Olivia Engström begins: ‘Spatial Resilience Tactic of Urban Public Space Repurposing in the Shrinking City: The Sustaining Community of Estonian Border City of Narva’
Engström:
Sustainability discourse entered all dimensions of our lives
In Narva, I examine urban public space repurposing, dynamics of spatial meetings
Post-socialist transitions here brought big changes, lost jobs, shrinking cities
Sustainability discourse entered all dimensions of our lives
In Narva, I examine urban public space repurposing, dynamics of spatial meetings
Post-socialist transitions here brought big changes, lost jobs, shrinking cities
Urban public space repurposing can show strategies of resilience
I performed a multi-cited ethnography to explore the ways people make sense of the city
I performed a multi-cited ethnography to explore the ways people make sense of the city
Engström:
I ask: What impact urban space repurposing, used as a spatial resilience tactic, has on city’s sustainability? Who or what is affected by such spatial resilience tactic?
I ask: What impact urban space repurposing, used as a spatial resilience tactic, has on city’s sustainability? Who or what is affected by such spatial resilience tactic?
Engström:
Then, I ask more specifically: Why some urban public spaces are chosen to sustain? How and by whom are they repurposed? Who are the users of these spaces? What meaning these spaces carry for people, the city, and the state?
Then, I ask more specifically: Why some urban public spaces are chosen to sustain? How and by whom are they repurposed? Who are the users of these spaces? What meaning these spaces carry for people, the city, and the state?
Engström:
My data collection process consists of four following phases: space mapping, chronological frame building, study of social production of space and investigation of social construction of space
My data collection process consists of four following phases: space mapping, chronological frame building, study of social production of space and investigation of social construction of space
Engström:
The interconnections between emerged concepts, patterns and ideas will be analyzed to answer following questions: What impact urban space repurposing, used as a spatial resilience tactic, has on city’s sustainability?
The interconnections between emerged concepts, patterns and ideas will be analyzed to answer following questions: What impact urban space repurposing, used as a spatial resilience tactic, has on city’s sustainability?
and:
Within what dimensions of urban sustainability (cultural, social, environmental, political, or economic) such tactic has an effect? What are these effects? Who or what is affected by such spatial resilience tactic?
Within what dimensions of urban sustainability (cultural, social, environmental, political, or economic) such tactic has an effect? What are these effects? Who or what is affected by such spatial resilience tactic?
Q from the Floor:
Could you comment on "who" is doing the "repurposing" of the public space? Can you talk about those actors?
Could you comment on "who" is doing the "repurposing" of the public space? Can you talk about those actors?
Engstrom:
Private actors are involved. In one case a Swedish company is looking to develop the space as cultural and making all the decisions themselves. But also the state, as well as International retail business
Private actors are involved. In one case a Swedish company is looking to develop the space as cultural and making all the decisions themselves. But also the state, as well as International retail business
Engstrom:
In soviet era, people were proud about the town, lots of tourists from St. Petersburg, lots of international events. When it became a part of Estonia, some parts of town seemed to be discarded, people's identities became confused
In soviet era, people were proud about the town, lots of tourists from St. Petersburg, lots of international events. When it became a part of Estonia, some parts of town seemed to be discarded, people's identities became confused
Engstrom:
Now with an influx of EU money there is some kind of hope that seems to be coming back toward their city. Especially for those who identify neither as Russian or Estonian, but rather Narvian.
Now with an influx of EU money there is some kind of hope that seems to be coming back toward their city. Especially for those who identify neither as Russian or Estonian, but rather Narvian.
Claudia:
In both Engström's and Vlasenko's cases: what are the historical periods that are trying to be preserved?
In both Engström's and Vlasenko's cases: what are the historical periods that are trying to be preserved?
Vlasenko:
There is so much soviet legacy that it's hard to see beyond it. But there are some era's like the 15-16th C when there was an independent Ukrainian state that some try to look to, but in general it's about distinguishing from the soviet legacy
There is so much soviet legacy that it's hard to see beyond it. But there are some era's like the 15-16th C when there was an independent Ukrainian state that some try to look to, but in general it's about distinguishing from the soviet legacy
Özlem:
To both Engström and Vlasenko: You are both using archival research, but I'm wondering if you are going to engage with users of the public space?
To both Engström and Vlasenko: You are both using archival research, but I'm wondering if you are going to engage with users of the public space?
Vlasenko:
My initial literature review was archival and historical, in large part because I was not in Ukraine when I had the idea, but this is definitely necessary. For example, being in Ukraine and seeing these monuments makes a big difference to one's relation to the space
My initial literature review was archival and historical, in large part because I was not in Ukraine when I had the idea, but this is definitely necessary. For example, being in Ukraine and seeing these monuments makes a big difference to one's relation to the space
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