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Hellström Reimer, Maria, ProfessorORCID iD iconorcid.org/0000-0002-7776-3431
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Biography [eng]

Maria Hellström Reimer
, professor in design theory and practice at Malmö University, School of Arts and Communication. Trained as an artist and with a PhD and Readership in landscape architecture, her research is interdisciplinary concerning the aesthetics and politics of art and design broadly speaking, including questions of criticality, 
methodological experimentation and social mobilisation.

Biography [swe]

Maria Hellström Reimer, professor i design i teori och praktik, med en bakgrund i fri konst och en doktorsexamen och docentur i landskapsarkitektur. Engagerad i tvärvetenskaplig forskning omkring estetik och politik, metodologisk utveckling, värdeskapande och miljömentaliteter. 

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Hellström Reimer, M. & Mazé, R. (2024). Stories from third space: A case and considerations of design research education from a Swedish vantage point. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 23(1), 23-45
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Stories from third space: A case and considerations of design research education from a Swedish vantage point
2024 (English)In: Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, ISSN 1474-0222, E-ISSN 1741-265X, Vol. 23, no 1, p. 23-45Article in journal (Refereed) Published
Abstract [en]

Debates continue about the positioning of design within research-driven universities. While the idea of autonomy has had a strong appeal, it is the bridging across established academic cultures that has proved especially effective for legitimizing design research and research education. Revisiting a conception of design as a ‘Third Space’ and drawing on a case – the Swedish Faculty for Design Research and Research Education (2008–2015) – we discuss what ‘thirdness’ can entail in context. Our account of this case reveals the unsettled dynamics of navigating in, between and across academic cultures. Design research education, we argue, has prospects to cultivate a critical space within academia, in which its ‘thirdness’ entails sensitization and agitation of the territorial conditions of knowledge. There is a need for a reconsideration of design – and academia more generally – not as a static disciplinary order but as a contested archipelago that opens for alternative orientations.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Sage Publications, 2024
Keywords
Research education, doctoral curricula, design, case study, third space, territoriality
National Category
Design
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-62464 (URN)10.1177/14740222231200183 (DOI)001064281400001 ()2-s2.0-85170834573 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2023-09-12 Created: 2023-09-12 Last updated: 2024-01-24Bibliographically approved
Yigit-Turan, B., Keravel, S., Hellström Reimer, M., Leger-Smith, A., Lima, F., Arana, U. R. & Benedetti, U. W. (2024). The politics of landscape narratives. JoLA - Journal of Landscape Architecture, 19(1), 4-5
Open this publication in new window or tab >>The politics of landscape narratives
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2024 (English)In: JoLA - Journal of Landscape Architecture, ISSN 1862-6033, E-ISSN 2164-604X, Vol. 19, no 1, p. 4-5Article in journal, Editorial material (Other academic) Published
Abstract [en]

What are the spatial ontologies that insidiously shape the landscape narratives we tell? And if narratives are contingent on future worlds, what biopolitics do they carry in order to emerge and unfold into conditioning landscapes?

There is a deep-rooted tendency to think of landscapes as discrete, self-emerging entities bound by a taken-for-granted Cartesian space. But what has emerged from these landscapes are colonial and capitalist narratives that have naturalized and morally justified the ‘scaping’ of land through demarcation and enclosure; narratives imposing on people future dreams set by dominant forces based on the fantasy that greening is universally ‘good’ and that development and modernity locating at certain areas are processes ‘without an outside’.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis, 2024
Keywords
landscape, narratives, politics
National Category
Landscape Architecture
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-71727 (URN)10.1080/18626033.2024.2408905 (DOI)001326704900002 ()2-s2.0-85208542724 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2024-10-22 Created: 2024-10-22 Last updated: 2024-12-02Bibliographically approved
Hellström Reimer, M., Arana, U. R., Keravel, S., Leger-Smith, A., Lima, F., Benedetti, U. W. & Yiğit-Turan, B. (2023). Elemental landscapes. JoLA - Journal of Landscape Architecture, 18(2-3), 4-5
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Elemental landscapes
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2023 (English)In: JoLA - Journal of Landscape Architecture, ISSN 1862-6033, E-ISSN 2164-604X, Vol. 18, no 2-3, p. 4-5Article in journal (Other academic) Published
Abstract [en]

