HDCB0118SU Cancelled DCC Human Ways: 19C-21C Danish Architecture and Urban Design (S20)

This course is for students who would like to experience, study, and analyse contemporary Danish architecture and urban design first-hand. In this course, the city of Copenhagen is our primary classroom; with ‘walking tour lectures’, independent field studies, group seminars, and collegial debates being unfolded on-site, across a diversity of places within the metropolis. (All sites can be easily reached via public transport, and/or by bicycle and on foot.) In short, place-based interpretative studies and onsite analyses, along with vital course literature, are entwined to offer grounded ways of questioning and understanding essential qualities in person-environment relationships.

Via specific case studies, this two-week intensive summer course tackles such wider themes as urban history, urban regeneration, architectural transformation, human scale and the everyday, liveability, sustainability, climate adaptation, multi-modal transport, participatory urban design, playscapes and urban recreation.

In addition to the daily onsite course contents, one full day of the course is allocated to a chartered bus excursion and guided tour exploring diverse contemporary urban developments along the waterfronts of both Copenhagen and Malmö (Sweden). The urban projects will be comparatively analysed with, amongst other things, a concentration on the interrelationships between private, public, and semi-public/private realms.

WEEK 1 WITH COURTNEY D. COYNE-JENSEN

Primary themes: urban history and morphological developments; urban regeneration and transformation: inclusive urban places; participatory urban design; climate adaptation and resiliency; liveability; active urban places and playscapes

Day 1:
Lecture: Urban History of Copenhagen
Field Study: Blue Spaces: urban transformations along & in CPH inner harbour

Day 2: 
Lecture: Public Space Transformations; Human scale & life between buildings
Field Study: Public Space Transformations; Human scale & life between buildings

Day 3: 
Lecture: Top-down & Bottom-up Urban Design
Field Study: L.Q.C. & Place-based Tactical Urbanism

Day 4: 
Lecture: Landscape Urbanism & Climate Mitigation
Field Study: Coupling Rainwater & Recreation

Day 5: 
Lecture: Playscapes
Field Study: Playscapes & Health

Courtney D. Coyne-Jensen is an architect and urbanist, working with projects situated in the nexus of practice-teaching-research as a unity.  Currently, Sr. Lecturer and Program Head, and with an atelier based in CPH. Phenomenology, enaction, and co-creation underpin her multi-scalar praxis. Degrees include: PhD (KADK), M.Phil. (Cambridge Univ.), B.Arch. (DAAP). She has been the recipient of numerous grants, and publishes and exhibits internationally. She is also appointed External Examiner by the Ministry of Higher Education and Science for all higher artistic education programs in DK.
 

WEEK 2 WITH LARS GEMZØE

Primary themes: people, housing, and sustainability

Day 6: 
Lecture: Public Space – Public Life & Multi-modal Transportation; Transformations of the city of Copenhagen over time
Field Study: Enghave Plads & Metro Stations

Day 7: 
Lecture: Housing for People
Field Study: Housing and streetscapes

Day 8: 
Excursion: Exploring three new city districts

Day 9: 
Lecture: Architecture of Urban Recreation
Field Study: Architecture of Urban Recreation

Day 10: 
Lecture: Contrasts in the Urban Landscape; From large to small scale – from old to new architecture
 

Lars Gemzøe is an architect M.A.A. who has been working both in practice, teaching and making research. He has been an associate partner at Gehl Architects and a senior lecturer of Urban Design at the School of Architecture in Copenhagen as well as teaching at DIS, Danish Institute for Study Abroad. He is an external lecturer at the University of Copenhagen since 2005 and he has been teaching and lecturing at numerous universities and at conferences around the world. 

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