1. How can Malmö be more selfsufficient in the future? Where are the borders of Malmö’s food production area? Where are the limits for what Malmö can produce? How can a transition in
the way we farm increase the flexibility of Malmö and the Öresund region. A restructuring of the argricultural methods, and with that, the Skåne landscape, will change what we eat, where
we buy what we eat and who works with food production.
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2. The facts on which these calculations are based:
Population of Malmö: 286,535 people.
The area of Malmö is 38,548 acres (156 km².)
Population of Skåne: 1,184,500 people.
The area of Skåne is 2,724,771 acres (11 027) km²
source: www.wikipedia.se
An average personal field in western agriculture: 1.2 acres.
source: FOOD, LAND, POPULATION and the U.S. ECONOMY
by David Pimentel of Cornell University and
Mario Giampietro Istituto of Nazionale della Nutrizione, Rome
A permacultural forest garden can feed 10 people on an area of only 2.1 acres.
source: BBC documentary “A Farm for tje Future“, www.agroforestry.co.uk/
Arable land in Malmø is 13,032 acres.
Arable land in Skåne is 1,123,618 acres.
source: www.sjv.se, www.scb.se
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4. With traditional farming on Malmö’s arable land (33%), Malmö can produce food for 10860 people. That is 3,8% of the population.

5. With traditional farming on Skåne’s arable land, Skåne can produce food for 936348 people. That is 79% of the population in Skåne.

6. With a transition to permaculture Malmö can produce food for 62057 people. That is 22% of the population.

7. With a transition to permaculture Skåne can produce food for 5.350.561. That is 452% of the population in Skåne.

8. The area within the feeder road can hold a forest garden of 11.5 acres, which is enough to feed 54 people.

9. Tett inntil dagene (Close to the days) -Reading Malmö through the eyes of a migrated woman and her son.
The novel “Tett inntil dagene“ Mustafa can has lent me an eye into the life of a Kurdish family who migrated to Sweden in the late 1970’s. Throug intimate
conversations between Mustafa and his mother Güllü we get to learn about the situation of a migrated woman and her way of tackling life in a foreign
country. Central topics in Mustafa’s story is the bad conciousness he has towards his mother because of the shame he has felt of her in his childhood. He
has realized that he doesn’t really know who his mother is. The anxiety of losing her before he realizes himself is a pointer on the complexity of migration
and resetteling as a topic.
One of Mustafa’s confessions A tender scene Güllü sees in Mustafa describes to the reader In the conversations between The lie on which Mustafa’s father
Keys to the novel
to Güllü is how he felt the idea retrospect while lying sick at how he developes a parallell life Mustafa and Güllü we get to learn bases his whole existense in
of inviting friends home rather home is the moment when she which he lives outside of his home how it feels to be an outsider Sweden on is the not unfulfilled,
unpleasant. The physical carachter learn to write her own name. The i Skövde. The symbolically loaded in the Swedish society due to but in his mind delayed plan of the
of their home was the source of act of signing a paper becomes Swedish everyday is something linguistic inabilities. Güllu tells return to Kurekava -their home
concern: It was not the muddeled a powerful ritual to Güllü and it which his parents are unable to about how she was ashamed to village. The first one in the family
exterior of the concrete blokcs, symbolizes a reclamation of power take part in. He also describes how meet Mustafa’s friends fearing that that returns to Kurekava is Güllü
the grafitti or the cheap solutions to act within the new society. shame of his mother has led him she was not smart enouhg to be -post mortem. The truth about
that caused the feelings, but to a neglection of any possibility of any interest to them. Mustafa their life in Sweden is written
the looks of randomness and of her partaking in his adomestic says to her she is at least as wise in stone: The longer they stay
temporality. life. In the case of Güllü the hinder as them, and by reading the book in Sweden the more Swedish
is communication. In case of his we know why: Güllü is very well they get -and their ancestors are
father it is about the lack of will to educated in low tech agricultural deprived of a cultural connection
dive deep into the Swedish culture. methods. to Kurekava.
The physical surroundings Many women are silent voices in The development of a parallell There is an immense source There is a tension between
Imbedded Information
are equipped with imbedded a multicultural society. To educate society is not necessarily due to of hidden competence among generations concerning the claim
information about the quality is one way of diminishing this a disgrace of the Swedish way of migrated women. Micro scale of cultural identity. This tension
of life. It tells if homes are being segregational feature of migrant life. Lack of communicating tools agriculture, healthy nutrition has in some cases led to radical
interpreted as setteled domain or societies. might be one reason, a desire to and holistic approaches towards practice of cultural expressions.
just territory of passing by. These cling to what has been left might household are some of the Alternatively, and in this certain
qualities regulates the expectations be another. knowledges. case, it means personal sorrows
of participation either internal in and a local loss of opportunities in
or external of the family. the abandoned land.
Domestic Temporality Identity of Education Parallell Society Hidden Competence Price of Migration How will it actually effect Malmö to persue a forestgarden within the city?

