Koskenpuisto, Tampere

Above and below: pitch for some kind(s) of sport

Above: photographer shaken by the appearance of people (and a beagle) coming around the corner, and realising that he will be seen standing there taking a picture of apparently nothing. Literally shaken. 

Fruit not benefiting from having remained unpicked through summer, but it looks diseased anyway. 

Edge of the 'trough' referred to below

 Below: flats at south-eastern edge of the space. 

Over the next few days I will unleash a few documentary pictures of various Swedish-Finnish IRs, but I have to say they do not vary immensely and only a few of them are really inspirational, too: the majority are overgrown, apparently natural (this is not a cynical assessment, just cautious) spaces close to houses or apartments and, while seemingly used (if the desire lines are anything to go by) there's not a lot to distinguish them from the non-internal spaces close by.

Koskenpuisto is a large space between houses and apartments in inner-eastern Tampere, probably about 4km southwest of the city centre. There are recreation and forested (walking) spaces as well as one large forested area that almost looks like it might have been the site of either some extractive industry (unlikely; I've obviously been spending too much time working with Victoria Kolankiewicz) or it is a natural trough. I feel these photographs don't give much of a sense of the space or even its edges but that's the kind of formlessness we're dealing with!

The reserve is here on google maps.

Update 7 September 2016: I've had cause to walk through here a couple of times lately, a few extra images:

 These flats face onto Kuoppamäentie and flush to the reserve at rear.

Another shot of the sports ground - possibly a skating rink? There's no explanatory signage.

 I should add that while I was taking these pictures I was watched with interest by two boys around 10 years of age who were surely on the verge of asking me what on earth I was doing...!