Model Archive – A Witness to the City
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Keyword: architectural models, the city, urban planning, Stockholm
Subtitle: A Witness to the City Size: 180 x 240 mm Pages: 120 Format: hardcover Language: English Illustration: richly illustrated in b/w Editor: Malin Pettersson Öberg, Mikaela Steby Stenfalk Text: Pedro Ignacio Alonso, Harri Anttila, Carlos Mínguez Carrasco, Olivia Eriksson, Magnus Florin, Kristian Rosengren, Secretary (Helen Runting, Karin Matz & Rutger Sjögrim), Axel Wieder, Malin Zimm Photography: Kristofer Johnsson Book design: Jens Andersson Printing: Livonia Publisher: Arvinius + Orfeus Pub Year: 2023 Weight: 436 gr ISBN: 9789189270770Description
Article no.: 9789189270770
This anthology is the result of a multi-year collaboration between Malin Pettersson Öberg and Mikaela Steby Stenfalk.
Model Archive – A Witness to the City is an interdisciplinary anthology that explores urban design and planning through the collection of models kept at the City Planning Department of Stockholm.
The anthology elaborates on questions posed in the film The Model Archive by artist Malin Pettersson Öberg, and from the exhibition of the same name curated by Mikaela Steby Stenfalk at ArkDes – Sweden’s National Centre for Architecture and Design.
In essays and conversations, a dozen authors and dialogue partners reflect on the relationship between model and city, complexities of the urban planning process, housing issues, and more. Who builds the city and for whom? How does the shape of the city relate to the shape of its inhabitants’ lives? And can the archive’s models serve as tools for memory and historiography, as well as for reflecting and challenging the city we now have?