Elever vid Gbg Konstskola som deltar: Ella Hultstein, Malva Friberg, Linnéa Nöbbelin, Britta Lysebäck, Lilit Bengtsson, Johanna Samuelsson Jenny Linse, Embla Hauge, Moa Antonsson, Emmelie Folkesson, Hanna Eklöf, Alice Jordebo, Yaseen Alashaab, Elin Kronlid.
Ett EU-projekt för att utveckla tak på olika sätt som vi i Folkstaden genomför i samarbete med åtta andra städer i Europa – European Creative Rooftop Network (ECRN), och som är finansierat av Kreativa Europa och Svenska Kulturrådet. Larsen Bervoets utför även muralmålningar på fem andra tak i Europa i städerna Rotterdam, Faro, Chemnitz, Nicosia och Antwerpen.
Foton: Per Pixel Petersson
Ett samarbete av European Creative Rooftop Network
Finansierat av Kreativa Europa och Kulturrådet
]]>En samlingsutställning utomhus med: Elias Björn, Fredrik Stjernfelt, Aylin Azad, Annika Wennberg, Josef Kovac, Kim Jansson, Lars Dyrendom och Ingvild Davidsen.
Vi gjorde utställning efter en workshop på Göteborgs Bildverkstad: åtta bildkonstnärer testar tekniker, material och nya publika möten i skarpt läge av väder, mörker, upptäckter, ointresse, glädje, nyfikenhet och ljusskygga aktiviteter.
Utställningen pågår 2 – 15 februari 2023.
Arrangörer: Folkstaden och Göteborgs Bildverkstad
Med stöd från: #KreativaEuropa och #Kulturrådet
Ett samarbete av European Creative Rooftop Network
Finansierat av Kreativa Europa och Kulturrådet
]]>Mellan himmel och tak – koreografiska händelser i staden med Dance Remainings.
Fredag 4 november kl.18:00 Fri entré
Vi möts på Konstepidemin Hus 10. Gemensam vandring till spelplatsen som är Medicinarebergets P-hus. Performance, gemensamma workshops, dans och andra händelser.
Ta på dig kläder efter väder. Alla välkomna!
Medverkande: Anmar Taha – Carolina Eguiguren – Kyrie Oda – Yrsa Heikenskjöld & Emelia Koberg – Mari Vittradotter & Sara Axelsson – Sebastian Ruiz – Lisa Larsdotter Petersson & Peter Janson – Katarzyna Paluch – Berith Stennabb – Love Hellgren – Jim de Block & Martin Nowakowski
Projektet är en del av The European Creative Rooftop Network (ECRN) som samlar kunskap för att utveckla och dela nya metoder för hållbar användning av det urbana taklandskapet som kulturmiljöer och nya mötesplatser.
Grafisk design: Alqumit Alhamad
Arrangeras av Dance Remainings i samarbete med Folkstaden Göteborg.
Ett samarbete av European Creative Rooftop Network
Finansierat av Kreativa Europa och Kulturrådet
Wes Mapes, residenskonstnär från Amsterdam, berättar om sitt pågående arbete med en installation på Frölunda Kulturhus tak.
Lördag 24:e september 14.30 – 16.00. Välkomna!
Under september bjuder Frölunda Kulturhus och Folkstaden in konstnärer på residens till att använda kulturhusets tak som konstnärsrum. Konstnärerna inspireras och reflekterar, spekulerar och experimenterar och genom en konstnärlig process ger de liv till det bortglömda taklandskapet.
Idag är 15 – 35 % av Europas stadsområden underutnyttjad – städernas bortglömda taklandskap. Genom att bjuda in konstnärer att producera platsspecifika experimentella och processbaserade projekt på utvalda hustak, syftar residensen till att utforska nya sätt att aktivera och föreställa sig dessa utrymmen genom konstnärlig praktik.
