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Activity Flow Architecture - environment design in Active Worlds and ...
Jakobsson, Mikael Book chapter in Space Time Play : Birkhäuser Publishing (2007)	BOOK CHAPTER

Awaiting the voice-over: The Öresund Film Commission Location Databas...
Hellström Reimer, Maria Book chapter in Curating architecture and the city : Routledge (2009)	BOOK CHAPTER

English abstract:

Today it is more difficult than ever to isolate the reproduction of the built environment from what has been called ‘the economy of images and signs’.1 Inevitably inscribed in ever more all-embracing circuits of communication, architecture and urban planning are practices in transformation, in search of both their societal function and their inner logic. Nevertheless, repeated attempts are being made from within the spatial professions to develop a tectonically or historically formulated immunity to this shift, or to dismiss it as superficial aestheticization. Yet, what characterizes the change is perhaps not so much the transformation of urban space into a matter of visual representation or more or less pleasant sceneries. Rather it is its mediatization that is conspicuous; the integration of architecture with new, distributed and extra-architectonical forms of spatial reproduction; a process of convergence which, as far as architecture is concerned, constitutes a destabilizing of grounds. One of these destabilizing forms of spatial reproduction is film. As pointed out already by Kuleshov in the 1920s, film is not only a moving representation of modern and fragmented urban space, but on a more fundamental level unfolds as its ‘creative geography’.2 As an emergent geographical arena, film production also gives rise to new bodies of agency. Today, the emerging film commissions play an active role, engaging not only in the promotional care-taking of an already existing architectural environment, but also in its continuous assessment and alteration. As such, these new agents play an important role in problematizing the distinction between representation and reproduction, or in other words, between curatorship and authorship in the spatial domain. What we have to ask, however, is what the premises are for this new spatial commissioning, and how it affects the further intermediation of architectural knowledge. Through a case study of the Öresund Film Commission and its web-based ‘location database’, this chapter aims to discuss these and related issues. A compilation of more than 500 still images of potential locations for film production, covering anything from ‘fairytale scenery and medieval villages tucked in lush fields’ to 62 378_06_Curating Arch 22/1/09 1:39 pm Page 62 ‘contemporary European settings’,3 the database provokingly actualizes the ambiguities of, on the one hand, architectural typologization and archival practices and, on the other hand, a proliferating branding culture. Together with a number of similar place collections, this cinematographically oriented location database actualizes the changing conditions of a mediatized architectural arena, as well as the expectations, both for adaptation and change, to which it gives rise. The argument developed is that rather than simply sustaining and caring for a pre-defined architectural narrative as a spatial commissioning practice, architectural curatorship has in itself a central say in the mediation and transformation of the architectural landscape.

A New Educational Technology for Media and Communication : Mapping Me...
Spurgeon, Christina; Collins, Christy; Foth, Marcus; Severson, Pernilla Book chapter in Teaching and Learning with Technology : Beyond Constructivism : Routledge Routledge Research in Education;37 (2010)	BOOK CHAPTER

English abstract:	When we think of “maps,” we may instantly think of geographical representations of paths, streets, suburbs, cities, regions or countries. These maps help us fi nd a fast and effi cient way from origin A to destination B. In ancient times, maps were drawn on cloth, leather or other kinds of fabric; today, both paper-based and digital maps can be found everywhere. The standard cartographic type of map provides information about physical locations and directions. However, with advances in science, technology and new media, other types of maps have evolved that are not limited to geographical data. These maps represent abstract relationships between perceived reality and temporal or conceptual information in areas such as mathematics, genetics, engineering or architecture. Paper-based maps are produced using information and communication technologies, and dynamic mapping systems have been designed to take advantage of the processing and visualizing capabilities of new media applications. In the context of the knowledge-based economy, many economists and public policy analysts want to capture, visualize and understand the composition, characteristics and dynamics of services sector businesses, conglomerations and markets in both macro- and microeconomic dimensions (Cunningham, Hearn, Cox, Ninan, & Keane, 2003). The interrelationships and blurring boundaries between suppliers, producers, distributors and consumers, as well as cooperating and competing enterprises, have traditionally been illustrated by mapping them onto horizontal and vertical value chains and by notions of economies of scale and economies of scope. Ownership, power and shareholder dependencies have been visualized by mapping certain actors in the market to nodes, boxes, squares and lines in fl ow charts, network graphs and statistical diagrams. As this discussion suggests, there is much more to maps than their material and cartographic forms.
Swedish abstract:	När vi tänker på "kartor" vi omedelbart kan tänka geografiska avbildningarna av vägar, gator, förorter, städer, regioner eller länder. Dessa kartor hjälpa oss fi nd ett snabbt och effek tivt sätt från ursprunget A till destination B. gamla tider var kartor ritas på tyg, läder eller andra typer av tyg; idag, både på papper och digitala kartor finns överallt. Den standard kartografiska typ av karta ger information om fysiska platser och riktningar. Men med framsteg inom vetenskap, teknik och nya medier, har andra typer av kartor utvecklats som inte är begränsade till geografiska data. Dessa kartor utgör abstrakta relationer mellan upplevda verkligheten och tidsmässiga eller begreppsmässiga information inom områden som matematik, genetik, teknik eller arkitektur. Pappersbaserade kartor framställts med hjälp av informations-och kommunikationsteknik, och dynamiska kartläggning har utformats för att dra nytta av behandlingen och visualisera funktioner av nya medieprogram. Inom ramen för den kunskapsbaserade ekonomin, många ekonomer och allmän ordning analytiker vill fånga, visualisera och förstå sammansättning, kännetecken och dynamik tjänstesektorn företag, agglomerationscentra och marknader i både makro-och mikroekonomiska dimensioner (Cunningham, Hearn, Cox Ninan & Keane, 2003). Det inbördes och suddas gränserna mellan leverantörer, tillverkare, distributörer och konsumenter, samt samarbetande och konkurrerande företag har traditionellt illustreras genom att kartlägga dem på horisontella och vertikala värdekedjor och av begreppen stordriftsfördelar och stordriftsfördelar. Ägande, makt och beroenden aktieägare har visualiseras genom kartläggning av vissa aktörer på marknaden att noder, lådor, torg och linjer i FL ow diagram nätverk och statistiska diagram. Eftersom denna diskussion antyder finns det mycket mer kartor än deras och kartografiska former.

