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Industrialism has affected our way of building cities, using the production line as a model for living. Our lives are divided into parts both in time and space, with zones for different activities, kinds of housing, and phases of life. Diseases related to a sedentary lifestyle and stress are increasing and we feel lonelier than ever.   Can we think in a more circular way, respect planetary boundaries, and create possibilities for a healthier life for us and our planet? This project aims to explore possible strategies for a more circular way of building our cities.

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The thesis addresses the current need for new ceremony spaces for funerals. Non-confessional or civil funerals are increasing in Sweden, where projections indicate that one of four funerals in 2030 will be civil. This is believed to have its origin in that more and more Swedes have gained a more distant relationship to the institutional religion and its ceremonies. Instead, we can see today a movement towards more individualized and personalized ceremonies. The funeral chapel, the most common ceremonial room for funerals, has been designed since the 1960s to be a neutral space, possible for non-confessional or civil funerals. It is important to clarify though, that the dominant ceremony in these rooms has always been the Christian funeral. Consequently, ceremonies that are outside the Swedish Church are based on tolerance to the dominant religion in these buildings. Sweden, however, is no longer a homogeneous country to the extent that the entire population confesses to the Lutheran faith. Instead we are today made up of a population with a variety of faiths and views of life. Consequently, we can see a dissonance between the ceremonial spaces provided by the Swedish Church and the cultural diversity in Sweden today.Seen against this background, it is expected that there will be a future need of new ceremony buildings. Spaces accessible for everyone, which can respond to the varying forms of ceremonies, secular as well as religious. Thus, this thesis aims to create a proposal for a non-confessional ceremonial building intended for funeral ceremonies in Umeå. Through a theoretical as well as practical exploration regarding our historical and current relationship to the funeral ceremony and its spaces, this thesis will strive towards clarifying the nature of the next generation of ceremonial buildings for funerals.

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Today in Umeå many smaller cultural organizations are experiencing a lack of venues to perform at. The existing ones are often expensive and mostly designed for a bigger audience which makes it hard for amateurs to participate within the cultural life of the city. In the meantime with the future developments of the city more and more parking lots are being constructed, often not used during the whole day but still a more and more dominant part of the citie’s public space, minimizing the room for other activities to take place. But what if we could solve the lack of space for cultural organisations by using the space of parking lots and apply the same costs for parking a vehicle as to hosting a concert there? This proposal aims to use this idea and create a portable stage that could work within the rules for parked vehicles and create a necessary alternative to the existing concert venues in Umeå. The intention is to create a stage that could easily be transported to different locations depending on the users needs and to bring back music to the streets.