Per-Markku Ristilammi is Professor in Ethnology at the department of Urban studies and director of IMH (Institute for Studies in Malmö’s History). His research has mainly been focused around notions of place and identity in Malmö and the Öresund region, historically and in the present.
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The housing crisis has emerged as one of the most pressing societal challenges in recent decades. Global organizations—including the UN, the World Economic Forum, the World Bank, and the IMF—along with national policymakers, housing experts, and researchers, widely acknowledge the severity of this crisis. Rapidly growing regions face acute housing shortages, soaring costs, rising homelessness,…
At the IUR, urban humanities mobilizes humanities scholars to engage with the full range of human expression in and of the urban, from literature and visual culture to public art, the built environment, memory, and heritage. These explorations open new ways of understanding and imagining urban space, lived cities, and the cultural object we call…