Planning project 2020 - Lokstallarna part II

THE TEEN PHASE

LOKSTALLARNA

When stepping into Lokstallarna you’re hit with the striking feeling of entering something both other and familiar. A character where the old lay cast aside, while new things rise from the ground. The historical layers mingle with the contemporary, and buildings from different eras are embedded in the impression of the wild and abandoned. Even so Jernhusen, the landowner, has managed to fill the buildings with small scale businesses that discreetly but heartfully populate the site during the day.

When stepping out of Lokstallarna you’re in the city of Malmö, a harbour city in southern Sweden with a growing and young population. But you are also, more immediately, in the area of Kirseberg which is described as “the small city in the big city” and has a strong tradition of local involvement that creates a sense of community.

Lokstallarna faces the question of how the industrial heritage can mature into the modern world. We don’t need to freeze time and treat the remains of old as rigid relics in order to celebrate the cultural heritage. Instead, we could let ourselves be inspired by the materials, functions and working tradition of the site and give it the opportunity to coexist and help fulfil important functions of today.

There are always conflicting interests involved in the future use of an urban site. The higher the price of the land and centrality of the site, the louder the voices for construction of housing. The benefit of densification is to utilize the resources within the city and slow down the sprawl. However the democratic values of the city’s public space run the risk of being neglected. Thereby Jernhusen together with Malmö stad, has an opportunity to cherish public space with the help of people’s involvement.

If the site is to reach its full potential and grow up with its core intact, people must be encouraged to take part in it. For this reason we propose a more dynamic development of the site. One that is more cautious and temporary than the normal development process as implemented in Il de Nante’s Plan Guide and the work with Frihamnen, Göteborg. The generous space at Lokstallarna has an opportunity to be used by a heterogeneous public in the temporal phase in order to develop the site from below and protect the right to public space.

THE SITE

Lokstallarna is going through a phase of change and questions itself what it will be in the near future, when the city of Malmö wants to grow and make use of all the “empty” urban spaces. The site was long fenced off from the public. While it today has been opened up, it is still difficult to access due to the surrounding barriers such as the railway, industrial areas, streets with heavy traffic and the fact that there’s only a single, anonymous entrance. From the history of the site combined with current use comes an unique appearance with an array of contrasting spatialities, scales, materials, and for central Malmö an unusual spaciousness. It’s all wrapped in the romantic notion of nature reclaiming man-made space, even though the trace of human recklessness is still present in the form of heavy metals and pesticides in the ground.

THE TEENAGER

The teenage years are a time of confusion. You’re stuck between childhood and growing up in a period when you’re under physical and psychological change. The change is highly influenced by connections you make with the people you love, hate and look up to who shapes how you handle the process of finding yourself and growing up. On top of, or maybe because of this turbulent time in life, teenagers as a group are frequently misunderstood and underestimated by society- and even being seen as something unwanted on public sites.

SITE = TEENAGER

There is an unexpected likeness between Lokstallarna and the teenager, the most obvious being that both the site and the teenager are in a process of change; momentarily standing between more defined phases of their life. They are in their current state - Changeable. In both Lokstallarna and the teenager, there’s a need for Connection - to break the enclosing barriers and cooperate with people who are involved in them and care. Both have Concealed Qualities there to find for the attentive observer and deserving to be made visible, to be celebrated, instead of shoved to the side. Lokstallarna is entering its Teen phase; and needs a guiding hand to embrace its Changeability, Concealed qualities and need for Connection in order to thrive into its own person.

PHASES FOR CHARACTERISTICS OF TIMES

Time is often visually described as a repetitive but reassuring circle or as a constantly progressing line accompanied with a definite start and endpoint. The changeable characteristics of the Teen phase do not obey a conventional timeline but turns and loops and twists in unpredictable directions. By viewing time more as a process-based spiral we combine the most beneficial elements from both the circle- and line- perspective. This view accepts mistakes being made and allows us to step backwards in a project, relearn and improve.

Because of this, three phases are proposed: the Startup phase, the Teen phase and the Adult phase. These phases don’t work as conventional time-bound phases but seek to explain certain characteristics of times rather than the measures of time. In this way, the three phases allow for our inputs to process with the site for the amount of time they need.

The Startup phase works like an ignition, inputs are here added to spark activities that continue to process in the temporary Teen phase. The Teen phase is a temporary period, not bound by time but by change. Inputs are added, adjusted, removed and improved until the input has matured and allow permanent structures to be set in motion. When the turbulent Teen phase enters something more permanent and stable it passes into the Adult phase. In the future the circular Adult phase might be disrupted and therefore enters a kind of teen phase again. But for now the circle is repetitive and reassuring.

Influenced by the conceptual values: Changeability, Concealed Qualities and need for Connection we concretized the vague words into a strategy meant to ignite actions leading to alternating processes. The strategy is made for urban areas that are physically or mentally closed off, the type of site that although centrally located is not used by the public. This kind of site is struggling to find its purpose in a temporary time of turbulence which we call the Teen phase. This kind of site needs help to encourage spontaneous use from different user groups while making the most of the precious urban land.

The strategy consists of four categories showing the kind of action needed to start a maturing process of a site. Each category deals with a specific issue and directs you towards a desirable process. The categories are the following: Source the site-specific qualities, Inputs that creates spatial connection, Inputs that encourages people to impact the site and Inputs that attracts people. As the titles suggest, the categories further direct to different types of physical interventions which we’ve decided to call Inputs. The Inputs are design and planning proposals, customized to fit each site and thereby differing in both types and amounts.

Although the strategy could be applied in four subsequent steps, the thought is to implement a mix of inputs gradually over time. This allows the site design to be adjusted after evaluation.

Working with a site in a dynamic way through gradual transition means that the site specific qualities can be utilized in an active and responsible way where values acquire a meaning and function in the future use of the site without conserving time. The site is filled gradually with functions, activities and commitment to be compared with a conventional process then the new is applied like a predetermined template. The commitment coming ”from below” gives an opportunity to attract different user groups. When the area is formed dynamically, you can learn from mistakes, and take a step back that can lead to new insights and improvements.

Group 5

Johanna Wahlström Lisen Hendeberg Tove Mellerby

THE CONNECTION BETWEEN - Concept, Phase, Strategy & Input

THE TEEN PHASE

A schematic visualisation over how time can be experienced when working with a searching learning proces as a form of site developent.

Startup phase

The entire process can visually be described as beginning with a spark or idea which leads into...

Teen phase

...a three-dimensional, turbulent spiral, the Teen phase. Where you learn from your experiences.

Adult phase

STRATEGY

After time this phase enters a more permanent state, a continuous circle, that we call the Adult phase.

STRATEGY CATEGORIES

During the Teen phase one can follow a strategy of four categories:

Source site-specific qualities

This category is initiated by specialists relevant for the site. It aims to ensure that the site specific qualities are inventoried and made an active part in the planning and design. Preferably in a way that highlights and benefits from the sourced qualities in both aesthetics and function.

Inputs that creates spatial connection

The inputs in this category serve to connect the site to the surrounding city and areas while also enhancing the moveability on site. Infrastructure and public transport naturally falls on the municipality while spatial connection within the site concerns the site owner.

Inputs that encourages people to impact the site

This category encourage people to make physical actions on the design of the area. Landscape architects (LARCH) work together with a group representing the public to start up the inputs and is responsible for following up on the data. The category will invite the public to participate in forming the cityscape and it’s future. This will also lead to making involved decisions on what permanent structures to put there in the future.

Inputs that attracts people

Temporary occurrences to attract new people and let them discover the site. This will create connections between people and the site, but also create connections between people. The site owner is responsible for this category.

HOW THE STRATEGY WORKS AT LOKSTALLARNA

INPUTS

To deepen the understanding of our concept as the teen phase, and our strategies we’ve chosen eight inputs, four inputs will be described more in depth. They all aim to make an impact on people and allow people to make an impact on the site. The inputs create involvement in a searching developement process.

