A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
Assembling welfare landscapes of social housing: lessons from Denmark
This article makes a case for reappraising the designed landscapes of post-war social housing as welfare landscapes to inform current debates, policies and practices regarding social housing and its renewal. We look back at the development processes of three Danish estates which literally materialised the emerging welfare state in concrete, asphalt, plantings and earthworks. Guided by actor-network theory we recount how their landscapes materialised as multiscalar socio-material assemblages. We show that non-human things played a crucial role in the development of welfare landscapes which focused on child welfare and community development, offered architectural and ecological diversity, and co-shaped the urban landscape beyond the individual estates. Understanding welfare landscapes as socio-material assemblages does not only acknowledge the role of non-human things in their historical production. Ultimately it also calls for the inclusion of the welfare of non-human species and may offer inspiration for developing future welfare landscapes for more than humans.
Assembling welfare landscapes of social housing: lessons from Denmark
This article makes a case for reappraising the designed landscapes of post-war social housing as welfare landscapes to inform current debates, policies and practices regarding social housing and its renewal. We look back at the development processes of three Danish estates which literally materialised the emerging welfare state in concrete, asphalt, plantings and earthworks. Guided by actor-network theory we recount how their landscapes materialised as multiscalar socio-material assemblages. We show that non-human things played a crucial role in the development of welfare landscapes which focused on child welfare and community development, offered architectural and ecological diversity, and co-shaped the urban landscape beyond the individual estates. Understanding welfare landscapes as socio-material assemblages does not only acknowledge the role of non-human things in their historical production. Ultimately it also calls for the inclusion of the welfare of non-human species and may offer inspiration for developing future welfare landscapes for more than humans.
Assembling welfare landscapes of social housing: lessons from Denmark
Jessen, Asbjørn (author) / Tietjen, Anne (author)
Landscape Research ; 46 ; 474-494
2021-05-19
21 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
Unknown
European mass-housing welfare landscapes
| Taylor & Francis Verlag | 2021
Welfare landscapes between individuality and communality: social housing in Albertslund Syd
| Taylor & Francis Verlag | 2021
Non-site welfare landscapes on-site: curated displays of transformed social housing estates
| Taylor & Francis Verlag | 2021
Layered Landscapes of Welfare Values – Revisiting Køge Bay Beach Park in Denmark
| Taylor & Francis Verlag | 2022
social housing - Welfare Casabella
Online Contents | 2009