The Copenhagen Landscape Lectures is a public lecture series for everyone who is interested in how we shape our physical environment, across cities and landscapes, education and practice.
Restoring Nature, Rebuilding Community: Reflections on 40 Years of Action Research
Public lecture by Anne Whiston Spirn,
Professor of Landscape Architecture at MIT
Monday 16 September 2024, 17:00-18:30, Bülowsvej 17, Frederiksberg C, Festauditoriet
What would it mean for a city to be ecologically robust and socially just? What would such a place be like? Through what means might such a vision be accomplished? And how might change be created and sustained? These are not questions to be explored in the abstract. They call for action research, for testing ideas in practice, engaging with real people, in actual places, to make discoveries from which principles can be drawn.
The lecture will be followed by an informal reception
Should we prepare (for) an urban exodus?
Are cities and metropolises the manifest destiny of humankind ?
Thusday 1st Juni 2023, 16:30-17:30, Rolighedsvej 23, Frederiksberg C, Fælleshuset 1st floor, lokale A3-24.11
In his Copenhagen Landscape Lecture, Sébastien Marot will reflect on how the present environmental predicament might well lead us to question this idea, and to encourage something like an urban exodus.
Sébastien Marot is a professor in environmental history at the ENSAVT Université Paris-Est and a guest professor at the EPF Lausanne. He is the author of several books including "Taking the Country’s Side: Agriculture and Architecture", Poligrafa, Barcelone 2019.
An informal reception will be held after the lecture and discussion.
The lecture takes place during the Copenhagen Architecture Festival (CAFx) and is part of a newly established collaboration between CLL and Institut français du Danemark.
Research through Design in Landscape Architecture
Public lecture by Sanda Lenzholzer, Full Professor at Wageningen University
Thusday 20 April 2023, 16:00-17:30, Rolighedsvej 23, Frederiksberg C, Auditorium 'Landscape'
What relations between designing and researching are useful and perhaps necessary to consider, when framing our actions and discourses today? The relationship between design and science has been debated in practice and academia throughout decades and in particular the notion of Research through Design (RTD) has caught attention as a respected research method. In this lecture, Sanda Lenzholzer will elaborate on the use of RTD techniques and associated methods such as Research on design and Research for design.
The lecture will be followed by an informal reception
Inclusive spaces
– a feminist approach
Public lecture by Anne Labroille
Thursday 9 March 2023, 16:00, Rolighedsvej 23, Frederiksberg C, Fælleshuset 1st floor, "von Langen"
Anne Labroille is a French architect and urban planner specialized in participatory and inclusive public space development projects. She is also the Vice-President of the Ile-de-France region's architects association and an associate lecturer at the University of Paris Nanterre. Anne has specialised in inclusive spaces and developed a methodology for examining existing spaces from an inclusivity perspective, spelled out in projects in e.g. Angers and Paris. In her Copenhagen Landscape Lecture, she will introduce her approaches, her methods and ways of working. Moreover, she will reflect on equality issues as entangled with inclusivity – also in spatial matters.
The lecture is the first event as part of a newly established collaboration between CLL and Institut français du Danemark.
An informal reception will be held after the lecture and discussion.
In Search of Geographical Re-enchantment
Public lecture by Robin Winogrond, landscape architect and urban design, Zürich
Tuesday 14 March 2023, 17:00-18:15, Rolighedsvej 23, Frederiksberg C, Auditorium A3.24.11
Robin Winogrond will show a series of her recent projects in Switzerland and Germany, most often on the urban periphery, which increasingly focus on sussing out the poetic potential of the banality of our contemporary urban landscape. What in a place engages our imagination or leaves us cold? Using a narrative approach, the projects become testing grounds to re-enchant each specific site with the power of its own inherent qualities expressing the underestimated oddity of place that our contemporary urban landscapes contain.
The lecture will be followed by a wine reception
Architecture in the Ecological Crisis
Feifei Zhou, Associate Lecturer, University of the Arts London
Wednesday 18 May 2022 16:30-18:00, Rolighedsvej 23, Frederiksberg C, Auditorium Landskab
How site matters: Lecture and conversation with Andrea Kahn
February 17, 2021, online
When Maps Become the World
Dr. Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, Associate Professor University of California, Santa Cruz
November 28, 2019, 16:30-18:00, IGN, Rolighedsvej 23, Frederiksberg C
Landscapes of exclusion: The politics of immigration and housing in Copenhagen
Kamille Hjuler Kofod, spokesperson for Almen Modstand, Garbi Schmidt, Professor of Intercultural Studies at Roskilde University, Anders Lund Hansen, Visiting Professor at Aarhus University
October 23, 2019, 16:00-18:00, IGN, Rolighedsvej 23, Frederiksberg C
Natural and cultural heritage in the face of sea level rising
Linde Egberts, PhD Assistant Professor Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
