Production of Architecture

TENSTA 3 A series of projects dealing with the public space of Tensta, Stockholm.
18-21 of december 2006 tensta3.tk

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Here are all the presentations for the mid-review in the course cities are made of this. The presentations took place at Tensta konsthall, December 4th 2006. Each project is presented with a short introductive text, as well as a link (coming soon) to the complete presentation in PDF or PP-format.

We wanted to understand Tensta from the inside, not as strangers just looking at it from above. We started asking a few questions to an heterogeneous group of people that we met there. While doing that, we realised that a lot of people were hanging around in Tenstagången, especially were there was sun. The next day we tried to see how people react to a new object: six chairs, a table and a chessboard. During the week, we also met people from the integration office. In the end we had to put all the information we had collected together. We decided to present as a little information booklet containing the development and striking ideas of our research.

By: Sonia Curnier, Simon Kallioinen, Jessica Strandell and Pablo Muñoz

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We analyzed Tensta in different ways. We spoke to the people living there, and asked them what they think about living in Tensta. We also made objects which reflect our ideas and thoughts around how it is in Tensta with all the different cultures that exist there. It is like a two way combination between the fact that Tensta is Swedish, but most of the people living there, are from other countries. The non-Swedish content is a little bit hidden under the structured "Swedish surface", and you have to get the information what Tensta really is, through action, through research.

By: Anja Egebakken, Zara Thiessen, Sheng Han Lee

Your assignment for the seminar is to read one of the texts, discuss it and make a 15 minutes long presentation. Even though these texts mostly relate to an art context they could easily be reflected on a broader spectrum of cultural activities. They all deal with ideas of spectators, audience, public and its relation to cultural production. Your task is to interpret the texts and relate them to architecture and especially to the formation of public space. It doesn’t need to be specific to Tensta or even Sweden. The presentation can be made in any format or media, but see to it that all in the group becomes involved in the process, and that the choice of material is relevant to your concept. This is the first of a series of seminars were we try to connect theory to the everyday. Be sure to plan your time wisely, so that this do not take too much time away form your individual work. Make a schedule and stick to it.

When walking through Tensta, a typical housing development built in the 60´s, the lack of flow, connections and links is striking. However, the physical environment might not be everything. To get away from conventional mapping Internet and the popular site Myspace is used as a tool for collecting and showing data. The method chosen is experimental and doesn't provide any truth or clear answers.

Tensta Centrum Tensta Konsthall Tenstagången Taxingeplan

How do you describe a place? Is one persons experience enough to define it? Can a place be redefined by one person. Does the place change by one persons thoughts about it?

Using a traditional way of telling a story this film simplyfies the often controversial discussion about suburbs. The link between the city and the suburbs is not only the underground but the person interacting with them.

This movie is made as site analyzes on Tensta by Markus Wagner, Sanna Ridderstolpe, Jenny Eldrot, Clara Lundeberg, Tobias Bamberg in the course "Cities are made of this" by Tor Lindstrand and Anna Rothman. 2006

A recording of different spaces, changing light and movement in the centre of Tensta over the day. A quicktime fast-forward experience. It's too much, too soon and everything you ever wanted it to be. It is go for gold and all the way to the top, slam it with a max and more it than coke.

By: Lisa Bjurner, Kristin Heiskel Gausdal, Rutger Sjögrim

Interviews in Gallerian, Stockholm city. The questions were:
What do you say when I say Tensta?
Have you ever been to Tensta?
When was the last time?
What would it take for you to go there?

Most people had never been to Tensta and the first thing people thought of were segregation, immigrants, suburb and multicultural. Some people would go there to by fruit and Arabic candy.