Fredrik Torisson
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View article: Pilot trials with advanced water technologies to remove micropollutants from wastewater and assessment of the technologies for wastewater reuse in public blue-green solutions
Pilot trials with advanced water technologies to remove micropollutants from wastewater and assessment of the technologies for wastewater reuse in public blue-green solutions Open
Effluent wastewater contains organic micropollutants (OMPs) that harm aquatic ecosystems. Therefore, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) need to expand their facilities with advanced water treatment technologies. Water scarcity and improve…
View article: Strategies of visibility in the smart city
Strategies of visibility in the smart city Open
Cities across the world are increasingly labelling themselves as smart in one way or another. At the same time, this smartness appears amorphous or invisible in its built urban environment. Critical researchers writing on the smart city re…
View article: The Digitalisation of Swedish Housing
The Digitalisation of Swedish Housing Open
So called ‘smart’ built environments operate in a peculiar temporal nexus: they are simultaneously just around the corner, already here, and yesterday’s news. This is usually put down to hype and hyperbole, but it may well be argued that s…
View article: Conditioned Exchange
Conditioned Exchange Open
The emergence of financial institutions such as the exchanges or bourses of northern Europe in the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries made possible the emergence of speculation in financial instruments. Speculation evolved into a game…
View article: Conditioned Exchange
Conditioned Exchange Open
The emergence of financial institutions such as the exchanges or bourses of northern Europe in the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries made possible the emergence of speculation in financial instruments. Speculation evolved into a game…
View article: The False Problem of Urbane Design
The False Problem of Urbane Design Open
Urbane design concerns itself with promoting thequalities associated with the urban – dynamism, transversal networks, etc. – in places where these do not(yet) exist. Urbane design can be considered a neoliberal off-shoot of ‘urban curating…
View article: The Cybernetic Hypothesis & Architecture
The Cybernetic Hypothesis & Architecture Open
Whatever happened to cybernetics in architecture? Cybernetics was swaggering from day one. Its original mission, to predict the evasive manoeuvres of bomber pilots, soon evolved into making predictions in social systems and game theory. In…
View article: Utopology: A Re-Interrogation of the Utopian in Architecture
Utopology: A Re-Interrogation of the Utopian in Architecture Open
Utopia – the word is simultaneously evocative of hope and dread. As a concept it is stupendously problematic, and yet despite its alleged passing into irrelevance, utopia still remains a household word. Why is this so?Utopia has been reduc…