March 25, 2019, 16:00-17:00, IGN, Rolighedsvej 23, Frederiksberg C
Public parks, their heritage and futures
Prof. Catharina Nolin, Stockholm University
March 11, 2019, 16:00, IGN, Rolighedsvej 23, Frederiksberg C
2018
27 November: Urban Imaginaries – Drone Imagery and Data Modulation as New Affective Actions?
Ignacio Acosta, Artist and researcher, ignacioacosta.com (UK)
Pia Fricker, Researcher, Department of Architecture, Aalto University (FIN)
4 September: Climate Justice in the City: learning from Copenhagen and beyond
Associate Professor Stefan Gaarsmand Jacobsen, RUC
Simon Kjær Hansen, Director of Regions C40
Oliver Maxwell, Founder and Director of Bybi
13 June: Roberto Burle Marx: Landscape, and Chromatic Relationships
Gareth Doherty, Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture at the Harvard Graduate School of Design
23 April: Outside the Garden
Pia Rönicke and Nanna Debois Buhl
12 April: Global Real Estate and Community Resistance
Tom Angotti, Professor Emeritus of Urban Policy and Planning at Hunter College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York
26 February: Outside the Garden
Camilla Berner and Maria Finn
2017
30 November: Hydro-citizenship - Tracing how citizens and communities live with each other and their environment in relation to wat
Maggie Roe
3 October: Landscape urbanism - an ambitious yet tentative Nature project
Peter Conolly, associate professor in landscape architecture, at the School of Architecture, Victoria, University, Wellington, New Zealand
19 September: Biocultural dimensions of urban resilience
Cathy Oke, city council member in the City of Melbourne and the chair of the Environmental Portfolio for the city
Flemming Rafn Thomsen, architect, landscape architect, founding partner at Tredje Natur
2016
15 December: Urban Ecology in Prospect and Retrospect
Matthew Gandy, Professor of Geography at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of King’s College, Cambridge
24 November: Constructing the Commons: Towards Another Conception of Urban Landscapes
Tom Avermaete, Professor of Theories and Methods of Architecture, Technical University Delft and Veluxprofessor at the University of Copenhagen, Landscape and Planning
10 November: Critical issues concerning Eco-cities, smart cities, sustainable cities
Maria Hellström Reimer, Professor in Design Theory and Practice, Malmö University
Federico Cugurullo, Assistant Professor in Smart and Sustainable Urbanism, Trinity College Dublin
4 October: Building Inclusive Cities: Informal Development, Social Equity and Urban Planning on the Urban Fringe in China
Professor Pengjun Zhao, School of Urban and Environmental Sciences at Peking University
29 September: Crucial issues concerning urban nature and urban biodiversity: Examples from Seattle and Denmark
Rikke Lequick Larsen, urban space architect, City of Copenhagen
Martin Odgaard, Assistant Professor, cand.arch., PhD, Aarhus School of Architecture
7 September: City of events
Ali Madanipour, Professor of Urban Design and Director of the Global Urban Research Unit, Newcastle University
31 March: Spirit, Predation, Nature: Three Cartographies
Tao DuFour, architect and scholar, Cornell University
26 May: Offentlig forelæsning
Anne Whinston Spirn, landskabsarkitekt og professor ved Massachusetts Institute of Technology
2015
2 December: Paneldebat om fremtidens bæredygtige by
Tina Saaby, stadsarkitekt i København og Deane Simpson, lektor ved Kunstakademiets Arkitektskole
18 November: Om projektet How Much for a Tree?
Monika Gora, landskabsarkitekt og kunstner i GORA art&landscape, Malmø
7 October: Om projektet Made Ground: A Spatial History of Sydney Park
Ross Anderson, lektor i arkitektur ved University of Sydney & Jasper Ludewig, arkitekt fra Sydney
5 October: Om begrebet practical wisdom i forhold til arkitektur og design
Peter Carl, professor ved the CASS, London Metropolitan University
28 September: Topology – A new measure of quality in landscape architecture
Christophe Girot, professor og leder af afdeling for landskabsarkitektur ved ETH i Zurich
8 September: Om ”The Ripple Effect” – hvordan arkitektoniske installationer kan påvirke hverdagslivet i byen
Rana Haddad, assistant professor i arkitektur ved American University Beirut
2014
9 December: Ecosystem services - Disentangling the complexities of ecosystem services for landscape planning
Berta Martín-López
10 October: And what if the trees grow?
Noël van Dooren
2013
17 September: Replacing culture and landscape in uncertain times
Simon Swaffield
12 June: URBANE ITERATIONER - dynamiske byrum og kreative testzoner
Kristian Koreman, ZUS (NL) og John Bela - Rebar Group (USA)
18 April: "Public Air"
Philippe Rahm, Rahm Architects
12 March: "Om Hvid"
Stig L. Andersson, SLA
13 February: "Om Tåge"
Stig L. Andersson, SLA
14 February: "Om Rod"
Stig L. Andersson, SLA