ArkDes Think Tank

Konferens 2021: Gestaltad livsmiljö och demokrati

I år fyller demokratin i Sverige 100 år. På årets heldagskonferens som går av stapeln den 14 oktober undersöker vi olika aspekter av demokratin i relation till gestaltad livsmiljö från teman som invånares delaktighet, föreningslivets framväxt, hur våra offentliga miljöer utvecklas, vem som påverkar vad som byggs, förändras och rivs, och representationen i det vi bevarar.

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Rapporten “Livskvalitet i tid och rum”

Ta del av rapporten Livskvalitet i tid och rum, ArkDes årliga uppföljning av Politik för gestaltad livsmiljö. I rapporten presenteras bland annat en helt ny undersökning av allmänhetens syn på det byggda samt intervjuer med forskare och praktiker. Här formuleras utmaningar, möjligheter och medskick som kan bidra till att politikens mål blir verklighet.

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Enligt det svenska målet för arkitektur, form och design ska all gestaltning bidra till ett hållbart, jämlikt och mindre segregerat samhälle med omsorgsfullt gestaltade livsmiljöer. Alla människor ska ges goda förutsättningar att påverka utvecklingen av de gemensamma rummen. Men hur tar vi oss dit? Är samhället på rätt väg?

Samverkansarbete inom Politik för gestaltad livsmiljö

Boverket, Riksantikvarieämbetet, ArkDes och Statens konstråd samverkar för att skapa en arena där alla intressenter kan ta del av expertkunskaper och goda exempel om arbetet inom gestaltad livsmiljö.

Som ett led i det arbetet arrangerar dessa myndigheter en årlig konferens. 2020 arrangerade de fyra myndigheterna en digital heldagskonferens den 3:e september med inspirerande nationella och internationella talare som gav teoretiska och praktiska exempel på samverkan för hållbara och kvalitetsdrivna projekt. Dessa projekt visar hur arkitektur, form, design, konst och kulturarv är effektiva och kraftfulla verktyg som bidrar till att lösa samhällsutmaningar och till att skapa livsmiljöer att vara stolta över.

På länken nedan hittar du länkar till samtliga filmer från konferenserna samt digitala verktyg kopplat till gestaltad livsmiljö från de fyra myndigheterna som kan hjälpa dig i ditt dagliga arbete.

Digitala verktyg

The Street Moves project is a solution to a wider national mission to drive the transformation of our streets. Using temporary interactive modules designed to respond to the specific needs of the street, local authorities or citizens can create space for play, urban agriculture, outdoor gyms, social hubs or anything else that brings life to the street.

During phase one of the project, which took place 2020–2021, Street Moves occupied streets in Stockholm, Gothenburg and Helsingborg. The module was designed by LundbergDesign and consists of an extensible wooden base plate, along with specially adapted parts that can contain everything from a charging station for a shared electric car and parking for electric scooters, to an outdoor gym, seating surfaces and urban agriculture. The Street Moves modules are formed in a design process based on participation and dialogue, to meet the needs of the location. Street Moves can be seen as a kind of intermediate stage, a semi-permanent solution, that makes it possible to begin the transformation of the streetscape immediately. This is a change that we all yearn for, one that is necessary as we develop our cities to meet future needs. It is a simple, cost-effective solution, a first step in bringing about a street structure where people are prioritised over cars.

The values and lessons generated in the first phase of Street Moves are now progressing to include more local authorities, and the authorities themselves, assisted by design expertise from ArkDes, can develop the modules to the specific needs of the location. At present Gothenburg, Helsingborg, Umeå and Stockholm are taking part. Do you work in a local authority and would like to be involved in changing the streetscape? It will soon be possible to register interest for taking part in the project!

Street Moves is led by ArkDes Think Tank and funded by Vinnova. If you have any questions about the project, please contact hej.thinktank@arkdes.se.

The Street Moves module on Hälsingegatan, Stockholm 2020. Photographer: Elsa Soläng

More about the project:
Street Moves Manual
Watch the Street Moves film here

Voices on the project:
The Guardian on Street Moves
Dagens Industri on Street Moves

Open call

In the spring of 2019, ArkDes Think Tank announced an open call for projects and funding totalling 1 million SEK with the aim of promoting practice-based research within architecture and design. The open call was directed at architects, designers, researchers, interior architects, artists, planning architects and landscape architects with an idea they wanted to develop.

Värm med spill, vattna med sol (“Heat with waste, water with the sun”)
(Blick Arkitektur, Esam AB, Svensk Aquaponik)
How can the city’s untapped resources be used to create more sustainable living environments? A biologist, a sustainability consultant and three architects work together in the project Värm med spill, vattna med sol to explore how roofs can be designed in the future. How can roofs combine new technology for solar cells, cultivation, stormwater management and waste heat with high architectural quality and cultural heritage values? The project will result in design concepts for three buildings in different districts of Stockholm: Östermalm, the Slakthus area and Högdalen.

Barns behov formar skolan – inkludering för framtidens lärmiljöer (“Children’s Needs Shape the School – Inclusion for Future Learning Environments”)
(Codesign, Codesign Research Studio and Save The Children)
In January 2020, the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) will become part of Swedish legislature, as will the article of the Convention that states that children must be involved in all decisions that concern them. This project, which will be conducted by Codesign, Codesign Research Studio and Save the Children, aims to develop methods for including children in the planning and design of school environments. Special focus will be placed on children with experience of stress and social vulnerability. The project will be conducted at Ekhammarskolan in Upplands-Bro and will result in tools and methods that will have lasting use after the project is completed.

(Utopia Arkitekter and Doberman)
Augmented Reality (AR) offers completely new opportunities for visualisation and feedback in urban development processes. By combining AR technology with structures for feedback, ideas and proposals from citizens, new forms of interaction and participation can emerge. Augmented Dialogue combines expertise within architecture, communication and technology. The aim is to use a creative design process to develop an app that can promote inspiring possibilities for co-creation and dialogue with citizens.

Mälarens lås – en associativ antologi om Stockholms potential (Mälaren’s Lock – An Associative Anthology on the Potential of Stockholm)
(Jägnefält Milton Arkitekter and Marie Birde)
Without the meeting of Lake Mälaren and the Baltic Sea, the city of Stockholm would not exist. Nevertheless, the city’s relationship with water has become increasingly distanced. This project aims to investigate how Lake Mälaren once again can become a genuine and vivid part of the urban environment. The history of Stockholm and the water that surrounds it will be reconstructed using a collection of historical material – everything from poems to comic strips and rumours – as well as the personal perspectives of the writers and artists who will be invited to contribute. A number of possible projects will be produced based on this research. All material will be collected in an anthology that spans past, present and a possible future.

Read more about the Open Call