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København er en eksemplarisk by, der er internationalt hyldet for sine succeser. Men bagsiden er begyndt at vise sig. Dokumentarfilmen reflekterer over hvem vi skaber byer og bygninger for - ikke mindst i fremtiden.

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Gigantiske motorvejsnet, skyhøje bygninger og menneskeliv, der lever i hver deres separate betonkasse. Storbyen er blevet moderne, men hvordan passer metropolernes udformning egentlig til menneskets behov og adfærd? Den danske stjerne-arkitekt Jan Gehl og hans crew af arkitekter har en humanistisk mission.

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Vad vill du skapa i Malmö? Så lyder frågan i målarboken som Malmö in the making tagit fram för att väcka barns och ungas tankar om stadsutveckling. Med hjälp av bibliotek, förskolor, museum, fritidsgårdar och allaktivitetshus hoppas vi att målarboken ska nå så många unga Malmöbor som möjligt.

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Vad vill du skapa i Malmö? Så lyder frågan i målarboken som Malmö in the making tagit fram för att väcka barns och ungas tankar om stadsutveckling. Med hjälp av bibliotek, förskolor, museum, fritidsgårdar och allaktivitetshus hoppas vi att målarboken ska nå så många unga Malmöbor som möjligt.

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Feral Atlas invites you to navigate the land-, sea-, and airscapes of the Anthropocene.

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In the early 1970s, Henri Lefebvre put forward the radical hypothesis of the complete urbanization of society. This required, in his view, a radical shift from the analysis of urban form to the investigation of urbanization processes. The Urban Theory Lab-GSD builds upon Lefebvre's approach to investigate emergent sociospatial formations under early twenty-first century capitalism.

Our research starts from the proposition that inherited frameworks of urban knowledge must be radically reinvented to illuminate emergent forms of twenty-first century urbanization. In contrast to the urban/suburban/rural distinction that has long underpinned the major traditions of urban research, data collection and cartographic practice, we argue that the urban today represents a worldwide condition in which all political-economic and socio-environmental relations are enmeshed, regardless of terrestrial location or morphological configuration. This emergent condition of planetary urbanization means, paradoxically, that even spaces that lie well beyond the traditional centers of agglomeration-from worldwide shipping lanes, transportation networks and communications infrastructures to resource extraction sites, alpine and coastal tourist enclaves, offshore financial centers, agro-industrial catchment zones, and erstwhile "natural" spaces such as the world's oceans, deserts, jungles, mountain ranges, tundra and atmosphere-are becoming integral to a worldwide operational landscape for (capitalist) urbanization processes.

Through a conceptual distinction between concentrated urbanization (agglomeration) and extended urbanization (operational landscapes)-developed in collaboration with Prof. Christian Schmid of the ETH-Zurich-we aim to investigate the historical geographies of the capitalist urban-industrial fabric in ways that supersede inherited metageographical binarisms while opening up new sociological, cartographic and political perspectives on the contemporary global-urban condition. Our work combines conceptual and representational experimentation, theory-driven research and research-based pedagogy, as well as various forms of outreach and events programming within the Harvard-GSD community and at scholarly conferences and workshops around the world.

Selected publications
Neil Brenner and Christian Schmid. "Towards a new epistemology of the urban?" CITY. 19(2-3), 2015. 151-182.
Neil Brenner (editor), Implosions/Explosions: Towards a Study of Planetary Urbanization. Berlin: Jovis, 2014.
Hillary Angelo and David Wachsmuth. "Urbanizing Urban Political Ecology: A Critique of Methodological Cityism." International Journal of Urban and Regional Research. 39(1), 2015. 16-27.
Daniel Ibañez and Nikos Katsikis (editors). New Geographies 6: Grounding Metabolism. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2014.
Neil Brenner. "Open city or right to the city?" TOPOS: The International Review of Landscape Architecture and Urban Design. 85, 2013. 42-45.

