NYA LÖVHOLMEN a citizen proposal + radio program & collective listening session
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June 2023 / Practice-based Research / Radio / Citizen proposal / Collective listening session
Collaboration between Nicole Cecilie Bitsch Pedersen / Jo Mikkel Sjaastad Huse / Johanna Fager
Collaboration between Nicole Cecilie Bitsch Pedersen / Jo Mikkel Sjaastad Huse / Johanna Fager
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Read full proposal on Issuu︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎
Listen to NYA LÖVHOLMEN Radio︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎
In the same series of works:
NYA LÖVHOLMEN MAGAZINE #1-3 ︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎
NYA LÖVHOLMEN MAGAZINE #4 a sound magazine︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎
Read full proposal on Issuu︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎
Listen to NYA LÖVHOLMEN Radio︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎
In the same series of works:
NYA LÖVHOLMEN MAGAZINE #1-3 ︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎
NYA LÖVHOLMEN MAGAZINE #4 a sound magazine︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎︎
What does your home smell like? How does a public square make you feel? What is it like to live in a neighborhood that has been developed with a focus on sound, light, multifaceted public spaces and architecture, enabling a varied everyday life?
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NYA LÖVHOLMEN - is a citizen proposal for a dynamic new district with an emphasis on culture, local production and diverse public spaces.
In NYA LÖVHOLMEN Radio we talk about the city, sound, power and politics - who the city is for and how we are today, right now, building the future. We talk about auditory aspects and how cities are becoming more and more silent. And a little bird takes us on a flight through our citizen proposal -NYA LÖVHOLMEN, before we land together in a final call for action.
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1 June at 14.00 the show was broadcasted live on Radio Sydväst, a community radio in Stockholm. We invited the public for a collective listening session, gathering in a small park by Lövholmen, sitting on blankets made specially for the event hearing the show through fm radios. We offered coffee and radiokaka - a pastry created in order to be able to eat silently during the crystal radio era of the 1920s.
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NYA LÖVHOLMEN - is a citizen proposal for a dynamic new district with an emphasis on culture, local production and diverse public spaces.
In NYA LÖVHOLMEN Radio we talk about the city, sound, power and politics - who the city is for and how we are today, right now, building the future. We talk about auditory aspects and how cities are becoming more and more silent. And a little bird takes us on a flight through our citizen proposal -NYA LÖVHOLMEN, before we land together in a final call for action.
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1 June at 14.00 the show was broadcasted live on Radio Sydväst, a community radio in Stockholm. We invited the public for a collective listening session, gathering in a small park by Lövholmen, sitting on blankets made specially for the event hearing the show through fm radios. We offered coffee and radiokaka - a pastry created in order to be able to eat silently during the crystal radio era of the 1920s.
The landowners and the city plan for a densely populated residential area with 2000 new condominiums in buildings of up to 21 floors, demolishing the majority of the old factories. Their plans lean heavily on access to surrounding public amenities, parks and services, but contribute little to the city’s value beyond housing. If economy remains the driving factor in city development, we are consciously creating increased disparity – cities and communities, people, that are divided.
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NYA LÖVHOLMEN is a citizen proposal in opposition to these plans – recognizing the values and potentials of Lövholmen as a place where the city can plan differently.
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Can we - you - I, have a say in the decision making process?
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NYA LÖVHOLMEN is a citizen proposal in opposition to these plans – recognizing the values and potentials of Lövholmen as a place where the city can plan differently.
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Can we - you - I, have a say in the decision making process?
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With NYA LÖVHOLMEN, we plan for approximately 600 apartments, mixing self-owned, rental, collective and subsidized housing. We have drawn a new city library in the old Cementa Silos; a permanent, self owned building for the experimental music union Fylkingen; perpetual lease agreements for the artist studios in Beckers Färgkontor; new urban manufacturing facilities; public workshops; a boat building museum; a large school, several kindergartens, offices, squares, parks; a noncommercial sauna association and outdoor swimming facilities.
Lövholmen has a noisy history of production, producing everything from candles to machine guns, and in recent years, art and culture. Our goal is to keep this industrial heritage alive, and expand upon it with a mixed zoning plan along the lines of Malmø’s culture sound zone, and implementing policies for ensuring a diverse population and housing structure.
How does Stockholm City negotiate and put demands on developers to secure an inclusive, intriguing, beautiful, strange, fantastic, dynamic and varied city for future residents? Who decides how the urban fabric develops and what it will sound - look - smell - feel like? And whose interests do they have in mind?
Printed publication of the proposal can be found at Färgfabriken, Gröndal’s library and local shops and establishments.
The citizen proposal, radio program and collective listening session are part of a larger art and architecture project researching sound, art and architecture with the urban area Lövholmen in Stockholm (SE) as a case study. Through fiction, text, sound recordings, fictional soundscapes, performative experiments, alternative narratives and imaginary plan proposals, we showed the area’s potential. NYA LÖVHOLMEN was nominated to Architect’s Swedens Critic Award 2023 (Kritikerpriset).
All images and drawings ©Nicole Cecilie Bitsch Pedersen, Jo Mikkel Sjaastad Huse, Johanna Fager when not stated otherwise.
All images and drawings ©Nicole Cecilie Bitsch Pedersen, Jo Mikkel Sjaastad Huse, Johanna Fager when not stated otherwise.
©Johanna Fager 2023. All rights reserved
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