Workshop:
"Dynamics of Distance: Critical mapping processes to understand and depict finance"
Elof Hellström
Salt Galata
March 13, 2024 16.00 – 19.00
Skärholmen, Stockholm
Courtesy Mapping the Unjust City
Courtesy Mapping the Unjust City
Workshop II-III
Salt is organizing a program of workshops in collaboration with IASPIS and with support from the Consulate General of Sweden in Istanbul. The second workshop will be led by architect and researcher Elof Hellström.
The workshop will inquire into collaborative and critical mapping processes to explore the relationship between ownership of public land and everyday life in cities. By tracing the interrelations between the abstract and the concrete, the ambition is to discuss and develop tools on how to visualize capital flows. How can we portray finance and ownership without being abstract and mystifying? How can we create a mapping that helps an understanding of the consequences of contemporary capitalism, reliant on global corporatization and property ownership? During the program, Hellström will reflect on the work of the Stockholm based interdisciplinary research collectives Mapping the Unjust City and SIFAV, and the possibilities of mapping practices to highlight injustices within our built environment and to propose alternative spatial approaches.
Organized in parallel to the exhibition Architectural Education in Turkey: Thresholds of Institutionalization from the 18th Century to the Present, this workshop will be held in English and is open to architects, designers, professionals, and students from related disciplines.
Architectural Education in Turkey: Thresholds of Institutionalization from the 18th Century to the Present is realized with the support of Jotun and Kalebodur and with the contributions of Eureko Sigorta.
Elof Hellström works at the intersection of art, architecture, and pedagogy, often with text and publishing, fostering the development of an urban commons movement. He is the artistic director at Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus and senior lecturer at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, where he runs the research-based course “Tusen Kulturhus.” He is the co-founder and member of the artistic research collectives Mapping the Unjust City and SIFAV, and the editor of the independent newspaper Stockholmstidningen. He has contributed to the publication Urbanizing Suburbia: Hyper-Gentrification, the Financialization of Housing and the Remaking of the Outer European City (JOVIS, 2023) and the poetry journal Tydningen, among others.
IASPIS is the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s international program for visual and applied arts. It is aimed at artists working in the fields of visual arts, photography, design, crafts, illustration, textile art, and architecture.
Salt is organizing a program of workshops in collaboration with IASPIS and with support from the Consulate General of Sweden in Istanbul. The second workshop will be led by architect and researcher Elof Hellström.
The workshop will inquire into collaborative and critical mapping processes to explore the relationship between ownership of public land and everyday life in cities. By tracing the interrelations between the abstract and the concrete, the ambition is to discuss and develop tools on how to visualize capital flows. How can we portray finance and ownership without being abstract and mystifying? How can we create a mapping that helps an understanding of the consequences of contemporary capitalism, reliant on global corporatization and property ownership? During the program, Hellström will reflect on the work of the Stockholm based interdisciplinary research collectives Mapping the Unjust City and SIFAV, and the possibilities of mapping practices to highlight injustices within our built environment and to propose alternative spatial approaches.
Organized in parallel to the exhibition Architectural Education in Turkey: Thresholds of Institutionalization from the 18th Century to the Present, this workshop will be held in English and is open to architects, designers, professionals, and students from related disciplines.
Architectural Education in Turkey: Thresholds of Institutionalization from the 18th Century to the Present is realized with the support of Jotun and Kalebodur and with the contributions of Eureko Sigorta.
Elof Hellström works at the intersection of art, architecture, and pedagogy, often with text and publishing, fostering the development of an urban commons movement. He is the artistic director at Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus and senior lecturer at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, where he runs the research-based course “Tusen Kulturhus.” He is the co-founder and member of the artistic research collectives Mapping the Unjust City and SIFAV, and the editor of the independent newspaper Stockholmstidningen. He has contributed to the publication Urbanizing Suburbia: Hyper-Gentrification, the Financialization of Housing and the Remaking of the Outer European City (JOVIS, 2023) and the poetry journal Tydningen, among others.
IASPIS is the Swedish Arts Grants Committee’s international program for visual and applied arts. It is aimed at artists working in the fields of visual arts, photography, design, crafts, illustration, textile art, and architecture.