10. I ha I have been pondering about Rosengård and how it is so easy for us to
describe something unfamiliar as something homogenous when it is really not.
Within Rosengård for example, 60% of the population is born abroad and 111 The blend of two structures and the rise of something new
countries are represented. I wonder if it might benefit the prosess of discuss-
ing Rosengård to see the phenomena rising there as something swedish rather
than something foreign.
Also, to distinguish between and accomodate for the differences within “easy-
to-regard-as-but-not-really-homogenous” becomes rather meaningless: That
would mean 111 categories. It might be more rational to consider the inhabit-
ants in Rosengård as individuals rather than members of an ethnic minority?
When discussing culture and ethnicity one can define culture as something that
manifests ethnicity. And one can further divide between the cultural content of
an ethnicity and the strategies for ethnic self-identification. A research carried
out in Great Britain in 1997 shows how these two aspects were intimately con-
nected among 1st generation immigrants, whereas in the second generation
ethnicity had more importance as a symbol than anything else. In parcticality
their cultural behaviour did not differ much from that of Britons of the same
age. (Modood et al. (1997:337))
Parallell societies
The reading of Bateson has cast another light on this topic through his defini-
tion of social ecology. He regards the development of subsystems within civili-
sation as something that eats up flexibility and there for must be controlled.
Malmö has now it’s bridge to Europe. How does the bridge from Rosengård Bridging program: A forestgar- Step one: Plant the climax for- Step two: Plant shrubs and
to Malmö look? ve been pondering about Rosengård and how it is so easy for
us to describe something unfamiliar as something homogenous when it is re-
den producing food for the est and mulch with compost shade flowers near the base
ally not. Within Rosengård for example, 60% of the population is born abroad school in Herrgården. to refertalize the soil. of the trees.
and 111 countries are represented. I wonder if it might benefit the prosess of
discussing Rosengård to see the phenomena rising there as something swedish
rather than something foreign.
The blend of two structures and the rise of something new
Also, to distinguish between and accomodate for the differences within “easy-
to-regard-as-but-not-really-homogenous” becomes rather meaningless: That
would mean 111 categories. It might be more rational to consider the inhabit-
ants in Rosengård as individuals rather than members of an ethnic minority?
When discussing culture and ethnicity one can define culture as something that
manifests ethnicity. And one can further divide between the cultural content of
an ethnicity and the strategies for ethnic self-identification. A research carried
out in Great Britain in 1997 shows how these two aspects were intimately con-
nected among 1st generation immigrants, whereas in the second generation
ethnicity had more importance as a symbol than anything else. In parcticality
their cultural behaviour did not differ much from that of Britons of the same
age. (Modood et al. (1997:337))
The reading of Bateson has cast another light on this topic through his defini-
tion of social ecology. He regards the development of subsystems within civili- Step three: Plant fruit bear- Step four: Plant groundcovers, Step five: Plant flowers that
sation as something that eats up flexibility and there for must be controlled.
Malmö has now it’s bridge to Europe. How does the bridge from Rosengård
ing vines near the trees and e.g. Comfrey and Dandelions. will attract butterflies and
to Malmö look? shrubs. This is repeated through fertilizers.
several stages.

11. The public must not just be informed Rosengårdsskolan has 350 students in F-5 and
about a farming transition, but also be 300 students and staff in 6-9. The staff counts 180
included in it. Citizens must be edu- people.
cated about food choises, gardening
opportunities and ways to access food 20 nationalities are represented and the 30 lan-
from local producers. guages are spoken. The largest lingustic groups are
arabic, arabiska, kurdiska, somaliska, pashto och
A nine minute walk when there’s a romanese. source: www.malmo.se
Herrgården lot to take interest in.
Average calory needed per day for a grown up i
2245 calories.
A three minute walk For children 7-10 years it is an average of 1855
in an empty street calories per day.
For children 11-14 it is an average of 2030 calories
per day. source: http://www.weightlossresources.
co.uk
3 1
Let’s say that one third of the nutri-
2 tion need should be covered in the gar-
den around the school. (350*1850/3) +
(300*2030/3)+(180*2245/3) = 215833 cal + 20300
cal + 134700 cal = 553553 cal per day.
This is how big the Let us say that a forest garden produces 2245
100 meter schoolgarden needs to be calories per 0.21 acres per day. This means that
in order to give one meal to the school garden needs to be 553553cal/2245
every student ever day. 25 cal *0.21 acres = 51 acres to supply lunch for the
times 2.1 acre. school. This is if we count that the students are at
1 Rosengårdsskolan school every day. That is not the case: They are at
school 200 days each year. This means the garden
2 Rosengårdsskolan is required to be 51acres*200days/365days = 27
acres.
3 Rosengårds Herrgård

12. 100 meter
Within these rules for placing
the garden surface this area
was left: Excisting programs
are being respected and
each block is left with one
free side.

13. composting market place composting forest garden new use of the the school plays a recreational area
education centre park central role
Domestic Temporality
Identity of Education
Hidden Competence Parallell Society