Urbanism & Societal Change

“Imagining the future of Lesjöfors” aims to investigate the
future of the bruksort (industrial town) typology in Sweden by challenging the prevailing focus on growth in the Swedish municipal planning system. Diploma 2024, Astrid Broqvist

“Magic of the Real” is designed with time rather
than only form. It tests how the deconstruction of architecture can have as much importance as its assembly. The project is tested in an existing site of Copenhagen - responding to the current tendency of tabula-rasa development, contemporary building methods, and permanence of construction in a rapidly changing society. Diploma 2020, Lauge Floris Larsen

Hersted Industripark is set to undergo a substantial
urban transformation over the coming years. This project proposes an alternative transformation strategy that allows existing activities to remain and radically limits the amount of demolition. Based on an inventory of existing buildings, land, and infrastructure, the project identifies potentials for inhabiting and densifying the existing urban structure. Candidate Studio 2023, Laura Polkmane, Linnea Christophersen

“On Civic Grounds” considers social capital as a bearing parameter for urban development by mobilizing civil society actors in the creation of hybrid public spaces. This is explored in the architectural transformation of an asphalt plant in Herlev. Afgang 2021, Daniel Rea Kragskov.

Sympoietic Landscapes are co-created by humans and the
more-than-human. As humans are becoming continuously estranged to nature and the production landscapes we depend on, a need for establishing new multi-species relations have become ever more important. This project questions the role of the architect in planning of our production landscapes and facilitating a place where we can land together. Diploma 2022, Jakob Malte Miland-Samuelsen

'Homemaking' explores the renewed potential for domestic neighbourhood spaces to function as productive workplaces, made possible by networked smart technology, and allowing for new spatial and social neighbourhood configurations. Candidate Studio 2018, Cameron Clarke, Archie Cantwell and Hugh Diamond

‘Municipal Planning Strategy Supplements’ (temporary re-use/retail strategies) proposes an alternate strategy for the city's increasingly vacant ground floor in an age of online-shopping. Candidate Studio 2017, Archie Cantwell and Tamara Kalantejevska

“Energy Landscapes” explores the role of solar energy
landscapes in Denmark's green energy transition. It challenges existing responses dominated by a monofunctional, techno-rationalized, engineering logic that typically rolls out an undifferentiated carpet of solar panels over existing forests, cultural landscapes, and potential nature areas. Diploma, 2024, Karlie Tsang, Victor Carlsen

Responding to the expected large-scale emigration of Hong Kongers as a result of recent political events, the project ‘Hong Kong is Dead, Long Live Hong Kong’ explores the possibility of stateless, networked new ‘Hong Kong’ diasporas outside of the current territory of Hong Kong. Afgang 2020, Desmond Man-Kit Choi.