The open switchyard

To describe how to source site-specific qualities we present The Open Switchyard. This input creates a relation with the place and new knowledge. It impacts on the environment and the future. The Open Switchyard both highlights and makes use of the rail-tracks and it’s current perennial succession stages.

Entrances

The inputs that create spatial connection is exemplified with Entrances that open up the area. It connects the place with its surroundings.

Changeble furniture

To encourage people to make an impact on the site we’ve added Changeable furniture which enables people to make a mark on the site by relocating furniture sized boxes in prefered arrangements.

Event space

An earmarked area for Events such as Markets and Food trucks. This input serves to attract people on an occasional basis and create a temporary but sustaining interest around the site as new people discover it.

The first mix of inputs on-site should incorporate most of the inputs from the categories Source the site specific qualities and Inputs that creates spatial connection as without these, important values on site might be overlooked and would remain invisible and inaccessible for the public.

ACTORS

The following actors are involved in Lokstallarna:

Specialists

Landscape architects, biologists and maintenance staff are responsible for the switchyard and the phytoremediation process going on at the site.

Malmö Stad

Responsible for the streets and public transports connected to the site. The site is well connected to public transport. However a tunnel might need to be added under the railway for the site’s western entrance.

Landscape architects and the public Landscape architects (LARCH) are responsible for both the activation and follow ups as they initiate the projects and come with idéas for evolving the inputs. When the frame is set people will be encouraged to take part in it and also change and affect it.

Jernhusen

Jernhusen as a owner is responsible to initiate and maintain Lokstallarnas event space.

Inputs that creates spatial connection

Source the site-specific qualities

Inputs that attracts people

Inputs that encourages people to impact the site

SPECIALISTS

MALMÖ STADLARCH+PUBLIC JERNHUSEN

CONTEXT

The surrounding context of Lokstallarna is mixed and has many influences from different cultures. But larger areas that’s being used for interactive public involvement are few in both Malmö, and it’s surrounding cities.

ACTIVE INDUSTRIAL LANDWHAT THE SITE CAN USEWHAT THE SITE CAN GIVE DEVELOPED INDUSTRIAL LAND

Malmö is an old industrial city which is present in the city’s looks. Old industrial buildings from different eras can be seen in the city. There are primarily two ways that have been used when cherishing the cultural heritage.

1. Tearing everything down and building new buildings with a nod to the industry in choice of materials and names of streets etc. (Västra hamnen, Dockan, Cementen, Coops old bakery)

2. Restorate the old buildings and use the facade, add new buildings in industrial architecture. (Mobilia, Industrigatan, Johanneslust, Gamla chokladfabriken, Slagthuset)

We propose that the city in the future follow the second alternative, but also make something of the space while waiting for buildings to be constructed. Something that uses the time in between as a time for testing the area and public involvement to make more valid decisions when deciding the ratio in-between private and public.

PARKS

Beijers park and Bulltofta park are two parks with traditional character near Lokstallarna. Kirseberg as an area has close access to large green areas for recreation. Therefore there is not a need to build a new big park, in the traditional meaning, in the area.

There are plenty of remaining industrial areas within close proximity to Lokstallarna. A few, for example Limhamn harbour, The old Sugarfactory in Burlöv and Nyhamnen near Malmö C, are under the process of being developed. One could speculate that this trend will continue when Malmö expands in the future. While the large scale and spaciousness remain in modern industrial areas, the variation of material and architectural buildings have often transformed into standardised tin boxes, not commonly experienced as beautiful.

Malmö has a young and growing population. The population is multifaceted and heterogeneous. This could be used at the site, enriching it with a variety of ideas and practices.

The Kirsebergs spirit also seeps into the site. Enterprise, initiative, culture and working class grit united within the small scale.

To Kirseberg, Lokstallarna is a site to play with. An exhibition stage for the local businesses and cultural life. For the public here is an opportunity to get involved in themed communities; learning about phytoremediation in the Poison Forest and Open Switchyard, building their own movable, modular home within the temporary housing community or simply building and rearranging the changeable furniture - no strings attached.

Also to Malmö, Lokstallarna provides a playful and undemanding character, which also highlights the history. It’s an unique public setting with park spaces, but without the classical park-character. It is impactable, changeable and welcoming even if it doesn’t really belong to the public. The housing on site provides homes for a group of people not commonly planned for in freshly developed areas. 1 1 2

SOURCE THE SITE SPECIFIC QUALITIES: The Open Switchyard

SITE SPECIFIC QUALITIES

The open switchyard is today perceived as a vast open steppe. Your line of sight remains uninterrupted until it touches the pastel coloured buildings on the other side of the railway. The soft vegetation contrasts the remaining rails, steel structures and the site’s sturdy, industrial brick buildings and functions as a landscape in the background of the canvas. It is with its sandy and dry soil an unusual biotope, and a home to rare species, but without maintenance the area will progress it’s vegetative succession, entering first a shrubland-phase then a primary forest.

This input serves to preserve and maintain the switchyard. Including the experienced openness, sandy soil and rare species. The space will be defined in order to manage it.

DESIGN

Equipment will be added at the rail in order to promote the use of the place and thus bring about the necessary wear and tear to the benefit of a rich biodiversity. The old structures at the site are given a new purpose to keep them alive; they can be used for climbing, hammocks and swings. Moveable shelters placed on the rails adds a playful touch and invites visitors into the switchyard.

To keep it as a biodiverse steppe it is important to remove withered plants and clear the space from invasive species. To be able to maintain the area some parts will be allowed to proceed into primary forest in the outskirts.

REACHING THE END OF THE SPIRAL

As time goes by parts of the area will change appearance/look and use. Some parts are turned into housing areas, other into more forest like parts and a small part will be a playground.

INPUTS THAT CREATES SPATIAL CONNECTION: Entrances

The site is today closed off from the public by railways and fences and has only one entrance. To add entrances would create a more democratically accessible place that can be used and found by a variety of people from different areas of Malmö, not just when you walk on Södra Bulltoftavägen. This would also give access to the specific qualities that the site has to offer.

During the Teen Phase we create spatial connection by opening up entrances in the fence, after evaluation they are made more or less accessible. A possible way to evolve can be that the entrance is paved which would make this entrance go into the adult phase. The pictures show an entrance evolving over time by clearing and paving the ground. To approach the entrances this way would allow for a more sensitive approach that allows mistakes.

The entrances are placed to connect the roads outside the area with the ones inside it. They will further be painted to highlight the new area and tempt people to explore.

ROADS

In order to decide where to construct new roads and paths the roads and communication outside and inside the area are inventoried. The different roads inside the site are now connected with the outside, which makes Lokstallarna a shortcut and a place to meet and connect in order to create spatial connection. The first step is made by just making paths that are simply trimmed back grass. If used often the grass will be kept down and could be an indication to make this road a gravel road, and then paved with asphalt, and then a bike road and later on it can turn into a car road if needed.

DOTS

Pink dots painted on the ground. This inputs main purpose is to create interest and lead people into the area and around the site. The dots make it easy to navigate while they can steer people in a specific direction inside the area and also connect inputs to the network. As a temporary input worn dots indicate high use and enable evaluation on where to connect bike lanes to the area, for instance. The gradual wear of the color indicates the level of use.

INPUTS THAT ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO IMPACT

THE SITE:

SPATIAL IMPACT

This input will make people collaborate and enable them to make a direct impact on their surroundings.

DESIGN

Changeable furniture is basically plywood boxes in four different sizes with GPS-trackers to track them. The sizes are chosen by mimicking everyday furniture, chair-size, bar-chair-size,

INPUTS THAT ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO IMPACT THE SITE: Temporary housing

This input has two main purposes: To populate the site all around the clock which enables more activities and higher safety but also to test and propose an alternative approach to the housing drawn up in the masterplan.

The areas for temporary housing are divided into plots and public space. Jernhusen keeps the ownership of the land and makes the plots available to rent for people who want to build or place their own movable houses. Jernhusen also places

complete modules up for rent - adjustable depending on the popularity of the rentable plots. This input provides housing for people not commonly planned for in new residential areas. The temporality of it secures that it’s used by people who need it.

