Stockholm visions – Living next door to culture
2 October
A part of a series of talks called Stockholm Visions
17:00–19:00
Included in the entrance fee
Language: Swedish
Place can be pre-booked, drop in subject to availability. Pre-book your place here.
What does a vibrant city need?
The industrial site on the waterfront in Lövholmen in Stockholm is a place of urban visions, with arts and the Färgfabriken art centre as its hub. Despite the rendered images of a prospective Lövholmen where the art centre and its future neighbours co-exist in harmony, the reality may turn out very different.
Many people feel that having the arts on your doorstep is an obvious part of what makes a city attractive. In recent years, however, this neighbourly love has been tarnished, and cultural activities and their neighbours are drifting apart in big cities such as Stockholm. The result is often that the arts have to leave their local community in search of new, and often temporary premises until the next gentrification.
We want to activate multiple voices in a discussion about the future of the arts in Stockholm. The questions we address will focus on: What kind of neighbours do the arts need? After all, the arts and the local community should be able to co-exist in a big city?
Program and participants
How should culture be accommodated in the increasingly dense mixed city? And what is actually to be considered as sound and noise? Martin Lagerberg, responsible for cultural venues such as Fållan, Trädgården and Banankompaniet, discusses this with Björn Hellström, architect, researcher and former professor of acoustic design.
Martin Lagerberg
Martin Lagerberg is the CEO and founder of Kulturarenor AB, which consists of Trädgården, Eden, Färgfabriken and the production company Happy Times. He has extensive experience of running clubs and now organizes and programs various arenas, festivals and markets around Stockholm.
Björn Hellström
Björn Hellström started as a professional musician but then trained as an architect. As a professor at Konstfack, he developed the subject of acoustic design, which is about treating sound as qualities in the urban environment. Today, he conducts research at Rise on interdisciplinary method and process management in sustainable urban development.
Annica Kvint
Co-producer and moderator of the talks is journalist Annica Kvint, who covers urban development and architecture both as editor of the magazine Arkitektur and as an architecture critic in Dagens Nyheter. The conversation series Stockholm Visions at Färgfabriken started in the fall of 2022 as a continuation of the series of articles with the same vignette in Dagens Nyheter.