Frölunda Kulturhus samverkar med Folkstaden, partner i Kreativa Europa-projektet European Creative Rooftop Network: nio städer som utforskar och skapar plats i det underutnyttjade urbana taklandskapet. 2022 genomför ett residensprogram med 18 europeiska konstnärer från olika discipliner.
Wes Mapes
Baserad i AMSTERDAM. (f. 1982, Oakland, USA) är en multimedia-konstnär med en mångfacetterad praktik som inkluderar måleri, skulptur, installation, musikalisk komposition och performance. Mapes skapar rumsliga verk som inbjuder till reflektion och kontemplation och hans arbete hämtar inspiration från en stor bredd av influenser från postkoloniala teorier, alternativa historiemodeller, matematik, lokalt utvecklade byggnadstekniker, modern arkitektur och panafrikansk identitet.
Finansieras av EU-programmet Kreativa Europa samt svenska Kulturrådet.
ECRN.city
folkstaden.se
#creativeeurope #kulturrådet #ecrn.city #rooftop #rooftopart #rooftopculture
———————-
ENGLISH
Wes Mapes, artist-in-residence, talks about his ongoing work with an installation on the roof of Frölunda Kulturhus.
Saturday 24 September 14.30 – 16.00. Welcome!
During September, Frölunda Kulturhus and Folkstaden invite artists in residence to use the roof of the cultural center as an artist room. The artists are inspired and reflect, speculate and experiment and through an artistic process they give life to the forgotten roof landscape.
Today, 15 – 35% of Europe’s urban areas are underutilized – the cities’ forgotten rooftop landscapes. By inviting artists to produce site-specific experimental and process-based projects on selected rooftops, the residency aims to explore new ways of activating and imagining these spaces through artistic practice.
Frölunda Kulturhus collaborates with Folkstaden, partner in the Kreativa Europa project European Creative Rooftop Network: nine cities that explore and create space in the underutilized urban rooftop landscape. 2022 implemented a residency program with 18 European artists from various disciplines.
Wes Mapes
Based in AMSTERDAM. (b. 1982, Oakland, USA) is a multimedia artist with a multifaceted practice that includes painting, sculpture, installation, musical composition and performance. Mapes creates spatial works that invite reflection and contemplation and his work draws inspiration from a wide range of influences from post-colonial theories, alternative history models, mathematics, locally developed building techniques, modern architecture and Pan-African identity.
Funded by the EU program Creative Europe and the Swedish Cultural Council.
Website: ECRN.city – European Creative Rooftop Network
Folkstaden.se
#creativeeurope #culturecouncil #ecrn.city #rooftop #rooftopart #rooftopculture
Samtal med residenskonstnären Franco Fasoli kl 18.00.
MEMORIA SUPERFICIAL – efter residens i Göteborg och på Frölunda Kulturhus visar Franco Fasoli en platsspecifik temporär installation utomhus på kulturhusets publika tak.
Frölunda Kulturhus nyinvigda, multifunktionella tak är platsen för den Barcelona-baserade konstnären Franco Fasolis residens i Göteborg inom EU/Kreativa Europa-projektet European Creative Rooftop Network. Fasoli kommer att visa och prata om sitt residensarbete på plats på kulturhuset tak: en temporär installation av målningar i Frölundas nya offentliga utomhusrum.
18 konstnärer har bjudits in av nio projektpartners i lika många städer i Europa: Amsterdam, Antwerpen, Barcelona, Belfast, Chemnitz, Faro, Göteborg, Nicosia, Rotterdam. De bjöds in att omtolka, reflektera, och spekulera inom sitt konstmedium om samtiden och framtiden för Europas hustak i residensstaden. Under sommaren 2022 tar takkonstprojekten form av föreställningar, samhällsprojekt, rumsliga interventioner, foto, berättande, skulptur eller konstnärlig forskning.
