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Det 22:a Urban Forests-webbinariet välkomnar konstnären och arkitekten Elin Strand Ruin. Elin presenterar sitt arbete inom området Deltagande arkitektur. Efter föreläsningen har vi i vanlig ordning en fråge- och diskussionsstund.
Elin arbetar med att skapa offentliga rum med "omhändertagande egenskaper", i samarbete med olika lokala nätverk. Hennes arbete verkar i gränslandet mellan stadsplanering och performativ konst-arkitektur och utforskar hur man kan få till stånd social förändring genom att implementera vardagsfunktioner som "aktiverar det offentliga rummet".
In the projects The Kitchen Square in Hallonbergen and The Blind Alley in Istanbul, participatory methods triggers a re-construction of the local participants’ own agency, developing methods created by their own change and strengthening their citizenship.
By mapping domestic care, making space for domestic publicness, and reflecting on urban renewal processes from feminist, environmental, and postcolonial perspectives, the research practice seeks to propose new performative methods for facilitating community empowerment and public resilience through what Iulia Statica calls “an ecology of care”.
In the international research project MAPURBAN / JPI research project (2022-2023) The Kitchen Square played a central role as a model and method to strengthen local social networks. MAPURBAN was accomplished in collaboration with Ann Legeby, Professor of Applied Urban Design at the School of Architecture, KTH, and a group of researchers from UCL, known, University of Kent, UK, and Free University, Berlin, Germany.