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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.

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The lecture will be followed by an informal reception


Should we prepare (for) an urban exodus?

Brændende hus i baggrunden, græskarbod i forgrunden
Joel Sternfeld, from American Prospects, 1978

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.

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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.

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The lecture will be followed by an informal reception



Inclusive spaces 
– a feminist approach

Photo: "Cité Audacieuse", Anne Labroille

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.

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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