posts tagged ‘gällivare’
City Move Workshop | participants
April 16th, 2009 • cities, movingmemos, works
Tags: city-move, gällivare, performance, projects, workshop
Nikola Uzunovski | My Sunshine (Malmberget 2009)
With 38 participants hailing from 18 different countries, the City Move Interdesign Workshop attracted a wide variety of designers, architects, consultants, academics and artists from all stamps. A first introduction to the work of Gavin Baxter, Dia Batal, Tony Fry, Nikola Uzunovski, Aleksander Petrov and Lance Rake.
City Move Workshop | part IV
April 15th, 2009 • 1 comment cities, movingmemos, works
Tags: city-move, gällivare, projects, workshop
The Sports Arena | Malmberget
The second week of the City Move Interdesign-workshop mainly consisted of fine-tuning and structuring the concepts around which each group were working. After a week in which some groups tried to find a common ground (which not seldom led to meta-discursive situations in which the prime question was “how to talk about what we want to talk about”), there were short presentations, visits from the local community, interviews for local newspapers and productive pop-up performance in front of the camera. At times the sports arena in Malmberget (where the City Move Interdesign workshop took place) had the feeling of a laboratory, a prison, a showroom and television studio.
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City Move Workshop | part III
April 14th, 2009 • cities, movingmemos, works
Tags: city-move, gällivare, on-the-move, projects, workshop
The Green Group | road trip Gällivare - Kiruna
In search for a location where a new city could be build, the Green Group went exploring the area North of Malmberget. On March 27, a 250 kilometers road trip to the border of the Gällivare and Kiruna region ended in the a small city called Svappavaara where another LKAB mine was found. LKAB is an international high-tech minerals group, one of the world’s leading producers of upgraded iron ore products for the steel industry and a growing supplier of industrial minerals products to other sectors.
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City Move Workshop | part II
April 9th, 2009 • cities, movingmemos, works
Tags: city-move, gällivare, projects, workshop
The Pit | Malmberget
There is a hole in the city of Malmberget. Since a couple of decades the underground mining activity created an expanding crater in the heart of this small city. Due to its growth, some drastic measures have been taken in the past; the population that once lived around the pit had to be moved, but not only people moved, but also their houses. Snail-wise (both in speed of relocation, decision making as in the form houses being moved by trucks) this process has hollowed the sense of community in this once pioneering mining city.
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City Move Workshop | part I
April 6th, 2009 • cities, movingmemos, works
Tags: city-move, gällivare, projects, workshop
City-Move Workshop | visit to the open mine
On Monday March 23, the City Move Interdesign workshop was launched. On our first day we were informed about the workshop assignment and undertook our first fieldtrip. Destination was the city of Malmberget and the mines that are hollowing out the grounds underneath its territory.
