21–22 October, Malmö
Venue TBA
What makes a space feel free? Is freedom something a space can offer, or something people create together? Across two days of talks, conversations, and shared inquiry, we explore how spaces are opened, inhabited, negotiated, and sustained. Expect new encounters, unfinished ideas, and opportunities to think together about the spatial conditions of creativity, participation, and collective life. Speakers include:
- Ulf Aminde
- Meike Schalk
- Cecilie Sachs Olsen
- Jane Rendell
- And many more
Please register for the event through this form: A Space Called Free.
Venue details will be shared upon registration.
Urban Justice is a Spatial Practice of Impossible Forms
The event is part of the project Urban Justice is a Spatial Practice of Impossible Forms, co-hosted by Malmö University’s Institute for Urban Research (IUR) and Public Art Agency Sweden.
Within the project, we explore urban justice both conceptually and practically by sharing experiences of creating and sustaining spaces in which people become active, reflective, and capable of transforming the places they inhabit—and, through this, themselves. Drawing on these exchanges, we will develop an anthology reflecting on the connections between space-making, creativity, and justice.
Articulating justice as an impossible form, we ask: What if justice is not a state to be achieved, but a slow, incomplete, and ongoing process sustained through spaces, relations, and shared practices? What if understanding creativity as concrete labour carried out in specific places allows us to pose new questions about power and explore alternative arrangements? And what if processes of world-making change as labour is contested, reorganised, and redistributed?
You can read more about the project here.
Do you want to know more?
Robert Nilsson Mohammadi: robert.mohammadi@mau.se
Annika Enqvist: annika.enqvist@statenskonstrad.se