Franco Fasoli tar utgångspunkt i hemstaden Barcelonas monument och färger och bygger upp installationens målningar i flera lager av akrylfärg. Avskalade från sitt underlag liknar de textilfragment eller hud, det korresponderar till hur våra erfarenheter lämnar märken på kroppen och omvänt: hur våra rörelser och handlingar låter sig spåras i stadens texturer. Det sköra materialet anspelar på livets och minnets flyktighet. Upphängda på träkonstruktioner som tvätt på tork eller byggnadsställningarnas skyddsplast anspelar de på den omsorg såväl som brutalitet som utspelar sig i stadens vardagsliv.
Franco Fasoli, alias JAZ, (f 1981 i Buenos Aires, baserad i Barcelona)
Hans konst präglas av hur levande motsättningar mellan det personliga och kollektiva utspelar sig inom liksom i staden. En av de mest slående aspekterna av hans arbete är utforskningen av material och skala i en ständig rörelse genom olika privata och offentliga sammanhang. Fasoli är en av årets vinnare av det prestigefyllda priset KONEX i Buenos Aires i kategorin offentlig konst. Han har skapat en rad offentliga konstverk och ställt ut i ett stort antal städer från Cape Town till New York.
Instagram: @francofasolijaz
Web: francofasoli.com
Mer om European Creative Rooftop Network:
Projektet drivs i Göteborg av Folkstaden. Residensen 2022 är ett samarbete med Frölunda Kulturhus och Urban konst vid Göteborgs Konsthall.
Projektet finansieras av EU-programmet Kreativa Europa samt svenska Kulturrådet.
Länkar:
www.goteborgskonsthall.se/urban-konst/ecrn-residensprogram
ENGLISH :
18:00 Artist talk with Franco Fasoli
MEMORIAL SUPERFICIAL – after a residency in Gothenburg and at Frölunda Kulturhus, Franco Fasoli shows a site-specific temporary installation outdoors on the public roof of the cultural center.
The newly inaugurated, multi-functional rooftop of Frölunda Kulturhus is the site for the Barcelona-based artist Franco Fasoli’s residency in Gothenburg within the EU/Kreativa Europa project European Creative Rooftop Network. Fasoli will show and present his residency work on site at the cultural center: an temporary installation of paintings in Frölunda’s new public outdoor space.
18 artists have been invited by nine project partners in as many cities in Europe: Amsterdam, Antwerp, Barcelona, Belfast, Chemnitz, Faro, Gothenburg, Nicosia, Rotterdam. They were invited to reinterpret, reflect, and speculate within their art medium about the present and future of Europe’s rooftops in the residency city. During the summer of 2022, the rooftop art projects take the form of performances, community projects, spatial interventions, photography, storytelling, sculpture or artistic research.
Franco Fasolis takes on the monuments and colors of his hometown Barcelona as a point of departure and builds the installation’s paintings in several layers of acrylic paint. Stripped of their substrate, they resemble textile fragments or skin, corresponding to how our experiences leave marks on the body and conversely: how our movements and actions allow themselves to be traced in the textures of the city. The fragile material alludes to the transience of life and memory. Suspended from wooden structures like laundry or the protective plastic of scaffolding, they allude to the care as well as brutality that takes place in the city’s everyday life.
Franco Fasoli, aka JAZ, (b. 1981 in Buenos Aires, based in Barcelona) Fasoli’s art is characterized by how living contradictions between the personal and the collective play out within as well as in the city. One of the most striking aspects of his work is the exploration of material and scale in a constant movement through various private and public contexts. Fasoli is one of this year’s winners of the prestigious KONEX prize in Buenos Aires in the public art category. He has created a range of public artworks and exhibited in a large number of cities from Cape Town to New York.
Instagram: @francofasolijaz
Web: www.francofasoli.com
More about the European Creative Rooftop Network: The project in Gothenburg is run by Folkstaden. The 2022 residency is a collaboration with Frölunda Kulturhus and Urban konst at Göteborgs konsthall (Gothenburg Art Gallery).
The project is financed by the EU-program Creative Europe and the Swedish Arts Council.
Links:
ECRN.city
folkstaden.se
goteborgskonsthall.se/urban-konst/ecrn-residensprogram
OBS! Begränsat antal platser.
