https://aktionarkiv.cargo.site Aktion Arkiv Tue, 26 Nov 2024 14:52:10 +0000 https://aktionarkiv.cargo.site en https://aktionarkiv.cargo.site/Page-11-Solidarity-Report Tue, 26 Nov 2024 14:52:10 +0000 Aktion Arkiv https://aktionarkiv.cargo.site/Page-11-Solidarity-Report Publication:Solidarity Report - Two Witness seminars on Danish and Swedish Welfare Housing in Crisis This report documents the conversations that occurred during two seminars, “Caring for Plans: Narratives of the Parallel Society Package”, held at the Copenhagen Architecture Festival CAFx, October 17, 2021, and “Solidarity in Times of Repressive Politics: A Seminar on the Effect of the Concepts ‘Particularly/Vulnerable Areas’”, held at Folkets Husby, October 15, 2022, in the Stockholm suburb of Husby.Narratives about the “failure” of large-scale housing from the postwar decades are now guiding major physical, social, and economic changes in neighborhoods all over Europe. Denmark and Sweden have long been known for their welfare-state systems and benevolent housing policies. However, in recent years, both countries have enacted new national “anti-segregation” measures that call for major physical and social changes to neighborhoods built in the 1960s and 1970s. In these processes, the opinions of local communities and residents of the neighborhoods have seldom been heard. By workin with “witness seminars,” a method adopted from oral history, it is our aim to foreground residents’ perspectives and how they have enacted solidarity and collective resistance to these measures.Keywords: Housing, lived experience, crisis, affect, repressive politics, oral historyRead the full report here. <img width="1264" height="1788" width_o="1264" height_o="1788" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/740910c45e3f01458efbe0426747e5a40ec84c3d5e2de36d01e4c3f8a138b8b1/Screenshot-2024-11-26-at-15.35.43.png" data-mid="222441134" border="0" data-scale="55" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/740910c45e3f01458efbe0426747e5a40ec84c3d5e2de36d01e4c3f8a138b8b1/Screenshot-2024-11-26-at-15.35.43.png" /> https://aktionarkiv.cargo.site/Page-10-RHJ Fri, 02 Feb 2024 10:07:52 +0000 Aktion Arkiv https://aktionarkiv.cargo.site/Page-10-RHJ Journal article: ‘You can simply say no’: Narrating the effects and affects of Danish and Swedish housing in crisis Abstract: Narratives about the ‘failure’ of large-scale post-World War II housing are now guiding major physical, social, and economic changes in neighborhoods all over Europe. This is true even in Denmark and Sweden, which have long been known for their welfare states and benevolent housing policies. Today, however, both countries have enacted new national anti-segregation measures that call for major physical and social changes to neighborhoods built in the postwar era, even as the opinions of local communities and residents of such neighborhoods have been only sparsely heard—if at all. By working with the method ‘witness seminars’, we—as the research collective Aktion Arkiv— foreground residents’ perspectives and their collective resistance: the effects and affects of top-down changes. While sharing their lived experiences and actions, residents say that architects and planners can ‘simply say no’ and thereby refuse to participate in these actions. Keywords: Housing, lived experience, crisis, affect, repressive politics, oral historyRead the full article here. Published Jan 2024. <img width="1486" height="512" width_o="1486" height_o="512" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/9275b45a2d9292ad3dac8c6edb9f9f05f14f6a05138e4f825ce13b43727ddd16/Skarmavbild-2024-02-02-kl.-11.09.02.png" data-mid="203702413" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/9275b45a2d9292ad3dac8c6edb9f9f05f14f6a05138e4f825ce13b43727ddd16/Skarmavbild-2024-02-02-kl.-11.09.02.png" /> https://aktionarkiv.cargo.site/Page-1-solidarity-2022 Fri, 11 Aug 2023 09:01:12 +0000 Aktion Arkiv https://aktionarkiv.cargo.site/Page-1-solidarity-2022 Seminar: Solidarity in times of repressive politics – a seminar on the effects of the concepts “especially/vulnerable areas” Panelists:&nbsp; -Marlen Eskander, social antropologist, executive director and founder of Läsfrämjarinstitutet, -Beata Hemer, architect and member of the association Initiativet for Retfærdig Boligpolitik/Almen Modstand and&nbsp;Almen Arkiv, Danmark. -Ilhan Kellecioglu, researcher and active member of Ort till Ort and author of “Rapport inifrån Hemblahelvetet”-Marie Northroup, antropologist and member of the association Initiativet for Retfærdig Boligpolitik/Almen Modstand and