Copenhagen Architecture Forum's Podcast

Archive: 'The City is a Garden' with Anna Aslaug, Skye Jin and Studio Coquille

Urban infrastructure does merely mean roads, pipes, and buildings. Soil, water flows, trees, and fungi are infrastructure too. This episode moves away from the idea that gardens belong at the edges of development or appear afterward as cosmetic additions. Instead, it asks whether the city itself can be understood as a form of cultivation: something living, maintained, and ecologically embedded rather than engineered into independence. For what if the city is not separate from the landscape around it, but continuous with it, dependent on living systems that modern planning often treats as background or decoration? And how might we question the belief that sustainability will come mainly through smarter technologies and greater efficiency, rather than through practices of ecological reciprocity? On the episode you will meet: Anna Aslaug Lund: architect and landscape architect MAA, Ph.D. at Schønherr, and author of The City as a Garden. Skye Jin: artist, educator, permaculture designer, and cultural sustainability advisor. Studio Coquille: Marion de Lingua de St Blanquat and Frederik Mads Svendsen, the architects behind The Habitable Skin, together with TERROIR, in collaboration with Lasse Carlsen and MYCO.

Archive: Should We Make Cities for Insects? with Hjalte Calberg Ro-Poulsen & Studio Coquille

Today at Halmtorvet 27, we're hosting an event exploring how other species can become part of the political community. So what better time to dive into the podcast archive for an episode on how to create cities where insects can actually thrive? Among many other fascinating insights, you'll learn how Copenhagen's biggest electronic music festival - and its guests - help create ideal living conditions for the city's insect populations. On the episode you can meet: Studio Coquille: Marion de Lingua de St Blanquat and Frederik Mads Svendsen. The architects behind The Habitable Skin, along with TERROIR, in collaboration with Lasse Carlsen and MYCO Hjalte Calberg Ro-Poulsen: Biologist/entomologist/melittologist who conducts research, provides consultancy, and teaches about land and urban management based on the needs of wild bees and other insects at Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen.

Archive: Material Responsibility From Cradle to Cradle with Anders Lendager

In this first episode on the policy proposal of Material Ownership, drafted by architect and founder of Lendager, Anders Lendager, we sit down with Anders alongside Co-Founder of both Home. Earth & Transformer.Build Kasper Guldage Jensen, Vice President of Global Sales at Fritz Hansen, Martin Scharff and Senior Adviser at construction company DI Byggeri, Jakob Thaysen Rørbech to discuss the proposal for the extended producer responsibility for construction products. Read the law proposal at this link [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ugxw_T12X5atdQaFHiZItccMfNMgpEtK/view?usp=drive_link]. This podcast was produced by KoozArch in collaboration with Copenhagen Architecture Biennial.

Archive: "Right to Housing! Now and Forever" with HouseEurope!

This week we are revisiting an episode from last year, to celebrate our newly announced fellowship with HouseEurope! Instead of demolishing and rebuilding, HouseEurope! calls for sustainable renovation and adaptive reuse, pushing for new EU laws that protect and prioritize existing spaces. Our joint fellowship invites talented young professionals from the fields of law and architecture to join forces for a week in Copenhagen, to question existing laws and take steps to create a more sustainable building sector and world. Last year, using the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI), HouseEurope! mobilized people across Europe to demand policies that favor preservation over demolition, with the goal of collecting one million signatures from at least seven countries. The podcast was made on the day the initiative kicked off. The live conversation features leading voices from architecture, urbanism, and activism. On the podcast you will meet: • Søren Pihlmann (Founder, Pihlmann Architects / Danish Architecture Pavilion - Venice Biennale 2025) • Lars Autrup (CEO, Arkitektforeningen) • Jacob Blak Henriksen (Head of Sustainability Architect, Cobe) • Tamara Kalantajevska (Head of Urbanism, Schmidt Hammer Lassen / KADK) • Kasper Benjamin Reimer Bjørkskov (Founder, No Objectives) • Erik Valdemar Eriksen (Activist, Den Grønne Studenterbevægelses Klimaaktivistisk Tegnestue) • Dominique Hauderowicz (Founder, Studio Dominique Serena / Danish Architecture Pavilion – Venice Biennale 2027) • Esben Thorlacius (Partner, Over Byen Arkitekter) The discussion is moderated by Enlai Hooi, Head of Innovation at Schmidt Hammer Lassen.

Archive: "Architecture is more than buildings in cities"

As debates about rural life resurface across Denmark, including in Altinget's highly recommended podcast Aftryk [https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/livet-p%C3%A5-landet-er-den-nye-slagmark/id1815451333?i=1000763432864], the countryside is once again being cast as a political battleground. The debate is not new, but it is encouraging to see it begin to move beyond a long-standing assumption: that the countryside mainly matters insofar as it serves the urban environement or the agricultural industry. It led us to revisit this episode from the archives with the Danish architecture studio Rural Agency, which enters that shift. Are we operating within an underlying urban bias? And what would it mean to take the rural seriously as a place of life, ecology, and practice in its own right?