About the project
A Monument of the City to Build is a socially engaged artistic project, exploring the politics of residentship in the Swedish urban landscape through the notion of the right to the city. In a series of pedagogical events across Botkyrka and Gothenburg, over 200 participants have contributed to the project thus far with their thoughts, reflections and proposals.
The project investigates how successive generations of social, cultural, and financial policies have shaped the development of urban spaces in Sweden, and how this development has in turn affected the relationship between the inhabitants and their city.
Engaging both children and adults from various neighbourhoods across the map, the aim is to create spaces for collective thinking and intersectional meetings, inviting residents into discussions about their relationship with their city. In this, the desire is to enable inhabitants from all backgrounds to recognise their own agency, and to see themselves as capable of demanding and creating a better environment to live in.