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Film Sketched by Moving North, Vision i Norr, 2022<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2022 the \u2018Moving North\u2019 project was awarded a New European Bauhaus \/ ArkDes Vision I Norr fund for developing proposals to increase social integration in the city by exploring forms of reciprocity between migrants, refugees and host communities. Moving North was a cross-sectoral team consisting of an artist, a curator, architects, a cultural geographer, architecture students and the organization Hej Framling. Based on a strong foothold in northern Sweden and with experience of both collaboration and participant-based methods in places with increased migration and relocation, Moving North critically explored how different placemaking processes can promote social participation and social sustainability. Their findings are recorded in the short film \u2018Folketstad: A city of many parts\u2019 17:40 which address the challenges of restrictive migration and labour laws on people\u2019s well-being at a time when the North is rapidly expanding and recruiting a new workforce.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film documents the Moving North group process of researching social integration in the city of Skellefte\u00e5 in Northern Sweden. The film raises difficult questions about migration, social cohesion and displacement, highlighting who is included and who is excluded from the rapidly expanding development of Sweden\u2019s northern cities. The new employment opportunities open doors for many, but at the same time we see how legal boundaries create extreme forms of social exclusion. Traveling to designated refugee housing on the outskirts of cities demonstrates the processes of bordering and a distance created by national legislation and societal processes. These questions concern migration legislation at the national and European level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Moving North project for Vision I Norr was supported by the New European Bauhaus, Skellefte\u00e5 Kommun, ArkDes, Energimyndigheten, Vinnova, Formas, Boverket.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Moving North Research Team includes: Ume\u00e5 School of Architecture: Robert Mull, Sangram Shirke, Amalia Katapodis, students Navid Ghafouri and Emmy Nelson; Ele Carpenter, UmArts; Linda Sandberg, Ume\u00e5 Centre for Gender Studies; at Ume\u00e5 University. Sandi Hilal, Decolonising Architecture and Lund University; Marina L\u00e5ngdahl, Hej Framling! V\u00e4sterbotten.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The film is available for film screenings and discussions at conferences and public events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The film documents the Moving North group process of researching social integration in the city of Skellefte\u00e5 in Northern Sweden. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":712,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","categories":[6],"tags":[2,36],"people":[24,31,50,52,49,22,48],"class_list":["post-630","programme","type-programme","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-event","tag-decolonisation","tag-the-commons","people-amalia-katopodis","people-ele-carpenter","people-linda-sandberg","people-marina-langdahl","people-navid-ghafouri","people-robert-mull","people-sandi-hilal"],"acf":{"related_svp":[{"ID":84,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2025-04-21 13:27:06","post_date_gmt":"2025-04-21 11:27:06","post_content":"\n

In 2025, Amalia Katapodis will return to Izmir to evaluate the impact and trace the materials and social relationships formed through the Making the Difference project; supported by an UmArts Dissemination grant to follow up and publish the research process.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

'Making a Difference' was supported by a Small Visionary Project award for Robert Mull, Amalia Katapodis and Sangram Shirke to investigate how displaced populations establish and maintain their identity and wellbeing whilst in transit and during the process of permanent settlement. They worked in the Turkish City of Izmir where Syrian refugees became trapped following the 2016 EU- Turkey deal. With students from Ume\u00e5 University and local partners they used participatory methods to design and build a classroom on the roof of TIAFI Community Centre which provides practical and educational support to Syrian woman and children. The project was exhibited at the Royal Academy in London in 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This project improved the lives of vulnerable refugees and provides new knowledge and best practice as to how architecture and design can engage with one of the most urgent challenges facing our global society. The need is immediate and growing and we are privileged to play a small part in addressing this challenge by realising this project.\u00a0<\/p>\n","post_title":"Making the Difference: Izmir","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"making-the-difference-izmir","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2025-04-29 14:41:41","post_modified_gmt":"2025-04-29 12:41:41","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/?post_type=visionary_projects&p=84","menu_order":0,"post_type":"visionary_projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":319,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2024-01-25 17:55:29","post_date_gmt":"2024-01-25 16:55:29","post_content":"\n

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Strangers at home: A study of how volunteer housing support for asylum seekers in Sweden is reshaping domestic architecture.  <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