INPUTS THAT ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO IMPACT THE SITE: Poison

forest

These areas will work as a space to display environmental issues and inspire for change. Phytoextraction is used to help solve the issue with the polluted ground in the area. Here people get invited on a foot bridge to experience what polluted nature can look like and to help out working with the project to learn about the human impact on our world.

The people working there will wear hazmat suits and black/yellow tape will fence the area. Further there will be statues in the area that display the theme further. Different spots of the forest will then turn into different biotypes, like forest, meadow and moorland. In total the Lokstallarna area will accommodate high biodiversity. The pollution level will decrease over time, measurements are made on a yearly basis by the landscape architects and the connected community. Utilizing phytoremediation instead of removing the layer of polluted soil allows for the area to enjoy the nature of this area instead of bare ground.

INPUTS THAT ATTRACT PEOPLE: Eventspace

ATTRACTING PEOPLE

The purpose of the event space is to create an attraction to the area which allows new people to discover Lokstallarna and provide publicity for the site. It will be possible to apply to Jernhusen for using the event space for different causes, for example; markets, food trucks, music, theater, cirqus and more. Many of the proposed events offer food and drink which in turn encourage people to stay longer on site.

DESIGN

The old steel structures, asphalted ground and the platform at the actual area remains, but the ground of the entire reserved area is painted red. Lights and power outlets have to be added. In the adult phase those operations can turn into permanent restaurants, food stores, bars and galleries.

WHICH EXTERNAL FACTORS AFFECTS THE INPUTS, AND HOW THEY CORRELATE WITH EACH OTHER

The national environmental quality objectives concerning biodiversity gets more publicity in the local news and a large article connects the issue with places in Malmö which have invested in the conservation of biological diversity. It gets more visitors to the site and releases financial resources to the phytoremediation program (Malmö stad, SLU and Lunds university in a collaboration project.

Local musicians hold a concert at the event space. It gets really, really crowded. Also, last week during the farmers market stalls were put up far outside the area. It is evident the space needs to grow!

RELATION BETWEEN INPUTS AND THE OUTSIDE

A dry summer makes the steppe a magnificent sight, the phytoremediation process works out well and gets more attention från the public.

More and better lights at the entrances and inside the Lokstallarna area results in more people at the site even when it’s dark.

New regulations regarding simpler housing of a temporary nature comes from the government; more modular houses can move in the area in a short of time (user group: people who are in a housing queue can get temporary contracts while waiting for a permanent housing)

Suggestions are raised from a group of young people who want to build a soapbox lab on a small part of the switchyard. It coincides in time that the area of the steppe needs to be clarified and reduced due to high maintenance A temporary made soapbox track is being constructed by teens in the south part of the Open Switchyard.

Malmö University increases the number of students: Need for more student housing: MKB and Akademiska hus are allowed to introduce new modular houses in the area. Temporary houses are moved from one place to another because of construction of permanent hoses.

MFF is in a big final and matches are sent outdoors on a large screen at the event space. Many people visit and use the movable furniture to sit on. A phytoremediation process and the subsequent land survey in the southern part of the site is completed and provides space for more temporary homes in a previously empty part.

As a result of more houses, the entrances are increasingly used not only by pedestrians but also by cars and bikes.

Events attract people from far away and several new entrances are put into use.

A new pandemic appears and, due to the virus, events are cancelled but many people use the site as an outdoor living room where you are able to meet. It makes the collection of changeable furniture more spread out at dispersed locations.

The pandemic infection increases. Due to the virus, events are cancelled and other forms with less people are arranged at dispersed locations instead.

CONCLUSION

To what extent and in what kind of way inputs mingle with each other differ from time to time. The maps show how the area changes during the Teen phase and the spiral, consisting of all the inputs put together, visualizes how the decisions and knowledge gained in the process affect not only one spiral, but all of them.

We believe that by working with a site in this dynamic, spiraling, way specific qualities will be utilized actively and responsible. The values will acquire a meaning and function in the future use of the site. The site has been filled gradually with functions, activities and commitment which has allowed for a natural process of trial and error to give new insights. The commitment “from below” gives an opportunity to attract different user groups and make people invested in the site.

Tove Mellerby Lisen Hendeberg

Johanna Wahlström

Group 5

Building Friendship

What?

We are using our strategy Building Friendship to argue that when developing a site in the urban landscape, in particular industrial sites with a great cultural heritage, it is important to take the residents and people affected by the development into consideration. To let people’s thoughts and ideas take place in the meantime to create a more social sustainable and inclusive result. This becomes particularly important when studying Lokstallarna located in Kirseberg where the community is already very strong, eager and interested to be a part of the ongoing changes of the area. Residents of Kirseberg refers to themselves as living in “the small town in the big city” which is a great metaphor showing the strong community Kirseberg already has.

Our Building Friendship strategy aims to engage with the ongoing discussion and development strategy for Lokstallarna formulated in the ÖP from 2019. There is already a strategy formulated for the developing phases of Lokstallarna spanning over 30 years to create a new mixed residential area with schools, sport halls, a community park and allotment etc. For Lokstallarna the plan for the “end result” is already formulated. Still they call for a more inclusive development, wanting temporal elements and structures to form in the meantime and the people, engagements and inclusiveness to permeate the process. How people will get engaged in the meantime of the development is not formulated and this is where we provide our strategy Building Friendship.

Building Friendships aims to guide and formulate a strategy to how people can become an important part of the meantime in Lokstallarna to influence the development. By looking at Lokstallarna as a friend and the current qualities we hope to achieve friendship building between the site’s possibilities and the people. Through our strategy we also aim to create a transdisciplinary communication between stakeholders, professionals and the people.

How?

We have constructed our idea through the inspiration Plan Guide in Nantes - where the strategy for the was not to decide what was going to happen at step, but an open strategy for change and development people throughout the process. Through studying periencing the site, interviews with stakeholders, from lecture and literature seminars about democratic opment as a collaboration between people in an and finally the Halprin scores we formed our strategy.

Who?

Our main target for our strategy is the engagement people of Kiseberga affected by the development stallarna. We also address the current stakeholders; husen and Malmö City and planners. The aim is function as a support of resources, to provide knowledge enable communication in order to establish our the actual plan.

ÖP for Kirseberg 2019 p.46

Participation of Malmö residents with different needs and interests is important in formal and informal planning processes, for better anchoring and long-term sustainability. Strategies to get more people involved in urban development are needed, as well as arenas where people can act and collaborate. In the work with the overview plan, such involvement work has been carried out and it is important that it continues in a systematic way throughout the conversion process. In the nearby areas there is a broad commitment to the district. In Kirsebergstaden, there is a long tradition of strong community involvement and a special “Kirseberg spirit” that testifies to a strong local connection. A continuous analysis of how planning affects different groups, for example from a child, integration, gender and gender equality perspective, contributes to creating a city where everyone can feel at home and have their needs met.

Why?

We hope to accomplish a meantime for Lokstallarna with different friendships between the site and and that the friendships formed will create different projects, prototypes and developments. We hope contributing with this strategy of Building Friendship “end goal” formulated in the ÖP will be affected formed from the changes happening in the meantime. putting Lokstallarna in a greater context amongst parks and sites for people to activate and engage Malmö it’s clear that there are some very well known lic meeting points. These sites collectively create identity for the city; Pildammsparken, Folkets park, Slottsparken, Värnhem and Möllevångstorget for To give Lokstallarna a new strong identity through egy built on the public’s engagement the aim is stallarna into one of these identity building blocks of Malmö

Building friendship is a methaphore for changing Lokstallarna grudually over time

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Common hobbies Meeting

- Invitation every month

- New entrances

- Mobiliy path

Friendship Building

Inspired by how friendships are built and changed over time, we created a strategy for the meantime. We aim to achieve friendships between Lokstallarna and people. Initially to form a friendship the first step is to meet and find common hobbies. After an introduction different sort of friendships can be formed from hanging out together. The three different friendships we defined are based on the level of commitment and interaction between the parties; acquaintances, friends and best friends. These friendships can evolve over time through the stages from low commitment as acquaintances to high commitment as best friends. These friendships that forms can ofcourse over time lead to disappointment. Friendships can then be reevaluated by going back to the common hobbies phase. From different friendships that have formed with Lokstallarna, new friends will be introduced and the meeting between people and Lokstallarna happen again and again with a new friend during the meantime.

