTED MAP
GULLVIKS-
SKOLAN AGNESFRIDS
GYMNASIUM
OF MOVINGTHROUGH INDUSTRIAL LAND
FREDRIKSBERG
ÖSTRA HAMNEN JUNCTION
ALLOTTMENTS

CHURCH

MALMÖ
FOLKEHÖGSKOLA

ÔRESTADS
RYTTER-
FÔRENING

FOSIE FREDRIKSBERG GÅRD
INDUSTRIBY

PRISON
KUNGSHÖGEN

CENTRAL LOCATION
reachable in 30 min by bike
POINTS OF INTEREST

FOSIE
park DENSIFYBY D E N S I F Y B Y
BUILDING PLANTING OPENING UP
agriculture
Increase hight New connection Claim open area
CITYLIMIT/ unbuilt Infill Cleans soil
Plant forest
OXIE SUBURB Parking houses Infill/onfill Public
densify by planting Shared ground
fascilities
densify by building

TOTAL AREA keep open
4,36 km2 Seasonal change
CIT
Y/
PE
A

RIP
SE

HER
PE

Y
RO

DENSIFICATION ZONES
EU

MAIN INFRASTRUCTURE
8,3 km surrounding road
PE
RO
EU

establishing the shrubbery some singular trees tall, singular trees
new landscape low trees low, compact forest low forest
Optaining CO2 in the process of growth composting trees release CO2,
3/5 HARD SURFACE existing alley which is obtained in fungi and
microorganisms
2,53 km2 = 58%
birch alley timeline

5 years

15 years

30 years

50 years
existing bike path
2/5 PERMEABLE SURFACE
new experiences

100 years
forest trail
2,53 km2 = 42%
new path sunflower
rapeseed
poppies

1/5 ROOFS forest
lavendar

possible reduction cleansing the soil
NEW CONNECTIONS annual changes in the landscape the ground is prepared for unknown interventions

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Christian Røren

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n Johannes Sverdrup 121

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2 Miia-Liina Tommila 123

: The growing
blue green
corridors and
transforming
squares
: points of
importance
: bus-connecting
stations
: recipients of
runoff downtown

1 situation one :
: new cityline
: important buffer situa-
tion for cleansing runoff
: spaces in the city
Møllevångstorget, the marketplace. Important location ideal for transformation
: wide alley ideal for bufferzone
in Malmø due to many layers of activity.Main traffic- : wide car-streets ideal for
lane; several bus-lines passes. Close by is the second transformation

most important bus-connecting station, after the cen-
tral station.Meltingpot; the experience of the cultural
diversity of Malmø is very accessible here.
2 situation2 :
Møllevångens skola, childrens school
close to the most important park in Malmø.

A location suitable for introducing a neighbourhood
urban garden project where neighbours and the children
in the school together with the passersby can share
a daily experience and interaction in a “garden of
delight”-environment.
3 situation3 :
3 2
Large parkingspace behind Triangelen shoppingmall. Be-
1 comes a new square and a very important location in
Malmø when the cityline (fastrail underground connec-
tion between Centralstation and Øresunds bridge is fin-
ished. Situation today pays little honour to the church
situated here.

124 Laura Ve 125

Step 1: Finding water/ponds in
the landscape
Øresund
Øresund 1,0 hectare

2,0 hectare
1,0 hectare

1,0 hectare
Malmø
0,75 hectare

4,0 hectare 1,5 hectare
0,5 hectare
0,5 hectare
Examples of ponds in the traditional
agricultural landscape
1,5 hectare
SEARCHING FOR WATER
Floating landscape over the
Øresund Øresund
Risabergabacken as an open Ringroad
1,0 hectare
This project was developed i d

1,0 hectare installation under the highway.
three steps. First step was to
Ponds located in the outer city Leading the way out in the
locate water/ponds in the outer
zone of Malmø open landscape.
new line structures in the city and

develop green structures, as an
new rout in the city. By combin-
Step 2: Finding the city ing these new green structures
and the ponds/water located, a
transformation of the landscape
took place.

Old pond. Not active. Have little
for developing new
Local structures (lines) are making New ecological food effect on the surrounding landscape
hous- products.
new meeting (green) spaces. ing.
To
prevent
sprawl.
er/
ov
gs ay
ssin hw
cro e hig
green structures and water/ ponds. w
Ne er th
d
un

Breaking trough the global
structure ( Ring road )

For producing Restored pond. Increasing its
ecological food.
effect on the surrounding landscape
Ring road

Case study area includes a Streams
landscape around the ring road and ponds
where strong interests for
urban development and different
in the land-
nature- landscape conservation scape
interests are meet. The area is
located in the east of Malmö city, Ponds
where the outer city zone meets
the rural area with strong
agriculture traditions.

Water structures are giving life to a sustainable agriculture.
New ecological landscape Landscape to develop Landscape to explore Transforming the landscape
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Tov
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ov el yb 10 25 47 50 69 77 98 the power of people connecting
He ma
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Herman Hammer
e an amme mm 26 44 51 69 78 100 healing the industrial wounds
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Kolbjørn Haug au
a 26 43 52 69 86 102 harvesting wasteland
78 102
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Mathias Kempton
athia emp on
athia empton
ias mpton
m 11 28 46 53 70 81 104 input - output
104
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I would prefer not to, article by Iñaki Abalos, from Natural Metaphor: Architectural Papers III Miao eng
Miao Teng eng
n 12 29 45 70 79 106 malmö bicycle
106
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Kuo Ch
Kuo-Ch n Mo
Kuo-Chen Mo
u Ch 27 45 52 70 79 108 facelift
108
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Theory, Practice and Landscape, conversation between Stan Allen and Florian Sauter, from Natural Metaphor: St
Stine Fyrd Nil en
Stine Fyrde Nilsen
ti Fy yr i
il n 30 47 110 cognizance wetland park
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al 13 31 45 54 112 urban life corridor
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Tove Patterson
ov
ov Patters
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att
t 32 47 114 a walk in the park
4
When Beauty arrived in town, conversation between the mosaic::team and Carola Wingren. Published (in swedish) Ragnhi
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Ragnhild Roald
a hi h d 13 32 43 54 71 80 116 inverted map of moving
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at http://mosaic-region.no/skugglandskap.html Ch t an
Ch stian R ren
Christian Røren
a re 10 33 44 72 80 118 leaking parks
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Martin Joha nes Sverdrup
Martin Johannes Sverdrup
i s rd upu 14 33 43 55 72 81 87 120 landscape tactics
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Walking in the City, Part III - Spatial Practices, The Practice of Everyday Life by Michel de Certeau Mi Liin omm la
Mi a-Liin Tomm l
Miia-Liina Tommila
iia-L omm 34 46 55 122 the secret life of möllevången
2
Lau
Lau a Ve
Laura Ve 15 35 44 124 growing green veins
4
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Gau e Aas
aute Aas a 35 43 56 126 transforming the landscape
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Losing control, keeping desire, by Doina Petrescu from Architecture & Participation

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Journey through the Picturesque (a Notebook), by Iñaki Àbalos and Juan Herreros, from AA manual

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Excentral Park - Edge Dynamics, winning entry for Nordhavnen, Copenhagen, 2008, by 70°N/D&U

128 129

Thanks to:

Johanne Løgstrup and Nis Rømer, publik, Copenhagen
(www.publik.dk)

Carola Wingren and Sabina Jallow, SLU, Alnarp

Christer Larsson, Urban Planning Director, Malmö

Doina Petrescu and Constantin Petcou, atelier
d’architecture autogerée (aaa), Paris
(www.urbantactics.org)

Municipality of Malmö

BAS library

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