{"id":30073,"date":"2025-05-08T11:44:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T09:44:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arkdes.se\/?post_type=project&p=30073"},"modified":"2025-11-06T11:17:57","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T10:17:57","slug":"fellowship-2020-katja-rosenlind","status":"publish","type":"project","link":"https:\/\/arkdes.se\/en\/projects\/fellowship-2020-katja-rosenlind\/","title":{"rendered":"ArkDes Fellowship 2020: Katja Rosenlind"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Intent and Effect: A Study of the Decision-Making Documents Behind the Redevelopment of Slussen.<\/p>\n

Katja Rosenlind is a curator and art historian with extensive experience in reviewing and editing planning documents that inform political decisions in urban development processes. During her fellowship, she studied the documents that preceded the decisions behind the redevelopment of Slussen. The project offers a deeper understanding of the language used by public authorities and its impact on how cities are shaped.<\/p>\n

The redevelopment of Slussen began as a technology-driven maintenance project, with the aim of securing funding to restore the 1935 construction, which had long been in disrepair. Only after a flood in the autumn of 2000 did the scope of the project expand. The need to release more water from Lake Mälaren to the Baltic Sea became more urgent, and after 2007, the project became increasingly focused on environmental and climate-related concerns. Until then, heritage values had weighed more heavily in the documentation than other potential values that could be developed on the site.<\/p>\n

The study was based on decision-making documents, minutes, opinions, and consultation responses. It reflected social trends and current issues on the political agenda, and how these evolved over time. It also illustrated how the wording of an assignment’s framework plays a key role in determining which values are prioritized. In policy research, the term “framing” is used to describe how a decision-making atmosphere is created—where certain actions are enabled and others excluded. In the case of Slussen, the focus in the documentation shifted from maintenance and preservation to environmental aspects and qualities of public space.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n

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Katja Rosenlind<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

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March 2020 \u2013 November 2020<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n \n

ArkDes Fellowship 2020: Our Living Environment<\/h2>\n \n

In 2018, the Swedish Parliament adopted the national policy Policy for Designed Living Environments (prop. 2017\/18:110) \u2197<\/a><\/em>, assigning ArkDes the task of strengthening knowledge about and increasing public interest in architecture, design, and form, and their importance for individuals and for sustainable societal development. ArkDes is also responsible for supporting the policy\u2019s implementation, following up on its impact, and proposing actions to promote its goals. The policy positions architecture and design as key tools in creating a more sustainable, equal, and inclusive society\u2014one in which all people have the opportunity to shape the public realm.<\/p>\n

The 2020 ArkDes Fellowship focused on the theme Our Living Environment<\/em>, attracting 75 applicants from across Sweden and internationally. Practitioners, researchers, artists, and communicators responded to an open call, and three fellows, Katja Rosenlind, Andrea Luciani, and Camilla Schlyter, were selected by an international jury for six-month residencies at ArkDes.<\/p>\n

Each project addressed the theme from different perspectives, identifying current challenges and possibilities in shaping our built environment. The ArkDes Fellowship offers space for practice-based research and supports the development of new knowledge that contributes to the future of sustainable, inclusive, and high-quality living environments.<\/p>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n

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