Malmö, Sweden is working towards ambitious sustainability goals through several initiatives that shape the city's development. These include mapping sustainability efforts to embed green values into the city's identity, using flash mobs and public expressions to claim public spaces in new ways, and promoting flexible approaches to address the interconnected challenges of human subjectivity, social relations, and the environment.

1. malmö CLAIMING TERRITORY
#4 / DYNAMICS OF SMALL CULTURES
OF MALMÖ
#2 / IMBEDDED INFORMATION
goes MAPPING SUSTAINABILITY IN THE MALMÖ DNA beautyfying the urban experience
Flash mobs are in their very essence rhizom- green
atic. A leaderless mass event, dissolving as
quickly as it appeared. Acts may not be polit-
#1 / NEW HIERARCHIES
ically or idealogically founded - often just for
fun - but they still represent a need to make
an expression in public space. MENTAL ECOLOGY SOCIAL ECOLOGY ENVIRONMENTAL ECO.
....or a question of surviving
#3 / ELASTICITY
human subjectivity social relations environment
Malmö’s ambitious CO2 goal subjectivity is a process
- constant becoming
pluralistic society
- multiplicity
solving environmantal issues
technical solutions
- 25 % from 2008-2012, commercial system con-
trols us - passive subjec-
interaction, engagement
- productive conflict
- not sustainable in itself
merely political slogans or signs tivity, conformity we, as species, are also in
global issues danger of becoming extinct
of a sustainable society? a more participary system - local solutions and a strong will to create a life
- a space for oneself - in the city ?
Water and accessability:Malmö is an island
#1/NEW HIERARCHIES
#4/DYNAMICS OF SMALL CULTURES
in public space
peripherique, gardens,
LAND ON
HORIZ OF parklife, make your mark
aberrancies easier to acept
and the ever emerging, but polluted
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ground water
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RHIZOME FLASH MOB CITY ING U ONS
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a need to make an expression
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productive conlict?
RELAT
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STUDYTRIP MALMÖ: RINGVEGEN: waterprotectionarea
riots in rosengård
in the Malmö population?
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monotony
strategy or representing
#2/IMBEDDEB INFORMATION
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complexity
LOSING CONTROL CLAIMING TERRITORY
KEEPING DESIRE
on water
#2/ELASTICITY
s
BY 25% IN 2008-2012
STUDYTRIP PARIS: complexity make
Guittari: The Three Ecologies - sustainability in a broader sense
where do I go from here?
CO2 EMISSIONS
isolated enclaves both topological
- and social?
walking in the wood - only space of otherness
recalim the streets - rosengård og vestre hamnen
tendensy?: young families stay in the city
ECOLOGY AND FLEXIBILITY WATER SITUATION IN MALMÖ PARALLELLE DISCUSSIONS
the rising sea level
Malmö is fighting a two front war
IN URBAN CIVILAZATION
I PREFER NOT TO MALMÖ’S GOAL TO REDUCE
is it just a part of a branding
an attitude inherent
what informs
my project?
With 100 new inhabitants imigrating every week, Malmö
is growing - fast. Several issues concerning the expand-
1 ing has been discussed during the past weeks: the ris-
#5 / POINTS OF DEPARTURE
ing sealevel threatening the new settlement on Western
Harbour, desification of existing structures within the city
and the urban sprawl “eating” it’s way into the valuable
1: GENERIC / LANDUSE 2: SCALE / CONTRAST 2/3: TIME / MEMORY 3: SPEED / MONOTONY 4: EXPERIENCE / DISTANCE
farmland. 3: HIDDEN TREASURES 4: MONOTONY
commercial are in Jägersro an island of allotments and parsells old farm & new commercial interests fredriksberg junction kongskullerna 63 moh
Looking into densyfying along an already established ney along the cycle path is primarily a distance to be
connection, the cyclepath between Malmö and Oxie, travelled, a monotone journey with few impressions or
2 in order to limit the uncontrolled sprawl. The area is stimulating experiences.
about to be taken over by area intensive businesses To avoid the area to becom a monoculture of asfalt and
2: HIDDEN TREASURES 1: MONOTONY 5: OTHERNESS
such as transport companies and cardistributors. business, it needs to be claimed. Claimed in the sens
of inhabiting, making a mark, testing out it’s posibili-
3
The ringroad also has an impact on the area. Cutting ties, limits and boundaries. In order to make this area
through the landscape, with only one possible cross- accessible to be “claimed” by the Malmö population,
4 ingpoint for walkers and bicycles, it clearly states that it must be made habitable for people, both travelling 5
this is not a place meant for people to stay. The jour- and staying.
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RESIDENTIAL
INNER RINGROAD
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FOLKEHÖGSKOLA
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FREDRIKSBERG GÅRD
SUBURB
PRISON
KUNGSHÖGEN
POINTS OF INTEREST TYPOLOGY
connected green structures The area is characterized by enclaves, or
islands, of uniform programs. Together
ÖSTRA HAMNEN
with the outer ringroad, Fosie industriby
acts as a boundary between the city and
the surrounding agricultural area.
FOSIE
INDUSTRIBY
CENTRAL LOCATION
reachable in 30 min by bike
SCENARIO DENSIFICATION ZONES
TOTAL AREA
Malmö is growing. With an estimated need Edges are established in order to high- Today, only 30-40% of the plots are uti-
CONCEPT SCETCH
4,36 km2 of 100 000 new dwellings, filling in the light the inherent, but challenged natural lized for buildings, althought they mo-
narrow streach between Fosie and suburb qualities at the site. Increasing the pres- nopolize a lot of land, and to great ex-
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stengthen the edges
MAIN INFRASTRUCTURE Oxie is a possibility. ence of nature by densification of typolo- tent decide the use of the whole area. The
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8,3 km surrounding road
When facing the future, could the area gies. The work on establishing, or finding, density is low, on average one-storey in-
be looked upon avsa frontier - a meet- these edges lead to the development of a dustrial buildings. Open areas are mostly
park 3/5 HARD SURFACE
ing place or point of contact - a common zoning map deciding where, and how to used for parking.
2,53 km2 = 58% ground, rather than the limiting and ex- densify.
agriculture
cluding boundary it appears to be?
Seasonal change
unbuilt
2/5 PERMEABLE SURFACE
densify by planting