Rock-Paper-Scissors is a game usually played by two people, in which each player simultaneously forms one of three shapes with an outstretched hand. These shapes are ‘rock’ (a closed fist), ‘paper’ (a flat hand) and ‘scissors’ (a fist with the index finger and middle finger extended, forming a V). It is a zero-sum game with three possible outcomes: a win, a loss or a draw. As you probably know, the rules are inexorably simple: ‘rock blunts scissors’, ‘paper covers rock’ and ‘scissors cuts paper’, complemented by a fourth kind of situation, where gestures cancel each other out or meet on equal terms.

Is landscape architecture becoming a game of Rock-Paper-Scissors? A game where the very basic elements are being played out against each other in an off-the-drawing-board game, in turn cut to pieces by commercial interests? A game where gains never exceed losses and the best outcome to hope for is a tie?

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2023
Keywords
elements, landscape, conflicts of interest
National Category
Landscape Architecture
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-71730 (URN)10.1080/18626033.2023.2347135 (DOI)001215284700007 ()2-s2.0-85191740299 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2024-10-22 Created: 2024-10-22 Last updated: 2025-01-21Bibliographically approved
Leger-Smith, A., Benedetti, U. W., Hellström Reimer, M., Keravel, S., Lima, F., Ruiz Arana, U. & Yiğit-Turan, B. (2023). Forests in the city, a new paradigm?. JoLA - Journal of Landscape Architecture, 18(1), 4-7
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2023 (English)In: JoLA - Journal of Landscape Architecture, ISSN 1862-6033, E-ISSN 2164-604X, Vol. 18, no 1, p. 4-7Article in journal, Editorial material (Other academic) Published
Abstract [en]

In the ever-present context of global warming and the acute loss of biodiversity, forests are at the centre of the reflections of theoreticians and practitioners around the globe. The contributions in this issue of JoLA take the stance that forests should also be at the centre of cities, the very places that, throughout the history of humankind, have fundamentally developed against forests, as Robert Harrison has masterfully shown in his epochal Forests: The Shadow of Civilization. As a primeval matrix that preceded humankind on earth, it is only the evolutional stadium of sedentarization that led to the progressive and often massive clearing of forests, with their edge gradually becoming ‘the edge of civilization’.

Forests—at least in the Western world—have long served as antinomic poles to the city, where the wild, the magic, the forbidden . . . unfolded in mysterious ways. This bipolarity became increasingly blurred with industrialization and the sprawling cities it produced, and then later suburbanization, and now the pressing climate crisis we are experiencing and the ever-faster growing deforestation rates that are redefining boundaries and, needless to say, are beyond alarming. Even if some parts of human societies still inhabit forested environments, today forests exist more as protected, endangered relics or as small remaining patches in overexploited urbanizing landscapes.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2023
Keywords
urban design, forests, global warming, sustainability
National Category
Landscape Architecture
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-71728 (URN)10.1080/18626033.2023.2258718 (DOI)001071618000001 ()2-s2.0-85171871016 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2024-10-22 Created: 2024-10-22 Last updated: 2024-10-28Bibliographically approved
Davis, M., Feast, L., Forlizzi, J., Friedman, K., Ilhan, A., Ju, W., . . . Teixeira, C. (2023). Responding to the Indeterminacy of Doctoral Research in Design. She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation, 9(2), 283-307
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Responding to the Indeterminacy of Doctoral Research in Design
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2023 (English)In: She Ji: The Journal of Design, Economics, and Innovation, ISSN 2405-8726 , Vol. 9, no 2, p. 283-307Article in journal (Other academic) Published
Abstract [en]

