Project:

Interactive sculpture

Team Stockholm:

Johan Ferner Ström, Dan Johansson/Lab 71, Rune Ney, Sara Heppling Trygg, Sofia Brydolf/City of Stockholm

Team Malmö:

Johan Ferner Ström, Anders Dahlbäck/Ramböll, Sten Göransson & Emma Johnasson/City of Malmö

Photo cred:

David Puig Serinyà/Glósóli Ateljé

Location:

Kroksbäcksparken/Malmö/Sweden

Skärholmen/Stockholm/Sweden

Awards/Recognitions:

Making space Award/Scotland: Shortlisted

Siena Price/Sweden: Shortlisted.

UN Habitat: The project is included in, “Public space toolkit”

Exhibited:

*Century of the Child: Exhibition tours to 2016. Vandalorum/Värnamo, Design Museum/Denmark, Designmuseo/Helsinki

*Making space exhibition: Edinburg

*Design for open space: Designcenter/Malmö

*Nordic Gardens: Stockholm

Client:

City of Malmö, City of Stockholm

Description:

Puckelboll is the title of an interactive art project from 2002 created by the artist Johan Ferner Ström. The piece is an artistic impression of the phenomenon football and how it resembles the playground of life which is neither equilateral nor level. The ball doesn’t go where you want, the different halves of the filed are not the same for everybody and the goals are definitely not the same size.
The football field’s injustices, are negated by the varying skills and strengths of the players.

Unevenness on the field of play makes the game fair in a remarkable way which invites a more imaginative way to play. The possibility to play, girls and boys, old and young, skilled against unskilled, on equal conditions are encouraged.
The project belongs to the category of art, spontaneous sport, and wants to return to the playful game and also question the elitism that exist in sport.
J.F. Ström has taken the most popular of popular sports and through simple changes in the playing conditions, created a new idea of a game, or a new kind of football where one does not have to be the best to win, because the elements of serendipity and luck is constantly present in the play.
The Puckelball field© was established 2003 and is design protected since 2004
PRV: 7786, OHIM: 278296