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MASTER PROGRAMME URBANISM & SOCIETAL CHANGE 17/18

PUBLISHED BY The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation, School of Architecture 17/18 MASTER PROGRAMME URBANISM & SOCIETAL CHANGE EDITOR Johanne Borthne Deane Simpson DESIGN Susanne Eeg Johanne Borthne Deane Simpson PRINT PRinfoParitas A/S, Rødovre TYPOGRAFI Georgia Akzidenz PAPER Color Copy 250 g, cover Munken Print White 115 g, content PRINT 150 copies ©2017 The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation, IBBL Institute of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape, USC

The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation Institute of Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape

VISIONARY MODELS URBANISM AND SOCIETAL CHANGE 2017/18

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The programme Urbanism and Societal Change is based upon the ambitions a) to embed the architectural/urban project within the dynamic conditions of contemporary society, b) to couple research and design within the project process, and c) to train future architects as leading actors in the material production of society.

Profound societal transformations, ranging from political and economic to demographic shifts, and altered resource availability to climatic change indicate that we can no longer expect the future conditions of the discipline to be an extrapolation of the past. These emerging conditions challenge conventional understandings of urban spatial organization and the role of the architect and planner. In this context the capacity of architects to identify, understand and respond to these new conditions affecting the discipline becomes increasingly crucial.

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(above) The Reciprocal Teaching Model (Source: Piet Eckert)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Year Statement

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Previous Semesters

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Semesters 2017 / 2018 Autumn semester 2017: Semester Program Spring Semester 2018:: Semester Program Lexicon

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Circular three-storey building at Hubei province park built so that half of it copies iconic Washington landmark and the other part Beijing’s Hall of Prayer (image: Reuters)

2017/18 YEAR STATEMENT

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VISIONARY MODELS 2017/18

This year the studio will address cities themselves as objects of design, as well as organisational, strategic and representational thinking. We will ask what it could mean to ‘design’ or ‘redesign’ the city in our contemporary moment? The studio will explore the role of the architect both as synthetic analytical thinker capable of addressing and negotiating complex urban conditions, dynamics and processes – and as a visionary designer able to propose coherent and inspiring spatial and strategic visions.

In recent years, Copenhagen has emerged as an international urban model across three urban development paradigms that dominate a surprisingly consensual international urban discourse: the sustainable city, the liveable city, and the smart city. This notoriety is further supported by the perception internationally of the city of Copenhagen as the urban manifestation of an ideal welfare society characterised in relative terms by high prosperity, low inequality, and high levels of subjective wellbeing. This may be framed in relation to the shift in recent decades from managerial to entrepreneurial planning logics, which have led to increasing competition between cities and urban regions to attract, with the help of urban branding techniques, what are sometimes referred to as the three ‘T’s – trade, talent and tourism. The city of Copenhagen and organisations like Copenhagen Solutions, State of Green, as well as the Danish Architectural Centre, and BLOXHUB have made efforts to capitalise on this model positioning of Copenhagen as an international brand – branding which has been furthered in the last decade by the international profile of Copenhagen architects such as Bjarke Ingels, and Jan Gehl.

The successes of this narrative have obvious flip-sides however. These have been identified in recent years by critics such as John Andersen, and Roberta Cucca – and include rapid gentrification, population displacement, spatial segregation, and untenably high housing costs.

The last municipal strategy published in 2014 entitled The Coherent City touches upon aspects of these challenges. However, it is unclear at this time the extent to which its measures have impacted upon the situation.

The Autumn semester will focus upon Copenhagen, and the context of the municipalities work in preparing a new municipal strategy to be released in 2018. In dialogue with the municipality, the studio will explore and produce an alternate set of strategic plans – asking a series of questions, and posing alternative frameworks for steering the city. This will take place at the scale of the city, and at the scale of an emblematic urban or architectural typology that will encapsulate the overall vision for the city.

And in the Spring semester, in conjunction with the City of Copenhagen’s position as guest city at the Beijing Design Week – which is seen by the city and related organisations as a chance to promote and export Copenhagen’s design/sustainability/liveability expertise to China – the studio will explore ethical, cultural, social, economic and spatial implications of the export/import model of architecture and urban design. Is it indeed viable or possible to engage in such a model of interrelation, and if so, what forms could this take?

