AKTION ARKIV 

Aktion Arkiv is an independent research group consisting of Sara Brolund de Carvalho, Maryam Fanni, Heidi Svenningsen Kajita, Jennifer Mack, Helena Mattsson, Meike Schalk and Svava Riesto. The collective was founded by Sara Brolund de Carvalho, Helena Mattsson and Meike Schalk in 2013 and expanded in 2021. The members are based in Stockholm, Copenhagen and Berlin.

Aktion Arkiv’s methods are based on collaborative formats, such as participatory action research, and simultaneously, these formats are also part of the dissemination of the research. They have developed participatory historical records through public actions that bring together diverse actors and a public around urban cultural, historical, and political issues by employing experimental research formats such as witness seminars, walks, films, re-enactments, collective time-space mappings and Forum Theater.


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AKTION ARKIV 

Aktion Arkiv is an independent research group founded in 2013 by researchers and architects Helena Mattsson, Meike Schalk and Sara Brolund de Carvalho. Since 2021(?) the group also includes Maryam Fanni, Jennifer Mack, Heidi Svenningsen Kajita and Svava Riesto. The members are based in Stockholm, Copenhagen and Berlin.

Aktion Arkiv’s methods are based on collaborative formats, such as participatory action research, and simultaneously, these formats are also part of the dissemination of the research. They have developed participatory historical records through public actions that bring together diverse actors and a public around urban cultural, historical, and political issues by employing experimental research formats such as witness seminars, walks, films, re-enactments, collective time-space mappings and Forum Theater.

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Witness seminar:
BiG at ArkDes

A witness seminar with the historical Swedish group Bo i Gemenskap/BiG which translates as Living in Community. BiG was founded around 1976 and consisted back then of ten members (all female), its purpose was to research, discuss and promote the concept of living in community, of spatial and chore sharing in a living situation. Their subject of inquiry is and was collective cohousing, collaborative housing and as it is often being referred to today; co-housing. They focused on a particular housing model which their name also references (The BiG model) which has been the base for around 50 co-houses in Sweden since the late seventies.
Participants: Ingela Blomberg, Kerstin Kärnekull, Gunilla Lundahl, Ann Norrby, Inga-Lisa Sangregorio and Sonja Vidén.

ArkDes (Swedish Center for Architecture and Design)
Funding: ArkDes
2019


Photo: Mariette Parling