Principal Investigator
Professor Neil Brenner
Collaborator(s)
Professor Christian Schmid, ETH-Zurich
Urban Theory Lab website

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In this feature length film Gary Burns, Canada's king of surreal comedy, joins journalist Jim Brown on an outing to the suburbs. Venturing into territory both familiar and ...

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Hashti, in most traditional houses in Iran, is the space behind the sar-dar or doorway; they are designed in many different shapes, including octagonal, hexagonal, square and rectangular. The hashti is a space of distribution and circulation. Hasht, which means eight, is an allusion to an octagon with several directions which makes it possible to direct a visitor towards the various parts of the house according to the goal and the reasons of the visit. Initially, the hashti was intended to regulate the access and circulation towards the courses: private ( andarouni) and semi-public ( birouni), reserved for the reception from abroad and the access to spaces of service respectively.

Taking its name from this directional space and screening this evening, 28 June, at London's Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image, HASHTI TEHRAN is a film and discursive project intiated by Daniel Kötter, in collaboration with Shadnaz Azizi, Kaveh Rashidzadeh, Pouya Sepehr, and Amir Tehrani. Based on the idea that Tehran itself represents a house, so to speak the inner circle of The Islamic Republic of Iran, the outskirts of the city become the space of transition between inside and outside, between urban and non-urban.

Thus the project looks at four very different areas in the outskirts of Tehran: the mountain of Tochal in the north, the area around the artificial lake Chitgar in the West, the construction of social housing called Pardis Town in the far east and the neighbourhood Nafar Abad at the southern edges of the city. By combining on-the-road footage and architectural documentary, and inverting the techniques of inside and outside shots the film HASHTI TEHRAN portrays Tehran through its peripheral spaces.

Still from HASHTI TEHRAN (via Daniel Kötter)

"Segregation" and "privatisation," "security" and "control", are core terms of urban transformation in the developing cities of the 21st century around the globe. Its contested counterparts are "public" or "open space," "access" and "citizenship." All these concepts seem stuck in the negotiation between aspirations of new liberal economies trying to connect to a global construction and business boom, and a tendency of preserving a shared public sphere for all groups of society within the urban area.

HASHTI TEHRAN tries to shift this focus to areas where the controlling force of urban development seems to lose its influence, where definitions get blurry and fluid: the edges and peripheries, those contact zones, where city and landscape, nature and construction meet. Tehran's peripheral geography shows a significant structural analogy with its social, environmental and psychological divisions: the northern periphery, reserved for the upper class in penthouse apartments and for recreation in the clean air of the mountains, heavily contradicts the situation at the southern periphery, where smog and desert define the social life of the middle and lower classes.

Still from HASHTI TEHRAN (via Daniel Kötter)

HASHTI TEHRAN examines the different strategies of urban planners, architects and sociologists in these areas, while also questioning, what are the different strategies of the actual inhabitants to live around these mechanisms of control and definition, how can alternative spaces be created, and what role does the non-urban space play in the every day life of those people?

This evening's screening of HASHTI TEHRAN at Birkbeck Institute for the Moving Image will be followed by a Q&A session with Daniel Kötter (Director) and Alireza Labeshka (Curator) in conversation with Pooya Ghoddousi (Geographer, UCL). Book tickets here.

Feature image: Still from HASHTI TEHRAN (via Daniel Kötter)

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Daniel Kötter's Striking Film HASHTI TEHRAN Examines Life In Iran's Urban Peripheries - Something Curated

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Hashti, in most traditional houses in Iran, is the space behind the sar-dar or doorway; they are designed in many different shapes, including octagonal, hexagonal, square and rectangular. The hashti is a space of distribution and circulation. Hasht, which means eight, is an allusion to an octagon with several directions which makes it possible to...

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https://graspfestival.dk/

This year the Liveable Cities course collaborates with the GRASP Festival, a two-day event that mixes research, art, activism and practice to explore possibilities for sustainable change. Organised by the Roskilde Festival with RUC and other partners,  it brings together different communities of practice - both international and local - through talks, panel debates, workshops and performances.

