Land of opportunity. Rosengård is a place for departure: few people want to arrive in it. This situation makes Rosengård a place disconnected from life in Malmö and Sweden. By proposing an Urban Life Corridor, a set of activities and spaces is arranged in the “border zone”. The corridor aims to connect different geographic areas in and around the community, giving people a new way to approach the urban landscape, allowing different human groups to express themselves and conform a cultural blending with ultimately unexpected results. Landing in Rosengård. Rosengårds fältet and the adjacent Inre Ringvägen are defining elements in the landscape of Rosengård. They divide a mostly-European southern Rosengård from a mostly middle Eastern center; the road divides (an evacuates) Rosengård from Malmö. However, every border has the potential of becoming a bridge. The spaces in between. The left illustration is defined by the interstitial spaces: the mostly un-used zones in this part in Rosengård. By introducing new activities in a non-linear arrange (shown by co- lour) these interstitial areas acquire a new meaning as new focal points. Painting with light. People’s movement across space shows new points of tension (knots) in areas that were formerly transitions between more intense places (such as Herrgården and the mosque). It is here that urban life is generated. How to go from an area of exclusion... ... to an area of inclusion? The treasure map Urban Life Corridors Reconnecting Rosengård to the urban life network roberto OVALLE / Bergen Arkitekt Skole / Høst 2009 experience long term memory the rabbit! I wanna make drawings ice-cream tomorrow fly like an... here and now growing up here Itinerant bazaar Sports watertank Colonial gardens’ sandbox Graffiti wall Skate park Rosengård Moské Ögårdsparken Playful walls Game block Herrgårdens Amphitheatre Herrgården