An Impossible Profession: How To Plan the Unplanned?

An Impossible Profession: How To Plan the Unplanned?

A short film about how to design informality in the city. By comparing the chaotic Lagos with the orderly Stockholm the film rethinks the role of the designer and shows that planning as a sphere of building consistently destroys lived space. It illuminates the tension between the orderly and the cha...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bleeker, Jate
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: KTH, Urbana och regionala studier 2016
Subjects:
urbanism
urban design
architecture
appropriation
lived space
informality
designer
chaos
order
ideal
reality
urbanity
emotional estrangement
flaneur
top-down
bottom-up
capitalism
modernism
Makoko
Lagos
Nigeria
Rinkeby
Stockholm
Sweden
corner stores
temporality
self-built
small-scale
Online Access:http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-200830
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Summary:A short film about how to design informality in the city. By comparing the chaotic Lagos with the orderly Stockholm the film rethinks the role of the designer and shows that planning as a sphere of building consistently destroys lived space. It illuminates the tension between the orderly and the chaotic, the ideal and reality.

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