NYA LÖVHOLMEN nominated to Critic Award 2023!




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March 2024 / Nomination / Critic Award / Practice-based Research / Radio / Citizen proposal / Collective listening session

Collaboration between Nicole Cecilie Bitsch Pedersen / Jo Mikkel Sjaastad Huse / Johanna Fager

NYA LÖVHOMEN is nominated to Architect Sweden’s (Sveriges Arkitekters) Kritikerpriset 2023!

Excerpt from the Jury:


"Nya Lövholmen" is a rare example of architects and artists who initiate a public debate about urban development, not least when architectural criticism has almost completely been neglected from the cultural pages of the daily newspapers. The project aims to reclaim power over the city, from short-term business interests and perfunctory populism, by discussing the elusive content of a city, in the form of, for example, sounds, smells and tactile qualities.
By inviting the public and considering Lövholmen's existing history just outside Stockholm's inner city, a future is outlined with a common vision that allows the city to take back the initiative in its transformation. "


The project manifested itself through sound installations, imagined soundscapes and sonotopic maps, a submitted citizen proposal with a plan proposal for an urban area, a community radio show with a simultaneous, public, collective listening session in a park, an absurd elevator pitch for a subterranean skyscraper for all of humanity, hand-stitched, site-specific, magazines monthly distributed, models and a sound archive with sounds from Lövholmen. The work took place within the framework of Of Public Interest (OPI) Lab, at the Institution for Further Education and Research in Fine Arts and Architecture, at the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.




























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.

All images and drawings ©Nicole Cecilie Bitsch Pedersen, Jo Mikkel Sjaastad Huse, Johanna Fager when not stated otherwise.












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