#creativeeurope #kulturrådet #ecrn.city #rooftop #rooftopart #rooftopculture
Finansierat av:
Välkomna på invigning av Frölunda Kulturhus tak. Bland annat så berättar konstnären Sara Lännerström om sitt ECRN Artist Residens på tak i Amsterdam. På programmet även kulning av Josefin Cederwall. Folkstaden arrangerar konstresidens i samarbete med våra ECRN partners i Barcelona och Amsterdam. Frölunda Kulturhus tak är platsen för två residens i Göteborg, där Franco Fasoli från Barcelona och Wes Mapes från Amsredam besöker oss. Sammanlagt arrangeras 18 residens i år av EU-projektet. Ett samarrangemang med ECRN- European Creative Rooftop Network, Frölunda Kulturhus och Urban Konst/Gbg Konsthall samt Folkstaden.
Här programmet torsdag 1 september från 14.30:
]]>
Folkstaden och Urban Konst/Gbg Konsthall är värdar för två konstnärsresidens på Frölunda Kulturhus i Göteborg. Under 1 september 2022 ska Kulturhuset inviga sin takterrass – ett nytt vidgat offentligt landskap. Residenskonstnärerna Franco Fasoli från Barcelona och Wes Mapes från Amsterdam ska producera två tillfälliga verk utifrån platsens specifika villkor.
Städernas bortglömda taklandskap som utgör en stor del av Europas stadsområden står idag underutnyttjat. Mot bakgrund av ökad gentrifiering och ekonomisk rationalisering av staden undersöker residensprogrammet hur takytor kan undgå ödet att antingen utvecklas som kommersiella platser eller avgränsas till privata bostäder. Genom att bjuda in konstnärer att producera platsspecifika och processbaserade projekt på utvalda hustak, syftar residensprogrammet till att utforska nya sätt att aktivera och föreställa sig dessa utrymmen.
Projektet genomförs som en del av European Creative Rooftop Network (ECRN), ett nätverk av organisationer som arbetar för kreativt användande av hustak. Utöver Göteborg/Folkstaden genomförs residensprogrammet av åtta andra städer/aktörer inklusive Amsterdam och Barcelona där de Göteborgsverksamma konstnärerna Sara Lännerström och Mersiha messiha för sina residens. Till Göteborg kommer Wes Mapes från Amsterdam och Franco Fasoli från Barcelona.
Projektet finansieras av EU-programmet Kreativa Europa samt Kulturrådet.
Övriga städer i ECRN förutom Göteborg, Barcelona och Amsterdam är Faro, Belfast, Antwerpen, Rotterdam, Chemnitz, och Nicosia.
]]>
Baserad i Barcelona på residens i Göteborg – Frölunda Kulturhus tak under augusti/september 2022
Franco Fasoli, aka JAZ, (f. 1981, Buenos Aires, Argentina) är en av de mest uppmärksammade konstnärerna från den latinamerikanska gatukonstscenen under 90-talet och som gjorde entré på den globala scenen och i gallerivärlden utan att lämna gatan som underlag. Senaste decenniet har Fasolis konst präglats av de levande motsättningarna i de latinamerikanska samhällena, deras ritualer och eviga ostadighet. Flera former av individuell och kollektiv identitet i ständig friktion har blivit en del av den sociologiska ryggraden i hans arbete. Fasoli är van att tillgripa en bred bestiario som han använder som en metaforisk förevändning för att ställa politiska och sociala frågor. En av de mest slående aspekterna av hans arbete är utforskningen av material och skala i en ständig rörelse genom olika sammanhang: från storskaliga målningar i stadslandskapet till mindre verk i brons och papper.
Fasoli är en av årets vinnare av det prestigefyllda priset KONEX i Buenos Aires i kategorin offentlig konst. Han har skapat en rad offentliga konstverk och ställt ut i ett stort antal städer från Cape Town till New York. Numera bor han mellan Barcelona och Buenos Aires.