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USC PREVIOUS SEMESTERS 2016/17

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USC diploma 2016: Jakob Hybel

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USC diploma 2017: Daniel Boesen / Rural Civic

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USC diploma 2017: Ania Pieranska / Learning Current

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USC diploma 2017: Alice Haugh / Nextminster

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USC diploma 2017: Saskia Blake / Home 5. A resident getting a round of beers in for him and his friends after an afternoon of weeding in the allotments.

6. A small group of students from the local agricultural college are in for their weekly session in the workshop. They have been following the

7 .After spending the afternoon harvesting new potatoes, carrots and spinach, residents talk about the hot weather, and the rabbit prob-

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USC diploma 2017: Aleksander Nowak / Reconstruction strategies for Aleppo 25

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USC diploma 2017: Cecilie Overgaard Rasmussen / #planning

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USC course 2017: The Right to Dwell

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USC course 2017: The Right to Dwell / Marcus Aaron Victor Vesterager Lind

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USC course 2017: The Right to Dwell / Jordan McRae

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USC /Dep. 10 students/teachers: Atlas of the Copenhagens

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USC course 2016: Coastal Transformation CPH / Joanna Gaida

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USC course 2016: Coastal Transformation CPH / Saskia Blake, Aleksander Nowak, Anna Pieranska, Asal Mohtashami, Gosia Mutkowska, Alice Haugh

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USC Students 2016: Jakob Hybel, Robert Martin, Caroline Richardt Beck

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USC Students 2015: Ziyi (Woody) Wang, Benjamin Roland Arvid Jaeger, Mara Igaune

USC Studio

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USC Students 2015: Liva Kreislere, Ziyi (Woody) Wang, Benjamin Roland Arvid Jaeger

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USC Students 2015: Liva Kreislere, Ziyi (Woody) Wang, Benjamin Roland Arvid Jaeger

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USC Exhibition: Age and the City, Danish Cultural Center, Beijing, Beijing Design Week 2015

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USC student 2015: Jack Minchella

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USC Field Trips

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USC Field Trips/Events

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Marco Steinberg

Keller Easterling

Joost Grotens

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Hans Ibelings

Philip Schaerer

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USC recent/ongoing collaborations

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SEMESTER PROGRAMS 2017/18

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SEMESTER PROGRAM VISIONARY MODELS - AUTUMN 2017

This semester explores possible visions of the immediate and longer-term future of the Nordic City as an object of design and organisational thinking. The semester will be conducted as a critical mirror to the development of the Municipality of Copenhagen’s 2018 Strategic Plan – a process that will take place in direct dialogue with the municipality.

How can we reconsider the future of the city, inclusive of, and beyond the dominant spatial development paradigms of liveability, sustainability and smartness? What forms of sociospatial agency could address the most pressing challenges and transformations of our present and near future?

A) On the one hand, emphasis will be placed on explorations into the form, organization, and agency of architectural and urban typologies, and their dynamic responses to changing conditions (this will constitute the first part of the semester and will explore how a model urban fragment may embody key qualities of the greater whole; B) On the other hand, the semester will involve an in depth interrogation of cities, and the city itself, as image, concept, atmosphere, material system, life form, etc.

The pedagogical approach is centred upon a feedback loop between research and design supported by a combination of courses and studios. Assignments, resulting in organizational and spatial design proposals that are largely self-programmed, are carried out at registers and scales spanning from the architectural intervention, and urban design, to the strategic urban plan. Emphasis will be placed on practices of engaging societal challenges through precisely framed research polemics and articulated design proposals.

In addition to the main research-design studio component of the semester, supporting course elements involve a range of lectures, readings, discussions, assignments etc.

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“Re-imagining the Chinese hutong” / MVRDV 2015

Bicycle snake bridge, Copenhagen 2014 / Dissing+Weitling

Chinese housing development on top of a shopping mall.

