Fittja: Public Space, Public Institution, Public Life
Grönsaksprogrammet / The Vegetable Program,
KTH School of Architecture, Studio 2, 2014–2015
What would happen if one million balconies were transformed into cooperative allotments dedicated to the production of vegetables?
Over the past two years, students from the KTH School of Architecture have been working in the neighbourhoods of northern Botkyrka, engaging with questions of housing, public space, institutions, and everyday life. During the spring semester of 2015, a project was developed that took the area’s many balconies as its point of departure.
The project was presented as an exhibition, and full-scale, operational models of two balconies were used as vegetable and herb gardens for the restaurant at the Multicultural Centre.
The Design Process Studio 2014–15 at Residence Botkyrka was carried out in collaboration with the KTH School of Architecture and focused on the area of northern Botkyrka. Planning and late modernist architecture marked a paradigmatic shift in the history of Swedish architecture and remain recurring themes in nearly every discussion of architecture and urban planning today.
The student projects aimed to develop works that deepen the understanding of these fields and open up new possibilities, in close dialogue with Residence Botkyrka. The students produced in-depth research and new perspectives on these site-specific spaces. By examining architecture, urban development, art, and local power structures, the environments of the Million Programme were analysed and reinterpreted.
In collaboration with KTH School of Architecture. Residence Botkyrka is supported by Botkyrkabyggen.