Instagram: @francofasolijaz
Hemsida: https://francofasoli.com/
Baserad i Amsterdam på residens i Göteborg – Frölunda Kulturhus tak under september.
Wes Mapes (f. 1982, Oakland, USA) är en multimedia-konstnär med en mångfacetterad praktik som inkluderar måleri, skulptur, installation, musikalisk komposition och performance. Mapes skapar rumsliga verk som inbjuder till reflektion och kontemplation och hans arbete hämtar inspiration från en stor bredd av influenser från postkoloniala teorier, alternativa historiemodeller, matematik, lokalt utvecklade byggnadstekniker, modern arkitektur och panafrikansk identitet.
Mapes har ställt ut i solo- och grupputställningar i USA och Europa. Han har en BA i kommunikationsstudier från California State University, Long Beach och en MA i konst och design från Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam.
Instagram: @wesmapesstudio
Hemsida: https://sandberg.nl/graduation2019/wes-mapes
Baserad i Göteborg på residens i Amsterdam slutet av juli – början av augusti 2022
Sara Lännerströms konst mynnar ur ett ständigt flöde som bland annat kan ta sitt uttryck i teckning, film, performance, installation, text eller djurdräkter. Återkommande teman är naturen, djuren, det lantliga och hemtrevliga, där vildvuxna, ostyriga och eroderande krafter verkar hota ordning och avgränsningar.
Hennes senaste projekt är KRPM och Tellustemplet, båda tillfälliga/halvpermanenta offentliga skulpturer placerade på den stora parkeringen vid Backaplan i Göteborg. Lännerström bygger sina skulpturer mestadels av återvunnet material som trä, tegel eller kartong.
webbplats: saralannerstrom.com
Baserad i Göteborg, New York, och Mostar. På residens i Barcelona 8-24 juli.
Hyllad som ”en märklig varelse som tänjer på gränserna för kroppsrörelser och definierar nya utrymmen för icke-verbal teater” (Irfan Hošić, konsthistoriker). mersiha messiha alias Mesihović eller Circuitdebris (f. i Mostar, Bosnien och Hercegovina) arbetar med kropp, ljud, improvisation, omedelbarhet och radikal fantasi som främsta kommunikationsmedel. Hennes forskning fördjupar den rörliga kroppens och de sociala strukturernas sammankoppling, rumsliga modaliteter i performance som bryter mot det binära förhållandet mellan sinne/kropp, natur/kultur, ande/material, och som avvecklar förtryckande strukturer och hegemoniska tankar.
]]>
Info about the two rooftop artist residence in Gothenburg. Below you find information and pictures from Frölunda Culture Center – the building/rooftop that is the place for the recidenses.
Folkstaden and Urban Konst at Göteborg Konsthall host the residences together with – and at – Frölunda Kulturhus in the south east of Göteborg. The culture/community center houses library, arts and sports and is now refurbished with a complex rooftop: a landscape of meadows, greeneries, solar panels, and terrasses to be inaugurated publically in 2022. During the residency period the selected artists are invited to produce a new site-specific intervention/installation for this area.
Artistic disciplines desired: the two residences are open for visual artists and architects with an interest in urban topics with a critical and creative perspective on architecture, urban planning, cultural heritage, community spaces & public spaces.
Link to website: ECRN, European Creative Rooftop Network https://ecrn.city/open-call-for-rooftop-artist-residencies/
Stairs up to the entrance of Frölunda Culture Center and the new green rooftop. View from south east.
Frölunda Kulturhus is located in Västra Frölunda, a stone’s throw from the shopping center Frölunda square and next door to Positivparken, which is a fairly large green area with, among other things, an outdoor gym, park stage and staffed playground.
