Schools of a Changing Society
At the Research Seminars in Architecture on Thursday, the 2nd of October, Matilde Kautsky will present her PhD project: Schools of a Changing Society - Tracing the materialisations of values and ideals in Stockholm public schools 1950-2020.
Tid: To 2025-10-02 kl 09.00 - 12.00
Plats: Conference Room 6th Floor of the Architecture School Room A608
The opponent for the seminar will be Sam Griffiths Associate Professor in Spatial Cultures in the Space Syntax Laboratory at the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture
Please contact Matilde Kautsky for a copy of the manuscript - matilde.kautsky@arch.kth.se
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Matilde Kautsky is a PhD candidate, architect and teacher in Architecture and Urban Design at the School of Architecture, KTH. Her investigation explores how societal values and ideals are reflected in the city. More specifically she studies schools and schoolyards in Stockholm and what material traces they contain from societal ideals and values. As a teacher within the Sustainable Urban Planning and Design master’s program, she is interested in exploring the possibilities of planning and designing another kind of city together with the students.
Sam Griffiths is an Associate Professor in Spatial Cultures in the Space Syntax Laboratory at the UCL Bartlett School of Architecture. His research addresses the historical relationship between people and their built environments, the spatial culture of industrial cities, the role of architecture in historical writing and space syntax as an interdisciplinary research perspective in the humanities and social sciences. He has published a number of articles and book chapters on these topics, including on the potential for using space syntax in urban heritage and conservation. He is co-editor, with Alexander von Lünen, of Spatial Cultures: Towards a New Morphology of Cities (Routledge, 2016), and author of Writing the Materialities of the Urban Past: Cities and the Architectural Topography of Historical Imagination (Routledge, 2021).
[1] Anna Larsson, Björn Norlin, and Maria Rönnlund, Den svenska skolgårdens historia: skolans utemiljö som pedagogiskt och socialt rum (Lund: Nordic Academic Press, 2017), 247. “Varje samhälle producerar sitt skolsystem, och sina skolgårdar, vilka i sin tur uttrycker samhällets och systemets syften och mål, fysiskt och vardagligt och dessutom symbolikst.” (translation by author)
[2] Håkan Forsell, Urbana Infantil: Stadsmiljö, pedagogik och kunskapssamhälle i metropolernas tidevarv 1900-1930 (Lund: Sekel, 2012).