The Negotiation Stack – A Hybrid Civic Center for Plural Narratives

Sammanfattning

In this project I investigate how architecture can give form to an institution that creates the conditions for negotiation between competing narratives. It is situated at Sillhovstomten, the contested site behind the Nationalmuseum in central Stockholm. The failed Nobel Center proposal on this site revealed that it is not an empty void awaiting to be filled, but a place where different political, cultural, and social values already confront one another. Rather than resolving these frictions, I understand them as the defining condition of the contemporary democratic city and try to spatialize them through this project. Through historical analysis, institutional critique, and architectural exploration, I propose a new civic institution centred on production, encounter, and exchange. It operates through changing residencies, maker spaces, exhibitions, and public programmes that continuously overlap in time and space aiming for the master narrative to remain permanently open to reinterpretation. The intervention takes a step back onto the water, positions itself as a field of negotiation behind the Nationalmuseum and aims to reinterpret Sillhovstomten as an atrium in between these two institutions.