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Our Joensuu: Own places, shared spaces

A map exhibition and open mapping workshop
  • Public event
  • Economy and society
  • Languages and cultures
Event start date:
9:00
Event end date:
16:00
Event location:
Joensuu City Library, room Muikku
Additional information:
Koskikatu 25
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How does Joensuu look like that is unique to each of us and yet common to all? What kind of shared and divisive issues are shaping the city right now? Where are the soft spots and possibilities of the city of the future? What can the maps tell us about what is important in a shared city?

Our Joensuu is a map exhibition and open mapping workshop concentrating on issues of shared city space arranged at the Central Library's Muikku room 11.–16.3.2024. Maps made by secondary school pupils and high school students in the city will be on display, and each visitor will be able to tell about their own city with maps. The event invites together a rich tapestry of maps that allows people to tell about their lived places and their relationship to a shared, common urban space.

Our Joensuu looks for ways to talk about commonwealth in the urban environment, its shared spaces and jointly made resources. Particular attention is paid to living urban nature, to necessary social infrastructures and the continously renewed place names as forms of urban commons. 

The event is a part of a research project "Post-ownership as an interpretation and experience of economic change" at the University of Eastern Finland, funded by Kone Foundation.

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For more information, please contact Tuomo Alhojärvi, email tuomo.alhojarvi@uef.fi, phone +358 50 4702392.

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The research project explores the concept of post-ownership as a way of outlining one of the changes in economic discourse and thinking especially characteristic to the 2020s. The project will examine how the idea of post-ownership has taken shape, how and why it is made attractive, and how it is organised as part of everyday economic life. The project analyses post-ownership at two levels. The ethnographic level of the study will look at how post-ownership manifests itself in the everyday life of the economy. The spectrum of experiences of ownership and non-ownership will be explored through three case studies on post-ownership in the fields of libraries, transport and urban culture. The genealogical level of the study will examine the genesis of post-ownership, i.e. where, how and from what ingredients the idea of abandonment is constructed and how it is made culturally attractive. The building blocks will be traced back to policy documents, reports from think tanks and consultants, research literature and media representations of non-ownership. In the research setting, post-ownership serves as an example of the performativity of the discourse of economic change, i.e. how economic discourses simultaneously both describe social change and are involved in producing and directing it. By cross-reading institutionalised economic discourse, cultural ideals and everyday economic experiences, the research helps to identify more precisely the symbolic-material dynamics of economic power and opens up perspectives on the diversity of the economy living under the cover of hegemonic discourses.

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