Kulturhuset was inaugurated in 1980 and has since run a diverse business. The special thing about Frölunda Kulturhus is that there is, in addition to libraries and cultural activities for all ages, also a swimming pool, as well as a gym and sports halls. Café Kultan (the culture house was called / is called ”Kultan” by visitors) is the culture house’s café, which has been run under its own auspices for some years. From the beginning, there was also a high school in the house, Frölundagymnasiet, which for a long time was one of Gothenburg’s largest high schools for the number of students. With the free choice of school, the number of students gradually decreased and in 2010 the business had to be closed down – Sweden’s focus on privatization of the school system put an end to Frölundagymnasiet.
When the building turned 40 the vast flat roof was not just renovated but refurbished with several types of greeneries, storm water retention, solar panels, stairs and elevator to public terrasses. The flying wildlife was the first to inhabit the new roof. Now, post pandemic, it’s time for us humans.
Frölunda Kulturhus is very much a result of 1970s cultural policy; culture would not only be a matter for the city center but would enter into people’s living environments, into everyday life. In a municipal preparation, KUB69, which was adopted by the municipal board in 1973, it is said that cultural policy should promote mental and physical health, social justice and create conditions for free information and debate. The preparation pointed to the cultural disparity of the cultural audience, almost ”uncultured outer areas” and also the difficult situation of cultural workers. For the national cultural policy, the 1974 culture bill had a great impact for a long time. Key concepts in the bill were freedom of expression, decentralization, equality, artistic renewal and care of cultural heritage.
The bill had a wording to ”counteract the negative effects of commercialism” something that caused political disagreement (until a new culture bill was presented and hammered out in 2009).
The need for a high school and a library in the growing area was a strong contributor to the creation of the culture house. (Kulturhuset’s largest activity room for concerts, cinemas, theater performances, etc., the Great Hall, also functioned as Frölunda High School’s auditorium and writing hall). This, together with the municipal political decision to bring the culture to the outer areas of the city as well, led to the culture house being built in the end. After many years of planning, the culture house was inaugurated in March 1980.
The place where the culture house was built was popularly called ”Glasberget” and was a gathering place for the alcoholics of the time. The mountain is said to have been full of broken glass after beer and liquor bottles. The architect John Snis was commissioned to design the culture house and his vision was that the house would shine as a friendly and inviting lantern on the mountain and spread its light over the surroundings. Snis wanted visitors to experience the proximity to what is outside the house. The contact with the outside also makes it easy to orientate oneself in the building, whose long indoor pedestrian streets run at an angle through the house.
1% of the culture house’s construction cost was set aside for artistic decoration. Visitors can go on their own art walk in the house and see the works of art that still feel relevant today.
Kulturhuset’s program activities have for over 40 years offered theater and dance performances, concerts, lectures, exhibitions, cinema and various forms of creative activity for all ages.
The activities at the culture house have always been open to inquiries from artists, performers, associations and more, who want to show or perform something in the house’s premises. Both amateurs and professionals are welcome. This is part of the culture house’s core business and the producers for the program business contribute with their professionalism. Kulturhuset’s different parts of the business have always collaborated with each other and collaborated on different programs and themes.
The culture house also has a national figure center that organizes an international figure festival every two years. Attached to the center is a reference library for puppet and puppet theater.
In the old bamba room, Frölunda High School’s former student canteen, a project is currently being run with the support of the General Heritage Fund, La Bamba. The target group for the project is older, + 65. Creative workshops, IT knowledge, singing, musical entertainment and lectures, relevant to the target group, are the project’s activities.
Frölunda library, which is located just inside the main entrance to the culture house, is the second largest municipal library in Gothenburg. Here are rich opportunities for everyone who seeks knowledge and entertainment. Books in all forms for children, young people and adults, newspapers and magazines, public computers, videos, reading and writing rooms, language cafés and special media aimed at different groups with disabilities are available. The library also has its own program activities.
The newest thing about the culture house is the green roof with different biotopes, solar cells and a large roof terrace that will be the house’s new outdoor arena for cultural programs, and more. The roof offers a fantastic view of Frölunda’s architecture and green areas.