The Future of Design Education working group on doctoral education included doctoral supervisors from nine programs around the world and addressed the indeterminacy of standards for the PhD in Design. Internationally, “contributions to knowledge” under the PhD degree title range from evidence-based investigations documented in a dissertation to personal reflections on making artifacts. In some programs, quantitative and qualitative research methods are taught; in others, there is no instruction in methods. The working group suggested that reflection on one’s own creative production is the role of the professional master’s degree and recommended standards for two doctoral programs—the PhD and the Doctor of Design (DDes). The group defined the PhD as addressing unresolved problems with the goal of generalizable knowledge or theory for the field. It described the DDes as a professional practice degree in which research is done in a practice setting to frame a specific opportunity space, guide in-process design decisions, or evaluate outcomes. DDes findings do not claim generalizability and result in “cases.” The working group discussed methods, sampling, standards of evidence and claims, ethics, research writing, and program management.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Elsevier, 2023
Keywords
PhD in Design, Doctor of Design, Design research, Doctoral education, Practice-based research, Design knowledge
National Category
Design
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-62468 (URN)10.1016/j.sheji.2023.05.005 (DOI)001155184400001 ()2-s2.0-85170039066 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2023-09-12 Created: 2023-09-12 Last updated: 2024-03-26Bibliographically approved
Hellström Reimer, M. (2022). Designing in Dark Times. An Arendtian Lexicon: Book review [Review]. Design and Culture, 14(1), 99-101
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Designing in Dark Times. An Arendtian Lexicon: Book review
2022 (English)In: Design and Culture, ISSN 1754-7075, E-ISSN 1754-7083, Vol. 14, no 1, p. 99-101Article, book review (Other academic) Published
Abstract [en]

What does it mean to act – and to design – in times as dark and obscure as the current? This is the troubling question raised in the Bloomsbury Visual Arts book series Designing in Dark Times. In their contribution to the series, Eduardo Staszowski, associate professor of Design Strategies at Parsons The New School of Design, and Virginia Tassinari, post-doctoral fellow at Politecnico di Milano, turn to the political philosophy of German-American philosopher Hanna Arendt (1906-1975). Taking an increasingly self-destructive and distressed humanity as their point of departure, the two design researchers have invited a wide range of design scholars and practitioners to “adopt” one of Arendt’s concepts to reconsider the status and role of design today. The result is An Arendtian Lexicon, an edited volume featuring fifty-five short essays that in different ways engage terms from Arendt’s oeuvre. While alphabetically structured, the line-up of entries is not exhaustive, nor is it to be understood as a set of dictionary definitions. Instead, it constructs a clustering of Arendtian terms, central also to the contemporary design debate. Yet apart from being introduced in the editors’ introductory essay, the clusters remain opaque until the end of each entry, where they present as suggestions for cross-reading.  

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Taylor & Francis, 2022
Keywords
Arendt, design, philosophy
National Category
Humanities and the Arts
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-42323 (URN)10.1080/17547075.2021.1935559 (DOI)000661329200001 ()
Available from: 2021-05-26 Created: 2021-05-26 Last updated: 2022-04-19Bibliographically approved
Hellström Reimer, M., Keravel, S., Leger-Smith, A., Lima, F., Arana, U. R., Benedetti, U. W. & Yigit-Turan, B. (2022). Landscape architecture criticism in the Anthropocene. JoLA - Journal of Landscape Architecture, 17(3), 4-5
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Landscape architecture criticism in the Anthropocene
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2022 (English)In: JoLA - Journal of Landscape Architecture, ISSN 1862-6033, E-ISSN 2164-604X, Vol. 17, no 3, p. 4-5Article in journal, Editorial material (Other academic) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2022
National Category
Landscape Architecture
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-61868 (URN)10.1080/18626033.2022.2195222 (DOI)001000004900001 ()2-s2.0-85159808174 (Scopus ID)
Available from: 2023-08-15 Created: 2023-08-15 Last updated: 2023-08-15Bibliographically approved
Hellström Reimer, M. (2021). Site Matters: Strategies for Uncertainty through Planning and Design [Review]. JoLA - Journal of Landscape Architecture, 16(2), 90-91
Open this publication in new window or tab >>Site Matters: Strategies for Uncertainty through Planning and Design
2021 (English)In: JoLA - Journal of Landscape Architecture, ISSN 1862-6033, E-ISSN 2164-604X, Vol. 16, no 2, p. 90-91Article, book review (Other academic) Published
Abstract [en]

