Job and Employment

Graduates from the programme 'Urbanism & Societal Change' are entering careers as leading actors in the field of architecture and urbanism, and in related fields, both in Denmark and internationally.

Graduates obtain broad professional and discursive skills across a range of scales and spatial problematics. It is expected that they can operate as proactive and innovative practitioners capable of identifying new agendas, acquiring new knowledge, and adapting their form of practice and discourse to the dynamic conditions of our changing society. 

Important capacities graduates obtain include: research methods; architectural and urban design methods based on research findings; operational knowledge in planning procedures, strategic and system-based thinking, multidisciplinary processes; etc. 

In recent years, graduates have gone into a range of contexts, including: architectural offices such as Lundgaard & Tranberg and Herzog de Meuron; architecture and urban studios working across a range of scales including COBE, Vandkunsten, Henning Larsen, SLA and BIG; public sector organisations such as Copenhagen Municipality, other Danish municipalities, and the Greater London Authority; research careers involving Phds at universities such as Aalto University, or Copenhagen University; consultancies such as Gehl Architects; spatial think tanks such as Dark Matter Laboratories; and in starting their own practices in contexts such as London, Riga or Copenhagen.