Kulturhuset is a meeting place for all forms of culture and for all ages. It is a lively and welcoming place, with a lot of activities and people in motion. It is also a living room for those who just want to soften for a while, here you can sit down and do nothing.
Library at Frölunda Culture Center
Entrance Hall and stairs to the rooftop
Frölunda Kulturhus is located in the western parts of Gothenburg, in the postcode area Västra Frölunda, which until 1945 was its own municipality. Västra Frölunda consists of several districts. Kulturhuset is located in the district Frölunda which is close to the coast in an area that until the end of the 1950s was agricultural. An estimated 17,000 people live in Frölunda today. There are over 100,000 people living in the whole of Västra Frölunda.
The culture house is located on a rocky hill in central Frölunda. The first farms in Sweden were often established on rocky mountains because the land there was nutritious and easy to cultivate, and along the edge around the hill of the culture house was previously a number of smaller farms that made up Ekebäck’s village. The farms remained until construction began on multi-family houses in the early 1960s. Today, only one house remains from what was
Ekebäck’s village, and it is located right next to the culture house.
View from sout east near the Frölunda Square and the shopping center.
People probably came to the area in Västra Frölunda relatively soon after the last ice age ended. 8,000 years ago, the area was a leafy place rich in fish and animals to hunt.
Agriculture and animal husbandry came to Sweden and Frölunda about 5,000 years ago. Remains from both hunting communities and early agricultural communities have been found in the surroundings.
There are also tombs left from ancient times in the form of burial mounds and other graves. Remains from an ancient castle from the Iron Age (500 BC – 1050 AD) are found at a height only 700 meters from the culture house.
Over time, the villages in the area grew, largely due to the fact that it was so fertile and that the fishing was good. Västra Frölunda has been in both Swedish and Danish ownership. Many wars took place in the border areas and the area has, until the peace in Roskilde in 1658, been a place for battles and ravages. The troops plundered the inhabitants and it was common for the armed forces to use the tactics of the scorched earth, which periodically made it difficult to live in the area. Many were forced to leave their farms and seek refuge elsewhere. But it was not just misery in the past. During the herring fishing periods, for example, which have come at regular intervals, the area has been rich. The unmistakable stench from the trancokerier are said to have been heavy over the villages, but the income was large. Fishing has long been an important source of income for the population.
For a long time, the land in Västra Frölunda was covered by oak forests. But oak was something that the Crown needed, among other things, to build warships and buildings, but also for firewood. Finally, sometime in the 17th century, the forests were completely cut down. In older photographs from Frölunda, you can see that the hills in the area are only sparsely vegetated, mainly with low bushes. At the end of the 19th century, a replanting of the felled forests throughout Sweden began. Today, there are plenty of lush natural areas very close to the culture house.
As early as the early 20th century, the city of Gothenburg began to look towards Västra Frölunda. Plans to build the city to the west began to take shape. The idea of building a new and modern district in Frölunda had already started when the district became part of Gothenburg. After the Second World War, Gothenburg developed as an industrial city. The port is growing, the shipbuilding industry and companies such as SKF and Volvo are expanding. The future looked bright, but the housing shortage was great and the standard of housing was low. In order to get land for housing, Västra Frölunda was incorporated in 1945. Better-off people wanted to belong to Gothenburg and pushed to become part of the city, while fishermen and farmers wanted Västra Frölunda to continue as its own municipality. The former were more and won when there was a vote to join or not to join Gothenburg. Much of the agricultural land in Frölunda was soon expropriated by Gothenburg. Opposition to this was strong from the farmers, and the payment for the land was often low. There are many stories of how desperately the farmers fought against the expropriations. At the end of the 1940s, the town planning director, Tage William-Olsson, outlined a plan for Frölunda. It shows a building that has been carefully adapted to the landscape. On a sketch that is preserved goes cows among the high-rise buildings with preserved agriculture among point and panel houses. But the master plan for Gothenburg, which came in 1959, does not follow those ideas. Instead, more is invested in car roads and a large shopping center in the middle than in maintaining agriculture. The focus was probably on the United States and the idea was that all families would own their own car. During the early 1960s, Frölunda was expanded into a modern, well-planned and orderly outer area. The district’s location by the sea and the proximity to central Gothenburg, with excellent public transport, has made it an attractive district to live in. The large shopping center, Frölunda square, may also contribute to many wanting to live in Frölunda.
