08-25-2010
Group photo
We do not look that great at this hour though…
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08-20-2010
Garden rehab
Just now realized my sister actually works as a garden therapist. It is a short term rehabilitation program where overworked people or people who have been incapable of working for a long time get activated and prepared for worklife again through a mix of helping out in the ancient gardens and having group therapy sessions with social workers.
[x] Fits into our project
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08-18-2010
PRESENTATION
NOW! The time has come to share the results of this years Sommardesignkontor.
The Botkyrka office will present its results August 27th at 14 at the office in Hallunda.
Please se the invitation below!
Welcome!
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08-18-2010
The finish line
Things are falling into place and we have already started with concepts for the final presentations. Booklet, models, sketches, everything needs to be created. Luckily we have all our research to fall back on so its really just a matter of doing it. Also everyone seems in sync around what the focuses are, so we can move forward quite efficiently.
We actually hired a lady to walk around and promote the presentation. We think this is a good way to connect with the community, and its a great conversation starter. (sorry about the size)
Lars doing some yoga.
Just kidding, he’s taking out the trash.
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08-17-2010
Fresh air from Germany
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08-17-2010
Keeping the ”strict” office hours…
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08-15-2010
Citat: Det skulle vara som en dröm att tvätta lakanen.
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08-09-2010
Communications and square meters
At the slagsta gate house, the floors 4-7 comprise of 24 000 m2.
Lets say its office area. Let every employee have 12 m2 each. This means a solution encompasses 24 000/12 = 2 000 people.
Lets now say that half the people go by car. In an ideal future, they ride together 4 in each car. We know this would not be the case. Lets say that every car coming in has on average 1.5 persons in them. That means we need parking for 1000/1.5 = 666 cars.
Then we have another 1000 people coming in 7-9 a.m. and then leaving after work. If 500 those 1 000 persons are coming by bus, we need 500/50=10 buses in the 2 hours. That’s one every 12 minutes instead of one every 15 minutes like it is now (which is definetely doable). What is needed though is straight connections from more places than Fittja. If there was a bus from Södertälje and one from the north, Slagsta would open up to the outside. Also, having a travel center where buses going to Skavsta Airport and Gothenburg would stop would create a natural flow of potential customers.
Another prospect would of course be traveling by foot or bike. Of those, biking is the most viable option so far, unless you live really close (or even inside the building). This would not be a problem since a bike is roughly one tenth of a car in parking space. Lets say 500 people from the area take their bike. Biking through northern Botkyrka as we have the last weeks, we can say that this needs improvement. Also a caretaker looking at broken glass along the routes would be nice.
If the building turns into an event place, the pressures on communications would be even greater.
These numbers could be combined into a nice infographic I think.
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08-09-2010
Future of Slagsta
So we had a session to think about what kind of feelings and atmposphere our solution should have. This is the resulting adjectives. Bigger means they came up more often.
Some interesting things came up. For instance, when talking about which city the house represents, we mentioned Tokyo (dense) and London, Vienna (structured past, planned, mixed).
Also, when speaking about what weather the building would be, some were strikingly similar, two persons independently of each other thought it to be rain and sun, and a rainbow. Others said mixed, or just rainbow. When asking what color thee buiding is, no one really wanted to give it a single color. Transparent, rainbow, silvery shifting sparkling were things that popped up. Since the building is so massive people have a hard time placing it as a single color. It simply has room for more than that.
After getting everyones impressions into the computer, we washed them so only the describing words were left in there and then created this wordle (from wordle.net).
Click for bigger!
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08-09-2010
What happened with Leonard?
In 2004 was the old and run down ”Möllan Shopping Centre in” Malmö transformed to a new and fresh shopping street with the catchy name Leonard. After a complete renovation and pumping in 40 million Swedish crowns in to the shopping mall from the 70’s, was it time launch the whole project, with the proper jippo for such an happening. The usual, colour full balloons, belly dance and fireworks.
Two and a half year later I can read that more then half of the shopping premises are vacant and the companies still around are struggling for their survival. There seems to be an echo of the former days of glory. One of the owners in the interview (2007) Sydsvenskan, said that every thing was going well until Willys and with them the rest of the major shops moved out due to bad profits.
Some of the mall where branched as a Oriental Bazar and an international food court with its inspiration from melting pots such as Marrakech and New York that’s probably the only thing that still pulls some people during lunch time.
What ever happened with Leonard I have no clues about, I have been browsing all over the web, but my last treads leave me around 2008 and some ideas about re-branching it to some kind of Grand Bazaar.
/Lars
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08-08-2010
Cirkus cirkör put up a great show!
” Wear it like a crown ” directed by Tilde björfors was all about wearing your failiurs and fears as a crown.A beautiful and abstract montage of colors , props , mime , acrobatic moves with a blend of Rebekka karijord’s pulsating music …….takes audiance to a Journey Inside mind.