Introducing new friends

- Walk of senses

- The HUB

Friendships

Projects Ideas, drawings, models, discussion

Acquaintances

Hang out

Creating friendships in the HUB

Friends

Containers, events, physical contribution

Best friends

Change, refine and appropriate space

Dissapointment

Lokstallarnas Personality

To make our strategy of Building Friendships possible, it’s important to first analyze and assess who Lokstallarna is. We see Lokstallarna as one friend and just as a human Lokstallarna is a constellation of many different qualities. An important part of friendship making is connecting to both the physical and the psychological aspects of one’s personality. We have discovered these qualities through site visits, analyses and interview with stakeholders currently working with Lokstallarna. These qualities make up Lokstallarna as we experience the site today, but we reckon that they will change and develop over the meantime. More qualities might be added and some even dissipating.

Taste

Secluded Safety

The area has for a long time been closed off to the public. Still today it’s difficult to find the entrances, they are not very formal which makes the site feel somewhat secluded

Smell

There is in general very few elements at Lokstallarna inviting you to use your taste buds. There are some blackberry shrubs but not much more.

Phsycological Qualities

The site is not very populated today, for the most part it’s empty which leads to the feeling of being unsafe. The lightning is poor, making the area even more hostile at night.

Touch

In general, the textures at the site are dry, hard and grainy. The only contribution to a softer texture is the vegetation.

The site is very big and flat, the wind has therefore a significant presence at most parts of the area.

Wind Exposure

In general, there are few elements that smell intensely. But oil fumes, metal and subtle smells from the vegetation is noticeable.

The site is big, and most of the buildings today are not possible to enter. This makes its visitors much exposed to the weather; sun, rain, cold etc.

Vastness Sound

The area has a lot of open spaces with long lines of sight. It’s easy to get an overview of most parts of the site. The main noticeable sound the surrounding traffic trains. In certain spots moving through vegetation

sound at the site is traffic from both cars and the sound of wind vegetation is present.

Vegetation

There are a lot of different types of vegetation at the site. Mainly annuals, shrubs and some primary forest.

Industrial buildings

The cultural heritage at the site is emphasized by the old industrial buildings. They are all in different shapes and sizes scattered at the site.

Polluted soil

Because of the sites history, there is a lot of polluted soil at the site. The highest levels are located south of the main hall. Main pollutant is led. Because of the history of the site the train tracks once used have been left untouched since the industry closed.

Physical Qualities

Hard floor

Throughout the site there is a lot of asphalt left from when the industries were up and running. Over the year’s cracks have formed in the urban floor.

Traintracks

Location

In relation to Kirseberg, Lokstallarna is connected to the main road Södra Bulltoftavägen and only 10 minutes away from the city center of Malmö.

Acquaintances

As an initial step to start creating friendships we do a series of design interventions to welcome and open up the site to people. The focus will be on how to make them arrive to Lokstallarna and become acquaintances with the site.

To do so we firstly take over the main train building and create the HUB. This will become the center for Friendship Building. We also add clearly marked entrances at three strategic places. With this comes an orange marked path for mobility; a path that will lead people into the site and through it. This path enables accessible mobility and leads visitors from the surroundings with its orange marking like breadcrumbs.

Two more narrow paths made for slower phase are designed at the site to give people the opportunity to get to know Lokstallarnas personality through Site Scores. The difference in the two walks of senses is to easily highlight both the physical and the psychological qualities somewhat separated. In the physical walk the focus lies in the physical structures of the site but also engaging inwards in the visitors own imagination to solidify an understanding for how these physical elements connect to its surroundings and how it came about. On The psychological walk the focus lies in connecting outwards with all of your senses not only vision.

HUB

The HUB will work as the center where different acquaintances form, as well as friendships. The HUB will be an ever changing space for the needs of the projects formed during the meantime. Initially representatives from Jernhusen, Malmö City and City Planners will be stationed here, creating the supporting core of the HUB. As time passes people will join the HUB and friendships will be formed with the support from the stakeholder group. From the HUB invitations will be sent out monthly to different groups in the area. These people will then gather at the HUB to participate in getting to know Lokstallarna. This will be made through two walk of senses (with a complementary Site Score) shining light on the psychological and physical qualities of Lokstallarna.

Start up kit

- Jernhusen

- City Planners

- Malmö City

- Bathroom

- Fika /food/coffee

- Multiple gathering areas

- Work areas

- Information board

- Materials

- Tools

Mobility Path

The orange path is designed to enable accessible movement to and inside Lokstallarna.

Phsycological Path

A dark pink path encourages the people visiting the site to engage in a walk of senses to get to know Lokstallarnas psychological qualities. Along the path, markings will show how the visitors can use their five senses to experience these qualities. Through the different stops on the walk and with the support of the Site Score, all the qualities we found present at Lokstallarna today can be encountered.

Entrances

To attract more people to Lokstallarna and create friendships we emphasize the entrances. Big red portals are placed in three strategic entries to the site.

Physical Path

A light pink path encourages the people visiting the site to engage in a walk of senses to get to know Lokstallarnas physical qualities. Along the path the visitor will be led through the site’s different physical qualities, engage with their imagination and connect to it with the support of the Site Score.

HUB

Entrance

Mobility path

Phsycological path

Physical path

Friends

After the acquaintance phase, if the commitment is there, a friendship can be formed. In the Friends phase people take part in projects that are happening around the HUB. Our strategy aims at creating a social, activated Lokstallarna and there are some project we see can contribute to those goals. These are activities and element that should be added to Lokstallarna, but how and what they will look like is up to the people who join the projects to discover through the prototype we provide. The prototype consists of containers on wheels that will be placed on the current tracks, both inside and outside the HUB. Different projects will be allocated a number of containers. By color coordinating the containers it will be easy to see what projects are going on where. The containers move on wheels and can therefore be put in different constellations and areas on the tracks. Over time new projects other than the ones we suggest as a starting point can form. The containers themselves work as a framework and can be transformed endlessly to the needs of the project to create and investigate the ideas people have. When the Friend phase is over the containers can then be moved to and transformed at their more permanent location in the Best Friend phase, allowing more and new projects to take place on the tracks and in the HUB.

Containers

Outdoor Gym

Garden of Senses

Phytoremediation

Bathing Culture

An inclusive gym area for all agegroups. Taking care of the current polluted soil at the site. Adding activities that requires water.

Playground Agility

Creating a calm and laxed space for all through vegetation. An inclusive playground with fun and unconvenstional equipments. A fun and exciting dogs and humans with tiple hurdles.

Senses

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Square

A social outdoor meetingpoint with elements to contribute to conversation. A cluster of many options to grow crops and flowers.

Urban Farming

Other Initiatives

There will be opportunities for other unspecified projects to form in the meantime.

HUB

As time passes and more friendships are formed more people come to join the HUB. The core stakeholders and planers will support the onging projects.

Best Friends

At the Best Friend stage, the projects that have formed in the containers on the tracks move out to their allocated areas. These areas have been decided by looking at Lokstallarnas current qualities. When containers are moved to their more long-term area their content will appropriate a larger space than just the containers themselves, adjust to the area, spreading out and around. Only the projects that stood the test of time and are well liked by the people and stakeholders participating will be eligible for the Best Friend stage. By moving the containers to a more permanent area in the meantime the aim is to influence the current ÖP for Kirseberg and Lokstallarna. Maybe not all Best Friends will be taken into consideration as the area develop in line with the ÖP, but the aim is for some of these

Simulating Bathing Culture

The location for the Bathing Culture in the Best Friend stage is chosen by taking into consideration the qualities at the area. Here we found physical qualities; vegetation (shrubs) and hard floor (asphalt for supporting heavy structures). The psychological friends supporting the positioning are; secluded (by its location), sound (leaves moving) and touch (soft grass). The Bathing Culture will add and change the presence of qualities at the area. We speculate that the added activity of Bathing Culture will increase the presence of touch (of water) and sound (of water) and decrease the presence of secluded and unsafe (by more visitors).

