The Container as Phenomenon
Category: ArticleThis article explores the shipping container as a tool in experimental urban development. In cities all over the world today, we see shipping containers used as building blocks in...
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Interview – The Peace Harbour
Category: Experiment, VideoCopenhagen was once a vibrating harbour city, and its harbour areas were the place to go if one was up for stories and adventures. Those times are over. Most...
A Real-World Laboratory for Urban Resilience: The Gängeviertel in Hamburg
Category: ArticleIn the following article I will touch upon my research regarding cooperation between citizens and city councils in the co-production of urban resilience. To this end, I utilize an...
Interview – Gry Worre Hallberg
Category: Experiment, VideoIn this interview with Gry Worre Hallberg from Sisters Academy, we talk about immersive performance strategies as tools of urban transformation. Gry tells the story about a school in a...
Institut for (X)
Category: ExperimentInstitut for (X) is an independent platform for culture, creative businesses and education founded in Aarhus in 2009. IF(X) was started by the design agency Bureau Detours who was...
The Sparkling Spaces
Category: ExperimentNorwegian cities and densely populated areas are undergoing change. Retailers are moving into shopping centres, public sector activities are relocating outside of city centres and office buildings are being...
How to make communities blossom
Category: VideoIn this keynote lecture from the Experimental Cities conference, 2017, Jason Roberts talks about the history of the Better Block Project with case studies from projects around the world....
The ephemeral city – the difference between Røde Plads and Gillett Square
Category: ArticleUrban studies have for years seen the city as a fluid, temporary, flow space, so why call it ephemeral too? It is rare to see studies that show how...
Cultural protocols
Category: ExperimentThere is no official guide that tells you how to behave in a restaurant. Nevertheless, you and everyone else usually stick to a certain sequence of (inter-)actions: You take...
The Boring Revolution
Category: VideoIn this keynote lecture from the Experimental Cities conference in 2017, Indy Johar talks about “the boring revolution” that our cities and societies are facing today and how to...