Papers by Catharina Gabrielsson
De Gruyter eBooks, Dec 31, 2008
e-flux Architecture, 2018
Deleuze and Architecture, 2013
Bebyggelsehistorisk tidskrift, 2020
While critique against the privatization of public space has been a recurring mantra in debates ... more While critique against the privatization of public space has been a recurring mantra in debates on urban development over the past 30 years, less attention has been given to howand why urban spaces undergo processes of privatization, given the inherent ambiguities of the term. I argue that the privatization of urban space has undergone a significant shift, following the increased domination of private interests and market expansion that are the hallmarks of neoliberal societal restructuration. As informed by critical urban and architecture theory, the article is based on a comparative historical study of two sites in inner-city Stockholm: Stureplan (refurbished 1990) and Brunkebergstorg (refurbished 2019). When situating the spatial design of these places in their local context of decision-making and planning, a difference emerges between a first and a second phase; the first is defined by overt manifestations of private and commercial interests, and the second, close to the present day, where modes of appropriation are cloaked under a new “generous publicness”. I argue that the emphasis on the social, rather than commercial, element in the design of contemporary urban space partakes in the construction of the new flexible and creative neoliberal subject in late-capitalist societies
Deleuze and the City, 2016
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Understanding ecology as "a widely-drawn category that encompasses objects and ideas, organi... more Understanding ecology as "a widely-drawn category that encompasses objects and ideas, organic species and their habitats, inseparably linked together", 1 ecology clearly involves architecture on countless levels, by far exceeding the parameters of sustainable building technology that dominate conceptions of this field. Primarily addressing the 'mental ecology' of architecture-that is, how architecture is thought and constructed within the discipline-this article furthers an understanding of how occupancy has the power to undo central architectural concepts. Such an undoing is seen as a prerequisite for what Félix Guattari has denoted ecosophy-the ethico-political articulation between the three, interconnected ecological registers: that of the environment, of social relations and the realm of ideas. Considered within an ecological intellectual framework, notions of resistance, spatial appropriation and indeterminacy in architecture are seen to evolve as steps along ...
This issue of Writingplace Journal, Reading(s) and Writing(s), focuses on the complex process of ... more This issue of Writingplace Journal, Reading(s) and Writing(s), focuses on the complex process of writing itself, and in particular on the question of reading and responding to texts. By presenting not only resulting texts, but discreet readings of works in process integrated with the discussions that unfold, the issue reveals complex modes of writing that move between the scholarly and the fictional.
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Papers by Catharina Gabrielsson