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Medbestemmelse og merværdi – en vision for fremtidens klimasikring

Learning from Designing with Country

Why teaching is immanent to how and why we work

Why looking to architectural and cultural practices of the past is crucial to our future

Fremtidens boligområder kalder på fællesskaber!

Data processing is all about learning – for everyone involved

Børn og unge er fremtiden – lad dem være en del af løsningen på vores fælles klimaproblemer

Omsorgsfuld byplanlægning: et økologisk perspektiv

Virkeligheden er både digital og fysisk. Det skal borgerinddragelse også være

Køn i byens rum – en feministisk tilgang

Published on January 19, 2021...

Hvornår flytter ligestilling til byen?

Arki_News Issue 10: Inkluderende Byudvikling

Inklusion er kernen i bæredygtig og ligestillet byudvikling. Det handler både om at inkludere forskellige brugere i indragelsesprocessen og om at tage brugernes input med videre i designprocessen. Men det kan være lettere sagt end gjort....

Arki_News Issue 9: Together While Staying Apart

Amid all the challenges presented by COVID-19, social distancing is limiting how we engage citizens and stakeholders in urban projects and calls for new digital tools and modes of engagement. Here's some ideas!...

Arki_News Issue 8: Second Down Under Special Edition

During the last year, in collaboration with the Smart Infrastructure Facility at the University of Wollongong, we’ve been working on a digital community engagement app. Read more about the app in this issue....

Arki_News Issue 7: Down Under Special Edition

In this special edition issue we share some milestone from our venture Down Under, especially our success with facilitating arki_nopoly workshops with different organizations and institutions in Australia....

The model that can save the world?

Citizens of a Smarter City

With the advent of video games becoming a mainstream form of entertainment, overtaking movies in the amount of money grossed, as well as the amount of time spent playing them, they offer an alternative virtual space for civic engagement....

Designing Cities with People

In this paper, we elaborate on the concept of Democratic Design. Also, we try to redefine the role of architects and urban planners in a way that falls in line with the above intentions. Furthermore, some of the tools that ... Read More

Temporary Design 2.0

Temporary urban spaces and land uses are gaining more and more interest in the field of urban planning in both theory and praxis. Temporary uses are often implemented on former industrial sites, which hold great potential for the develop...

Designing Age-integrated Cities

One of the greatest challenges to our cities today is increasing segregation of all domains by age. According to Norwegian gerontologist and sociologist Gunhild Hagestad & Peter Uhlenberg, our society is divided by age in three different...

Why does Urban Planning need Feminism?

The feminist approach to urban planning and development is increasingly gaining ground within our field. But how does feminism fit into the urban context? And how can we actively work with feminist approahces to create better and more in...

Going beyond the “usual suspects” – 3 steps to creating a more inclusive participatory process

Where are all the women?

Size Matters!

Together While Staying Apart – Challenging Times for Community Engagement

Building a neighbourhood from nothing? Citizens engagement processes in Brownfield Development

The City as a Classroom: Designing for Outdoor Learning

In this book we've compiled our own experiences of designing outdoor learning spaces as well as many other professional researchers, teachers and architects. It'll inspire you to think outside the limits of the conventional classroom,...

Outside Denmark, Inside Japan

How can we work with the borders between inside and outside to improve the connection between humans and natural and urban surroundings, and how is it done in a megacity like Tokyo? With these questions in the suitcase, we went ... Read ...

Hvordan løfter vi byens beton?

Hvordan kan Danmarks udsatte boligområder styrkes og gøres velfungerende? Det spørgsmål er blevet debatteret heftigt siden starten af marts, da regeringen offentliggjorde sit “ghettoudspil” med titlen ‘Ét Danmark uden parallel...

Arki_News Issue 6: Looking Back, Moving Forward

In this issue we reflect on 2017 and discuss upcoming developments in the new year, covering a broad range of projects we’ve worked and will be working on....

Arki_News Issue 5: Waste Sorting Solutions in Public Spaces

In this issue we discuss the importance of waste sorting and how through integrating it into public spaces, metropolitan cities can increase the quality of public streetscapes. We also discuss how we can change user behaviour through design....

Arki_News Issue 4: Rethinking Outdoor Learning Spaces

In this issue we discuss the importance of taking advantage of outdoor spaces as an extension to school spaces and we offer tools and methods to address the issue....

Arki_News Issue 2: The Transition from Involvement to Design

In this issue we focus on the importance of the crucial translation between citizen involvement and design. We also discuss how we turn the invaluable information that we’ve gained from engaging citizens to an actual design solution....

Arki_News Issue 3: Involvement as a Learning Process

In this issue we discuss how we look at education as one of the integral components of every involvement process, as well as how we use our cities and urban spaces as a classroom that has an abundance of learning material ... Read More

Arki_News Issue 1: You Can’t COPENHAGENIZE a Process

In this issue we discuss the process of Copenhagenization which has recently become the goal for many urban planners and designers. Then we suggest that this copy/paste approach is doomed to fail, as it attempts to solve one problem with...

A New Paradigm for Participatory Design in Australia

The first 6 months have gone by since we started up the office down under, lead by our sociologist Thomas Aarup Due. It has been amazing to receive great interest in our citizen consultation and co-design practices. Everyone we’ve talk...

Nye veje til levende lokalsamfund

Der er noget der rør på sig i Odsherred. Lokalpolitikere, kommunale beslutningstagere, engagerede borgere og unge fra byens uddannelsesinstitutioner er gået sammen om udviklingen af Asnæs by. Bylaboratoriet er et samarbejde mellem ar...

Rethinking educational spaces: the outdoor classroom

In the recent years designers have started to examine the process of learning in relation to spatial qualities of a classroom. Research and application of non-traditional education spaces has revealed significant change in user behavior ...

Towards a Sustainable Future

Designing Cities With Young People

We're joining the conversation about the importance of involving citizens in the process of designing our cities, with a particular focus on what young people can bring to the table. The book is out of stock as per October 2024, but...