Urban Cultural Heritage and “Glocal” Spaces : An Interview with Stockholm City Museum Staff

When approaching urban space and architecture as situations and structures influenced by glocal power relations, it becomes relevant to ask whose glocal connections are visualized and manifested, and whose futures and pasts are thereby connected and imagined. And, what role do cultural heritage institutions play in these processes? Do policies of cultural diversity deal with these issues? States adopt global and regional policies that emphasize cultural diversity, such as policies by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the European Union (EU).1 At the Swedish national level, the Historic Environment Act aims to “ensure present and future generations a diversity of cultural environments” (SFS 1988:950). However, what a diversity of cultural environments or cultural heritages might mean is not further defined. Nor do Stockholm’s municipal policies on culture (e.g., Stockholm City 2014; 2015) explain how to reach these goals in practice. With these questions, I approached the Stockholm City Museum for an interview. I was interested in whether (and if so, how) this context of glocal cities and the goals of cultural diversity had any bearing on the museum’s role in urban planning and development. I was, thus, in this instance, less focused on the collecting or archival side of the museum. Even if the museum has inclusive, participative projects in the city, where a diversity of narratives and voices are collected and documented (e.g., in books, exhibitions, and digital, participatory archives), these narratives are not obviously connected to or used in urban planning and development

Bemålad sten inom svensk kulturmiljövård : en studie av färg som ytskydd och kulturhistoria inom svensk stenkonservering och restaurering

I den här rapporten redovisas forskning om bemålad fasadsten och då särskilt hur natursten har behandlats under olika epoker. Författarna har fördjupat sig kring de antikvariska ställningstaganden som är aktuella i samband med bevarandeinsatser. Här behandlas tekniska förutsättningar och aspekter om autenticitet och estetik som behöver beaktas vid restaurering av bemålad fasadsten

Introduction

Cities are places of constant contradictions – on the one hand culturally rich and diverse places with interesting entanglements of social and spatial relations, on the other hand sites of inequality, segregation and conflict. There are obviously various and sometimes opposing understandings, narrations and representations of a city. From an urban history perspective, it is adequate to critically ask: how do historymaking and representations of a city’s past contribute to create cities and trajectories of urban development? To understand this, we need to pay attention to how urban phenomena are historicised, categorised, preserved and used in official history, and in urban planning. How cities are narrated and projected will influence what kind of city it is possible to imagine, what is understood as problematic, and consequently how and for whom cities are planned and developed. This correlation between history and future-making places questions of power at the centre of urban history and development. This is the introduction to an anthology that has its origin in the conference Creating the City. Identity, Memory and Participation, in Malmö, Sweden, 9-10 February 2017, arranged by the Institute for Studies in Malmö’s History (IMH) – a research institute affiliated with the Urban Studies department at Malmö University. The conference gathered scholars from various disciplines, such as history, anthropology, literature, geography, sociology, political science and media and communication; and practitioners as archive and museum professionals, urban planners, architects and artists

Bemålad sten inom svensk kulturmiljövård : en studie av färg som ytskydd och kulturhistoria inom svensk stenkonservering och restaurering

I den här rapporten redovisas forskning om bemålad fasadsten och då särskilt hur natursten har behandlats under olika epoker. Författarna har fördjupat sig kring de antikvariska ställningstaganden som är aktuella i samband med bevarandeinsatser. Här behandlas tekniska förutsättningar och aspekter om autenticitet och estetik som behöver beaktas vid restaurering av bemålad fasadsten

Introduction

Cities are places of constant contradictions – on the one hand culturally rich and diverse places with interesting entanglements of social and spatial relations, on the other hand sites of inequality, segregation and conflict. There are obviously various and sometimes opposing understandings, narrations and representations of a city. From an urban history perspective, it is adequate to critically ask: how do historymaking and representations of a city’s past contribute to create cities and trajectories of urban development? To understand this, we need to pay attention to how urban phenomena are historicised, categorised, preserved and used in official history, and in urban planning. How cities are narrated and projected will influence what kind of city it is possible to imagine, what is understood as problematic, and consequently how and for whom cities are planned and developed. This correlation between history and future-making places questions of power at the centre of urban history and development. This is the introduction to an anthology that has its origin in the conference Creating the City. Identity, Memory and Participation, in Malmö, Sweden, 9-10 February 2017, arranged by the Institute for Studies in Malmö’s History (IMH) – a research institute affiliated with the Urban Studies department at Malmö University. The conference gathered scholars from various disciplines, such as history, anthropology, literature, geography, sociology, political science and media and communication; and practitioners as archive and museum professionals, urban planners, architects and artists