Told through a story, the thesis explores the complexities of care and mining in relation to residual architecture. It approaches our world in a humble manner and aims to decentralise the human through proposing spaces of care for human and non-human alike. The project travels through the Boliden Area, a mining district in Västerbotten, situated in the North of Sweden, where the mining company Boliden has dominated the area since the beginning of the Swedish Gold Rush in 1924. To me, narrative is a mode of proposing an alternative reality to challenge existing paradigms of capitalism, anthropocentrism and power in order to find alternative ways of living, caring and practicing architecture. I believe that telling the story of something silent or neglected, such as many tales of the North of Sweden, is in its own way an act care. The story is divided into three chapters where each explore different modes of care expressed through architectural interventions. Every chapter focuses on an existing situation or site in the Boliden Area.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:kth-276795 |
| Date | January 2020 |
| Creators | Bergman, Malin |
| Publisher | KTH, Arkitektur |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | TRITA-ABE-MBT-2067 |
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