Dugnad has underpinned the culture of care and responsibility that Norwegians have had as neighbors, national and global citizens for 800 years, continuing on the periphery in co-housing, civic, and municipal collaborations, and more. However, as the country becomes more individualistic, citizens are losing Dugnad’s value. Dugnad is also reflected across cultures globally in various placemaking strategies, including architecture dedicated to a more equitable society.
Dugnad Days, a participatory design project selected for the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2019, creates a story of commitment, shared learning, and collective responsibility. Dugnad Days explores collective, bespoke processes of building resilience and the social sustainability of communities through participatory placemaking.
By recalibrating the Dugnad tradition of collective work and mutual support with the local community of Sletteløkka in Oslo, the project aimed to collectively plan, design, and renovate a vacant building into a community center for the area. “Enough: the Architecture of Degrowth” – the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2019 is a call to arms to build alternatives to the unsustainable and unfair paradigm of growth because human and ecological flourishing matter the most.
Dugnad Days was exhibited in the Triennale’s exhibition, The Library, at the National Museum, Oslo, from 26 Sept to 24 Nov 2019. The video was made by Aurora Brekke.
Dugnad Days, a participatory design project selected for the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2019, creates a story of commitment, shared learning, and collective responsibility. Dugnad Days explores collective, bespoke processes of building resilience and the social sustainability of communities through participatory placemaking.
By recalibrating the Dugnad tradition of collective work and mutual support with the local community of Sletteløkka in Oslo, the project aimed to collectively plan, design, and renovate a vacant building into a community center for the area. “Enough: the Architecture of Degrowth” – the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2019 is a call to arms to build alternatives to the unsustainable and unfair paradigm of growth because human and ecological flourishing matter the most.
Dugnad Days was exhibited in the Triennale’s exhibition, The Library, at the National Museum, Oslo, from 26 Sept to 24 Nov 2019. The video was made by Aurora Brekke.