ZINE: SHAPING NYHAMNEN, MALMÖ
URBAN DESIGN PROVOCATION
Exploration of memory, maintenance, and regeneration
Developed during the CityLab II in Malmö, this project examines the transformation of the Nyhamnen ferry terminal: Once the gateway between Malmö and Copenhagen, now a vast, unused landscape caught between demolition and renewal. Over one week, our group observed the site, spoke with historians, librarians, and marine educators, and documented informal uses like fishing that persist amid planned regeneration.
The zine as a probe for speculative urban futures
The work culminated in a digital zine that collages field notes, interviews, and archival fragments to reflect Malmö’s layered identities and uncertain futures. Later expanded as part of my individual research, Shaping Nyhamnen reimagines the zine as a cultural probe: a speculative tool to spark dialogue about how cities can embrace incompleteness, care, and co-existence with nature.
Making as a way of understanding
The zine took shape through cutting, layering, and arranging fragments (maps, interview notes, photographs, and handwritten thoughts). This manual, almost meditative process became a method in itself: revealing the gaps between what we observed and what we understood. Each collage decision reflected our position as outsiders, assembling meaning from partial glimpses, acknowledging that knowledge, like the city, is always unfinished.