This architectural research project examines the interconnection between Swedish non-institutionalized housing provision for asylum seekers and everyday domestic practices. Though barely investigated, these emergent housing modalities bridge a gap in the provision of accommodation for adolescents facing relocation orders to other municipalities. Since 2015, volunteer homes in northern Sweden multiplied and underwent major architectural transformations to provide these youths with stable housing. The spatial transformations in the affected dwellings push the limits of architectural design and raise critical questions about the resilience of current Swedish housing design recommendations for the construction of \u2018the Swedish home\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

By translating spatial, material and social surveys into a 1:1 domestic prototype, the project contributes unprecedented analysis of the implications domestic space has on everyday life, shows how housing design relates to societal circumstances, and provides an interdisciplinary framework to revise the design and regulation of domestic space.<\/p>\n","post_title":"Strangers at Home","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"strangers-at-home","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-01-31 22:31:08","post_modified_gmt":"2024-01-31 21:31:08","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/?post_type=visionary_projects&p=319","menu_order":0,"post_type":"visionary_projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":317,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2022-10-26 10:49:47","post_date_gmt":"2022-10-26 08:49:47","post_content":"\n

The Container and Contained is an artistic research project into how animals navigate human-made architecture and how this impacts upon their social relations. The work is part of a wider series of reflections around dependencies, ethics and tipping points within Annika Eriksson\u2019s practice. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through this new body of artworks including moving image, installation and discursive events, Eriksson navigates human-animal co-habitation within the strains of an increasingly pressurised and monetised architectural politics of care. Using the animal shelter as a microcosm and site to think through animal-human dependencies, the project is focused on the lines between containment, care and exploitation. The research holds a space of thinking through questions about alternative forms of co-habitation, agency and solidarity between and across kins. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The artworks will consider the built environment of the animal shelter, in particular the purpose-built structure of the Tierheim Berlin, Europe's largest animal shelter. The process of the research as well as presentations of the visual outcome will be shared and communicated in close dialogue with the UmArts research environment and the animal rights organisation (Djurskyddet) V\u00e4sterbotten through discussions, seminars and visual presentations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Research outcomes include a new exhibition at Bonner Kunstverein in 2022 (see below), and a new film produced in Ume\u00e5 during 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the Shadows of Tall Necessities<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Bonner Kunstverein
10 September 2022 - 30 January 2023
Curated by\u00a0Annika Eriksson\u00a0and\u00a0Fatima Hellberg<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Artistis: Wang Bing, Annika Eriksson, Matt Fitts, Ada Fr\u00e4nde, Bastien Gachet, N\u00f6le Giulini, Rei Hayama, Marc Kokopeli, Graham Lambkin, Matthew Langan-Peck, Megan Plunkett, Josiane M.H. Pozi, Dani ReStack, Raphaela Simon, Gianna Surangkanjanajai, Yuu Takamizawa and G\u00e9rard Traquandi.

\"It involves a kind of person who is at the mercy of the world, who can\u2019t quite figure out how to manage. This world now is made for might and ownership. I think you recognise in childhood the strategies that are necessary for being alone or adapting to surroundings, whatever they are. One example being how you go through school, from elementary, to middle, to high, to college, to a job, and you have to be somehow able to figure all that out, the timing and what you have to do to get to the next step. All this takes an understanding of the world based on ancient customs of domination and territory. There are people wandering around who don\u2019t get it.\" Fanny Howe <\/p>\n\n\n\n


