Ufortalte Historier - om kvinder, kon og arkitektur i Danmark

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Ufortalte Historier - om kvinder, kon og arkitektur i Danmark
Untold Stories - on Women, Gender and Architecture in Denmark
Jannie Rosenberg Bendsen, Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner
Strandberg Publishing
ISBN: 978-87-94102 67-4

Published 18 June 2023

A week or so ago, the Copenhagen publisher Strandberg sent me their press release for a new book on women in architecture in Denmark that was released today.

It covers the period from 1930 to 1980 that is generally recognised as the classic period for modern Danish design. Here the focus is on the architecture and the buildings linked with the emergence of the Danish welfare state and the key role played by women, working as architects and designers, in “creative collaborations that cut across genders and professional disciplines” and included the design of houses, major civic buildings, landscape architecture and urban planning.

The authors are part of an ongoing research project Women in Danish Architecture at the University of Copenhagen. Last summer they were part of the team that curated a major exhibition at the Danish Architecture Center on Women in Architecture in Denmark.

The book is published both in Danish and in an English edition for sale internationally.

Kvinder skaber rum / Women in architecture
at the Danish Architecture Center from 13 May 2022 to 23 October 2022

Strandberg Publishing

Space10 has a new work and meeting area

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Space10 - the research and design lab of IKEA in Kødbyen - in the Meat Packing District in Copenhagen - has been a place to go for good coffee for sometime but the area just inside the entrance has now been rearranged to encourage more people to use it as a meeting and work area with wifi and a selection of books for inspiration.

Opening times have been extended.

The 100 or so books - in striking canvas cradles - are recent publications on architecture and urban design that have been recommended by the staff but there is also a book exchange where anyone can leave appropriate books or take away donated books.

I would recommend signing up to the Space10 newsletter for information about their programme of exhibitions, lectures and discussions about research work in the lab. It is a sharply-designed site and is now establishing a substantial and stimulating archive that is tracking current thoughts and ground-breaking new research on urban living and design.

SPACE10 - library
SPACE10, Flæsketorvet 10, Københaven
open Monday to Thursday 9.00 to 17.00

 
 

3daysofdesign - COME AGAIN 2.0

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I didn’t get out to Cable Park until the very end of the third day of 3daysofdesign. That was not deliberate apart from the fact that I was trying to take a logical route from place to place to avoid doubling back or making long jumps across the city but there could not have been a better way of ending what was, by then, beginning to feel like a marathon run.

By a very long way, this was the most relaxed show of them all and - out on the edge of the sound - the light coming off the water was amazing.

The venue was the studio of the designer, illustrator and ‘paper poet’ Helle Vibeke Jensen and the works, by craftsmen and designers, were shown on the board walks and the hung on the walls of the wooden sheds and outbuildings of the water sports centre and were even shown wrapped around or draped over wakeboards.

Kids in wet suits were not phased and this showed an important aspect of Danish design …. here good design and an interest in art can be just a part of everyday life.

This is the second outing of COME AGAIN, and as with the exhibition at the Offcinet - the gallery of Danske Kunsthåndværker & Designere in Bredgade - this was curated by the jeweller Helen Clara Hemsley and Helle Vibeke Jensen.

Helle Vibeke Jensen
Helen Clara Hemsley

Copenhagen Cable Park
Kraftværksvej 24, 2300 København S

 

Exhibitors:
Helen Clara Hemsley, Janne K. Hansen and Mette Saabye with George William Bell, Katrine Borup, Rasmus Fenhann, Line Frank, Helle Vibeke Jensen, Lise Bjerre Schmidt, Lotte Myrthue, Martine Myrup, Anne Fabricius Møller, Annelie Grimwade Olofsson, Camilla Prasch and Tina Ratzer.

Tina Ratzer
Reeds

Helen Clara Helmsley
Looking back, to look forward 2

Lotte Myrthue
Strøtanker 3

Rasmus Fenhann
Air Bee n’ Bee

 

CHART Book Fair 2021

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For this, the first CHART Book Fair, 27 independent publishers from Denmark, Sweden, Norway and Finland have taken part.

The fair is in Festsalen, the large hall above the main entrance to Charlottenborg from Kongens Nytorv. The room beyond the main hall has an area for refreshments but will also host talks and events. A long sofa here - 10 meters long - has been created by the Danish design company Hay, using their Mags sofa, with textiles designed by the Icelandic artist Loji Hðskuldsson.

CHART