Almen Arkiv, Danmark. -Nazem Tahvilzadeh, political scientist and researcher. Moderator: Maryam Fanni Panel discussion + poster exhibition at Folkets HusbyFunded by ARQ c/o White AB – Foundation for architecture research&nbsp;and FFNS Foundation for research, development and educationOctober 2022 <img width="3297" height="2158" width_o="3297" height_o="2158" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a25f62cf893f1db65ec59a5bd9de7752d56a1eed5c573567f118a743e59fb69b/IMG_3555.JPG" data-mid="187681517" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a25f62cf893f1db65ec59a5bd9de7752d56a1eed5c573567f118a743e59fb69b/IMG_3555.JPG" />Photo: Aktion Arkiv https://aktionarkiv.cargo.site/Page-2-caring-2021 Fri, 11 Aug 2023 09:01:12 +0000 Aktion Arkiv https://aktionarkiv.cargo.site/Page-2-caring-2021 Witness seminar: Caring for Plans: Narratives of the Parallel Society Package Panelists: - Elsebeth Frederiksen, member of Almen Modstand and resident of Gellerup neighbourhood, Aarhus, Denmark - Alex Young Pedersen, member of Almen Modstand and resident of Bispeparken, Aarhus, Denmark – Søren-Emil Schütt, member of Almen Modstand and resident of Lundtoftegade, Copenhagen, Denmark - Fatma Tounsi, member of Almen Modstand and resident of Bellahøj, Denmark Moderators: Heidi Svenningsen Kajita and Svava Riesto Witness seminar + exhibits by Almen Arkiv and students from the MA program of Landscape Architecture, University of Copenhagen, at&nbsp;the community building of the housing area Lundtoftegade, under the wings of the CAFX Copenhagen Architecture Festival Funded by ARQ c/o White AB – Foundation for architecture research and FFNS Foundation for research, development and education October 2021 <img width="1368" height="913" width_o="1368" height_o="913" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/42ace45204a1f712c59b49f743b797911052c00ca67db776c81cc196752aa448/aktionarkiv_cph.jpg" data-mid="187682303" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/42ace45204a1f712c59b49f743b797911052c00ca67db776c81cc196752aa448/aktionarkiv_cph.jpg" /> Photo: Francesco Martello https://aktionarkiv.cargo.site/Page-3-caring-theatre-2019 Fri, 11 Aug 2023 09:01:12 +0000 Aktion Arkiv https://aktionarkiv.cargo.site/Page-3-caring-theatre-2019 Forum Theatre: Caring for Communities A theater play dealing with common rooms as a conflict area between bureaucracy and community action. The project was initiated by Action Archive + Beatrice Stüde and produced in collaboration with Arkitekturzentrum Wien. Theater der Unterdrückten Wien (http://tdu-wien.at) was commissioned to develop the play and the process was led by Magoa Hanke och Veronika Vitovec. Actors were; Erica Ras, Evdokia Romanova, Hannes Reitberger and Katharina Fischer. Presented in connection with the exhibition Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet (Az W, 2019). Nordbahnhof, Vienna, AT September 2019 <img width="1200" height="800" width_o="1200" height_o="800" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0f204c6b79691d418d1b2bdb7131c5fa80d5c27787e334635a963a1a1e79e6dc/aktionarkiv-forumtheater.jpg" data-mid="187682325" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0f204c6b79691d418d1b2bdb7131c5fa80d5c27787e334635a963a1a1e79e6dc/aktionarkiv-forumtheater.jpg" /> Photo:&nbsp;Maria Noisternig https://aktionarkiv.cargo.site/Page-4-caring-publ-2019 Fri, 11 Aug 2023 09:01:12 +0000 Aktion Arkiv https://aktionarkiv.cargo.site/Page-4-caring-publ-2019 Publication: Caring for Communities This publication collects the notes from Aktion Arkivs ethnographic field studies of summer 2017 of newly built common rooms in the Nordbahnviertel (the Northern Railway District) in Vienna. It comprises excerpts from guided home tours and interviews with residents, representatives of the Nordbahn district management and a non-profit housing developer. Developed in collaboration with Architekturzentrum Wien. Published by Action Archive Publishing, Stockholm 2019 Funded by Formas (SRE Architecture in the Making), ARQ c/o White AB and Architekturzentrum Wien - AzW 2019 <img width="1268" height="830" width_o="1268" height_o="830" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/77c5e762ce4071259042616cf28692ee90ee4fdbc24bfb3b47ed45eee0031260/aktionarkiv-care-communities.png" data-mid="187682428" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/77c5e762ce4071259042616cf28692ee90ee4fdbc24bfb3b47ed45eee0031260/aktionarkiv-care-communities.png" /> https://aktionarkiv.cargo.site/Page-5-critical-2019 Fri, 11 Aug 2023 10:01:50 +0000 Aktion Arkiv https://aktionarkiv.cargo.site/Page-5-critical-2019 Exhibition: Critical Care: Architecture and Urbanism for a Broken Planet Care + Repair Prototype: Caring for Communities Aktion Arkiv presented a summary of the field work under the name Care+ Repair Prototype: Caring for Communities. The work deals with common spaces, practices of care and repair as well as experimenting with models for negotiating conflicts concerning common spaces. The exhibition ‘Critical Care’ is an appeal for a new approach, for a caring architecture and urbanism. 