Christiania Copenhagen : A Common out of the Ordinary
Hellström Reimer, Maria Book chapter in Urban Wildscapes : Routledge (2011)	BOOK CHAPTER

English abstract:

Years of development boom on both sides of the Oresund, the strait separating Sweden and Denmark, has resulted in an urban landscape of great wonder. On the Swedish side, in Malmö, the new talisman, the twisted high rise of Santiago Calatrava, towers behind old wharfs and docks. Erected by a labour movement housing association, it signals a new era and a new way of manifesting the spatial relationship between individual and group. With promises of both comfort and participation, the spiralling edifice has not only settled in with the surroundings, but also developed into a symbol for a welfare society keeping abreast of the times. Concurrently, on the Danish side, metropolitan Copenhagen expands. Its latest ramification, Ørestad, provides a new arena for the social manifestations of the new, entrepreneurial class. In the enchanting gleam from Jean Nouvel’s concert hall cube, Henning Larsen’s new IT University building market its tantalizing choices, and further down along the driver-less infrastructural artery, BIG’s terraced mountain capriciously challenges the Danish flatlands. Daniel Libeskind has similarly responded to the call, in a posh marketing video presenting a series of welcoming public spaces for the new Ørestad Down Town. ‘For me,’ Libeskind says while finishing his Espresso ‘architecture is all about people – architecture without human beings to enjoy it is meaningless. Marketing the urban landscape as a hotbed not only for technological innovation and economic development but also for the development of new life styles, today’s developers whole-heartedly adopt what may be interpreted as a radical urban rhetoric of the transformative and alternative. Nevertheless, just off the new and abundant urban landscape, you still find alternative, aberrations, suckers shooting off from the recognized multiplicity. One such offshoot is the Free Town of Christiania. In the beaming light of the new and semi-transparent developments, this threadbare, self-governed settlement in central Copenhagen, now in its forties, may seem more wicked than ever. Yet, at the same time, its special anthem Christiania – You Have My Heart, still hovers in the air. For if Copenhagen has a heart, it is likely to be found somewhere close to the appropriated military barracks in Bådsmansstræde, Christianshavn. And the localizing of this heartfelt site was always easy: ‘You simply take Bus no 8 to Princess Street. Cost: One token’.

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Arbetarlitteratur
Nilsson, Magnus : Studentlitteratur (2006) För mer info se: http://www.studentlitteratur.se/o.o.i.s?id=2474&artnr=32185-01&csid=66&mp=4918	BOOK

Swedish abstract:	Boken är ett historiskt och teoretiskt översiktsverk om svensk arebtarlitteratur.

Arbetarlitteratur, teori, politik. Utkast till ett marxistiskt progra...
Nilsson, Magnus Book chapter in Från Nexø till Alakoski : Språk- och litteraturcentrum. Litteraturvetenskap. Lund Absalon;29 (2011)	BOOK CHAPTER

Swedish abstract:	I artikeln presenteras ett utkast till program för forskning och undervisning om svensk arbetarlitteratur från marxistisk utgångspunkt.