Attention as Method - Johan Lundborg
Johan Lundborg ( Sweden )
At ZK/U, Johan Lundborg will continue developing his project Attention as Method, focusing on the designed city landscape and the mechanisms that regulate presence in public space. His work examines hostile architecture and everyday urban objects, benches, fences, thresholds that enforce exclusion while appearing neutral. Through sustained observation, documentation, and material research in Berlin, he will expand a visual and material archive mapping how design encodes social values and behavioral control. Working primarily with sculpture, Lundborg uses reclaimed wood alongside other discarded materials, allowing traces of prior use to shape new constructions. By dismantling and reassembling these materials, he exposes the logics embedded in the built environment. The residency will function as both studio and research site, enabling a concentrated study of the city’s material language and its systems of access, ownership, and control.
