Epsilon Archive for Student Projects

Abstract

Hyllie is an area in Malmö that is rapidly urbanising. Malmö Stad’s vision for Hyllie was that it would become a climate-smart district, and ‘Hyllie’s largest park’ would be ‘The Park of the Future’- an innovative park that would meet residents’ needs. A dialogue process was held to identify these needs, and they were used in a design competition to come up with a design proposal. The park is currently being built, and has already been nominated and received awards,
in part due to citizens’ participation. This research aims to understand, describe and evaluate citizen participation (civic and physical), during the making and managing of the park (placemaking and place-keeping phases). This is done through the analysis of key documents, semistructured
interviews, an observation study and participant observation. A key finding of the research is Malmö Stad’s Design Competition Guidelines emphasised civic participation during the place-making phase, and physical participation during the place-keeping, and this had followon effects. Furthermore, the decision to outsource the design may have resulted in an ambitious vision that has been challenging to realise given the park’s governance and management model.