AHO WORKS RESEARCH 2012
Impact, Dissemination and Events
APRIL
WOODSTOCKHOLM
OCCAS SEMINAR, IN COLLABORATION WITH KTH SCHOOL OF
ARCHITECTURE, THE STRONG RESEARCH ENVIRONMENT ARCHITECTURE
IN EFFECT, AND THE SWEDISH MUSEUM OF ARCHITECTURE,
STOCKHOLM, 26 APRIL 2012
This OCCAS event invited Felicity D. Scott, Columbia University, New York to
lecture on her new work on architectural counterculture. The lecture presented
the “Tent City” set up by the American commune Hog Farm for the 1972 United
Nations Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm, attempting to un-
pack its semantic and political resonances. Hog Farm were legendary for having
fed and organised the crowds of youth at the Woodstock Music Festival in 1969,
and the group’s activities at the UN’s inaugural environment conference quickly
led to the nicknaming of the event as “Woodstockholm.” Hog Farm’s tempo-
rary “settlement” can be read not only in relation to counter-cultural aesthetic
practices and contemporaneous “quick cities” designed by architects, but also
in the context of the shifting politics of environmentalism and the paradigms of
environmental management and “security” to which the UN conference gave
rise. The Lecture was part of the inauguration of the new OCCAS research
initiative
Architectural Culture, Society and Postmodernism in Scandinavia
. The
lecture was followed by a panel discussion and reception.
