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Have a Seat: Participatory design from an architect’s point of view – The Men’s Home

November 10, 2020 | Comments Off on Have a Seat: Participatory design from an architect’s point of view – The Men’s Home

Greg Vendena, Architect with Cyklus, Copenhagen, Denmark Since 1910, The Men’s Home (Mændenes Hjem) has been a Copenhagen institution with a long history of caring for marginalized groups. Offering housing, a warm meal, shelter, treatment, jobs, and more, the organization and place serves the…

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The Welfare State 2.0 : Co-creating a new citizen-driven future

August 20, 2020 | Comments Off on The Welfare State 2.0 : Co-creating a new citizen-driven future

Bo Christiansen. Architect MAA (Member of Architects Association), Founder of Scaledenmark I have the fondest memories as a young child in the 1960s, visiting and vacationing at my grandparents’ dairy farm at a beautiful white-chalked farmhouse outside the coastal town of Løkken…

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Landscapes of Healing, Landscapes of Sorrow

June 9, 2020 | Comments Off on Landscapes of Healing, Landscapes of Sorrow

Deni Ruggeri, Ph,D., Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at – Norwegian University of Life Sciences (NMBU); Executive Director and Past Chair of Environmental Design Research Association (EDRA) When I first tried writing a reflection about the spatial implications of the COVID-19 pandemic, I became paralyzed.…

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