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KADK public talk 22.09.23

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Åben forelæsning af arkitekt Charles Durrett (The Cohousing Company). Cohousing and high-functioning neighborhoods can play a major role in building a viable society. We can use them as the building blocks to address many of the critical issues of our time - from global warming to racism and othering.

'Our office has a poster, "If it doesn't work socially, why bother?" It has guided all of our work, whether it be housing, hospitals, schools, and more. In the U.S., we struggle with a society that in many ways leans towards a more dysfunctional society - and we 100% commit ourselves to the opposite direction.

We struggle with classism, affordable housing, and housing for the homeless that are real neighborhoods that makes living more economical, safe, and convivial.

We struggle with racism, and focus on making everyone feel included, and welcome in every setting.

We very much approach our work from an Anthropological point of view, as fully laid out in the new book Cohousing Communities: Designing for High-Functioning Neighborhoods, formally Community-Enhanced Design.'

Charles Durrett is an architect, author, and advocate of affordable, socially responsible, and sustainable design. Durrett and his team at The Cohousing Company have designed more than 50 cohousing communities in the United States and around the world, including Muir Commons in Davis, California, the first cohousing community in North America. The Cohousing Company has had over 60 interns worldwide, 7 of which were Danish.

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Åben forelæsning af arkitekt Charles Durrett (The Cohousing Company). Cohousing and high-functioning neighborhoods can play a major role in building a viable society. We can use them as the building

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A lecture by Troy Vettese. 05.10.23

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Countless scholars within the environmental humanities have uncritically embraced the new metanarrative that dare not speak its name: the Anthropocene. Historians co-author articles with natural scientists and contribute concepts that vary from vague (the 'great acceleration') to the incorrect (the 'expensive tissue hypothesis'). In turn, natural scientists conscript historians to help them place the 'golden spike' for the start of the Anthropocene, yet they struggle to find a clear answer. Other scholars seem to instead compete by endlessly riffing on the Anthropocene with new neologisms (e.g., Capitalocene, Chthulucene, etc.). After two decades under the shadow of the Anthropocene, academic debates have not only failed to produce a politics commensurate with the gigantic scale of the crisis, but they are regressing politically. The apolitical nature of actor-network theory has its own problems, but what's worse is the revival of avant-garde Malthusianism, which one can detect in the works of leading Anthropocene scholars. We seem to be having the wrong debate over the Anthropocene. The concept is mostly used as shorthand to discuss the climate crisis despite the fact that humanity's deformed relationship to other creatures is both a major cause of the Anthropocene (e.g., factory farming) or will be reflected in the fossil record when countless species become extinct. Instead of connecting animal studies to the Anthropocene debate, humanists content themselves with acting as handmaidens to natural scientists as the latter pursue their preferred solution to the crisis - geoengineering.

This lecture will offer a critique of the Anthropocene scholarship carried out by Marxists, new materialists, and environmental historians, and suggest how synthesizing the strengths of these approaches offers a new way to understand today's environmental crisis and how we might overcome it.

Troy Vettese

Troy Vettese is an environmental historian and post-doctoral researcher associated with ECOINT at the European University Institute in Fiesole. In 2019, he graduated from New York University and began a two-year fellowship as a William Lyon Mackenzie King scholar at Harvard University. His research focuses on energy history, animal studies, and the history of environmental economics. He is the co-author of Half-Earth Socialism (Verso 2022) with Drew Pendergrass. Currently, he is writing a monograph and editing an essay collection on neoliberal environmental thought. His popular writing has appeared in the Guardian, the New Statesman, Jacobin, In These Times, the New Left Review, and Bookforum.

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Head of center Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen

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Lecture by Troy Vettese, environmental historian and post-doctoral researcher associated with ECOINT at the European University Institute in Fiesole.This lecture will offer a critique of the Anthropocene scholarship.

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Copenhagen Contemporary - Reset Materials

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Copenhagen Contemporary - Reset Materials

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Explore sustainable building materials of the future, in the large experimental exhibition at the intersection of art and architecture: Reset Materials - Towards Sustainable Architecture

Construction represents one of the most polluting human activities on the planet today accounting for nearly 40% of the global CO2 footprint. Much of this comes from the production and waste of materials. It is therefore urgent for architects and the building industry, and for society in general, to radically transform how we source, construct, and inhabit our built environments.