In the Shadows of Tall Necessities<\/em> is an exhibition which leans into a limping logic. The exhibition has grown out of a long-running preoccupation with the animal shelter as form. The concern is partially focused on the specificity and intimacies of these sites and their non-human and human relations, but above all a structural question of compromised cohabitation. That is, a system of interdependency based both in asymmetry and dysfunction as well as an effort to keep things alive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Annika Eriksson\u2019s Mission<\/em> is a newly conceived work abstracting the form of the animal shelter. The shelter is contemplated both as a container focused on care, rescue, even love, and simultaneously connected with (and brought into existence) as a by-product of trauma and neglect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of the show, some works inhabit the structure of Eriksson\u2019s installation, others are semi-autonomous. Megan Plunkett\u2019s The Great Suggestion<\/em> is a newly realised set of photographs with a tilted-sense of perspective. Propped up on an armchair is a pillow covered in newsprint \u2013 headlines run across, one announcing \u201cVicious man bites dog; community intervenes.\u201d One corner of the photographic image is zoomed out of focus, as if dissolving into abstraction. There is a quality of crisis, unreality and stand-ins of urgency that Plunkett\u2019s work evokes. What The Great Suggestion seems to hint at is less a \u201csuggestion\u201d as such, and more a state of inhabiting a space of fragility, staying put in its unfolding contradiction of hopelessness and hope.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The Container and Contained","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"annika-eriksson-container-and-contained","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-03-24 11:30:09","post_modified_gmt":"2023-03-24 10:30:09","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/?post_type=visionary_projects&p=317","menu_order":0,"post_type":"visionary_projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":75,"post_author":"1","post_date":"2021-08-13 12:15:45","post_date_gmt":"2021-08-13 10:15:45","post_content":"\n

To the North is a performative architecture project to rethink urban expansion through a nomadic process of return and exchange. Working closely with professional house movers Tonia Carless is investigating the northern Swedish practice of moving whole houses from one location to another. Her research into the spatial politics of house-moving is particularly focused on how the space between the land and a building changes. The relationship between a building and its ground is a space in which to consider the material, economic and legal frameworks which construct ideas of V\u00e4sterbotten and Norrland. The project will create new works, as an object and an accompanying archive, which investigates the social, cultural and economic factors in the space between a building and its location. The object will move north out of the city of Ume\u00e5 as a series of participatory events.<\/p>\n","post_title":"To the North","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"to-the-north","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2023-03-24 11:34:34","post_modified_gmt":"2023-03-24 10:34:34","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/?post_type=visionary_projects&p=75","menu_order":0,"post_type":"visionary_projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"},{"ID":51,"post_author":"3","post_date":"2023-10-26 22:17:00","post_date_gmt":"2023-10-26 20:17:00","post_content":"\n

This research project aims to develop social and creative processes to critically map the extent of the new Swedish timber empire. The research will highlight some of the hidden power structures and narratives underlying the global race for resources that often neglects biodiversity and cultural identities in affected territories. Since the early 1990s there has been an increased procurement of forest lands in neighbouring countries such as Russia, Estonia, Latvia by the Swedish state and private companies. In some cases, this has radically changed the land ownership maps of local municipalities. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toms Kokins will investigate the extent of Swedish-owned forest land beyond its borders and its relationship to architecture. Using diverse mapping methods, Kokins aims to create an holistic quantitative and qualitative map of the new Swedish timber empire, researching who and what should be included and how it can be communicated? The project will also investigate how the phenomenon is changing local cultural, social and economic landscapes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Toms Kokins has been awarded a Future Forests research grant to develop his research in 2023. He will participate in the UmArts Planetary Entanglements panel at the Vetenskapsr\u00e5det artistic research conference Transformations \u201822: artistic research in times of change, Lule\u00e5, November 2022.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Toms Kokins, 2021. Speculative geography including forest lands owned by the Swedish state and private companies. Drawing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The project will be presented as part of the Eight Degrees Contemporary Art on the Forest exhibition at Bildmuseet 15 March 2024 - 12 January 2025.<\/p>\n","post_title":"The Swedish Timber Empire","post_excerpt":"","post_status":"publish","comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","post_password":"","post_name":"the_swedish_timber_empire","to_ping":"","pinged":"","post_modified":"2024-01-25 18:02:36","post_modified_gmt":"2024-01-25 17:02:36","post_content_filtered":"","post_parent":0,"guid":"https:\/\/dev.romulusstudio.com\/umarts\/?post_type=visionary_projects&p=51","menu_order":0,"post_type":"visionary_projects","post_mime_type":"","comment_count":"0","filter":"raw"}],"related_wg":"","is_viewable_online":false,"is_playback_available":false,"programme_date_times":"Ongoing","programme_location":"Multiple Locations","label_for_repeating_events":"Public Screenings","repeating_events":[{"event_header_information":{"event_date":"20221117","event_title":"Artistic Research in a Time of Change","time_from":"","time_to":""},"event_short_text":"

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