Martin Kubler 🎲 Ⓐ 🏴 Ⓥ

The old Swedish tvättstuga was never just about laundry.

It was also a space where people negotiated coexistence, shared responsibility, inconvenience, conflict, and participation in everyday life.

My latest piece explores what disappears socially when friction, shared spaces, and communal responsibility slowly disappear from daily life.

New piece: https://www.martinkubler.com/death-of-the-tvattstuga/

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Participation, friction, and the death of the tvättstuga

For decades, the shared laundry room was a normal part of Swedish apartment life. People booked time slots, negotiated schedules, cleaned up after themselves...

The In-Between Space
Jun 1 at 6:16amWeb