A festival on urban planning, landscape and our built environment within the overall festival theme of Life Form.

Through the festival, there will be over 100 events throughout the city including exhibitions, films, talks, book launches and guided walks.

These will explore ideas about regenerative design, bio-inclusive biometrics, symbiotic co- creation and architectural asceticism.

Many of the events will be in two post-industrial areas of the city ..... around Halmtorvet and Kødbyen .... the old hay market and the meat market .... and in Jernbanebyen .... the old railway works.

Copenhagen Architecture Festival
1 June - 11 June 2023
events

exhibition - Spaces of Dignity
1 June 10 August 2023

Design in the Age of AI
SPACE10
from 2 June 2023

❝ What if we could change our architecture by changing our understanding of architecture? .... We know that we must establish new consumption patterns. We know that the idea of the architect as self-sufficient genius and master builder with universal solutions stand in the way of a necessary rereading of our buildings as habitats, our cities as ecosystems and our architects as facilitators and advisors. We know that we must become more empathetic towards other forms of life and their creation processes .... We must change perspective and, through new languages and stories, ask what it takes to make regenerative forms of behavior and knowledge go viral, and how architecture can concretize ideals for a circular economy, where more symbiotic communities can thrive .... what if we could change our architecture by changing our understanding of architecture? What if ❞

note:
If you subscribe to Politiken on line, they published a guide to the festival with essays and the full programme on 13 May 2023 and that can downloaded as a pdf file

❝ The future is calling for new ways of living and working that nurture regenerative systems in social, economic, and political spheres. We must come together to create a society that is sustainable, inclusive, and democratic. ❞

The full programme for the Copenhagen Architecture Festival is now available on line to download from their press page. The festival, in late April and through the first week in May, includes events in Aarhus and Aalborg.

There will be an interesting mix of lectures, films - including the first showing of a film about the work of Bjarke Ingels - and discussions with a number of guided tours of the city including some, of course, by bike, and an opportunity to get to see inside some important buildings including The Silo - a dock building that is being converted into apartments by COBE.

If there is one over riding theme, it is not the bricks and concrete and steel of the buildings but an examination of many of the problems and the potential of living in a city in the 21st century.

Copenhagen Architecture Festival