Reset Materials explores the future of architecture with works of new, trailblazing, experimental building materials. Ten interdisciplinary teams, each consisting of architects, artists, and material producers, join creative forces to present their compelling visions towards a post-carbon architecture. The focus of the show is sample and full-scale studies of newly developed or rediscovered local materials - from recycled plastics or silicon to growing organisms and biogenic materials such as mycelium, nettle, clay and hemp - all collected, cultivated, recycled, de-constructed and re-composed by the teams. The final works are exhibited as material fragments that allow the visitor to encounter individually the process and architectural, functional and aesthetic potential of the materials.

Will our buildings in the future be constructed out of fungi, nettles, and recycled plastic? Can we cultivate bricks like we do crops? And how will sustainable materials change our understanding of architectural beauty and values?

The exhibition presents, among others, the architect Anders Lendager and the artist Honey Biba Beckerlee, who experiment with waste from the extraction of silicon. Silicon is found everywhere in nature. It is in sand, rock, soil and clay - even in the leaves of plants and the skin, hair and nails of humans. Among other things, it is extracted for use in the production of microchips and solar cells - and in that process a large part is wasted. Lendager and Beckerlee investigate how silicon can be used in dust form to create new aesthetic expressions such as ceramics - here they have succeeded in creating a brightly colored glaze from a combination of waste materials from industry - and how the substance can solve technical challenges in construction, such as compressed building blocks and screeds.

Another team explores the fungal material mycelium. The inhomogeneous, fast-growing network structure of this material holds enormous design potential and can be used for, among other things, sustainable acoustic solutions. The material is presented by architects, engineers and artists from the Royal Danish Academy, Henning Larsen Architects, the design studio nikolova/aarsø and the manufacturer Naturpladen ApS.

The exhibition is curated in collaboration with the external curator and architect Chrissie Muhr, and created in a collaboration between CC and the Danish Association of Architects (Akademisk Arkitektforening). The exhibition is supported by the Dreyers Foundation and stems from the project.

#MATERIALER

The ten teams of the exhibition were selected by an Open Call and worked together in a one-year grant as part of the #MATERIALER project, initiated by the Dreyers Foundation. Since then, the teams consisting of established as well as upcoming architects, artists, and material producers, have investigated and experimented on the aesthetic, constructive and ecological potential of the materials. The results will be presented for the first time in the exhibition Reset Materials - Towards Sustainable Architecture.

List of participating teams:

Kim Lenschow and Anders Wilhelmsen (Office Kim Lenschow, architect)
Natural Material Studio (Material researcher and designer),
Hans Peter Dinesen (Dinesen, Producer)

Plastics
Vicki Thake (Architect),
Grethe Wittrock (Textile artist),
Torben Eskerod (Photografer)

Clay
Simeon Østerlund Bamford and Mathias Ørum Nørgård (Reværk Architects),
Kasper Kjeldgaard (Artist)

Hempcrete
Søren Thirup Pihlmann and Jakob Rabe Petersen (pihlmann architects),
Rhoda Ting and Mikkel Dahlin Bojesen (Studio ThinkingHand),
Christian Vædele-Larson (HempCrete.dk ApS)

Nettle, hemp, flax & eel grass
Frans Drewniak (Architect),
Sara Martinsen (Artist)

Silicon
Anders Lendager, Nikolaj Callisen Friis,
Daga Karlsson (Lendager, Architecture and Consultancy),
Honey Biba Beckerlee (Artist),
én jord (Producer),
Eco Silicate (Producer)

Monoblock
Lynge Lynge Architects,
Jakob Steen (Artist),
Mikael Martlev (Master Mason),
Xella (Manufacturer)

Straw
Anne Beim, Line Kjær Frederiksen and Lykke Arnfred (CINARK - Center for Industriel Arkitektur, Det Kongelige Akademi)
Tove Storch (Artist),
Laura Feline Ebbesen, Thomas Gerner (Straatagets Kontor, tækkere)

