Architect Johannes Norlander on sweeping design, the lack of care about the public space and why his own attempt to furnish the city failed.
Why did you choose this place, Skogskyrkogården (the Woodland Cemetery), for a talk about public space and the themes addressed in the exhibition Public Luxury?
Is that where the connection is to the furniture that is your contribution to Public Luxury?
What does this place say about its time?
The exhibition is called Public Luxury. What is public luxury for you?
Tell us about your contribution to the exhibition.
In what way were you not successful?
What do we gain from that?
I imagine that it's just the hierarchies in public space that make it possible to orientate oneself within it. If I understand you correctly, you want to comment on a sort of dissolution of the hierarchies, which in the long run creates disorientation and public space that is difficult to use.
That's what populism is of course, giving incredibly simplified answers to complicated questions.
It sounds like what you've done is both a design exercise and a commentary.
What stance does your project take on the debate about public space?
Have you had any reactions to your furniture?