Slussen
In spring 2009 the city of Stockholm decided to demolish Slussen and to rebuild it with a new design.
Change is inevitable, change is part of history and with any radical change to a place you lose a part of its life and identity.
This is my experience having lived most of my life in Berlin, a city of change. I am absorbed in the history and politics of city life but more than this I am fascinated by the physical places themselves: the shapes, the lights, the colours, the smells, the sounds, the feeling of the pulse of a city and the motions around it. At Slussen, I feel this movement.
Everything connects in Slussen. People pouring through the tunnels like water, being pushed up or down to the next level. I let myself float around and found emptiness that I did not expect. It let me see a special world beneath, a construction with all its colours and shapes. It is filled with voices and motions that you feel and hear even when there is no one around.
Some love Slussen some hate it, but everybody has a story to tell of this place. This is my story.
