HDCB0118SU DCC Ways of Living: Danish Architecture & Urban Design [Copenhagen’s Walking Classroom, S22]

In this two-week intensive summer course, the city of Copenhagen will be our primary classroom, with walking-lectures, sidewalk-seminars, independent field studies, and collegial debates being unfolded across a diversity of places within the metropolis. First-hand experiences, place-based interpretative discourses, on-site analyses, and critical readings will be entwined to support grounded ways of questioning and understanding the historical and contemporary Danish architecture and urban design cases at-hand. ‘Ways of living’, in this course, encompasses and addresses a diversity of human and nonhuman relationalities, and acknowledges that architecture and urban design are never stand-alone but are always parts of something both bigger and smaller than themselves. In this course, ‘ways of living’ spans a broad spectrum between ways of living with nature and ways of living relative to shifting socio-cultural conditions and political landscapes. Our concern shall be with such wider themes as urban history, sustainable urban development, climate adaptation, public life and the everyday (including human health and wellness), multi-modal transport, architectural transformation, circular economy, decision-making praxes (including participatory urban design and the distribution of power relations/resources), playscapes, and urban recreation. We warmly encourage diverse academic majors to enrol to further support a richness of interdisciplinary and intersectional perspectives and dialogues in our walking-classroom.

Detailed course programme at  Course programme – University of Copenhagen (ku.dk)

NB: Additional notes on course structure: The primary assignment in this course is a written exam paper structured as a critical reflection logbook. In general, each course day is organised such that collective field sessions compromise the first half of the day, and independent field studies compromise the afternoons. Moreover, there will be one course day designated as a full-day group field study exploring new neighbourhood developments in Copenhagen. Note well that weekend days are included in the course schedule given the condensed period of two weeks. Lastly, all sites can be easily reached via public transport, bicycle, foot, or/and scooter – however, should you have any accessibility related concerns, please feel free to mail your queries in advance to dcc@hum.ku.dk.

PROFESSORS:

Courtney D. Coyne-Jensen is an architect and urbanist, working with projects situated in the nexus of practice-teaching-research as a unity.  Working as an external Assoc. Professor at the University of Copenhagen, she also has her atelier in CPH. Phenomenology, enaction, and co-creation underpin her multi-scalar praxis. Degrees include: PhD (KADK), M.Phil. (Cambridge Univ.), B.Arch. (DAAP). CDC has been the recipient of numerous international grants, and publishes and exhibits globally. She is also appointed Ministry-appointed Examiner for all higher education artistic programs in Denmark. She always warmly welcomes collaborations with others dedicated to architecture and design as critical inquiry, social impact, and serious play. https://dk.linkedin.com/in/courtneycoynejensen

Lars Gemzøe is an architect M.A.A. who has been working in practice, teaching and 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, the Danish Institute for Study Abroad. He has been an external Assoc. Professor at the University of Copenhagen since 2005, and has been guest teaching and lecturing at numerous universities and at conferences around the world.  https://dk.linkedin.com/in/lars-gemzøe-20445b10

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