Cows gracing in the fields outside Ørestaden with BIG’s 8-building in the back. (image: Kontraframe Ørestad))

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SEMESTER PROGRAM VISIONARY MODELS - SPRING 2018

This semester functions as a continuation of the previous semester’s exploration into possible visions of the immediate and longer-term future of the Nordic – and the Asian City – as objects of design and organisational thinking. The semester will continue as a critical mirror to the development of the Municipality of Copenhagen’s 2018 Strategic Plan – and in relation to Copenhagen’s position as Guest City at Beijing Design Week – where the studio’s work will be exhibited.

Related to the Beijing event being framed by the city and related organisations as an opportunity to promote and export Copenhagen’s design/sustainability/liveability expertise to China – the studio will explore the ethical, cultural, social, economic and spatial implications of the export/import model of architecture and urban design. Is it viable or possible to engage in such a model of interaction? What forms of knowledge exchange could take place – and how might these impact the future visions for Beijing, and Copenhagen? As with the previous semester, we will continue our reconsiderations of the future of cities, inclusive of, and beyond the dominant spatial development paradigms of liveability, sustainability and smartness? What forms of socio-spatial agency could address the most pressing challenges and transformations of the present and near future?

Whereas the first semester addressed the city as a whole, zooming in an out at various relevant scales and locations, this, second semester will: A) explore related issues at the scale of a common neighbourhood area in current discussion for future local planning. Thus, where the first semester focuses more on urban strategy, planning and architectural typology, the second semester places more emphasis on urban design, this time in a Chinese context.

The pedagogical approach is centred upon a feedback loop between research and design supported by a combination of courses and studios. Design assignments, are carried out at registers and scales spanning from the architectural intervention, and urban design, to the strategic urban plan. Emphasis will be placed on practices of engaging societal challenges through precisely framed research polemics and articulate and artistically developed designs. In addition to the main research-design studio component of the semester, supporting course elements involve a range of lectures, readings, discussions, assignments etc.

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Amager, 2013

Copenhagen in a Chinese Magazine 2017

he worlds longes bicycle bridge�; Xiamen Bicycle Skyway / Dissing+Weitling 2017

“Loop city” / BIG

“Reinstating Small-Scale Neighbourhoods in the Megacity” / Jan Gehl 2008

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Design Your Own ‘Hutopolis’ at Beijing Design Week 2011

“The Bridge”

The gated community “Little Paris” or Tianducheng, near Shanghai, China 2007.

Avedøre Stationsby, erected during the peak of modernist planning and gov. investment in social housing in the 1970’s.

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“Better City, Better Life” 2010 World Expo, The REN b The CCTV by OMA seen from a hutong in Beijing

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The Danish pavillion at the Shanghai Expo 2010 / BIG Fingerplan evolution

building / BIG / COBE, Sleth, Rambøll

Mayor of Copenhagen, Frank Jensen, unveils Beijing poster and official opening

“Re-imagining the Chinese hutong” / MVRDV 2015

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Jan Gehl signing books in China

High-speed diplomacy - Exporting China’s train technology. As countries map out plans for high-speed railways, there is a growing market for China’s cutting-edge technology. (2017)