Growth after the Second World War was great and allowed for a number of social reforms and raising the standard of living. Sickness, unemployment and poverty would be eliminated, among other things, through extensive housing construction. The period after the Second World War and up to the oil crisis in 1974 was characterized by stable growth without major economic crises and with steady inflation. It was decided that a very large number of homes would be built per year to remedy the current housing shortage, abolish overcrowding and raise the housing standard. The residential areas that were built were often planned with commercial and community services, public transport, recreational facilities, cinema, workplaces, schools and even churches.
Everything in Frölunda was not completed at once. That it took time before public transport worked well was a problem for the newcomers. But the move from central Gothenburg with small outdated and worn apartments that were heated with coal or gas, without hot water, laundry, and with shared outdoor toilet in the yard, to a brand new and modern apartment in Frölunda meant a big positive change for most people.
The variety of 1960s buildings in Frölunda is large with many shape experiments such as star-shaped and concave houses. The build quality is often high and the variations in material selection externally are large. The houses are located and built based on the idea that everyone should have a good view and that daylight should enter the apartments from preferably more than one direction. The majority of the houses are point houses and panel houses from three to twelve storeys high. House in the park is the basic idea, but with the increasing motoring, there were also several major thoroughfares straight through the area. Car-free walkways, subways, footbridges, motorways and parking lots were built at the homes.
Large parts of the traditional folkhem policy, such as the active social housing policy, has undergone major changes since the 1980s and the question is if it’s to be phased out completely.
Since the turn of the millennium, many new residential buildings have been built in Frölunda. There is a shortage of land in Gothenburg and in Frölunda the densification is great. The newly built buildings are creeping ever closer to each other and also the original 60’s buildings with the result that the city planners ’and architects’ original visions of light and space for the residents have more or less been erased.
With the current housing policy, there is also a gentrification of the area. If a tenant moves out of a rental apartment, the apartment is immediately renovated, with the result that the rent is then increased, perhaps even doubled. Most of the houses being built in the area are now condominiums and a small number of rental apartments. The latter then with very high rents. The current political government in Gothenburg is working for a sale of the public housing (Allmännyttan), ie the municipally owned housing companies, to private property owners or alternatively converted into condominiums. As a result, many who have lived in their apartment for many decades are now forced to leave their homes. Even during the previous political rule, there was some sale of the public utility to private interests, including venture capital companies. The housing shortage in Gothenburg is now again great and more and more people are finding it difficult to afford their own housing.
The commercial service has also been expanded. The large indoor square, Frölunda square, which was inaugurated in 1966, has been expanded and changed. Frölunda’s varied 60s architecture has been considered worthy of preservation and cherish. How it is with it now is difficult to say anything about. With densification, demolition / threat of demolition of interesting architecture and with new in terms of alien houses sandwiched on small areas, the area’s total architectural value may not be so high anymore.
From the time that the modern Frölunda began to be built more than 60 years ago, the turns have sometimes been taken when it comes to both the city plan and the architecture. There are also occasional examples of the newly built houses also having an interesting design. A small residential area, Äppelträdgården (apple orchard), won the Swedish Architects’ Housing Award 2011 for its architecture. But architecture, urban planning and a culture house can not erase that the Frölunda / Tynnered area is strongly segregated. For many years, social and economic injustice and inequality as well as psychosocial ill-health have been evident in the area.
Frölunda Culture Center – the new rooftop with the public roof terrace, solar panels and green roof areas View from south east.
Frölunda Culture Center – rooftop. View from north east.
Frölunda Culture Center – rooftop. View from north east.
]]>