More-than-human infrastructures in Spångadalen

Sammanfattning

Spångadalen is a part of one of Stockholm’s biggest green structures - Järvakilen. Järvakilen is, in turn, a part of Järvafältet, a big field that up until quite recently was a military training field. This was until the Million Housing Program was put in place in the early 1970’s as a part of creating the Swedish welfare state, when Tensta and Rinkeby were built. The goal of the program was to build away the housing shortage and to create good housing for everyone. The human was at the center of attention. Spångadalen is one of the few green patches left connecting Järvafältet with the rest of Järvakilen. Today, we do once again have a housing shortage and Stockholm municipality has plans on building more units in Spångadalen. The green structure would once again be at a second priority. There are also plans on building a stormwater park in the area. Flooding is on the other hand a human construction, conceptually and realistically, since we are the source of climate change with one of its effects being heavier precipitation. Water is, as we know, the life sustaining substance for all forms of life on Earth. Could there not be a way of creating possibilities with water, instead of seeing it as a danger that requires risk-maintaining measures? As an experimental response and critique to our anthropocentric world-view and current exploitation plans, this project puts the needs of the more-than-human first, exploring a way of treating landscape as something that is as much the property to itself and its fauna, as it is to humans.