Ph.d.-forsvar: Biocities of the Future

Lotte Nystrup Lund defends her PhD dissertation: Biocities of the Future. A study of urban developers and protesting citizens unfolding ideas about biodiversity in the Copenhagen case Fælledby / Lærkesletten. The defense is public and will be conducted in English.  

Agenda

13:00     Welcome and presentation of chairperson, Assessment Committee, supervisors, and author

13:05     Lotte Nystrup Lund presents her dissertation Biocities of the Future. A study of urban developers and protesting citizens unfolding ideas about biodiversity in the Copenhagen case Fælledby / Lærkesletten

13:50     Short break

According to the ’Ministerial Order on the PhD Course of Study and the PhD Degree’ the chairperson may invite the audience to contribute with short statements. Such intentions should be addressed to the chairperson during the break.

14:00     Vanessa Miriam Carlow, Professor, Doctor/Head of Institute, Technische University of Braunschweig, Germany

14:30     Mickey Gjerris, Associate Professor, PhD, Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen

15:00     Deane Simpson, Professor, Dr. Sc., Royal Danish Academy – Institute of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape, Denmark (Chair of the Assessment Committee) 

15:30     Comments from the auditorium

The Assessment Committee evaluates and makes the concluding remarks

Closure of session  

Assessment committee

• Vanessa Miriam Carlow - Professor, Doctor/Head of Institute, Technische University of Braunschweig, Germany
• Mickey Gjerris - Associate Professor, PhD, Department of Food and Resource Economics, University of Copenhagen
• Deane Simpson - Professor, Dr. Sc., Royal Danish Academy – Institute of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape, Denmark (Chair of the Assessment Committee)

Principal Supervisor 

• Jonna Majgaard Krarup, Professor, Royal Danish Academy – Institute of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape,  Denmark (Chairperson of the defence)

Co-Supervisors

• Rita Justesen - Chef for Planlægning & Byrum, CPH City & Port Development, Denmark
• Simon Emil Brückner - Sous-chef for Anlæg, CPH City & Port Development, Denmark
• Boris Brorman Jensen - Associate Professor, Royal Danish Academy – Institute of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape, Denmark 

The thesis is the result of a PhD project funded by Innovation Fund Denmark, Realdania, and CPH City & Port Development. The PhD project has been conducted in collaboration with the Royal Danish Academy – Institute of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape and CPH City & Port Development, and as part of the industrial PhD network ‘Circular Built Environment’ facilitated by Bloxhub.

The thesis is available to look through for interested persons at the Library of Architecture, Design and Performing Arts, Danneskiold-Samsøes Allé 50, 1434 Copenhagen K.