Biocement
Lasse Lind, Aleksander Kongshaug, Tandia Hardcastle, Johannes Dickmeiss, Amaya Steensman (GXN/3XN, Architects)
Silas Inoue (Artist)
Jan Vandersander (BioMason, producent)

lsak Worre Foged (Det Kongelige Akademi, Architect),
Jon Strunge and Jørgen Strunge (Naturpladen ApS),
Jonas Aarsø (nikolova/aarsø),
Magnus Reffs Kramhøft (Henning Larsen Architects)

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Reset Materials - Copenhagen Contemporary

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Explore sustainable building materials of the future, in the large experimental exhibition at the intersection of art and architecture: Reset Materials - Towards Sustainable Architecture Construction represents one of the most polluting human activities on the planet today accounting for nearly 40% of the global CO2 footprint.

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https://ruc.dk/en/master/nordic-urban-planning-studies

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Introduction to the programme

Do you want to shape the sustainable cities of the future? Then join our Master's programme in Nordic Urban Planning Studies, where you will learn international and interdisciplinary approaches to urban planning, through a Nordic lens.

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Nordic Urban Planning Studies - what is it about?

In a rapidly urbanizing world, cities face huge challenges around climate, mobility, sustainability, housing and much more. In this programme, you will train to tackle these challenges and shape urban futures on a local, regional, and global level.

Our profile

This programme studies global urban planning through a Nordic lens, seeking to learn from the region's innovative approaches to sustainable urbanization. We explore themes such as public space and liveability, mobility and forms of transportation, citizen empowerment and climate adaption. Through perspectives from Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, you will learn international and interdisciplinary perspectives on urban planning and development. You will investigate how economic, political, and social processes create frameworks for urban planning, and you will train to analyse complex urban problems using both qualitative and creative methods, and quantitative techniques of spatial visualization and geographical information systems.

Throughout this programme, you will work with all aspects of urban planning and development, from the social and cultural to the more technical, thus training you to be a bridge builder between different professions in the field - not least through group projects and the potential to do an internship during your time with us. We equip you to navigate the complex networks of urban planning and to offer solutions to both local, regional, and global challenges.

One education - three universities

This programme is based across three universities: Roskilde University in Denmark, Malmö University in Sweden, and UiT The Arctic University of Norway in Tromsø. During the programme, you will attend at least two of these universities and can choose to attend all three. This gives you a uniquely international perspective on urban planning and an opportunity to pursue your specific interests in the field.

Roskilde University specialises in research on urban development and the globalization of cities in relation to welfare, mobility, immigration, sustainability, minorities, social innovation, and social inclusiveness.

Malmö University specialises in research on economies of urban development, housing, the real estate market, smart cities, and social sustainability in planning.

UiT The Arctic University of Norway specialises in research on planning theory, local democracy, culture and place, sustainability, and the planning and development of Arctic areas.

Funding to support programme mobility is available from the Nordic Council of Ministers and Erasmus+.

For more information see also: Three universities - one programme

Study environment

We attract students from all over the world and from a variety of backgrounds, and this diversity makes for a vibrant study environment. From South American architects to Dutch social scientists, our students are joined by a keen interest in Nordic urban planning and a willingness to critically examine its many aspects in a global context. Although students may choose different tracks from the second semester, they form a tight-knit group along with our staff of leading researchers from the three universities. We have an informal tone and an open-door policy with close contact between students and faculty. At the start of your first semester, you will be welcomed with a week of social activities and excursions, and throughout the programme, field trips are a natural part of the curriculum.

