The document discusses three interrelated ecologies - mental, social, and environmental - in the context of sustainability in Malmö, Sweden. It examines issues related to subjectivity, social relations, and the environment. Some key challenges discussed are the city's dependence on imported water, rising sea levels threatening parts of the city, and how to best utilize open and in-between spaces in and around the urban core. Integrating nature and developing new approaches to water management are presented as opportunities to create a more sustainable city.

1. OF MALMÖ
MAPPING SUSTAINABILITY IN THE MALMÖ DNA
After our last presentation I came to
think of another text by Felix
Guittari: The Three Ecologies. The
text was written in 1989, when the
environmental problems became cur-
rent and we were moving away from ISSUES MENTAL ECOLOGY SOCIAL ECOLOGY ENVIRONMENTAL ECOLOGY
the industrial age of production. New
post-industrial territories emerged as human subjectivity social relations environment
the industry became more centralised,
realted to tax payment, competent subjectivity is a process pluralistic society solving environmantal issues
workforce and airports. - constant becoming - multiplicity
technical solutions
Guittari argued that the commercial commercial system controls us interaction, engagement - not sustainable in itself
system (Integrated World Capitalim) - passive subjectivity, conformity - productive conflict
controls us, but by changing our view we as species are also in danger
on the world, we won’t need them. a more participary system global issues - local solutions of becoming extinct
This change towards sustainability,
consists of both a mental and a social, ACTIVISM meadiator for sustaiable attitudes/ conflict generating action
as well as an environmental part. Three values
interrelated ecologies. CYCLING easy to get around - freedom caotic traficsystem saves CO2
encounters - negotiation
PUBLIC easy and cheap travelling with others, community overloaded bus system
TRANSPORT

2. WATER BUILDINGS
TRAINS HOUSING/SHOPS
SPORTARENAS INDUSTRY
GREEN/UNBUILT SPACE STREETS
AGRICULTURE ROADS

3. WATER FACTS
For the future, will Malmø have the necessary elasticity to provide the city
with freshwater, or is it locked in a limiting position?
WATER
The fresh water source is situated outside city borders, more precisely
the inland lake Vombsjøn, providing Malmø with 80% of it’s freshwa-
ter.
Earlier about 15% of the water came from the Alnarp valley ground-
water. The water was recently considered to “hard” (polluted) and is
now closed while they try to find out why. Additional water is brought
in from the inland lake Bolmen, through a new tunnel.
WATERUSE
1 person uses 180 l / 24h
65 l personal hygiene
35 l WC
35 l dishwashing
25 l laundry
10 l drinking/cooking
10 l other
Watertowers The ground water under Malmö is threatened by saltwater intrusion
Sødervärn 1916 The largest groundwater and industrial pollution above ground. The water is generally not con-
Bothildenborg 1949 outtake in Malmö: sidered suitable for drinkingwater. Other possible ways of using the
Oxie 1972 ca 1,9 million m3/year resource, for instance heating, are be-eing investigated.
Hyllie 1973

4. RISING SEA LEVEL
Worst case scenario, the city must prepare for a 3m rise in sea level.
Most of the old city centre and the new development are within the risk zone.
FLOODED CITY FLOOD CORRIDORS
Why not let the city flood and spend the money on densifying and Would it be possible to build a system of new canals and basins, a series
delveloping the rest of the city. Flood barriers would still have to be built of flood corridors, to avoid big walls along the shoreline. The water strain
along the new shoreline to protect the city from further erosion. Malmö would be handled down - not upwards, keeping Malmö in contact with
will loose it’s identity as an historical city and as “the city of tomorrow”. the horizon of the sea. The basins would be combined with landfills at
particularly exposed areas.

5. TRANSPORTATION
CANAL CITY MALMÖ IS AN ISLAND
The public transport net of Malmö is pushed to it’s limists. There is not As is today, Malmö is already sorrounded by Ringvegen. Transforming it
room for more busses in the streets, and a new additinal system is needed. to a new “vollgrav”/canal - a new historic layer.
What if the main roads were canals, connected by the fine net of the Controlled city growth, densify the island.
smaller streets.

6. LANDUSE
What is the potential in the patches of land in and on the rim of the city centre?
What are the potentials for expanding the city?
In this tourist map from 1949
there is farmland all the way in
to the city core. Agriculture was
not only surrounding Malmö, it
was infiltrated in the city.
PRODUCTIVE LAND GREEN OR INBETWEEN
Malmö productive land is shriking. The city is still sorrounded by farm- The green in this map is both parks, sports facilities and even the middle
land, but the city is eating bigger and bigger chunks of it. The industrial of the Ringroad. Is everything that isn’t anything green? What is the value
area in the harbour is about to be transformed to the city of tomorrow - if of the land not labeled for housing or industry?
the water doesn’t tranform it first.

7. RINGVEGEN WITH CANAL
FROM NATURE TO CULTURE AND BACK TWO FRONT WAR
Develop a set of values to enter the interstitional zones on the edge of the Malmö is fighting a two front war on water, both the rising sealevel and
city. A resource handeling that consideres more than just getting rid of one the ever emerging groundwater. Huge amounts of potentially valuable
problem. From a pluralistic view on the world and the city, the urban life groundwater is being pumped out, only to be released into the sea.
and nature exist together, in constant relation to each other. Nature is not Getting back to the average water consumption on 180 l a day, it is a
wrapped around the human spehere, there is no inside/outside. The land- striking 10 l required for drinking/cooking. In comparason thirdworld
scape of Skåne is cultivated all the way through - by urban or agricultural counstries have a total consumption of 20 l.
interventions, but that does not mean you can’t find glimpses of nature, In order to gain more flexible water conditions Malmö should be less
where urbanity cracks. Looking at water in realtion to the area around dependent on importing water. If dealing with the water issues locally, the
Ringvegen, the environmental water approach could be an importat strat- city could cover some of the water needs with it’s own water.
egy in creating a new space of connectivity. The new commons.