Kasper Nihlmark

Stockholms Vatten e Asball!
Kasper Nihlmark

Stockholm’s rich freshwater supply is becoming increasingly important as summers in the city get hotter. Still, accessible fresh water has long disappeared from the squares and parks as the old drinking fountains have been left to decay. Instead, the expanding commercial spaces have turned the city into a place where its inhabitants are expected to buy water. Imagine if Mälaren could reach out a cupped hand to drink from so that the city becomes a lively spring where all its inhabitants can quench their thirst free of charge.

In collaboration with the made-up municipal water management company SVEA I have designed a new drinking fountain for the public spaces of Stockholm. The degree project explores the water fountain as a meeting between sculpture and humans and the running water that connects them—all for a livelier Stockholm today and in the future—located somewhere between nostalgia and dystopia.

Kasper Nihlmark