Ai Weiwei, “Soleil Levant”, 2017. Installation view, Kunsthal Charlottenborg

Ørestaden Downtown, Daniel Liebskind

Crystal Towers, Saudi Arabia by Henning Larsen

READINGS Copenhagen Municipality of Copenhagen, The Coherent City, Municipal Planning Strategy (2014) Ministry of Environment, The Finger Plan, (2015) Gentrification and City Image Anna Klingman Brandscapes: Architecture in the Experience Economy (2010) Frank Gaffikin, City Visions (1999) Loretta Lees, et al, Planetary Gentrification (2016) Richard Florida, The Creative Class (excerpts) (2002) Michael Sorkin (ed.) Variations on a Theme Park (1992) Peggy Deamer (ed.) Architecture and Capitalism: 1845 to the Present (2013) Interboro Partners, The Arsenal of Exclusion and Inclusion (2017) Jan Gehl, Life Between Buildings (1971) Cities for People (2010) Howard, Garden Cities of Tomorrow (excerpts) (1898/1902) Fishman, Urban Utopias in the 20th Century: Howard, Wright and Le Corbusier (1982) Jacobs, The Life and Death of Great American Cities (excerpts) (1961) Critical Readings Roberta Cucca, Costanzo Ranci, Unequal Cities (2016) David Harvey, From Managerialism to Entrepreneurialism (1989) Carter et al: A Planning Palimpsest: Neoliberal Planning in a Welfare State Tradition (2015) Anderson, Pløger, The Dualism of Urban Governance in Denmark (2007) Stig Enemark: From Planning Control to Growth Management (2016) Peck, Entrepreneurial urbanism: between uncommon sense and dull compulsion (2014) Anna Minton, Ground Control: Fear and Happiness in the Twenty First Century City (2009) Slavoj Žižek, Trouble in Paradise: From the End of History to the End of Capitalism (2015) Ash Amin, Nigel Thrift, Cities: Reimagining the Urban (2002) Export Tom Nielsen, Exporting Humanist Architecture, Art of Many : The Right to Space. Boris Brorman Jensen, Kristoffer Lindhardt Weiss (editors) 2016 Tom Nielsen, Anne Mette Boye, Kan bygget velfærd eksporteres? 2016 China Neviille Mars, Adrian Hornsby, The Chinese Dream: A Society Under Construction (2008) Harry de Hartog (ed.) Shanghai New Towns: Searching for Community and Identity in a Sprawling Metropolis (2010) Xin Lu, China, China ...Western Architects and City Planners in China (2008) John van de Water, You Can’t Change China, China Changes You (2012) Hans Ibelings, Powerhouse Co. (ed.) China’s Turn (2015)

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In the post-war period hudreds of thousands of apartments were buildt. The overall planningtool was the Fingerplan. In this picture: Brøndby Strand.

(Image: London Foto)

GENERAL INFORMATION

SEMESTERS SEMESTERS Autumn 2016

Spring 2016

Spring 2

Climatic Transformation: Sea-Level Rise, Copenhagen

Spatial Sorting: The Microrayon, Riga/Tallinn

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AUTUMN SEMESTER 2017 AUTUMN 2017

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TIME SCHEDULE AUTUMN 2017

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ousing Unaffordability: Right to Dwell, Copenhagen

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TEACHERS Deane Simpson Deane Simpson (Wellington, 1971) architect, urbanist, associate professor and co-leader of Urbanism and Societal Change at KADK. Formerly professor at BAS, unit master at AA London, faculty member at ETH Zürich, and architect with Diller + Scofidio NY. He received his masters from Columbia University NY, and his Phd from ETH Zürich; and is author/ editor of publications such as The Ciliary Function (2007), Young-Old (2015) and The City Between Freedom and Security (2017).

Charles Bessard Charles Bessard (Paris, 1970) architect, partner and co-founder Bessards’Studio and the Powerhouse Company, est. 2004 (Copenhagen/Rotterdam/Beijing), associate study professor and co-leader of Urbanism and Societal Change at KADK. Charles Bessard has realized several award-winning projects and won the Nycredit Motivation prize. He received his masters from the Ecole Speciale d’Architecture, Paris, his postgraduate masters from the Berlage, Rotterdam, and is currently completing a Phd at KADK. Co-author of Shifts: Architecture after the 20th Century (2012), and Ouvertures (2011).

Sonja Stockmarr Sonja Stockmarr (Copenhagen 1978) architect MAA, urban planner. Just opened own city and urban planning consultancy called Urbanization. Sonja has earlier been 11 years at Henning Larsen Architects, where she led the urbanism and landscape department working on large-scale projects abroad and domestically. Sonja is DGNB auditor in City districts and Educated at KADK and Academie van Bouwkunst, Amsterdam. Formerly a teacher in Department 1 at Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole - now with USC. Carlos Ramos Tenorio Carlos Ramos Tenorio (Madrid, 1985) architect and educator, currently working at BIG. Graduated with honours at ETSAM, Madrid, his thesis entitled Biomass powerplant and artificial atmosphere stacking in Chelsea, NY has received international recognition. He has worked at estudio Herreros, Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter, Manuel Ocaña and dosmasuno, and taught and lectured at ETSAM, IE School of Architecture, UEM, AHO and KADK. Morten Kjer Jeppesen Morten Kjer Jeppesen (Copenhagen, 1981) architect, urban planner and founder of Arkitekt | Morten Kjer. He has studied at the ETH in Zürich and KADK in Copenhagen.