Career and qualifications

As a graduate in Nordic Urban Planning Studies, you will be attractive to all businesses, public authorities, and organisations that work nationally and internationally with cities, regions, and urban life. Our graduates often work as urban planners, consultants, and innovators. Many find jobs at international architect and engineering consultancies, working trans-nationally with city development, with others take up advisory positions for public authorities at all levels, or push urban innovation as project leaders and facilitators in NGOs. Examples of employments include:

Project consultant at Rambøll, working with sustainable urban solutions in projects worldwide

Urban planner in the city of Paris, working with urban development

Community Advisor at StrategyNorth. In Yukon Territory, Canada, working with local governance, planning and evaluation

Technical manager at the municipality of Copenhagen, working with mapping urban spaces for development

Project manager at Cycle Superhighways in the Capital Region of Denmark, working with strengthening cycling infrastructure

Degree: Master of Science (MSc) in Social Sciences in Nordic Urban Planning Studies. Graduates of the joint programme will be awarded a degree from either two or three universities, depending on their chosen programme of study (double or multiple degree).

Academic staff
Academic staff Nordic Urban Planning Studies
Brochure about the programme

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Liveable cities. What can we learn from the Nordic countries?

Scandinavia is famous for its liveable cities, but is it possible to replicate one particular region's approach in other contexts? Are Nordic cities really as "liveable" as they claim, or is this just a case of clever marketing?

Three Universities - one programme

Nordic Urban Planning Studies is jointly delivered by universities in Roskilde, Malmö and Tromsø. You have the possibility to participate in courses at all three universities. Through this programme you will develop international interdisciplinary perspectives that draw on the research strengths and networks of each of the three universities.

Nordic Master

Nordic Urban Planning Studies is a Nordic Master - an international study programme, jointly delivered by universities from at least three Nordic countries. The label 'Nordic Master' is awarded to programmes based on research, excellence and high quality. Nordic Masters programmes are funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers and seek to attract students from all over the world.

"Understanding the Nordic planning tradition is very important. No doubt that the Nordic welfare model and planning tradition will be subject to export"

Henrik Seiding, Executive Director, Rambøll

Master's degree from Roskilde University - why?

You will be part of a strong academic environment where you will be in close contact with researchers, in dialogue about everything from academic issues, possible methods and theories, ways to create new insights and your wishes for the academic direction of your master's degree study. You will become part of a social environment typically centred in one building on campus, where researchers and students work next door to each other. You will study within the university's project format, where identification of a problem, in-depth analyses, choice and implementation of a methodological approach, as well as setting up a strong theoretical framework are your responsibilities under academic guidance from a researcher. You will participate in a number of courses which expand your methodological and theoretical knowledge. During a semester, you will identify a significant problem within your subject field and develop the knowledge to produce scientific arguments for possible solution(s). You will gain concrete experience with the entire scientific process.

Student life

Roskilde University's Campus

The university is situated on one single physical campus. There are multi-purpose sports courts, a football field, a disc golf course, nature trails along the lake, stream and the fields, a training centre, innovation workshops, a canteen, and a cinema. Our joint meeting place is called Student House RUC, where there is a student-run café and lounge. Both outdoors and indoors, we work to make the campus as sustainable as possible. Among other things, we have reduced energy consumption by 38 percent over the last 5 years and are converting our outdoor areas to wild nature.

Be inspired: Other options

Other international master's programmes

Other enrolment opportunities at Roskilde University

Roskilde University welcomes both exchange and guest students and you will find suggestions for semester packages taught in English.

Do you want to know more?

Contact the Study Guidance office

Contact us if you need advice on choosing a course of study, more information about the content of a degree, or about applying and admission to Roskilde University.
Contact the Study Guidance office
Meet us

See if there are current events that might be something for you. For example, participate in Open House, see the campus, and meet teachers and students.

Ready to apply?

Read all about requirements and admission to Roskilde University's master's programmes.

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Learn to work with international challenges in urban planning, find solutions through Nordic urban development practices and get your joint masters degree from the universities of Roskilde (Denmark), Malmö (Sweden) and UiT, The Arctic University of Norway, in Tromsø.

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Kom og oplev de mange begivenheder Dansk Arkitektur Center tilbyder! Om du er til gåture, debatter, udstillinger eller andet. Læs mere her!

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Meet the eco-system and mingle with your colleagues, residents and fellow BLOXHUB members at our monthly social networking events BREAKFAST. The events is courtesy of the house and open to...

