{"id":1586,"date":"2014-03-30T12:00:15","date_gmt":"2014-03-30T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stealth.ultd.net\/stealth\/updates\/?p=1586"},"modified":"2018-05-28T11:46:48","modified_gmt":"2018-05-28T09:46:48","slug":"haunted-by-the-shadows-of-the-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stealth.ultd.net\/?p=1586","title":{"rendered":"Haunted by the Shadows of the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some fifty years ago, the neighbourhood of Tensta (Stockholm) has been rolled out as part of a daring and breathtaking re-make of Swedish society. Half a century later, its prospects remain unfulfilled, and Tensta uneasily lingers in its \u201cuncompleted\u201d ambition. While some have written-off the neighbourhood and its original agenda of shaping modern Sweden altogether, it may be high time to attempt re-writing its future, possibly towards a horizon radically different from Tensta\u2019s current reality, but also from the accepted views on it.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In 1967\u201372, Tensta was built as a late-modernist housing district. The nearly 6 thousand new apartments were part of a massive move by the governing Swedish Social Democratic Party to upgrade the nation to a more modern lifestyle (make sure everyone could have a home at a reasonable price), as well as to boost its\u00a0economy through a massive investment in construction. As part of the Million Programme (“Miljonprogrammet”), actually, a bit over a million (1.006.000) were constructed in a country counting a few million inhabitants at that time – truly an impressive feat.<\/p>\n

Together with Peter Lang, we (STEALTH.unlimuted) have set out on an exploration of this crucial part of modern Swedish history, and of what – according to Maria Lind, director of Tensta Konsthall – will be a key part of Swedish future to come. In\u00a0Haunted by the Shadows of the Future<\/em>, the exploration\u00a0has taken two tracks: ARTEFACTS<\/em> and HORIZONS<\/em>.<\/p>\n