From September 21-23. the DIST center at Aalborg University in Copenhagen will host a conference on experimental urban development in cooperation with GivRum. The purpose of the conference is to gather researchers, planners, developers and activists to a three day exploration of how we can create more liveable and sustainable cities through experimental urban development.
The two first days of the conference are designed to inspire new thoughts and practices around urban development and to encourage the staging of urban experiments that point towards alternative futures. On the third day of the conference (saturday), interested participants are invited to take part in the co-creation of a programme for experimental urban development.
The conference is framed by the international City Link festival, which is this year happening in the Sydhavn neighborhood in Copenhagen. The festival theme is “building bridges” and works with how to sustain and develop communities in the area.
How can we create more liveable and sustainable cities through experimental urban development?
Our Keynote SpeakersKeynote speakers below, see the full list on the speakers page
Jason Roberts
Jason has spearhaded the”Better Block Project” which developes livable, sustainable envoronments in otherwise desolate areas.
Indy Johar
Indy Johar is an architect, co-founder of project 00, a Senior Innovation Associate with the Young Foundation and Visiting Professor at the University of Sheffield.
Andrew Karvonen
Andrew Karvonen is Assistant Professor of Urban and Regional Studies at the KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm.
Torange Khonsari
Torange Khonsari co founded and is director of the art and architecture practice public works.
In order to extend the possible, it is necessary to proclaim and desire the impossible. Action and strategy consists in making possible tomorrow what is impossible today.
Urban ExperimentsWe have invited these groups to create urban experiments during the conference.
zURBS
zURBS is an urban performance collective that experiments with participatory methods to how we can re-imagine the urban.
Better Block Project
Better Block Foundation is a nonprofit that educates, equips, and empowers communities and their leaders.
Bureau Detours
Bureau Detours is a creative organization with great interest in creating social environments in public spaces.
Urban Matters Hub
‘Urban Matters Hub’ is an experimental site-specific inflatable installation, based on the ideas of the Instant City – a pneumatic city designed José Miguel de Prada Poole in 1971.
Interested in experimental urban development?
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