His work is focused on urban regeneration strategies, and planning of our suburbs and postindustrial areas. He currently works at Tegnestuen Vandkunsten where he is in charge of several large scale urban planning projects across Scandinavia and Germany. At the same time he holds a teaching position at the USC, and has a private practice on the side for urban research, architectural competitions and small-scale urban space experiments.

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Kathrin Susanna Gimmel Kathrin Susanna Gimmel (Arbon, 1982), architect and partner of JAJA Architects. After receiving her master degree in Architecture at the ETH Zürich in 2009, she moved to Copenhagen and has since worked intensely with all aspects of the studios work ranging from concept development to detail design and project management. JAJA Architects is a practice with great passion for the extraordinary and the everyday aspects of creating architecture and urban strategies. The studio strives to offer functional and inspirational responses to the specific circumstance of each project and realizes simple spaces that provide rich experiences to the individual as well as the community.

Johanne Borthne Johanne Borthne (Kirkenes, 1978) holds a masterdegree in Urbanism from the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (2006). Since, she has worked as a project architect at Ghilardi+Hellsten (Oslo) ans Powerhouse Company (Rotterdam). In 2010 Johanne Co-founded Superunion Architects (Oslo). The office works in all scales and medias, ranging from public spaces and masterplans to research and design. In 2014 the partners received the prestigious cultural award ”Anders Jahres award for young artists”. Since 2010 Johanne has tought at multiple schools such as AHO (Oslo), KADK (Copenhagen), Berlage Institute (Delft), BAS (Bergen) and KTH (Stockholm).

USC Course Teachers Jonna Majgaard Krarup Jonna Majgaard Krarup, architect with specialisation in landscape architecture, and associate professor at KADK. Jonna has several years of practice experience and is formerly head of the Institute of Urban Planning at KADK, head of the Centre of Urban Space Research at KADK, and a visiting associate professor at the Aarhus School of Architecture. She holds a Ph.d. and candidate degree from the Aarhus School of Architecture. Jonna’s ongoing research addresses issues of landscape urbanism and climate change adaptation, with an interest in broader questions of urban ecology. She plays a central role in the Phd school at KADK, and leads the third semester 10 ECTS course for USC students.

Joost Grootens Joost Grootens, architect, graphic designer and founder of Studio Joost Grootens (SJG) – an Amsterdam-based design firm focusing on book design. SJG has received a number of awards including the Rotterdam Design Prize, the World’s Most Beautiful Book Gold Medal, etc. He received his masters in architecture from the Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. He is the author of I swear I use no art at all (2010). He is currently the head of the Information Design Masters at the Design Academy, Eindhoven, and is a regular workshop/course teacher and collaborator with USC. Other affiliated teachers: Jan Loerakker Anupama Garla Simon Sjökvist

To create space, to give form, and to establish new contexts‌ The four programs at the Institute of Architecture, Urbanism & Landscape presented in these booklets are intended to educate architects who are ready to respond to major societal challenges; such as global urbanization/depopulation, climate change, advancing social inequality, resource scarcity, and so forth.

These teaching activities are directed toward the development of professional architectural skills, artistic insight and anchoring, and relevant research-based knowledge necessary to handle complex projects at a range of spatial scales: from the design of a local kindergarten to a masterplan or strategic plan for a campus within the contemporary knowledge city; from the design of an interesting meeting point in the green city to a strategic design for an experiencebased economy at the scale of an entire country; from the individual dwelling, to the development of an inclusive and sustainable city.

The means to do so is architecture – and the goals include improving quality of life, and strengthening the culture and coherence of cities and communities.

Best Regards, Katrine Lotz Head of Institute, IBBL

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