Sharing private courtyards with the football playing public: Challenges and potentials of new collaborative methods of establishing social infrastructure

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Abstract

Social infrastructure around common activities or interests may encourage new
encounters and interactions, foster new relationships, and thereby contribute to
bridging social capital. Therefore, it is a central element in developing socially just
cities and neighbourhoods.
In recent decades, this conception has been applied to justify new enabling
spaces to provide for meetings between different socio-economic groups.
However, in dense cities, such as many European cities, available space is a
scarce resource. Thus, innovative methods for collaboration on establishing
shared infrastructure are needed.
In this presentation, we discuss the potentials and challenges of an initiative in the
neighbourhood Nørrebro, in Copenhagen. Here, a local football association
cooperates with the municipality and a social housing estate to establish a semipublic meeting place by giving public access to a private courtyard.
Using football as the 'common third', the aim of the new meeting place is to
provide the spatial foundation for new social relations between kids and youth from 'inside' and 'outside' the social housing estate. Also, the meeting place is intended to be inclusive and attractive to both the residents from the social housing estate and to other citizens. Thus, contributing to the social infrastructure of both the neighbourhood and the wider city.
Translated title of the contributionNår beboere skal dele deres private gårdrum med fodboldspillere: Udfordringer og potentialer ved nye collaborative metoder for etablering af social infrastruktur
Original languageEnglish
Publication date2024
Number of pages1
Publication statusPublished - 2024
EventNordic Geographers Meeting: Transitioning Geographies - Copenhagen, Denmark
Duration: 24 Jun 202427 Sep 2024
Conference number: 10
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ConferenceNordic Geographers Meeting
Number10
Country/TerritoryDenmark
CityCopenhagen
Period24/06/202427/09/2024
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