ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the unfinished situation as a concept and the conflicting attitudes that arose from the research project Action Archive in Tensta as an opportunity to rethink the social (re)production of architecture. It suggests that by changing perspective and 'reframing' architecture and urban history, repressed material can be regenerated that questions the hegemonic positions in urban development and that attempts to make openings for new spatial and political imaginaries. The contact zone describes an open arena where cultural groups and languages co-exist and where the phenomena of transculturalization, critique and collaboration can happen. Doreen Massey distinguishes between place-bound constructions and place-based constructions of the past. The actions included a 'witness seminar' concerning the International Housing Renewal Conference 1989, a guided tour with the enactment of a dinner commemorating the inauguration of the Glomminge renewal project 1992, in Tensta, and a debate that mapped the production of common or civic spaces in Stockholm.
