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Urban Cultural Heritage and âGlocalâ 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 âensure
present and future generations a diversity of cultural environmentsâ (SFS 1988:950).
However, what a diversity of cultural environments or cultural heritages might mean is not
further defined. Nor do Stockholmâs 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 museumâs 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
BemÄlad sten inom svensk kulturmiljövÄrd : en studie av fÀrg som ytskydd och kulturhistoria inom svensk stenkonservering och restaurering
I den hÀr rapporten redovisas forskning om bemÄlad fasadsten och dÄ sÀrskilt hur natursten har behandlats under olika epoker. Författarna har fördjupat sig kring de antikvariska stÀllningstaganden som Àr aktuella i samband med bevarandeinsatser. HÀr behandlas tekniska förutsÀttningar och aspekter om autenticitet och estetik som behöver beaktas vid restaurering av bemÄlad fasadsten
Introduction
Cities are places of constant contradictions â 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 cityâs 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 Malmöâs History (IMH) â 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
BemÄlad sten inom svensk kulturmiljövÄrd : en studie av fÀrg som ytskydd och kulturhistoria inom svensk stenkonservering och restaurering
I den hÀr rapporten redovisas forskning om bemÄlad fasadsten och dÄ sÀrskilt hur natursten har behandlats under olika epoker. Författarna har fördjupat sig kring de antikvariska stÀllningstaganden som Àr aktuella i samband med bevarandeinsatser. HÀr behandlas tekniska förutsÀttningar och aspekter om autenticitet och estetik som behöver beaktas vid restaurering av bemÄlad fasadsten
Introduction
Cities are places of constant contradictions â 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 cityâs 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 Malmöâs History (IMH) â 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