Simulating Urban Farming

The location for the Urban Farming in the Best Friend stage is choosen by taking into consideration the qualitis at the allocated area. Here we found physical qualities; vegetation (shrubs and annuals), hard floor (asphalt for accessibility) and location (people in Kirseberg can quickly reach the area and harvest). The psycological friends suporting the positioning are; sound (leaves moving) and touch (soft grass and vegetation). We speculate that the addition of Urban Farming will increase the presence of smell (flowers), taste (crops) and decrease the feeling of unsafety (more people moving about in the area).

Disappointment

When the commitment vanishes or decreases in any of the levels of friendships it needs to be reevaluated. Disappointment can both be on an individual level, where a single person becomes unsatisfied in the friendship, or on a group level towards a certain project. On the individual level a disappointment is not too much of a defeat, as mentioned, a successful project that makes it all the way to the best friend stage should be able to stand the test of time which indicates that people involved can come and go and the project should still be able to move forward.

When it comes to disappointment on a group level it can be harder to reevaluate and move forward in the friendship stages. In order to allow disappointment to be a natural part of the building friendship strategy and to keep everyone at the Hub updated of the proceeding in each friendship, there will be an evaluation meeting every six months by the board located inside the Hub (a sort of friendship therapy). Representatives from the core stakeholder and the people involved in the different projects should attend those meetings. At these meetings questions regarding the friendships should be addressed; an evaluation of what’s been done in the last six months and what and where the different friendships are at and how they will continue.

In the acquaintances phase it’s easier to fall into disappointment because not a lot has been done yet. It’s also a part of this initial friendship phase to question and dismiss ideas to move forward in the friendship. If the friendship doesn’t develop it’s because sufficient commitment isn’t there. A reevaluation needs to be made between the group of people involved through discussion, workshops or if needed the support of the core stakeholders at the HUB.

In the Friend and Best Friends phase the stakes are naturally higher because the commitment has increased. If disappointment occurs it should be addressed at the six month meeting where representatives from the project and the support core of the stakeholder can reevaluate the friendship and decide if there is a way to move forward. If that is the case a particular action should take place to encourage the continued development of the project. This can be going back to earlier levels of friendship but also create an event, invite new people or take some time away. If there is no commitment on a group level to move forward the projects can be dismissed. Since our strategy aims to include and engage with the public it’s not seen as a failure that a friendship gets dismissed because it’s a reflection of the public and should therefore be taken into consideration. If no one wants to participate in a container or contribute with new ideas to a project, they can stop. If all the people participating in a project decides to abandon it, what’s been made doesn’t have to be completely lost. What remains can be reused in a new project or at a later time the same project can be restarted by new people who get to know Lokstallarna.

Frans + Lokstallarna

Frans is a 10 year old boy, he has lived in Kirseberg all his life together with his mom and sister. Frans just started 2nd grade this fall at Mölletofta in Kirseberg the year of 2020. One rainy day after school Frans hurries home as usual to play GTA on his computer. His mom Maria is like many other parents and doesn’t like Frans being in front of the screen all day. Maria usually tells Frans to be outside more, she even made him go to horseback riding classes last summer as a desperate measure to not have him sit in his room the entire leave.

This particular Wednesday afternoon was no different to any other day. When Frans walked out from the kitchen with a sandwich in hand, heading towards his room and computer, Maria looked at him with a smile and those raised eyebrows. A face Frans knew very well. “Why don’t you go outside for a bit and then you can play on your computer after dinner?” Maria said in an appeasing voice. Frans had learnt the tactics over the years and he quickly said “Yes, in a minute I’m just going to my room to grab...” mumbling the last words as he turned the corner, hoping his mom would have forgotten about it in a while. As Frans walked to his room he glanced through the hallway. On the countertop laid a shiny big envelope “what is that?” he thought. As Frans opened the letter he saw that it was an invitation for him to come to the HUB in Lokstallarna.

The following week Frans went together with Maria to the HUB. The meet-

the kids and parents were interested in participating in the different projects happening at the HUB. Frans and Maria had both grabbed a tuna sandwich at the fika shop in the HUB and Frans even got a soda, “mom must be in a good mood”, Frans thought. With the soda still in his hand, Frans and Maria went together with the other twentyfour participants (with ample distance between eachother due to the Corona Virus) to do the walk of senses. It didn’t take long for them to complete both of the walks and Frans had really enjoyed the different stops they made on the walk. It was especially fun when Frans had to lead Maria, as she was blindfolded, through the shrubbs in Lokstallarna. Frans had been tempted to lead her in the puddles on the ground, but he knew she had her new sneakers on and that he would be in trouble if doing so.

After the walk the group met up in the HUB again and it was explained that there was a project starting up to build a new playground and that they wanted kids of all ages to be a part of the project. Frans wasn’t sure exactly what it was and what they should do, but during the walk he had started talking to a few other kids from school whom he had recognised and they decided there and then to be a part of the idea. Maria had been thrilled that Frans wanted to be a part of the playground project. The idea for this particular project was for the kids to meet once a week.

The following two years Frans and his new found friends ed to build and create a playground with the yellow containers been allocated. Frans had felt like the big yellow containers was daunting at first but with the help from Torbjörn, a landscape they had started to make little sketches and models of their ideas playground together. Two carpenters, Lisa and Håkan and a welder working at the HUB had helped them with some of the big modifica of the containers. Frans had built a football goal with materials HUB with his new found friends. As the playground started to that same summer in 2021 Frans the other kids had come to the ers not only to build once a week but many times more to play train tracks and in the yellow containers after school and drinking the HUB. Frans sister Stina had come with him to play even if built a single thing in the containers.

When school had started after summer in 2022 Frans had est in the playground on the tracks. A lot of new kids had come yellow containers starting to build new things to play with, like climbing wall on one of the containers. Two years passed and go back to the HUB for a long while.

On a sunday in april 2024 on his way to karate klass Frans Lokstallarna, biking on the orange path passing the HUB like did nowadays.Thats when he saw that the yellow containers from the tracks to the other side of the HUB and were no longer train tracks. A big playground had been built but Frans still recognised that container he had helped build with the football goal. They container with another one and turned them into a big football the grass.

The following week when he was hanging out with his friend Frans had suggested going to Lokstallarna and play some football.

2020 Acquaintances

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fully they could find a football laying around somewhere in the HUB so they could play. Frans was right, in the one of the boxes in the HUB Ida had found a ball for them to play with and over the months following, more and more friends joined Frans and Ida. They even formed their own little football team Hubbe united.

When Frans turned 15 the next year him and his friends had started to hang out around the HUB at night more and more. The HUB was a fun place to meet new people and maybe try and flirt with some of the girls from other schools in Kirseberg, Frans had become quite popular since starting 7th grade. Maria had started letting Frans be out until midnight if he didn’t arrive home a minute late. Of course the HUB was closed at night but there were always teenagers hanging around in the square in Lokstallarna. That’s where he met Einar and Linnea for the first time. They were both 17 ye had proudly told Frans about the outdoor furniture they were sitting on at the square and that they had helped build them with some orange containers. “We are actually helping out to build a stage to put out here as well, do you want to help us? We meet every friday after school. You should really come! We have a band and how cool would it be to have a festival here next summer? said Linnea. Frans nodded quickly, he didn’t want to miss the opportunity to spend more time with Linnea.

2020-2024

2025 Best friends

LEARNING TO LISTEN

The project “Learning to listen” focuses on sounds in the city and noise in planning. Identifying sound as a starting point we want to open up discussions about the realities of life in the constantly changing and bustling city. It has proved valuable as a way of rethinking our own relation to and the shortcomings of methods used in planning today.

