TY - JOUR

T1 - Non-site welfare landscapes on-site

T2 - curated displays of transformed social housing estates

AU - Braae, Ellen

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2020 Landscape Research Group Ltd.

PY - 2021

Y1 - 2021

N2 - Exhibitions are anything but a neutral; they may affect the ‘reality’ they mirror. As such the exhibition is an ongoing, open product of research that is always researching research itself, but that is also affected by and affecting politicised agendas. This article focus on the large open spaces—the welfare landscapes—of the Danish 1970s social housing estate, Gellerup and Toveshøj, currently subject to ‘radical’ transformation and displayed in its most crucial location, i.e. the site itself. I reflect on the culture of display when an exhibition is interacting with what it displays providing a theoretical framework drawing on concepts such as Smithson’s site/non-site, the Gesamtkunstwerk—played out in a neoliberal context—and international fairs like the IBA. Moreover, the built and displayed transformations spur reflections on the sliding changes of the welfare concept itself and how that is mirrored in the conducts and ethics of display.

AB - Exhibitions are anything but a neutral; they may affect the ‘reality’ they mirror. As such the exhibition is an ongoing, open product of research that is always researching research itself, but that is also affected by and affecting politicised agendas. This article focus on the large open spaces—the welfare landscapes—of the Danish 1970s social housing estate, Gellerup and Toveshøj, currently subject to ‘radical’ transformation and displayed in its most crucial location, i.e. the site itself. I reflect on the culture of display when an exhibition is interacting with what it displays providing a theoretical framework drawing on concepts such as Smithson’s site/non-site, the Gesamtkunstwerk—played out in a neoliberal context—and international fairs like the IBA. Moreover, the built and displayed transformations spur reflections on the sliding changes of the welfare concept itself and how that is mirrored in the conducts and ethics of display.

KW - apparatus of security

KW - Landscape architecture exhibition

KW - social housing estate

KW - urban transformation

KW - welfare landscape and welfare ideals

U2 - 10.1080/01426397.2020.1808955

DO - 10.1080/01426397.2020.1808955

M3 - Journal article

AN - SCOPUS:85092530239

VL - 46

SP - 542

EP - 557

JO - Landscape Research

JF - Landscape Research

SN - 0142-6397

IS - 4

ER -