Gothenborg’s Jublieumsparken 0.5 and Frihamnen: explorations into the aesthetic of DIY
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This design critique explores how a top-down approach of conventional planning coincides with a do-it-(y)ourself project that evolved from the site and is facilitated by a designated mediator working within in city administration with the purpose of bridging the city’s disconnected departments. Hence, the project called Jubileumsparken 0.5 was instigated in 2013 as a place making project in concurrence with urban planning undertakings in order to facilitate a redevelopment of the harbour area of Frihamnen in Gothenburg, Sweden. The purpose of this ongoing project is to make use of the intervening period to explore the site and its specific qualities and relationships, and to test these through prototypes and events before plans and protocols are set in stone. Only three years later, at a point when this specific time period is starting to run out and the first development plans are being drafted, this article demonstrates – through a transformation analysis – that the abandoned site has been turned into a particular place through people’s engagement and the processes of building together. Furthermore, it shows that the embedded narratives of these actions are starting to challenge the planners' otherwise distant and abstract understanding of this place.
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Dahl, C. (2016). Gothenborg’s Jublieumsparken 0.5 and Frihamnen: explorations into the aesthetic of DIY. SPOOL, 3(2), 73–86. https://doi.org/10.7480/spool.2016.2.1115
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Boverket. http://www.boverket.se/sv/samhallsplanering/kommunal-planering/
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Burns, C., & Kahn, A. (2005). Site Matters: Design Concepts, Histories, and Strategies. New York, NY: Routledge.
City of Gothenburg. (2012). RiverCity Gothenburg Vision. Gothenburg, Sweden: City of Gothenburg.
City of Gothenburg & Raumlaborberlin. (2015). Public space & bathing culture. Gothenburg, Sweden: City of Gothenburg.
Cuff, D. & Sherman, R. (2011). Introduction. In Cuff, D. and Sherman, R. (Eds.), Fast Forward Urbanism – Rethinking Architecture’s Engagement with the City (pp. 10-33). New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press.
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Dahl, C. & Dahl, P-J. (2016). The Jubilee Park – prototyping bathing culture through community participation and incremental intervention. Topos Magazine, 94, pp. 40-47.
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Göteborgs Stad. (2015). Detaljplan för Blandstadsbebyggelse i Frihamnen, etapp 1. [Detailed development plan of mix-use development in Frihamnen, phase 1]. Gothenburg, Sweden: City of Gothenburg.
Kodalak, G. (2015). A monstrous alliance: Open architecture and common space. Footprint, spring 2015, 69-90. doi:10.7480/footprint.9.1.900
Krivy, M. & Kaminer, T. (2013). Introduction: The participatory turn in urbanism. Footprint, autumn 2013, 1-6. doi:10.7480/footprint.7.2.766
Lavin, S. (2013). Studs, snapshots, and gizmos: Los Angeles dearchitectured. In Lavin, S. and Meyer, K. (Eds.), Everything loose will land: 1970s art and architecture in Los Angeles (pp. 26-49). Nürnberg, Germany: MAK Center and Verlag für modern Kunst.
Levi Strauss, C. (1966). The savage mind. Chicago, IL: The University of Chicago Press.
Olwig, K. R. (2006). Global Ground Zero: Place, Landscape and Nothingness. In Terkenli , T. and d’Hauteserre, A-M. (Eds.), Landscapes of the new cultural economy (pp.171-192). Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer.
Pagano, C. (2013). DIY urbanism: Property and process in grassroots city building. Marquette Law Review, 97 (2), 335-389. Retrieved from http://scholarship.law.marquette.edu/mulr/vol97/iss2/5
Platsbyggnad Älvstaden. (2016). Jubileumsparken 2013-2015: Om att bygga plats. Gothenburg, Sweden: City of Gothenburg.
Platsbyggnad Älvstaden. (NA). Förstudie Jubileumsparken. [Pilot study Jubileumsparken]. Gothenburg, Sweden: City of Gothenburg.
Smith, C. D. (2012). Productive Matters: The DIY Architecture Manuals of Ant Farm and Paolo Soleri (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/13503
Smith, N. D. (2014). Lifestyle, design process and the creative practice of do-it-yourself (DIY) as a transformative experience (Doctoral dissertation). Retrieved from http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R?func=dbin-jump-full&local_base=gen01-era02&object_id=219287
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Verebes, T. (2013). Masterplanning the adaptive city: Computational urbanism in the twenty-first century. London, United Kingdom: Routledge.
Woods, L. (1997). Radical reconstruction. New York, NY: Princeton Architectural Press.
Älvstranden utveckling AB & Göteborgs stadsbyggnadskontor. (2015). Frihamnen etapp 1: Sammanfattning av workshoparbetet vår/sommar 2015 inför detaljplan av Frihamnens första etapp [Frihamnen phase 1: Summery of completed workshops spring/summer 2015 in preparation of the installment of the detailed development plan of Frihamnen’s first phase]. Gothenburg, Sweden: City of Gothenburg.