Circus Cirkör is a great talent and an institution emerged from Subtopia in Alby.A potential and an oppurtunity lying right in the heart of the Botkyrka .
circus Cirkör homepage for furthur knowabouts :
www.cirkor.se
Natasha
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08-05-2010
Check out we are you, in Jönköping
http://www.weareyou.se/projekt/JKPG/html/jkpg1.html
The Architect collective from Gothenburg are going nuts on Jönköping. Showing new and innovative ways how to develop Jönköping in to a sustainable biking City
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08-05-2010
Cultural heritage
Today we are working with work shops on the Portal project – what IS a portal? An abstract or concrete thing, what does it do? How does it affect us? Why? After lunch we will do a workshop on the Kungsleden and Bridging projects.
But, today is also an opportunity to hear an expert talk about cultural heritage and what ist is? This is an interesting question in Northern Botkyrka.
This area has a ”rich historical background” dating from stoneage and forward, having been the entrance point to Stockholm in the north… BUT, with new people in old places… Is there a culture to perserve?
What happen if you build a new town and let people from all over the world move there? What if there are no people that can tell the newcomers of old ways. Im my ears that sounds like a great set of opportunities. Start fresh? Or? Are there forces keeping the opportunities back?
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08-05-2010
Eric_M_26
When Eric was in high school in his small home town and got an assignment in English class, he did a short movie with his friends on Jane Austen. Not too serious, but sticking to the main points of her life. Growing up right at the turn of the century, he was part of the first internetsavvy generation – playing multiplayer online games (after 6 p.m. when the phonebill was cheaper) and editing those first sketch movies and music videos on the computer. File sharing of course. Though his friends shared his interest in creating, Eric took it one step further and got an education in Interactive Art Design and Digital Media Production. He did his internship in New York and is now back in Sthlm where he works for the same company (a Swedish ad agency with an office in NY). Erik sort of smiles “Botkyrka, why should I go there?” in a really confused and wondering tone like he cant imagine any big opportunities outside the pulse of the inner city..
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08-04-2010
Back on track
After 4 weeks of ”non-office” time we are all back in our Hallunda habitat. Without the furniture that were here before we left BUT with other furniture. Different but functional…
The work is picking up speed again and workshops, filming and modelbuilding are taking place at the same time as personas are written and ”twin buildings” are found…
We are back on track!
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08-04-2010
Persona of Lousie, 50
Louise likes the flowers in the spring. She’s always been active, and after going by car to her job at the Slagsta beach ice cream shop she goes straight to the gymnastics hall in Hallunda where she is the coach of girls ages 7-10. This group now is really good, though she knows that most of the girls will quit around 13. The elite push needed is not really working in the localities and the girls get other priorities around that time. The local club has a collaboration with Skärholmens gymnastics team, so if some girls want to commit they get to go there.
It’s nice now that her kids are getting a bit older. That doesn’t mean that she’s become lazy, the newly won free time tend to get packed with commitments, and that’s the way she likes it. Living in the row houses in lower Alby, she has seen her kids grow up here. The kids mostly played with other kids in the rowhouses, like there was an invisible border (besides the road physically dividing) between the lowrises and the highrises that occupy the sky in the west. “But wasn’t it like that where you grew up too? Its only natural these divisions”, she says. She really likes her neighbourhood. One thing though, is that the schools are poor. When her kids got to the school age, she placed them in private schools. Her youngest is now doing high school in the central of town.
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08-04-2010
2 in the back
latest update or rumour from the news is that the 19-year-old who got shot by the school was interfering in a beating the week before. 3 people were beating up a fourth and Seedy broke it up. Then the beaten man started beating one of the original perpetrators. This man then got angry with Seedy and lured him to the school later. Its a sad story all around. Murder should never be an option.
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08-03-2010
……….Two inches to the right
In the Dark They chose Their Victim
It was easy and a random choice
Because They were stupid , drunk and bored
And someone gonna hear their voice……
A poem by Mat Lloyd then later animated after the happenings of one real incident with him , this beautiful and Thought provoking short animated movie clip gives hope that some may listen and think twice…….. Dedicated to the person who was shot dead recently in Alby and to all the affected people of Botkyrka unreasonably suffered.
Natasha
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07-29-2010
Learning from Gothenburg
The Other day when I was strolling around the City of Gothenburg, I came about this new phenomena, totally new to me. Cultural summer jobs. A new approach from the municipality, to launch summer jobs for youth between the age of 16 – 20 that have a background and are engaged in the performing arts. How relieving to see that their talent being appreciated and validated with a fare salary (I hope). Could this be a new paradigm? When cultural work being raised to a level equal to the ”usual” physical youth labour, such as street cleansing etc. And giving them a glimpse of hope that it would be possible to make a living in the cultural sector.
/Lars
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07-26-2010
Reflections on Creative Hubs vs. “Local” ness
People in general don’t come to us as residents, they come to us as cultural consumers. There is only here in the suburbs that people ask about the local engagement. No one ask if the Nordic Museum have any engagement with the local community, there its taken for granted that people go there because they are interested in Nordic History.
It have been a good method to raise the notion of the area, and that other people not connected to the area come out here. And in those cases the connection to the local is that the changes are positive to everyone.
/Lars
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