Medborgarens inflytande på konstnärlig gestaltning i det gemensamma rummet : En undersökning av medborgarförslag i Huddinge och Botkyrka kommuner under åren 2005-2015

Sammanfattning: The purpose of this thesis is to examine how much influence citizens’ can have over public art in their close environment. In order to answer this I have examined all citizens proposals sent to Huddinge and Botkyrka municipality between 2005 and November 2015, in a comprehensive manner in order to contextualize the amount of proposals the municipalities have received and what they concern, beyond that I have examined the proposals that concern public art more profoundly in order to understand how well citizens’ proposals work as a channel for influence of public art in the common space. In the qualitative part of the study I have utilized Pierre Bourdieu’s theories on capital in order to convey the individuals chance to influence. My study shows that all in all there are ten proposals that concern public art. In three of these have decisions yet to be made while the rest have been rejected with the exception of one that is considered reciprocated. My results show that influence of the public art through citizens’ proposals as of now, is insignificant.