21 current examples from Asia, Africa, Europe, the Caribbean, the USA and Latin America prove that architecture and urban development do not have to be subservient to the dictates of capital and the exploitation of resources and labour. Curators: Angelika Fitz, Elke Krasny Architekturzentrum Wien 2019 <img width="1600" height="1064" width_o="1600" height_o="1064" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/55d2077562a76a002dc347b4ba4817eaf3eaee5f6692abdca78e2b8715511379/aktionarkiv_criticalcare.jpg" data-mid="187686510" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/55d2077562a76a002dc347b4ba4817eaf3eaee5f6692abdca78e2b8715511379/aktionarkiv_criticalcare.jpg" /> https://aktionarkiv.cargo.site/Page-6-BiG-2019 Fri, 11 Aug 2023 11:29:41 +0000 Aktion Arkiv https://aktionarkiv.cargo.site/Page-6-BiG-2019 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,&nbsp;Ann Norrby, Inga-Lisa Sangregorio and Sonja Vidén. ArkDes (Swedish Center for Architecture and Design) Funding: ArkDes 2019 <img width="4159" height="2284" width_o="4159" height_o="2284" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b880a0cd67652e1ea0dca41548b8ac66e8e43140e579443a27b59b517422a466/aktionarkiv_big-witness-arkdes.jpg" data-mid="187686733" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b880a0cd67652e1ea0dca41548b8ac66e8e43140e579443a27b59b517422a466/aktionarkiv_big-witness-arkdes.jpg" /> Photo: Mariette Parling https://aktionarkiv.cargo.site/Page-7-Tensta-2018-2019 Fri, 11 Aug 2023 11:35:36 +0000 Aktion Arkiv https://aktionarkiv.cargo.site/Page-7-Tensta-2018-2019 Exhibition: Tensta Museum at Public Luxury The work consisted of a mobile archive module, books, magazines, documents and posters from the Tensta 1989– 1995 collaboration project at Glömmingegränd by Loggia arkitekter AB and architect Ylva Larsson (“TENSTA Change under Cooperation 1989–1995”) and a film produced in collaboration between Familjebostäder AB in Stockholm, Loggia Arkitekter AB, NCC and SABO (video 17 min) completed in 1995. The mobile archive is painted in the color used in the Glömmineggränd transformation 1989-195. Curator: Maria Lind ArkDes in collaboration with Tensta Konsthall 2018-2019 <img width="4000" height="2667" width_o="4000" height_o="2667" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e54391a061f9e28b83218475784c3fbd65557cd6e839d0e7ac2cae7c8a18e38e/aktionarkiv_tensta-museum.jpg" data-mid="187687053" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e54391a061f9e28b83218475784c3fbd65557cd6e839d0e7ac2cae7c8a18e38e/aktionarkiv_tensta-museum.jpg" /> Photo:&nbsp;Jean Baptiste Béranger https://aktionarkiv.cargo.site/Page-8-Tensta-2015 Fri, 11 Aug 2023 11:29:50 +0000 Aktion Arkiv https://aktionarkiv.cargo.site/Page-8-Tensta-2015 Exhibition:Revisiting Tensta Housing Conference 1989 Taken together, the International Dinner Party’s messages constitute an instant archive of feminist practice and thought. The «Suzanne Lacy’s International Dinner Party in feminist curatorial thought» exhibition joins Lacy’s 1979 art project with four contemporary collectives: ‹Aktion Arkiv›, ‹Queering Yerevan›, ‹radical practices of collective care› and ‹Red Min(e)d›. These collectives use different artistic and curatorial methods to combine activism, feminism, friendship, transnational collaboration, and critically involved spatial practices. In different ways, these collectives produce emergent feminist and queer feminist archives. In Zurich Aktion Arkivs presented a re-worked interpreation of parts of their earlier work presented at Tensta Konsthall 2013/2014. Curator:&nbsp;Elke KrasnyGallery Toni-Areal, ZHdK Zürich University of the Arts 2015 <img width="990" height="600" width_o="990" height_o="600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3da83ac5faf82a7d76899b876fd0b0fc2b9bafb03eb2e47b19a083a896d0b182/aktionarkiv_revisit-tensta.jpg" data-mid="187688068" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/990/i/3da83ac5faf82a7d76899b876fd0b0fc2b9bafb03eb2e47b19a083a896d0b182/aktionarkiv_revisit-tensta.jpg" /> Photo: Alexander Schuh (Courtesy of Elke Krasnys archive)