29/05/2026
Organising Infrastructures: seizing the means of everyday life
Date: 2–3 June
Place: Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus and 88.9 FM
Language: English
Free admission
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Welcome to a two day gathering bringing together cultural practitioners and organisations sharing knowledge and experience of organising otherwise through the means of aesthetics, spatial configurations and infrastructure. What role might cultural houses and other urban and rural commons have in times of increased financialisation and privatisation? When the present has given up on the future, what might we learn from the unactivated potentials in the futures of the past?
During the two days we will unpack various histories of collective organizing as well as sharing experiences and attempts of organizing otherwise in the present. Through lectures, radio transmissions and joint conversations we will explore various infrastructural attempts to create spaces where new subjectivities, relations and experiences might emerge. The programme brings together experiences from Sweden, former Yugoslavia, Turkey and the United Kingdom.
2 juni 09.30-17.00 Seminar at Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus
3 juni 17.00-20.00 Practice Matters: Hägersten Sunrise Radio Show
Participants include Marko Aksentijević (Ministry of Space, Belgrade), Beata Berggren & Martin Högström (Chateaux), Izabella Borzęcka (Folk i Skärholmen), Oda Brekke (Höjden Studios), Malte Dahlberg (Fylkingen), Viktor Eckert (Solidaritetshuset), Mariam Elnozahy (Konsthall C), Magnus Ericson (IASPIS), Sebastian Dahlqvist & Elof Hellström (Hägerstensåsens medborgarhus), Rotem Geffen, Adam Greenfield, Daniel Israelsson Casta (Vår lokal), İlksen Mavituna (Açık Radyo), Evelina Mohei (Cyklopen), Pedram Nasouri (Hägersten Sunrise), Damir Radovic (Det gror i betongen), Dubravka Sekulić (Royal College of Art, London), Nazem Tahvilzadeh (Södertörn University), Sofia Wiberg (KTH, Royal Institute of Technology) and Hedvig Wiezell (Folkets Husby).
The two-day event will draw from the history of community organising and discuss examples of present initiatives of different scales. It will look at different functions of these spaces, from hosting meetings and debate, pedagogy, publishing and archiving, to sports and leisure, and how these may contribute to other ways of imagining and organising together across different contexts and geographies. The programme includes historical perspectives from Sweden and former Yugoslavia, experience from local organisations as well as perspectives related to Turkey and the United Kingdom. Day one is organised around two sessions of presentations and discussions, day two is shaped as a reflection in the format of a live radio show.
Organising Infrastructures: Seizing the Means of Everyday Life is a collaboration between IASPIS, Hägerstensåsens Medborgarhus. The event is organised as part of Practice Matters, a project exploring design, craft, architecture, and spatial practice and its ability to act in relation to present urgent issues of crisis and conflicts. The project is developed in collaboration between IASPIS and Salt.
Image. Johannes Samuelsson, details from the rotunda in Peoples House, Skelleftehamn
