Allborgarrätten: The Right to the City as a Swedish Tradition | 1:a upplagan

"Allborgarratten" ar den nya urbana motsvarigheten till allemansratten. Ordet ar skapat av den svenske konstnaren Jan Ryden. I essaboken Allemansratten: Ratten till staden som en svensk tradition undersoker han iden och knyter an till en internationell diskussion om ratten till staden. Parallellt med texten har Ryden skapat en serie piktogram som foljer en egen poetisk logik. Allborgarratten is a newly coined concept that promises to be the urban equivalent of the rural, traditional Swedish allemansratten everyman's right to roam freely in nature. The rural right is one most Swedes know by heart, even though they now live in cities. Through the Nordic lens, Ryden explores themes like the right to the city, national identity and connects it to a larger global discourse. Along with this verbal exploration Jan Ryden has created a series of pictograms, a pictorial grammar of sorts, which follows its own poetic logic.