Trough policy and practice Ditte is working with human rights for young people with disabilities aiming for a society with room for everyone.
Leave No One Behind is a commitment to explore how architecture can be more sustainable, affordable and accessible.
The amazing presence and contributions of the next generation was an incredible gift to the Congress and to all that attended.
The Science Track presented +250 Scientific Papers, identifying solutions to some of the most pertinent challenges facing architecture and sustainability today.
More than 6,000 participants from 135 countries attended the world’s largest event for sustainable architecture, the UIA World Congress of Architects in Copenhagen, this week. Prominent researchers and practitioners across borders and generations discussed how they can design to combat climate change, increase biodiversity and promote social inclusion. The congress concluded with the launch of 10 principles for rapid and radical change in the built environment – titled “The Copenhagen Lessons”.
Speakers: Nyasha Harper-Michon & H.Y. William Chan Master of Ceremonies: Connie Hedegaard
In recent years, we have seen a rise in young activists within various disciplines, including the environmental field, as well as architecture and urban planning, raising awareness, inspiring action, and rallying support for a better future. They are driven by a passion for challenging the status quo and empowering people, companies, and policy makers to address the global issues concerning us all. But above all, they are determined to make an impact and drive the transition to an inclusive and sustainable built environment. This session addresses the need for activism in architecture, with important conversations and insights from three influential activists and change makers, Jerome Foster II, Nyasha Harper-Michon and Councillor H.Y. William Chan, who are using their voices to drive action towards making an impact in tackling the climate challenges we face.
Speakers: Bjarke Ingels & Margrethe Vestager Master of Ceremonies: Connie Hedegaard
The challenges facing the built environment are urgent – the building sector accounts for nearly 40% of the annual, global CO2 emissions, consumes raw materials in unsustainable quantities, and continues to produce too much waste which is not recycled or reused. The environmental challenge is matched by issues regarding the social sustainability of the built environment. A more inclusive and equitable built environment must be given equal priority. These challenges are global. But in this keynote dialogue with Margrethe Vestager and Bjarke Ingels our starting point is European. Drawing inspiration from the European Green Deal and the New European Bauhaus, we will explore how European institutions and businesses and European values can contribute to shaping a more sustainable and equitable future in the built environment. Not just in Europe, but globally.
Get an online tour of one of the world’s most accessible office buildings. Here, 300 employees are able to move around and work on equal terms – whether they have a disability or not. The building is built on the ideas of universal design and continues to be a beacon for inclusive architecture.
Self-guided walking tour of architecture in Malmö from ten different decades. Experience architectural gems in central Malmö from 1900 to 2013. The buildings span from national romanticism to a contemporary market hall in a transformed freight depot by one of Sweden’s most renowned architects. Hosted by Architects Sweden
The highly anticipated UIA World Congress of Architects 2023 will take place in Copenhagen from July 2nd to 6th. The congress will explore and highlight architecture’s potential to shape better societies and create a more sustainable built environment. The programme is filled with keynote dialogues, presentations and exhibitions in Bella Center – and guided tours, social events and experimental pavilions all around Copenhagen.
Tour Aarhus by foot, walking through new and historic districts of the city, visiting Aarhus school of architecture, Aarhus City Hall, Aarhus university campus and more.
Study tour focusing on children, playing and democracy. The tour consist of two site visit and ends up at Form/Design Center in Malmö in time for the side event: KID CITY – Child Friendly Planning & Architecture. Here the exhibition PLAY FOR DEMOCRACY is featured.
Hosted by Architects Sweden
The tour features two former industrial districts in Malmö, characterized by extensive regeneration and urban development. Both districts have a long and significant industrial history, with preserved buildings and structures, as well as new emerging cityscapes. Hosted by: Architects Sweden
The tour features a range of public buildings of high quality, built 1916–1976. Predominantly from the post-war era, they represent a Nordic architecture thought to be socially responsible, contextually responsive, and spatially, as well as tectonically, expressive. It includes several works by Sigurd Lewerentz, one of the most prominent Swedish architects of the 20th century. Hosted by: Architects Sweden
The best the city offers its cyclists
Ride the city with Niels, a Copenhagener, who knows the city from 20 years of professional experience with Active Mobility and Urban planning.
Travel to the isolated islands of the north – The Faroe Islands. Enjoy three days where you can relax to the sound of nature and enjoy a fresh wind in your hair. The three days will also include some exploring within the filed of Faroese architectural history.
Tour registration information: info@nax.fo
Tour Aarhus by foot, walking through new and historic districts of the city, visiting Aarhus school of architecture, Aarhus City Hall, Aarhus university campus and more.
Looking for inspiration on designing with biodiversity in mind? Join Tobias Theil Konishi, a highly experienced architect and Project Director with a passion for sustainable development. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from one of the industry’s top experts in sustainable design.
There are many existing solutions that focus on architecture and sustainability and illustrate how architecture can contribute to the realisation of the Global Goals.
How can architects and the building industry contribute to achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)? It is the starting point for several architecture pavilions – titled the SDG Pavilions.
Daylight contributes to more sustainable architecture as it is an important factor for people’s well-being and health. A space where the perceptual, aesthetic and poetic potential of daylight are experienced in a series of spaces. Architects: Royal Danish Academy & Claus Pryds Architects
Make sure to book tours at the end of each congress day and reserve your seat for unique experiences at historic Copenhagen City Hall or converted industrial area Øksnehallen.
The four winners of the international ideas competition Neighbourhoods for Generations have been revealed.
