Architectures of Dismantling and Restructuring : Spaces of Danish Welfare, 1970-present

Deane Simpson

ISBN 10: 3037786914 / ISBN 13: 9783037786918

Published by Lars Müller Publishers, Zürich Jun 2022, 2022

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Neuware - This publication explores a series of urgent questions addressing architecture's role in the welfare and everyday life of citizens, from the interdisciplinary perspectives of architecture, art history and anthropology. With Denmark as a case, it examines how the spatiality of the welfare system has transformed, since the end of the so-called 'golden age of the welfare state' in the early 1970s until today. How have these spatial changes impacted upon the everyday lives and welfare experiences of citizens What happens when long-standing institutions are restructured, dismantled or displaced elsewhere How do emerging types of welfare space inform - or become informed by - changed understandings of the role of the welfare system in our everyday lives Rather than unfolding a singular narrative of loss and nostalgia associated with welfare dismantlement - or one of triumphant humanization and restructuring of modernist planned environments - it describes shifting spatial materializations of welfare and the 'good life' at the intersection of these two tendencies, under the influence of a Danish version of the neoliberal turn and other important societal transformations. A rich analytical sequence of drawn visualization supplements the book's textual and photographic descriptions of welfare space transformation.; Diese Publikation beleuchtet eine Reihe drängender Fragen zur Rolle der Architektur im Wohlfahrtssystem und im Alltagsleben der Bürger:innen. Am Beispiel Dänemarks und aus der interdisziplinären Perspektive von Architektur, Kunstgeschichte und Anthropologie wird untersucht, wie sich die Räumlichkeit des Sozialsystems seit dem Ende des sogenannten «goldenen Zeitalters des Wohlfahrtsstaates» in den frühen 1970er-Jahren bis heute verändert hat. Wie haben sich diese räumlichen Veränderungen auf das Alltagsleben und die Wohlfahrtserfahrungen der Bürger:innen ausgewirkt Was geschieht, wenn alteingesessene Institutionen umstrukturiert, abgebaut oder an andere Orte verlagert werden Wie beeinflussen neue Arten von Wohlfahrtsräumen die Rolle des Sozialsystems in unserem täglichen Leben - und wie werden sie davon beeinflusst Anstatt eine singuläre Erzählung von Verlust und Nostalgie im Zusammenhang mit dem Abbau von sozialen Einrichtungen - oder eine triumphale Erzählung von der Humanisierung und Umstrukturierung modernistisch geplanter Umgebungen - zu entfalten, werden die sich verändernden räumlichen Materialisierungen von Wohlfahrt und dem «guten Leben» an der Schnittstelle dieser beiden Tendenzen beschrieben, die unter dem Einfluss einer dänischen Version der neoliberalen Wende und anderer wichtiger gesellschaftlicher Veränderungen stehen. Eine reichhaltige analytische Sequenz von gezeichneten Visualisierungen ergänzt die textlichen und fotografischen Beschreibungen der Transformation des Wohlfahrtsraums.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Architectures of Dismantling and Restructuring : Spaces of Danish Welfare, 1970-present
• Publisher: Lars Müller Publishers, Zürich Jun 2022
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3037786914
• ISBN 13: 9783037786918
• Binding: Buch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 245W x 184H x 44D millimeters 245 millimeters width by 184 millimeters height by 44 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1210 grams

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Synopsis

This publication explores a series of urgent questions addressing architecture’s role in the welfare and everyday life of citizens, from the interdisciplinary perspectives of architecture, art history and anthropology. With Denmark as a case, it examines how the spatiality of the welfare system has transformed, since the end of the so-called “golden age of the welfare state” in the early 1970s until today. How have these spatial changes impacted upon the everyday lives and welfare experiences of citizens? What happens when long- standing institutions are restructured, dismantled or displaced elsewhere? How do emerging types of welfare space inform – or become informed by – changed understandings of the role of the welfare system in our everyday lives? Rather than unfolding a singular narrative of loss and nostalgia associated with welfare dismantlement – or one of triumphant humanization and restructuring of modernist planned environments – it describes shifting spatial materializations of welfare and the “good life” at the intersection of these two tendencies, under the influence of a Danish version of the neoliberal turn and other important societal transformations. A rich analytical sequence of drawn visualization supplements the book’s textual and photographic descriptions of welfare space transformation.

About the Author

Deane Simpson is an architect and urban studies expert who teaches at the Royal Danish Academy School of Architecture Copenhagen and at BAS Bergen, where he is professor of architecture and urbanism. Kirsten Marie Raahauge is an anthropologist teaching at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen, where she is professor with special duties. She is the project lead of Spaces of Danish Welfare and the head of the Center for Interior Studies. Her field of research is spatial anthropologies. She has been performing as a coeditor and an author of several publications within that field, e.g. Forming Welfare (2017) and The Design Concept (2016). Katrine Lotz is an architect, associate professor and Head of Department at Institute of Architecture, Urbanism & Landscape at the Royal Danish Academy in Copenhagen. Her main research interest is the changing relations between architecture, urbanism and society, with a particular focus on the Nordic welfare states. She has published, co-edited and participated in the public debate within that area, e.g. as a co-editor of Forming Welfare (2017).