Cathedral of Folk Stories

Sammanfattning

In a literary exercise of free associations, this project explores a method of design; playing with the stories of a site to create a drama of characters. New fictions are constructed for Stadsgården, and structures are designed to host these fictions. The characters are based on reflections on the site’s stories; past, present and imagined. Taking source material from writings, paintings and photographs of the area, the characters are imagined standing along the site as an infrastructure and as a performance. They are specific structures designed for to accept the unusual. In Foucault’s terms, they are heterotopias of deviation. They embody stories that are particular to the site and relate to common themes in folk storytelling. The allegories and fables spread out across the site form a symbolic space for the city’s imaginations. A cathedral of folk stories.