Folkparken i Lund : En bortglömd arbetarhistoria

The People’s Park in Lund was one of Sweden’s first public places owned by the labour movement. Today the park has become a municipal re creational facility and cultural centre, and the pivotal role of labour in its creation has all but completely faded. Yet despite this amnesia, urban development plans for the park have been overturned many times with references to the place’s past, which has made local memory a key asset shaping the production of space. This place is thus torn between a selective lack of public memory work and an intense attention to remnants of the place’s past that demand preservation. This speaks to a broader question about the forgotten but materially still present historyof how organized labour has shaped landscapes and landscape conventions in Sweden, through institutions such as People’s Parks.