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Den legendariske byplanlægger Jane Jacobs var en pioner med store visioner og en dyb humanisme, som var langt forud for sin tid. En fagligt seriøs og fortsat aktuel storfilm om arkitektur, urbanitet og det gode (by)liv.

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Tankeprovokerende og stilfuld film, der med stort klarsyn og sort humor ser på fænomenet 'arbejde' i det 21. århundrede.

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Et værk, der udelukkende i egenskab af sine lyd- og billedkompositioner skaber en forskydning mellem fortid, nutid og en fremtid efter mennesket.

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Råängen (which translates as ‘raw meadow’) is developing a narrative that builds on the involvement of artists, architects, local people, developers, contractors, and university staff, creating the groundwork for future stories in a new neighbourhood.

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Råängen is a platform for discussion about what happens on Lund Cathedral's land in Brunnshög, a neighbourhood five kilometers north east of Lund in south Sweden.

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White Arkitekter's installation at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia unpacks Sara Kulturhus in Skellefteå, Sweden, exploring building technology, material supply chains and their impact on the forests from which it was built.

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Is it possible to find a balance between the forest as a resource and the urgent need to preserve and rebuild fragile ecosystems? Our installation - One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Trees - at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia unpacks Sara Kulturhus in Skellefteå, Sweden, exploring building technology, material supply chains and their impact on the forests from which it was built.

The Laboratory of the Future

We are honored to be participating in the Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia curated by Lesley Lokko. The Laboratory of the Future is an exhibition of six parts. It includes 89 participants, over half of whom are from Africa or the African Diaspora.

The exhibition digs deep into questions of how to live in a world of binaries, and the global issues of decolonisation and decarbonisation.

Architecture has played a complicit role in environmental degradation, social inequality, and energy imbalance. Dangerous Liaisons hints at the risks involved in our misinterpretation of complex entanglements, the reductive view of nature and numerical approaches to landscape management. Timber is a wonderful material for building at scale, but can a balance be struck between the forest as a resource and the urgent need for fragile ecologies to be preserved and re-built?

One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Trees

Our installation - One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Trees - unpacks a recent timber project from Skellefteå, Sweden, exploring building technology, material supply chains and their impact on the forests from which it was built. Sara Kulturhus, completed in 2021, is a symbol for sustainable timber architecture and is a perfect case study for dissection. Using carbon as an agreed measure and currency, The Workshop exhibition format of the Biennale allows us to unpick the politics of 'zero carbon' and point towards positive new forms of practice which work in balance with the environment.

The exhibition reaches beyond the building to include the landscapes of timber extraction, and through connecting hard data with a real place, look to reveal what is often intangible. Large-scale films present the reality of the industrial forest, the efficiency of manufacture and the quotidian use of the public building at true scale. Wildlife, people, and weather add layers to further connect the very north of Europe with the audience at the Biennale.

Multiple voices are heard, from ecology, technology, activism and carbon discourse which illustrate the complexities and contradictions within current approaches to counter the climate and biodiversity emergencies which we are all facing.

Three animation sequences conceptually reference back to the main films of Forest, Factory and Building.

The forest in ariel view illustrates the phenomena of "crown shyness" where tree crowns avoid touching one another, bio-diversity where micro-organisms overtake their hosts and an exploding log illustrates timber as resource.

The Biennale, the world's biggest architecture festival, opened to the public on 20 May, and is running through to Sunday 26 November 2023.

White's contribution to the Biennale was curated and produced by:

Technical Collaborators:

Clara Terne - Digital artist
Martin Lang, Lang Film - Cinematographer & editor
Pär Olofsson - Cinematographer
Oliver Börnfelt - Sound engineer
Magnus Lewrén, Lewrén Produktion - Video technician

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One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Trees | White Arkitekter

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Is it possible to find a balance between the forest as a resource and the urgent need to preserve and rebuild fragile ecosystems? Our installation - One Hundred and Fifty Thousand Trees - at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia unpacks Sara Kulturhus in Skellefteå, Sweden, exploring building technology, material supply chains and their impact on the forests from which it was built.