Helen Runting – författare

Set against the background of a ‘general crisis’ that is environmental, political and social, this book examines a series of specific intersections between architecture and feminisms, understood in the plural. The collected essays and projects that make up the book follow transversal trajectories that criss-cross between ecologies, economies and technologies, exploring specific cases and positions in relation to the themes of the archive, control, work and milieu. This collective intellectual labour can be located amidst a worldwide depletion of material resources, a hollowing out of political power and the degradation of constructed and natural environments. Feminist positions suggest ways of ethically coping with a world that is becoming increasingly unstable and contested. The many voices gathered here are united by the task of putting critical concepts and feminist design tools to use in order to offer experimental approaches to the creation of a more habitable world. Drawing inspiration from the active archives of feminist precursors, existing and re-imagined, and by way of a re-engagement in the histories, theories and projected futures of critical feminist projects, the book presents a collection of twenty-three essays and eight projects, with the aim of taking stock of our current condition and re-engaging in our precarious environment-worlds.

Set against the background of a ‘general crisis’ that is environmental, political and social, this book examines a series of specific intersections between architecture and feminisms, understood in the plural. The collected essays and projects that make up the book follow transversal trajectories that criss-cross between ecologies, economies and technologies, exploring specific cases and positions in relation to the themes of the archive, control, work and milieu. This collective intellectual labour can be located amidst a worldwide depletion of material resources, a hollowing out of political power and the degradation of constructed and natural environments. Feminist positions suggest ways of ethically coping with a world that is becoming increasingly unstable and contested. The many voices gathered here are united by the task of putting critical concepts and feminist design tools to use in order to offer experimental approaches to the creation of a more habitable world. Drawing inspiration from the active archives of feminist precursors, existing and re-imagined, and by way of a re-engagement in the histories, theories and projected futures of critical feminist projects, the book presents a collection of twenty-three essays and eight projects, with the aim of taking stock of our current condition and re-engaging in our precarious environment-worlds.

Modellarkivet Ett vittne till staden är en tvärvetenskaplig antologi som undersöker stadens form och planering med utgångspunkt i Stockholms stadsbyggnadskontors modellsamling. Antologin utvecklar frågeställningar från filmen Modellarkivet av konstnären Malin Pettersson Öberg, som spelades in i arkivet, och från utställningen Modellarkivet som kurerades av Mikaela Steby Stenfalk på ArkDes Sveriges nationella centrum för arkitektur och design.

I essäer och intervjuer reflekterar ett tiotal författare och samtalspartner över relationen mellan modell och stad, komplexiteten i stadsplaneringsprocessen, bostadsfrågan och mycket mer. Vem bygger staden och för vem? Hur förhåller sig stadens form till formen för dess invånares liv? Och kan arkivets modeller fungera som verktyg för såväl minne och historieskrivning som för att spegla och utmana den stad vi nu har?

Antologin är resultatet av ett flerårigt samarbete mellan Malin Pettersson Öberg och Mikaela Steby Stenfalk.