Assembling public place (APP)
Person photo Dr Jonas Bylund
Department of Human Geography
Description:
The overall aim of the project Assembling Public Place is to map and explore the case of New Slussen as a territorial controversy with the urban assemblage-approach in urban theory combined with methods developed in Science and Technology Studies (STS) for mapping societal controversies. In the Swedish context, few proposed local area redevelopments have ever generated such an amount of public debate and mass-media coverage as the project to rebuild one of Stockholm’s iconic places, Slussen, through the proposed fundamental redesign labelled the New Slussen. The APP project will investigate the controversy concerning the New Slussen-project as an example of a territorial controversy, a specific type of constantly recurring dispute in societies, which fundamentally concern disagreements over the essential qualities, functions, and purposes of places, i.e. over what a specific place ‘really is’ and ‘should be’. APP is thus designed to find new ways of understanding the mutually formative interplay between humans and their environments.

It is a collaboration with Jonathan Metzger, KTH Royal Institute of Techology.
  
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Human Geography