This article explores the relations between everyday life, materiality and urban modernity on two Danish mass housing estates, the Gellerup Plan and Vollsmose, in the 1970s. Specifically, the article examines a series of conflicts concerning the residents’ use and misuse of seemingly mundane material devices, including shopping trolleys, waste disposal and laundry facilities. In doing so, the article argues that the residents’ daily engagements with everyday materialities and technologies constitute a privileged, yet overlooked, point of entry into the shifting relations between modernity, materiality and agency in the Danish welfare city in the 1970s.

本文探讨了 1970 年代丹麦两个大众住宅区 Gellerup Plan 和 Vollsmose 的日常生活、物质性和城市现代性之间的关系。具体而言，本文考察了居民使用和滥用看似平凡的材料设备的一系列冲突，包括购物车、废物处理和洗衣设施。在此过程中，文章认为，居民与日常物质和技术的日常接触构成了 1970 年代丹麦福利城市现代性、物质性和机构之间不断变化的关系的一个特权但被忽视的切入点。