The main issue discussed is that in planning today sound is primarily considered as noise and is mapped in quantitative ways. Qualitative studies are rarely used, and we argue that some sounds, unique to today’s urban environments, are at risk of being overlooked and lost on sites marked for development. We see sound as an entry point into deeper discussions about issues of development and propose possible ways of how to consider sound in the city as more than noise.

WHERE Lokstallarna is described by many as an oasis. Even though it is wedged between train tracks, roads and industry, it has a different vibe to the rest of the city.

What makes this feel like a calm and different place in the bustling city? The sound!!

During this process of transformation that is planned out for Lokstallarna what is the soul of this place, and what soul do we create? How can we keep this feeling of oasis during what generally is thought of as a negative and loud development process? How do we enable stronger bonds between people not just when the place is built but also in the meantime?

Lokstallarna is often referred to as a calm and quiet place, but we have discovered that this is only true in its relation to the surrounding city. The duality of man-made and nature's sounds, the contrasts between different surfaces that either amplify or muffle sounds, and different perceptions of what pleasant or unpleasant sounds are, is what we recognized as valuable to the site's sound environment. These qualities could easily disappear during the building process and might not reappear when the place is built if they are not mapped out and taken into account in the planning of the site. Lokstallarna is often mentioned as an oasis. The rustling of trees and bird song amongst other things are a big part of the sound environment. How do we cherish this contrast from the surrounding city noises?

WHY Sound is something that constantly surrounds us. It influences our feelings and has impacts on our health. The urban sound environment is often characterized by bustling traffic, rumbling trains and loud construction. Loud constant noise from highways and railroads influences for example stress-level negatively, making it difficult for people to relax and unwind. But sound also has many positive qualities. Nature's sounds, such as the wind in trees, the sound of water and birdsong, are often experienced as relaxing and the sound of other people can help a lonely person feel less lonely.

Urban densification brings along a lack of free-space and quiet places are getting fewer and fewer. People in urban settings often have to handle stressful sound environments on a day-to-day basis without room for recreation in more natural sound settings. People most affected by these issues are often part of less well-off communities situated close to big and noisy infrastructure and industrial areas. Promoting and developing healthy soundscapes in environments close to these areas also increases social equality in the city.

Changes in landscape usually bring noise. But what is noise in the planning process? When we build we usually think of the nuisance of construction noises and big cars. In municipal plans for urban areas noise is calculated in regard to big infrastructures and human health. But what about the noise we live with every day and love? It is rarely discussed before a construction process is started or considered as an aspect of the meantime on site. Can we work with planning in ways that let small noises have big resonance?

Future planning processes need to consider working with existing unique soundscapes to seize their inherent values for creating a healthy urban environment. These soundscapes can also be a part of a site specific character that may disappear if not taken into account.

WHAT

The first step is to create a programme for "learning to listen". This is done by introducing three different and coexisting platforms: The Lab, the Agora and the Library. The Lab focuses on listening to the site through exploring and testing. The Agora's main purpose is listening to each other through dialogue and argument. The Library works with listening outward through transparency and communication.

These three platforms are stabilised by mediators who structure and lead the listening processes in collaboration. The platforms then involve different stakeholders and the general public in creating prototypes for working and developing their missions. All three platforms work in a participatory way and collaborate with each other as well as with platforms outside the site, aiming to form collaborative bonds and communications. In the prototype projects they define common questions with the aim of producing many answers.

WHO The Lab, the Agora and the Library are structured to involve an array of stakeholders: Jernhusen, Malmö stad, local residents, businesses, the allotment community on site and the public. Different prototypes engage different stakeholders with various overlapping formations.

Three mediators are chosen to have a continuous role in each platform. These mediators could be pedagogues, planners, project managers or something completely different. Their main task is to be available on the platforms and to keep the platforms active. They are also responsible for managing materials, expertise from outside and personnel that are needed for the different projects on site for different projects to function.

The first goal of the programme is to ignite discussion with and between citizens, the municipality and other stakeholders about sound environments in the city and how we can create healthy urban soundscapes. Further we see the possibility in sound as a starting point to support engagement and dialogue in wider questions about site development and the structurings of cooperation. Acting as a first step toward a wider awareness and cooperation in the development of a healthy living environment.

HOW Our strategy is both linear and cyclical. The three different platforms continually interact with and enrich each other. Circular movements happen within the platforms as well.

They have three different "whys" of working. TheLab has a participatory mission, gathering knowledge from and through diverse groups by inviting them into the projects. The Lab invites the wider public to participate in different workshops to develop the site in collaboration.

The Agora has a similar participatory structure as the Lab. The core of mediators engage the wider public and stakeholders (for example Jernhusen and Malmö city) into dialogue and discussion about development of the site. This can be based on for example discoveries made in the Lab or differing visions and expectations of the future in relation to the developing now.

The Library has a mission of broadcasting the generated knowledge outwards of Lokstallarna. This can happen through events such as exhibitions or installations but also by archivation of produced knowledge for further use. The aim of this is to invite bigger publics and include new perspectives continuously by acting as a doorway for engagement.

Sound is more than noise

Traditional ways of approaching sound in planning is foremost done in mappings and measurements of sound volumes keeping them in range of national guidelines for noise pollution. The municipality of Malmö has conducted two noise analyses of the city; one for railway and one for roads. In the map above they are overlaid to show a gathered mapping of noise in the city and on the Lokstallarna site. The mapping suggests that road noise influences a bigger area of Lokstallarna, covering almost the whole site. The railway, however, influences the sound environment with more intensity. Even though it's important to map unhealthy noise levels and their sources, this way of tackling sound in traditional city planning is both one-dimensional and problematic. The Malmö sound maps raises issues in the representation of

temporalities of sound as well as it's qualities. The mapping doesn't show for example how sounds at Lokstallarna railway sounds are more periodical, determined by train schedules and primarily comes from one direction. Road noise on the other hand is more continuous, fluctuating with traffic flows, and originates in many sources surrounding the site. A comparison could be the rumbling of a thunder cloud versus the rush of a river.

This kind of analysis also doesn't tell us anything about site-specific sound environments that contribute to unique characters of an area. Characteristics of sound and site specific qualities aren't mapped with the same precision and therefore are overlooked in planning today. As an example, many people refer to

Layered noise mappings from Malmö Stad

Lokstallarna as a quiet and calm place, which doesn't correlate with the municipality's noise analysis. What makes it feel calm, we discovered, is the vastness of the site and the way sound travels over and through it. The variation in high and low vegetation, soft and hard ground materials, distance between buildings and their dimensions all contribute to the unique soundscape of the site that is cherished by many. It's the openness and expansiveness that creates the feeling of calm. We argue that these unique characteristics are in danger of being "built away" with planned development and need not only to be considered but developed in the new activities that take place there.

THREE WAYS OF LISTENING Lab.

In our proposal we define three ways of listening for Lokstallarna. Three platforms are introduced with different perspectives on sound as a starting point. They all have a participatory mission, activating the site through prototypes that engage stakeholders and citizens in different ways. The platforms also collaborate with each other as well as with platforms outside the site, aiming to form collaborative bonds and communications. In the prototype projects they define common questions with an aim of producing many answers.

Agora.

Library.

Listening to site

In the Lab we focus on listeningtothesite This is done through explorationsandtestingaiming to cultivate knowledge on site. This is a way of continually getting to know the site as time passes and changes happen. This knowledge is gathered with people (citizens and stakeholders) through inviting them into different projects. There is a permanent group of mediators in the Lab that invite other collaborators relevant to developing projects. Together they invite the wider public to participate in different workshops to develop the site in collaboration. Proposed starting-point prototypes are Soundwalk, Sound Camping and Sound Workshop.

