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Filming Malmö: Everyday Spaces of the Sustainable City

This cross-disciplinary collaboration asks “How can film mediate and shape the city’s everyday spaces?”

Filming Malmö:Everyday Spaces of the Sustainable City

17 April 2018

Grant


ҰԳ:Grand Challenges Small Grants
Year awarded: 2016-17
Amount awarded: £3,566

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  • Claire Thompson, School of European Languages, Culture and Society (SELCS)
  • Yvonne Rydin, Bartlett School of Planning

Everyday space on film


This cross-disciplinary collaboration asks “How can film mediate and shape the city’s everyday spaces?”.

Grand Challenges funding allowed the development of this interdisciplinary project, following a collaboration between around 25 urban planners and media scholars at ϲ and Malmö University, Sweden, supported by Riksbankens Jubilaeumsfond. 

An inspiring aspect of this collaboration has been participants’ willingness to examine discipline-specific concepts, assumptions and practices in order to craft genuinely interdisciplinary enquiries and conclusions about the sustainable city on screen.

Impacts and Outputs


Two early-career scholars were funded Jorge Martin Sainz de los Terreros undertook anthropological research in Malmö square, resulting in an experimental photo-essay. 
This is one of six collaborative illustrated articles in dossiers of the journals Scandinavica and Kosmorama, guest edited by Dr Pei-Sze Chow.
While the articles draw on British-Swedish expertise, their publication in Kosmorama (the journal of the Danish Film Institute in Copenhagen) opens up a fresh angle on Malmö’s relationship with its sister city across the Øresund.
The DFI is a leading partner in the iMedia Cities project
The Kosmorama dossier is part of the DFI’s portfolio launching iMediaCities in 2018.