LAS17 The productive city
(2017) Lund Architecture Symposium 2017- Abstract
- Contemporary urban development has produced a consistent blind spot: the systematic exclusion of productive activities from the city. While recent decades have delivered dense, attractive, and programmatically “mixed” environments, this mix has largely been limited to housing, offices, and consumption. Production, making, repairing, storing, and recycling has been relocated elsewhere.
The 2017 Annual Architecture Symposium at Lund University takes this condition as a point of departure. It proposes the productive city as a framework to rethink urban mixity, not as a question of diversity in use, but as a question of economic completeness.
Bringing together architectural practices and researchers, the symposium examines... (More) - Contemporary urban development has produced a consistent blind spot: the systematic exclusion of productive activities from the city. While recent decades have delivered dense, attractive, and programmatically “mixed” environments, this mix has largely been limited to housing, offices, and consumption. Production, making, repairing, storing, and recycling has been relocated elsewhere.
The 2017 Annual Architecture Symposium at Lund University takes this condition as a point of departure. It proposes the productive city as a framework to rethink urban mixity, not as a question of diversity in use, but as a question of economic completeness.
Bringing together architectural practices and researchers, the symposium examines how new forms of proximity between living and producing can be established. It addresses spatial, architectural, and regulatory approaches that enable small-scale manufacturing, urban food production, repair, and circular systems to operate within the urban fabric.
Rather than returning to industrial models of the past, the symposium focuses on the conditions for a more local, resource-conscious, and inclusive urban economy—one in which production is recognized as an integral part of everyday urban life. (Less)
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- author
- Malmström, Christer LU
- contributor
- Mateo Muñoz, Jesus
LU
; Barajas, Diego
; García, Camilo
; Belatchew, Rahel
; Dudal, Roeland
; Ayala, Irene
; Benito Aranzana, Gloria
; Totaro, Sylvain
and Aurelien, Bru
- organization
- publishing date
- 2017-03-15
- type
- Non-textual form
- publication status
- published
- subject
- keywords
- Productive city, Urban regeneration, Architecture and urban design, Local production, Circular economy
- conference name
- Lund Architecture Symposium 2017
- conference location
- Lund, Sweden
- conference dates
- 2017-03-15 - 2017-03-15
- language
- English
- LU publication?
- yes
- id
- 9b73cc2a-3a33-452f-84bd-ec659e4a1879
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abstract = {{Contemporary urban development has produced a consistent blind spot: the systematic exclusion of productive activities from the city. While recent decades have delivered dense, attractive, and programmatically “mixed” environments, this mix has largely been limited to housing, offices, and consumption. Production, making, repairing, storing, and recycling has been relocated elsewhere.<br/><br/>The 2017 Annual Architecture Symposium at Lund University takes this condition as a point of departure. It proposes the productive city as a framework to rethink urban mixity, not as a question of diversity in use, but as a question of economic completeness.<br/><br/>Bringing together architectural practices and researchers, the symposium examines how new forms of proximity between living and producing can be established. It addresses spatial, architectural, and regulatory approaches that enable small-scale manufacturing, urban food production, repair, and circular systems to operate within the urban fabric.<br/><br/>Rather than returning to industrial models of the past, the symposium focuses on the conditions for a more local, resource-conscious, and inclusive urban economy—one in which production is recognized as an integral part of everyday urban life.}},
author = {{Malmström, Christer}},
keywords = {{Productive city; Urban regeneration; Architecture and urban design; Local production; Circular economy}},
language = {{eng}},
month = {{03}},
title = {{LAS17 The productive city}},
year = {{2017}},
}