Here we see more or less the picture we would have seen if we went inside that information centre. We could say that this view was already anticipated in the rendered 3d-image of the plans. We see the optimized way of how people are to meet each other: in the front we have students of the university and in the back we now have some kind of place-holders, the workers of the ongoing construction of the Ericsson building in the back, but they will be replaced by the managers that will soon move into the building. This meeting of education and economy has already been sketched in advance on the computer, so we could say that every movement that you take here maybe is not your own deliberate movement, because it has been somehow optimized and calculated. As already mentioned it's also quite similiar to the Potsdamer Platz in Berlin. The function of this so-called public spaces is the same: bringing together intellectual capital and financial capital. It's also interesting to note that while filming in Göteborg, the Älvstranden area was the only place where I was thrown out by private security, because it actually is private space owned by Volvo and Ericsson. It only looks like public space, but it's privately owned. You are not allowed to do things the owners don't want you to do there. |
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