In 1999, the H99 event took place, and my responsibility was to curate an exhibition that explored the future collaboration between Helsingør (Elsinore with the castle of Hamlet, Kronborg) and Helsingborg, two cities located in the northern part of the Öresund region. During this time, the twin cities faced pressure due to the construction of […]
2016 Mapping Urbanity, Tampere. The 2 week workshop for students of Architecture of took the act of mapping from only observing to exploring space by doing small appropriations (with masking tape). The students would test the technology and methods on the university campus before they would explore the urban development site, Hiedanranta, west of Tampere. […]
2017 Salo Stories, Finland. The pedagogical experiments of the EU funded “Urban Education Live” project took (mostly) place in the Finnish city of Salo. The town is well known — in Finland — as a town hard hit by globalisation: The production of Nokia phones took the city from boom to bust. The main local […]
2018, ACCITI Workshop, Venice. As part of the Venice Biennale of Architecture in 2018 I collaborated with Biennale Urbana in their temporary appropriation of Caserma Pepe, an old army barrack on Lido. The high school students had 2 weeks of practical experience in what we called Situated Active Citizenship. An initial exploration of their classroom […]
2013, Urban workshop, Hedehusene, Denmark. A two week full time workshop format that has been developed during the years of Supertanker such as the workshop “Urban Process Design” from 2011. It also points forward to the “Space Transformers” – the gamebased workshop format from 2019. The workshop formats intend to give students a hands on experience […]
2014 TMS Design Studio, Hedehusene, Denmark. A 2 month on site design studio (two days a week) with landscape architecture students from University of Copenhagen (co-organiser/educator). The course had its basecamp in an old factory building in Hedehusene that became both a space for work(shop) and for inviting citizens to test new ways of using […]
2019 Ohr und Stadt, UdK, Berlin. A week, full time workshop for students of Theatre Pedagogy. Working with the notion of Spaces of Possibilities and Sonic gestures. While we would use some elements from previous workshops such as blindfolding we would add the sonic element and let the students explore space with ear plugs as […]
2019 Space Transformers, Salo, Finland. The game based exploration, Space Transformers, was tested in 2019 and showed that using this new learning strategy, the university and local highschool students could form a core in a mutual embodied learning process between universities and local communities. The workshop had a structure that is based on the Active […]
2020 Christiania Workshop, Copenhagen. A 48 hour camp style workshop with students from the School of Architecture in Copenhagen. We experimented with body gestures as a way to communicate how spaces feel. This seemed to work surprisingly well. After an exploration of Christiania the students would gradually form an agenda and use this to formulate […]