Find your reflection in the World Capital of Architecture 2023. It is a reminder of Copenhagen’s human centered approach to planning and architecture. Made by: Urgent agency and City of Copenhagen
Greenhouses rescued on the brink of demolition and transported to the new location at Jernbanebyen, repurposing and reconfiguring into new purposes. Architects: FORMA
A statement piece prompting curiosity, debate, and reflection on our contemporary and future uses of resources. The story of a rescued concrete barge otherwise slated for demolition, highlighting a dilemma that the construction industry must overcome. Architects: MAST
A journey through the history of meteorology and insight into how future technology can help combat climate challenges. Architects: Anna Maria Indrio, Henning Frederiksen, Christian Fogh & Simone Aaberg Kærn.
Observe harbor life and feel the present environment with challenges that rising sea levels bring to coastal cities. A testament to the loss of underwater biodiversity, due to global warming. Architects: Studio Coquille and Tan & Blixenkrone
Showcases innovative use of precast concrete elements, a construction system that has dominated the Danish industry since the 1950s. Is it possible to reuse building components, minimizing resource consumption? Architects: 3XN/GXN
3 pieces that address how to reduce climate impact to a fourth of the current level without compromising on attractivity and liveability. Architects: ReVærk, Tegnestuen LOKAL, Leth & Gori and Rønnow Architects.
Bricks are an energy-consuming material to produce. Each arch being the equivalent of 1 tonne CO2, the largest arch demonstrates up 75% in Co2 emission reduction using recycled bricks and new methods. Architects: AART, Mangor & Nagel
Future building materials need to be sustainable. Many of the synthetic materials (plastic) have these properties while at the same time being durable, lightweight, cheap, and easy to shape. Architects: Terroir
Building buildings with a three times lower CO2 footprint and a first-class indoor climate. Homes should be healthy, affordable, simple, shared over time and scalable. Architects: EFFEKT
Explores the relationship between food systems and our urban infrastructure, architecture, and policy to reveal the environmental impacts of these structures, showcasing innovative techniques in food circularity that can be implemented in urban environments. Architects: Schmidt Hammer Lassen
An interpretation of an actual development project in Uganda, the “Bio-Centre”. Through basic sanitary functions, a waste product is collected and refined into a resource that can be used in the residents’ stoves and for heating bathing water in the bio-centre. Volunteer with Architects Without Borders (Denmark)
BLOXHUB & UIA World Congress of Architects CPH 2023 invite you to join our 3rd Science Talk in a series of nine given the title `Leave No One and Nothing Behind´. In each talk, we will dive into how we can reach a future, where we leave no one and nothing behind. In fact, a future where we leave more behind than we take. But how
If in Copenhagen – you’re invited to the Living Places Copenhagen Grand Opening on Earth Day – April 22, 2023 for an exciting day of events and activities for the entire family!
Join us for a Danish-Spanish dialogue on how architecture can contribute to building sustainable futures, leaving no one behind.
The programme for the World Congress has now been launched and features influential and innovative profiles in the built environment.
The programme for the World Congress has now been launched and features influential and innovative profiles in the built environment.
Journey out to Ballerup, a suburb of greater Copenhagen, for a tour of housing, which has been profiled and awarded for the retrofitting and re-adaption, creating more space and a better places for homelife and social gathering with neighbours and local community.
BLOXHUB & the UIA World Congress of Architects CPH 2023 invite you to join our newest series of 9 Science Talks in 2023.
Tour the borough of Amager, visiting a handful of sites, which has been profiled and awarded, for their re-configuration from past industrial use into housing and office communities offering alternatives affording work-life balance.
On March 9, 2023 we will discuss how architecture can contribute to building a sustainable and equitable future.
Journey out of town to Arboretum, a full-scale out-of-doors HDLA [health design in landscape architecture] laboratory, featuring three accessible, inclusive and health-promoting landscape projects, instrumental to the implementation of UN SDGs, without leaving vulnerable groups behind.
Take a metro and walking tour of Ørestad, an entirely new district of Copenhagen, from early 1990s, a testing grounds for a new model of urban development, with iconic buildings reflecting Danish cultural values, some now the most Instagrammed in Scandinavia.
Tour Nordhavn, an entire new district of Copenhagen, where new urban development meets former industrial sites, featuring beautiful transformations of silos, sustainable solutions, a harbor bath and a metro line
A walking tour in central Copenhagen takes a retrospective look at the city’s industrial past and connects it to the city of today, where street food, climate resilience and harbor baths are what it’s all about.
Tour Carlsberg City District, once the brewery and home of Denmark’s most famous brewers. A former industrial site, endowed with beautiful building details, now transformed, former industrial buildings taking on new life, intermixed with new build and high-rises, and featuring climate-resilient solutions.
Travel west to Musholm, at the far edge of Zealand, to experience the Musholm vacation center – configured with universal design in mind – offering inclusive vacation and recreational experiences – accommodating special needs.
Stroll through the inner city, experiencing a variety of brutal and imposing structures, which has been profiled and awarded, for their re-adaption and repurposing into hotels, commercial and office spaces.
Cruise Copenhagen’s Harbor, the pulse of the city. Just mere decades ago, a waterway obscured by industry, freight ships, warehouses, and polluted water. Today, a harborscape transformed, with swimmers, pleasure boats, and innovative sustainable architecture. Learn about the key decisions that led to this new blue park.
Journey out to the House of Disabled People’s Organizations, a beacon for inclusive architecture: the world’s most accessible office building. Learn about design solutions and meet stakeholders involved in creating a model example of accessibility for all in the workplace.