Listening to each other

In the Agora we focus on listening to each other This is done through dialogue and gathering aimed at discovering and creating knowledge between people inside and outside the site. The Agora builds prototypes aiming to ignite discussion forums for site development. We have identified development as: actions that make the site more accessible, public and open. The Agora involves the public and stakeholders in questions such as: What needs are there? This is first started by creating places where these needs can be defined and discussed on equal terms. The Agora has a similar participatory structure as the Lab. The core of mediators engages the wider public and stakeholders (e.g. Jernhusen and Malmö city etc.) into dialogue and discussion about development of the site directly and through prototypes. Discussions can be based on for example discoveries made in the Lab or differing visions and expectations of the future in relation to the developing now. Proposed starting-point prototypes are Round Table, Steam Room and Bulletin Wall. Later on, we also see the possible development of squares around clusters of prototypes.

Strategy diagrams.

Our strategy is both linear and cyclical. The three different platforms continually interact and enrich each other. Circular movements happen within the platforms, as well as between and with outside platforms.

Listening outward

In the Library we focus on listeningoutward.This is done through transparencyandcommunicationaiming to broadcast gathered knowledge outwards as well as archiving project results and documentation about development over time. This is a way of mediating site explorations and activities outward in ways that invite wider publics. It could be seen as a more direct and physical knowledge gathering over time, such as archiving and making available documentation of projects on site, but it is also a continuous and collaborative mapping of site during the meantime. This can happen through temporary events, such as exhibitions or installations, but also through the co-creational library archiving produced knowledge for further use and display of materials. The aim of this is to invite bigger publics and include new perspectives continuously by acting as a doorway for engagement. The Library also makes possible the distant engagement with Lokstallarna through media, with the broadcasting of the site radio. Proposed starting-point prototypes are Broadcasting Studio, Entrance Portals and Site Library.

Stakeholders

Stakeholder interests (estimated analysis)

Stakeholder involvment in creating prototypes

We believe it is important to use existing knowledge on site to explore and develop Lokstallarna in the future. For example In dis/course, a business local to Lokstallarna which specialize in art and media production, could be involved in the broadcasting studio prototype to help with equipment. There’s also the architect firm Edge that are interested in having a closer knit community on the site. Edge could be a part of the Agora structure and help develop the Square prototype in the later phase of the simulation, maybe by submitting design ideas. Other local businesses should also be a part of the Round table prototype in the Agora and the Exhibition and Gallery prototypes of the Library to broadcast their part in the everyday life of Lokstallarna.

The two stakeholders Malmö stad and Jernhusen would be good to involve in the Round table prototype as to make them an active part of the ongoing dialogue taking place in the Agora. These stakeholders should also be a part of the more structural prototypes like the Entrance portals and the Square. Involving the allotment community would help break the existing barrier between the allotments and the rest of the site. They could for example be invited to the sound walk and sound camping prototypes but should also be a part of the more social prototypes like the Waterless beach that is meant to act as a public lounge area on the site. We would also like to see them as a part of the Round table prototype. Some of the most important stakeholders in our model are the public and the residents of the adjacent areas. These two groups are a big co-producer and developer of almost all prototypes. We see the platforms as enablers for the wishes of the public and stakeholders in dialogue, but also as a sounding board, bouncing ideas back and forth.

PROTOTYPES

Sound camping

Sound Camping is a workshop where you stay at one spot for a longer time to deeper emerge in the atmosphere of a place. Proposed prototypes developed from practicing sound camping are Quiet Room or Noise Bath.

Quiet room

Quiet room is a structure with sound cancelling or stimulating materials for walls. The structure's walls block traffic noise and add or enhance surrounding natural sounds. Materials can be used on the ground and ceiling adding sensations of sand under your feet or the enhancement of rain falling on the roof. It aims to reset and deepen awareness of the senses, sharpening and relaxing them to enable the experience of environments outside on a deeper level. Quiet Room can also be used for relaxation, meditation and stress relief.

The tree (climbing structure)

A development of the Quiet Room is The Tree. The Tree is a multifunctional structure that builds on the idea of awareness of senses through functioning as a climbing structure as well as masking unwanted noise. Speaking to multiple senses through engaging the body in play. If sound isn't naturally masked, it enhances nature's sounds through loudspeakers to mask noise from trains and traffic.

Noise bath You emerge yourself into constant noise as a way of destressing. This is a way of externalising inner stress through noise meditation. This could be a dome amplifying the sound of the environment that rotates to enhance different sounds around it.

Soundwalk Soundwalks include walking across the site to experience soundscapes and exercise listening.

Proposed prototypes developed from practicing soundwalks are Waterless Beach and Path.

Waterless Beach

The Waterless Beach was developed from an experience on site. A father and his young child practiced walking among the ruderal vegetation and train tracks. This reminded us of walking in the shallow waters by the sea. The experience is amplified by the distant motorway imitating the swooshing of the sea. We create an area filled with sand, where we put beach chairs, parasols, a beach volley court and maybe an ice-cream truck.

Beach Meadow

A possible further development of the Waterless Beach. is reusing the sand in planting beds for dryland vegetation creating meadows on site.

The Path

The Path explores existing ground materials on site and tests new ones. The materials produce sound in contact with the body while walking. The soundwalk is developed to literally produce sound on site. It can be used to add variation and expand your experience on site.

Sound Workshop

Sound workshop is a workshop where people create and add new sounds and noises to the site.

Proposed prototypes developed from practicing Sound Workshop are wind chime installation.

Wind Chime Installation

A physical installation created during a sound workshop. Chimes are made from materials found on site and then hung around the site to make sound in the wind. It can develop into a permanent sound installation using metal structures present on site. The wind chime installation in itself was found difficult to simulate and develop further within the Lab in an exploratory and testing way. Workshops are therefore proposed to build on each other, possibly creating a negotiation between how permanent or temporary installations are. Possibly incorporating new ones into old ones and the other way around.

Round Table Round Table is a round raised platform that works as a gathering point to sit around or sit on. It can be placed both outdoors and indoors. Communication is primarily verbal and can be used for example as a meeting point, hangout spot and a stage for speaking your mind. It can also be used for speaking with the body through dancing for example.

Break Out Tables

In time we see a development of the Round Table in possible "break out tables" where more 'round tables' are put in around the site.

Square The Square prototype can be created through clustering together other prototypes around a space or through the location of target points for many on different sides of the square. The Square consists of primarily non-verbal communication through interaction with other people when walking across the square or sitting and observing. The Square can also be used for events to express oneself.

Steam Room

The Steam Room is a space for embodied communication. Activities are centred around talking through primarily other means than speech. In the stream room space, events and activities can be held. This is a space for dancing and music such as nightclubs or concerts as well as a space for different organizations, schools and their activities.

The Steam Room gives room for people to be more expressive with their whole body and create noise.

Bulletin Wall

A wall where opinions can be expressed by drawing, creating, writing. The Bulletin Wall enables the opinions to be drawn over each other creating a layering of them over time. The library takes a photo of the wall each day.

Broadcasting Studio and Site Radio

The Broadcasting Studio is a studio where the Site

Radio is broadcast from. Proposed is that it is placed in a train wagon on wheels that can be moved and used both outdoors and indoors. The radio and studio are mainly focused on communication and raises the importance of the creation of community media operating as an auditory pinboard for local events and site activities. The idea is to make feedback more open and transparent, happening less behind closed doors. Ideas for the radio are sound recordings such as train noises, soundwalks, site soundscapes. Site announcements such as updates on who is on the site and activities. Open feedback such as a call-in show with live open discussions. Malmö connections where relations to the rest of the city is discussed. Rise up daily slots for shows made by people for people. It could for example be part of schools' music and language classes, teaching kids to produce their own shows.

Webpage

The show and site info showcased on a webpage. Also building an open archive of past shows and themes. Radio tower (and outlook tower)

Radio- and outlook tower is a prototype that is built on the high chimney in Lokstallarna. The idea developed out of the Broadcasting studio and a wish for making a landmark on site. It sends out radio programmes and gives you the view of Malmö from above visually placing the site in an otherwise flat city. Giving back the view that you were once able to see from "Backarna" (the hills).

