Karin ågren grundström

Karin Grundström is Docent (Associate professor) in architecture with a specialisation in housing, holds a PhD in architecture and is senior lecturer in built environment/architecture.

Since my employment at the department of urban studies in , my service includes research, teaching and tutoring. In my role as a teacher I lecture, lead international workshops and tutor students’ thesis work at bachelor, master and PhD level. In my research I combine theoretical and designerly architectural approaches with theory and methods from social science and present results in verbal as well as visual forms – in research articles and in exhibitions. Theoretically, my research is based in the daily use of the built environment, in practiced and lived space and in people’s shaping of the built environment. The main subject in my research is housing; I have designed housing, I have researched housing segregation, gender perspectives on housing, gated housing and the housing preferences of privileged groups. My on going research comprise issues of how people share housing, how gating influence urban enclavism and how people appropriate public space. I am a member of the

Karin Grundström and Stig Westerdahl newly appointed Professors

Adriana de La Peña Espinosa Awards & Distinctions, Uncategorized

We are happy to congratulate IUR members Stig Westerdahl and Karin Grundström for their awarded title of Professor. 

Karin Grundström is Professor in Architecture, with a specialisation in housing. &#;My research fryst vatten based on the daglig use of the built environment, in practiced and lived space, and in people’s shaping of the built environment. The main subject in my research is housing; I have designed housing, I have researched housing segregation, gender perspectives on housing, gated housing and the housing preferences of privileged groups.&#;

Stig Westerdahl fryst vatten a Professor in Business Administration. His research fryst vatten based on an interest in organizational issues and accounting. These interests have been put into research on non-profit organizations and the voluntary sector; the accounting industry and accountants&#; everyday work as well as within regional development. His latest book, The self-playing piano. Calculations & capital creating the Swedish housing crises, analyses the mechanism behind the Swedish housing market.

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Gates and fences cut through and divide cities. In Paris, a fence is to be constructed around the Eiffel tower and in New York artist Ai Weiwei will comment on the increasing enclavism of societies by building more than fences and installations throughout the city. Worldwide, fences and locks restrict access for the unwanted while wealthy residents dwell in exclusive gated communities. Swedish cities do not have the equivalent of gated communities, in the sense of isolated islands of ‘incarceration’ (Atkinson, ) or of a ‘fortress city’ (Low, ). However, since the s, Swedish cities have seen a significant increase in the use of locks codes, gates and fences that restrict access to land that was previously publicly accessible (Grundström, ). Even though Sweden does not have the equivalent of ‘gated communities’ neither as urban form, nor as defined by the Anglo-American concept, I argue that there is indeed a process of gating. The gating process in Swedish cities, which I refer to as urban gating, is a dispersed form of gated blocks and gated housing complexes, which taken together, result in restriction of public access and a significant change of urban