2021: International Conference: Spaces of Welfare

International Conference: Spaces of Welfare
The Royal Danish Academy
Virtuel
6-7 May 2021 

Reforms of social welfare provisions since the 1970s entail simultaneously a dismantling, diminishing and dissolution of various types of welfare spaces and a development, expansion and concentration of others. The social, political, economic and cultural consequences of this restructuring of social welfare provisions have been subject to substantial research and public debate. However, other than limited investigations in urban geography and a field of research dealing with the relations between architecture (mainly housing) and welfare at large, the spatial aspects and implications of these restructuring processes have received limited scholarly attention. 

The purpose of this interdisciplinary conference is to discuss the spatial dynamics and implications of the transformations of social welfare provisions since the 1970s through the perspectives of anthropology and architecture/urbanism. This is intended to contribute to an understanding of social welfare provisions hitherto described largely from the perspectives of sociology, political science, economy and law, where debate has tended to gravitate predominantly toward abstract or economic terms. The agencies and perceived qualities of social welfare provisions are closely related to their spatial conditions: the organisation, function and representation of architectural and urban entities and the experience and negotiation of these spaces. When social welfare provisions are spatially consolidated, suddenly restructured in new ways or decentralized, these changes in architectural/urban disposition fundamentally impact routines of daily life.  

Programme 6 May  

10:00 – 10:30
Welcome: Kirsten Marie Raahauge & Martin Søberg  

10:30 – 12:00
Public Keynote Lecture: Tom Avermaete
https://kadk.zoom.us/j/68319396808 

12:00 – 13:00
Break  

13:00 – 14:30
Track I 

1: Publics
Nina Stener Jørgensen
Abrantes, Lapina & Samson
Deane Simpson
Chair: Jesper Pagh  

2: Ideal Homes
Frandsen, Grønlund & Mathiasen
Rolf Hugosom
Louise Dedenroth Høj
Chair: Katrine Lotz  

3: More-Than-Human Welfare
HC Jensen & Anders V. Munch
Henriette Steiner
Adrien Rigobello & Phil Ayres
Chair: Niels Grønbæk  

14:30 – 14:45
Break 

14:45 – 16:15
Track II 

4: Standards and Optimizations
Federica Rotondo & Marco Peverini
Niels Grønbæk
Katrine Lotz
Chair: Deane Simpson 

5: Power and Resistance
Morten Nielsen
Kajita, Riesto, Schalk & Mack
Jesper Pagh
Chair: Runa Johannessen 

16:15 – 16:30
Break  

16:30 – 18:00
Track III  

6: Architecture of Identity
Samuel Quagliotto
Signe Sophie Bøggild
Tom Davies & Gabrielle Kielland Friis
Chair: Deane Simpson  

7: Models of Community 
Maria del Mar Soto 
Ellen Braae
Max Pedersen
Chair: Louise Dedenroth Høj 

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Programme 7 May  

9:00 – 11:00
Track IV

8: The Expanded City
Frida Rosenberg
Guttorm Ruud
Marianna Charitonidou 
Lasse Kjeldsen 
Chair: Louise Grønlund  

9: Bodytechnologies 
Trine Brun Petersen
Ian Gwilt & Aprille Chua Jia Qi
Runa Johannessen 
Chair: Niels Grønbæk  

11:00 – 11:30
Break  

11:30 – 13:00
Track V  

10: Welfare Revisited 
Mikkel Høghøj 
Mette Mechlenborg & Marie Stender 
Martin Søberg 
Chair: Katrine Lotz  

11: Forces of Transformation 
Nikola Gjorgjievski 
Silje Erøy Sollien 
Kirsten Marie Raahauge 
Chair: Niels Grønbæk  

13:00 – 14:00 
Break 

14:00 – 15:30
Public Keynote Lecture
Daniel Miller 
https://kadk.zoom.us/j/61400134965 

15:30 – 15:45
Break 

15:45 – 16:00
Final remarks
Kirsten Marie Raahauge & Martin Søberg