Entrance portals

Structures that enhance and mark entrances to the site that are not obvious and difficult to find today, such as holes in fences. They communicate an opening of the site around its edges and at the same time they acknowledge the entrances that people have made because they felt the need for them.

Site library

Is a library inside the big old workshop on site. It is continually built by the Lokstallarna community helping to archive and broadcast place development and activities.

Archive

A part of the library that archives the story about Lokstallarna's development.

Shelves Are used for storage of different archived materials.

They are built as modules that can be expanded when the need for that occurs. They use the height of the big train workshop building in Lokstallarna. To get up industrial metal stairs are used. The shelves are also used as sitting spaces.

Gallery

A permanent space exhibiting the contents of the archive. This is proposed to be a prototype defining the structure of the library in connection with the archive. A space where archive can be experienced and explored by visitors and site developers.

Sound pods A prototype in the gallery are Sound Pods. They are spheres that you can go into to listen to the sound archive in the library. The structure of the spheres enhances the sound inside them but muffles the sound outside enabling the rest of the room to be used for other things. At the same time the sound pods are enclosures that allow you to hear well inside the big space.

Exhibit Temporary exhibits showing the outcome of workshops and developed events in Lokstallarna.

Can be like an actual exhibition of produced material or give space for things such as dance performances or events.

Soundwalk live test

10:26 Driving cars make different sounds depending on the direction. Cars driving out from site stops by the main road. Abrupted noise. When there are no cars close I can hear the background. The sounds of voices, birds and squeaky bikes. Cars that are closer cancels out other sounds.

Soundwalks became a method in developing our thoughts in the Learning to Listen project. They have been identified as a prototype suited within the Lab platform and therefore our soundwalk site explorations could be seen as live simulations trying out the prototype on site. It was primarily tested at Lokstallarna on the 7th of October 2020 and below is a documentation of that. With sound as a starting point we walked for one and a half hours listening to places on site, places we could hear and places in our mind.

Lessons from listening and questions that followed

Outcomes of the walk was the identification of sound qualities as well as the formulation of questions for further study. This corresponds well with the exploratory and testing mission of the Lab.

10:34 hear more humans better and cars parking. The road is still close but not as loud since I can hear the wind in the trees. hear the background better, far away there a train chugs along. Peoples voices and leaves on the ground. Quite pleasant with the trees and the train in the background. There are bubbles in a puddle on the asphalt. Can't hear them but can imagine the sound.

10:40 More birds, jackdaw, small birds chitter. Even more wind in leaves. Human voices are closer. can't hear the bikes from the cyclepath anymore. The cars are more muffled somehow. Mopeds and horns feel louder though. notice the sound from under my shoes and the gravel. eople's voices. can make out what they say now. Birds sound loud, there's some fan or train in the background.

10:46 There is more wind through the entrance gate and the road is a lot quieter. Weaker sounds are now louder. The tree leaves feel closer. I imagine a parking lot to a nature reserve. It is windier and it is loud. A beeping in the background. Voices. Construction of something. Jackdaw, halloween.

10:54 Beeping again, bus garage? Sounds of a city at work. Ambulances, Värnhem? There is almost like a bowl of sound by the house, Not so many recognizable sounds. They are spread out somehow but also loud. The sound of the trees feel bigger, they are further away but still hear them. Like they have more room. A plane in the sky, low and rumbling. Hooting/honking from far away. Cars that drive by seem very loud.

We were intrigued about finding that the origin of sounds we heard couldn't always be seen, sometimes not even identified. Ex. bigger roads, beeps, birds. This made us question where the site ends and begins? We also found that the calmness many people have associated with the site is relative, for example to the sound of the surrounding city. At the moment more sounds come into the site than comes from it but when we listened deeply the site was not always experienced as calm and definitely not quiet. Putting this in relation to that the site is often described as such this raised questions about the characteristics of calmness and how noise is negotiated. Does calm equal quiet? Discussing sound primarily in definitions of volume/amplitude does not question the issues of hierarchy that arise from who is allowed to bring noise upon who nor individual experience and preference.

11:00 Rabbits, three of them. Can't hear them. Big sounds, beeping from far away, roads and cars. Birds are a bit closer but still quite far away. feel like they're in some kind of middle ground. Do they like the medium sized trees? The echo of crows. can still hear the drill. What is calm or quiet about this place?

11:08 So many sounds! can't see where it comes from, somewhere far away. hear the birds as if they were next to me but can't see them. The place echoes. Distances are difficult to define. Closeness is amplified. It seems the wall changes the sound. Feel like the sounds are inside. The close sound is muffled, room.

Lokstallarna visits

An imagined experience of a person visiting lokstallarna. Visits take place at three times over two years.

11:16 Hear the wind more. Cold. A fan and the trees muffle the sounds far away. Jackdaw and birds on different distances. It's like they're in a can. Do the birches make the most noise?

11:22 Muffled. hear sounds from inside the building and cars on the other side. I find the sound when they drive around the corner stressful. The constant murmur in the background feels ok. Lower sounds seem far away. Is it because of the direction of the wind? When we go around the corner it feels like sound opens up, trees.

11:28 Club sound, like from a speaker, can only hear it very close. The trees muffles the sound of far away traffic. Even cars? Are they on the same frequency? Kind of like talking in a bar, a voice on the same level as buzz in a bar is hard to hear.

11:36 Cuts from a hedge scissor. Allotments. The sounds here make me think of being by a road in suburbia. Different birds, smaller, singing. Road in background again, is it a lower frequency now? The trees hide them less well.

11:45 Sounds of people by the circus hotel. Cardoors. The trees sounds like they're both far, middle and near. Maybe it's more windy so can hear them more. Is the road noise in the background coming from the south? Beeping sound again, travels through anything. The sounds make me think of industrial areas or outside of malls.

11:51 The trees are everywhere now and loud. Aspen. Many middle sized trees and a few big ones. The Swedish whitebeam isn't as loud. The sough of a train in the background, wheels that clunk over an edge.

I've heard about this place in Malmö called Lokstallarna on the radio. In the radio programme they said that the Malmö city together with the landowner are developing the area and people all over Malmö are invited to participate. You can take part in different workshops and discussions about what could happen in Lokstallarna. It sounds very exciting! have a chance of being part of creating a very cool place in Malmö! I'll go there tomorrow.

It looks almost like a portal and choose to enter here. I come into the area through the western part close to Östervärn train station. It's a nice path that uses old railway tracks that lead to the central part of Lokstallarna.

works in the library and takes photographs of the wall every day. The next day it can be painted over again to express other opinions but the conversation on the wall is saved. She says that at the end of the summer the photographs will be shown at an exhibition and be discussed more at the agora for inspiration for things to happen in Lokstallarna. This sounds so cool! I will definitely come back here to leave my mark and bring my friends along.

Before I could hear traffic noise and people's voices in the background but now, they are all muffled and instead hear birds singing and leaves rustling in the wind in the trees nearby. close my eyes and absorb. Nature's sounds are so calming! haven't really reflected on this before because I'm so used to hearing the constant noise of the city all the time. I wish there were quiet rooms like this all around the city.

has definitely changed since my last visit here last year. We are hanging out at what they call "The Waterless Beach". There are beach chairs, parasols and an ice-cream truck. The place is full of people. It sounds so cheerful with children playing and people talking. A dad is practicing walking with his toddler along the train tracks, just like they were paddling in the shallows at the seaside! then hear the sound of the highway in the background and it really does sound like swishing sea. like it!

Autumn same year I've heard on the radio that an exhibition has opened in Lokstallarna where you can see material and hear sounds from different projects that have taken place during the year. As get to Lokstallarna's library see some spheres hanging from the ceiling. get into one of them. It feels like a dome, sounds around me disappear even though people are all over the place. Inside this so-called Sound Pod can hear interviews with people who have been involved in different projects in Lokstallarna. listen to one where the person is telling about Noise Bath, that gives an opposite experience than Quiet Rooms. Apparently, Noise Bath draws your stress out of you. Hmm... Interesting thought. should go and try that.