When the edited volume Site Matters was first published in 2005, it was at a time when the meaning of the word site had just passed what we in hindsight may describe as the real/virtual tipping point. Having fulfilled its duty as a progressivist signpost in the zoning of the modern cityscape, the word was already back then fully registered as a basic staple of the network technology and the World Wide Web. If the word used to have certain concrete environmental referentials, according to the editors it had become increasingly ‘disassociated from the considerations of physical conditions’ (Burns &amp, Kahn 2005: ix) reflected in increasingly lofty and speculative, computer-aided urban design proposals, furthermore often projecting settings meant to be mediated rather than experienced ‘live’. Over less than a decade, the morphological and experiential variety previously implied in the word site—building sites, campsites, landfill sites, landing sites, nesting sites, picnic sites, or archeological sites, just to mention a few—had merged to form a generic, informational and communicative web-site, a mere placeholder for a mesh of interlinked, stacked and exchangeable content. When the editors of Site Matters, Andrea Kahn and Carol J. Burns, now return to the topic in a significantly revised second edition, the ‘mattering’ of site is of a totally different magnitude. While their initial holding on to site might have been motivated by its material and analog qualities, the rationale behind their updated attempt to gather site insights and know-how is much more existential in kind.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2021
Keywords
site, urban landscape, design, materiality
National Category
Human Geography
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-50488 (URN)10.1080/18626033.2021.2015209 (DOI)000740051500011 ()
Available from: 2022-03-08 Created: 2022-03-08 Last updated: 2022-08-29Bibliographically approved
Hellström Reimer, M. (2021). Så skakade en gipsbyst om både konstvärlden och demokratin. Dagens Nyheter (2021-04-12)
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2021 (Swedish)In: Dagens Nyheter, ISSN 1101-2447, no 2021-04-12Article in journal, News item (Other (popular science, discussion, etc.)) Published
Abstract [sv]

Om det under vintern uppstått turbulens på den svenska konstens innanhav, med Konstfackskolan som epicentrum, så har det i de danska konstkanalerna rörts upp häftiga svallvågor. Upprinnelsen är en aktion som genomfördes i det fördolda i höstas av Anonyme Billedkunstnerer, en grupp kopplade till Kunstakademiet i Köpenham. En vit gipsbyst föreställande 1700-talskungen och akademins grundare Fredrik V, för övrigt Gustav III:s svärfar, skruvades loss och enleverades från sin nisch i skolans festsal, för att sedan rituellt dumpas i hamninloppet utanför. I början av november offentliggjordes aktionen, genom en video publicerad på sajten idoart.dk, vilket väckte omedelbar indignation.

Keywords
konst, estetik, politik
National Category
Arts
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-42325 (URN)
Available from: 2021-05-26 Created: 2021-05-26 Last updated: 2021-06-02Bibliographically approved
Hellström Reimer, M. (2020). This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom [Review]. JoLA - Journal of Landscape Architecture, 15(3), 92-92
Open this publication in new window or tab >>This Life: Secular Faith and Spiritual Freedom
2020 (English)In: JoLA - Journal of Landscape Architecture, ISSN 1862-6033, E-ISSN 2164-604X, Vol. 15, no 3, p. 92-92Article, book review (Other academic) Published
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Routledge, 2020
National Category
Philosophy, Ethics and Religion
Identifiers
urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-42112 (URN)10.1080/18626033.2020.1886530 (DOI)000629333600011 ()
Available from: 2021-05-05 Created: 2021-05-05 Last updated: 2022-03-11Bibliographically approved
Projects
International Migration and Urban Development (IMUD) Panel; Malmö UniversityKnowing From Somewhere: On Modes and Sites of Knowledge Production with Hacker Communities in the Field of Internet of Things
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