CALTURING A CULTURE

ANTIDESIGN

There is this place in central Stockholm called Gamla stan (old town). It is a beautiful location in Stockholm and just outside the metro station is a gloomy passage that has been for centuries dedicated to the skinhead culture. There has been talk about new design proposals to make this space more welcoming and less scary to the public, the question was in reality: lets gentrify..

I thought this is a perfect time to play around with design. My proposal was to maintain the essence of this passage and increase its availability to skinheads by creating semi private rooms with concrete walls for graffiti and art, maybe this way the public could engage in this culture instead of trying to erase it. My design has been called anti-design and I almost failed this course, but the results still brings a smile on my face for some reason.