{"id":174146,"date":"2023-03-01T08:47:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T07:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aarch.dk\/?p=174146"},"modified":"2023-03-01T08:47:04","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T07:47:04","slug":"seminar-how-do-museums-write-the-history-of-the-welfare-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aarch.dk\/en\/seminar-how-do-museums-write-the-history-of-the-welfare-city\/","title":{"rendered":"SEMINAR: HOW DO MUSEUMS WRITE THE HISTORY OF THE WELFARE CITY?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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seminar: how do museums write the history of the welfare city?<\/h1>\n<\/div><\/section>\n

In 2021, a new transdisciplinary, international, IRFD-funded research network was launched by a group of researchers from the Aarhus School of Architecture. The purpose of the network is to examine the representation of the welfare city in mass media. In an upcoming seminar on 9 and 10 March 2023 at ArkDes in Stockholm, the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design, the network will discuss the role of the museum in society with a focus on how museums write history and why they write it the way they do.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section>\n

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\u2018ArkDes holds Sweden\u2019s largest collection of architectural representations\u2014made up of over 500,000 photographs, 2,000 architectural models, and 4 million drawings, sketches, and other documents. The network collaborates with this culture-bearing and -defining institution, because it has a major national and international responsibility for the dissemination and the concept of architecture. We in the network are interested in knowing what the curators, researchers, and management at this museum think about the legacy of the Nordic welfare state, and how the welfare city and its architecture are presented and represented in the museum\u2019s collections and exhibitions\u2019, says associate professor and network project leader Anne Elisabeth Toft from the Aarhus School of Architecture.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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TREDJE H\u00d6GHUSET PANORAMA. Stockholm. Foto. Fotograf Sune Sundahl, 1963. ArkDes Samling<\/div>TREDJE H\u00d6GHUSET PANORAMA. Stockholm. Foto. Fotograf Sune Sundahl, 1963. ArkDes Samling<\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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\u2018Yes, we are interested in the narratives that ArkDes constructs, how it does so, and why. It is the same interest that lies behind the network\u2019s collaboration with the National Museum in Copenhagen. The latter also holds a large responsibility as the one that per definition collects and preserves our national treasures in Denmark\u2019, adds network coordinator Jannie Rosenberg Bendsen (Cand.mag., PhD) from the Aarhus School of Architecture.<\/p>\n

The network\u2019s reflection on the museum as a medium for the representation of architecture connects to the network members\u2019 more general and comprehensive interest in mass media as a primary site for developing architectural discourse.<\/p>\n

The seminar in Stockholm will not only deal with the discussion of the museum and its function in society; it will also shed light on a large number of other mass media and what kind of representations they have produced about the post-war city of the Scandinavian welfare state.<\/p>\n

Against this backdrop, the seminar will look into what makes the Scandinavian model different from other welfare state models\u2014such as, for example, the British one\u2014and examine whether the Scandinavian model has influenced its own representation.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/section><\/div>

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H\u00f6ghus Exteri\u00f6r, arkitekter Leif Reinius og Sven Backstr\u00f6m. Foto, 1962. Fotograf ukendt. ArkDes Samling<\/div>H\u00f6ghus Exteri\u00f6r, arkitekter Leif Reinius og Sven Backstr\u00f6m. Foto, 1962. Fotograf ukendt. ArkDes Samling<\/small><\/div><\/div><\/div>
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About the Network<\/h5>\n

The research network The Representation of the Welfare City was formed in 2021 to contribute to a more nuanced understanding of the prejudices and expectations that the modern welfare city has encountered over time. \u2018We want to bring together experts from Denmark and abroad who, like us, work with welfare architecture and representations of architecture\u2019, says Anne Elisabeth Toft.<\/p>\n

Participation in the seminar in Stockholm is free of charge, but the number of participants will be limited. For more information, please contact Jannie Rosenborg Bendsen: jrb@aarch.dk.<\/p>\n

Sources<\/h5>\n

Read more about the research network<\/a><\/p>\n

Download the programme for the seminar in Stockholm (PDF)<\/a><\/p>\n

Core Members of the Network<\/h5>\n