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In 2019, protests rippled across six continents affecting democracies and autocracies alike with such fervor that journalists repeatedly declared it the year of the street protest. Despite globalization and mobile technologies, contentious politics largely continue to take shape through the performances, narratives, and materialities of the street. That is, contentious politics take on particular place characteristics and thus must be studied in diverse places. This dissertation examines the contentious politics of Germany, a western democracy with a convoluted political history and memory culture. With its cautionary tale of the Nazi movement turned regime, Germany provides an especially valuable context within which to study social memory’s relationship with contentious politics. Based on ten months of fieldwork in Dresden, Berlin, and Munich, this dissertation demonstrates how contentious political actors engage in memory politics and perform, narrate, and employ the materialities of place to (re)mediate multiscalar memories. Inspired by Charles Tilly’s repertoires of contention, the stock of performances and tactics available to contentious political actors, the dissertation examines the role of place memories in present-day contentious politics through corporeal, spatial, and representational repertoires. Corporeal repertoires refer to repeat performances in which meaning making is achieved through the protesting body. As captivating as its visuality may be, it is often the protesting body’s aurality that first signals its presence to passersby. Music, from spontaneous to studio creations, are core to protest soundscapes and the efforts of contentious political actors to reconstruct place. Illustrated through original and appropriated songs, protesting bodies can wield music’s tripartite of meaning making—musical composition, lyrical content, and performance context—to build solidarity, recall a social memory, move bodies to desired political actions, or reimagine geographies. Spatial repertoires shift from the protesting body’s corporeality to its meaning making through mobility in urban space. Protesting bodies, as remembering bodies, occupy or weave together memory places to create new spatial narratives and in turn to (re)construct urban memoryscapes. As placelings, protesters mediate the connections between memory and place and engage in memory work for themselves, for the cities they envision, and/or for a larger imagined community. As exemplified through a historical spatial analysis of Munich digitally mapping 170 years of protest actions (1848–2019), certain places within a given locality become centers of contentious political action because of the deep histories they signify. Shifting from the visible protester to the concealed street artist, representational repertoires refer to meaning making through visual media intimately engaged with the materiality of place. Street art sometimes interacts with institutional memory sites (memory site interactant), but more often floats freely in the larger urban memoryscape thereby transforming liminal spaces into memory places (floating mnemonic actant). Already acknowledged for its placemaking capacity, street art’s mnemonic capacity to push, pull, and play with place memories is demonstrated through various examples commemorating anniversaries, drawing historical analogies, time-shifting historical figures, returning to “better” times, and crafting nascent memories. Evidenced by these chapters, German contentious politics, whether working for a cause or for a political identity, are steeped in social memories and rooted in the meaning making of place. Understood within the wider context of the present democratic crisis, I argue that social memory has become unmoored from the historical past and increasingly mythic in character, especially on the right. Just as democracy suffers from post-truthism and tribalism, so too does social memory. In fact, the memory problem may very well be exacerbating the democratic one. The presence of this problem in Germany, a nation so praised for its memory culture and handling of its dark past, casts great doubt on what constitutes a healthy memory culture. To restore the health of liberal democracies, societies must revisit their relationship to the past. / Media & Communication

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The project consists in developing a 100mt high tower, harmonizing with contemporary Japanese architecture, as a symbol of vanguard and daring, in addition serving as a landmark for Tokyo city. The museum houses expositions of the fashion history of the 20th century, and also exhibition space where contemporary fashion designers present their recent work, it counts with a basic program that will occupy less than a 4,000m2 area. The project will be located on a determined plot at Omotesando Street in Tokyo. There is also a space where models will parade for a selected audience; it projects outside the main structure of the building , allowing pedestrian and other building’s users from different areas of the city to watch the fashionshows. The Japanese garden at the very top of the building has the traditional Japanese vegetation and components, suitable for Tokyo’s wheather.

Polyfunction housing in Krizova street

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Kan den lokala gatan och omkringliggande arkitektur och urban design bli utmanad med nya sätt att se på kvartersbildning, gatumönster, publika funktioner och eventuella nya funktioner? Den första delen av projektet inkluderade litteraturstudier om staden och livet i staden, undersökningar av typiska och inspirerande urbana miljöer, kvarter och gatumiljöer, och även referensstudier över andra intressanta publika miljöer. Mitt examensprojekt avslutades med framtagandet av ett nytt designförslag för kvartersbildning, gatumönster och bebyggelse för ett område i Sickla öster om Stockholm. Förslaget inkluderar gatumönster, dagvattensystem, kvartersbildning och några kollektiva byggnader, men även stadsbyggnadsregler för bebyggelsen inom området. En mixad bebyggelse av både kommersiella lokaler och bostäder föreslås. Målet för min design är att skapa en stadsmiljö som har följande kvalitéter: - Barn- och lekvänliga gator - Låg till medelhög tät bebyggelse - En stark visuell och fysisk koppling mellan inomhusmiljöer och utemiljöer. - Väldefinierade privata utomhuszoner mellan privata byggnader och publika gator och torg. - En finmaskig gatustruktur med genvägar och diagonala kopplingar som ökar gångbarheten inte bara över gatan, utan även mellan olika kvarter. - Ett dela-med-dig-system, där varje mini-kvarter bidrar med en publik, eller semi-publik, funktion till området. - En grönytestrategi där en stor del av de grönytor som bebyggs ersätts med grönytor på andra ytor som tak och mellan hus. / Can the standard local street and its surrounding architecture be challenged with disrupting architecture, reconstructions of the block and displacements of new and old functions, as well as adding imagined new features? The first half of the project included literature studies of the life in the city, research of typical and inspiring urban environments, block pattern and spatial street conditons, as well as other reference studies of interesting public architecture and urban design. My thesis project ended with a design proposal for a new street and block pattern for a site in Sickla East of Stockholm. The proposal includes street, daywater, block and some shared buildings, as well as urban design rules for the construction of the mixed commercial and residental buildings at the site. The aim for my design is to create a street and block structure that have key qualities like: - Child- and play-friendly streets - Low-rise but dense urban blocks - A strong visual and physical connection between the inside of buildings and public outdoor spaces - Well-defined but soft transition zones from the private inside of buildings to the public parts of the streets. - A fine-meshed street-structure with shortcuts and diagonal connections improving walkability and interrelations. - A contribution system where each block contribute with a public or semi-public function, and in return have access to other blocks special functions. - A good green area swap replacing the existing green area being occupied by buildings and streets to other possible surfaces.