the production of space

Wooden buildings housed the majority of Swedish urban populations during the early modern era. However, the crucial data around which discussions on urban housing pivot is missing and largely forgotten. The buildings have disappeared due to fire, demolition, and modernity. They were built during turbulent periods of urban transformation; disdained for their sometimes-rural look and for the fire hazard they represented, simultaneously appreciated for being warm, affordable and movable.
The contextualisations of this study reveal how the wooden house played a fundamental part in forming what it is to be urban in Sweden, and in forming Swedish history. The wooden building stock was particularly apt for mass-production and moving, which helped realise the idea of the ideal town plan in the comprehensive transformation of Swedish urban space.
The early modern wooden house is becoming more widespread as archaeological remains and less prominent as preserved buildings every year, thus examination and comparison of the two distinct datasets combined with historical records is important in this study. The author establishes how log timber, timber-framing and post and plank buildings were used for a wide range of functions in both central and peripheral locations and within all strata of society.
New strategies for creating warm housing were developed, clearly affordable to the populace. Changes in, and continuity of layouts, featured simultaneously within the building stock, while the storeyed house attributed to evolution of the multi-unit structure. Surprisingly, this study discloses that timber-framing was more prevalent geographically and functionally than previous research indicated.

Wooden buildings housed the majority of Swedish urban populations during the early modern era. However, the crucial data around which discussions on urban housing pivot is missing and largely forgotten. The buildings have disappeared due to fire, demolition, and modernity. They were built during turbulent periods of urban transformation; disdained for their sometimes-rural look and for the fire hazard they represented, simultaneously appreciated for being warm, affordable and movable. The contextualisations of this study reveal how the wooden house played a fundamental part in forming what it is to be urban in Sweden, and in forming Swedish history. The wooden building stock was particularly apt for mass-production and moving, which helped realise the idea of the ideal town plan in the comprehensive transformation of Swedish urban space. The early modern wooden house is becoming more widespread as archaeological remains and less prominent as preserved buildings every year, thus exam...

Gentrification processes are one of today's most critical social issues hitting metropolises around the globe. The role that artists play in these processes by upgrading neighborhoods and making them attractive for further commodification is undisputed. At the same time, independent artist-run project spaces in neighborhoods provide spaces for debate and initiate collective processes. Not only small independent actors and collectives interfere in the political debates, but also large public art institutions that respond to current social and political issues and public demands. Artistic interventions in urban transformation processes are also political interventions, expressing the permeability of the line between art and politics. Indeed, thinking along the political philosopher Antonio Gramsci, such a line does not exist; rather, every cultural and artistic project must be thought of politically. Drawing on theoretical approaches on hegem-ony, this article aims at examining the critical aspects of community art in relation to the current gentrification processes. ABSTRACT Leila Haghighat

Wooden buildings housed the majority of Swedish urban populations during the early modern era. However, the crucial data around which discussions on urban housing pivot is missing and largely forgotten. The buildings have disappeared due to fire, demolition, and modernity. They were built during turbulent periods of urban transformation; disdained for their sometimes-rural look and for the fire hazard they represented, simultaneously appreciated for being warm, affordable and movable. The contextualisations of this study reveal how the wooden house played a fundamental part in forming what it is to be urban in Sweden, and in forming Swedish history. The wooden building stock was particularly apt for mass-production and moving, which helped realise the idea of the ideal town plan in the comprehensive transformation of Swedish urban space. The early modern wooden house is becoming more widespread as archaeological remains and less prominent as preserved buildings every year, thus examination and comparison of the two distinct datasets combined with historical records is important in this study. The author establishes how log timber, timber-framing and post and plank buildings were used for a wide range of functions in both central and peripheral locations and within all strata of society. New strategies for creating warm housing were developed, clearly affordable to the populace. Changes in, and continuity of layouts, featured simultaneously within the building stock, while the storeyed house attributed to evolution of the multi-unit structure. Surprisingly, this study discloses that timber-framing was more prevalent geographically and functionally than previous research indicated.

This theoretical essay draws on the spatial theory of Henri Lefebvre and others; as well as recent technoscientific ethnography (Lisa Messeri) and cultural-architectural history (Fred Scharmen) within Space Studies; as well as the ideas of space-settlement found in the work of Gerard O'Neill, Timothy Leary, and Freeman Dyson.

It proceeds and concludes by synthesizing these threads into a particular conceptual assemblage which makes spatial, political, and ontological arguments concerning strategies, tactics, and operations of/in praxis within the frame of the contemporary and everyday life, as well as towards long-term goals involving these topics with special focus centering the entwined foci of:

1) Spatial praxis and the production of space;
2) Post-scarcity and cyborg-Posthumanist futures, which reach out towards space settlement beyond the territory of the Earth.

The essay is also served with original digital art by the author.

[This is a pre-publication final draft and may visually differ from the final physical publication.]

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Gentrification processes are one of today’s most critical social issues hitting metropolises around the globe. The role that artists play in these processes by upgrading neighborhoods and making them attractive for further commodification is undisputed. At the same time, independent artist-run project spaces in neighborhoods provide spaces for debate and initiate collective processes. Not only small independent actors and collectives interfere in the political debates, but also large public art institutions that respond to current social and political issues and public demands. Artistic interventions in urban transformation processes are also political interventions, expressing the permeability of the line between art and politics. Indeed, thinking along the political philosopher Antonio Gramsci, such a line does not exist; rather, every cultural and artistic project must be thought of politically. Drawing on theoretical approaches on hegemony, this article aims at examining the cri...