arki_lab leder efter en analytisk praktikant til foråret 2019 med en baggrund indenfor Etnologi, Sociologi, Antropologi, Plan, by & proces eller lignende. Brænder du for byplanlægning og brugerinddragelse? Og har du lyst til at omsætte dine teoretiske og analytiske kompetencer … Read More
NEWS: arki_lab is co-developing a pilot project concept strategy for central Melbourne
We are thrilled to announce that our proposal has been chosen to develop a pilot project concept strategy for central Melbourne. We are looking forward to this opportunity to expand our activities in Australia and to deliver high-level strategic advice … Read More
Outside Denmark, Inside Japan
How can we work with the borders between inside and outside to improve the connection between humans and natural and urban surroundings, and how is it done in a megacity like Tokyo? With these questions in the suitcase, we went … Read More
Hvordan løfter vi byens beton?
Hvordan kan Danmarks udsatte boligområder styrkes og gøres velfungerende? Det spørgsmål er blevet debatteret heftigt siden starten af marts, da regeringen offentliggjorde sit “ghettoudspil” med titlen ‘Ét Danmark uden parallelsamfund – Ingen ghettoer i 2030’. Udspillet tager en række problematikker … Read More
Using the Sustainable Development Goals as Building Blocks
What has happened since we last posted about the Sustainable Development Goals? How do we at arki_lab contribute to their fulfilment, and how can we actively use the goals as a structuring tool? These are some of the questions that … Read More
Are you looking for an internship?
We are looking for two interns for the Fall Semester 2018: One who is passionate about design (Danish or English speaking) and one who is passionate about research, strategy and concept development (Danish speaking). Read more about the two positions … Read More
A New Paradigm for Participatory Design in Australia
The first 6 months have gone by since we started up the office down under, lead by our sociologist Thomas Aarup Due. It has been amazing to receive great interest in our citizen consultation and co-design practices. Everyone we’ve talked … Read More
NEWS: arki_lab wins the project to develop a new park in Høje-Taastrup
From citizen involvement to design We, at arki_lab, are thrilled to be a part of the new park development with the multidisciplinary team, BOGL Landscape Architects and Atkins Engineers. Our role in the project will be to facilitate the citizen … Read More
Nye veje til levende lokalsamfund
Der er noget der rør på sig i Odsherred. Lokalpolitikere, kommunale beslutningstagere, engagerede borgere og unge fra byens uddannelsesinstitutioner er gået sammen om udviklingen af Asnæs by. Bylaboratoriet er et samarbejde mellem arki_lab og Odsherred kommune, hvorigennem lokalsamfundet, og herunder … Read More
Are you our new Intern?
We are looking for two interns for the Spring Semester 2018: One who is passionate about design (Danish or English speaking) and one who is passionate about research, strategy and concept development (Danish speaking). Read more about the two positions … Read More
Rethinking educational spaces: the outdoor classroom
In the recent years designers have started to examine the process of learning in relation to spatial qualities of a classroom. Research and application of non-traditional education spaces has revealed significant change in user behavior and overall teaching approaches. At … Read More
Indvielse af byværksted designet i børnehøjde
Fredag den 16. juni 2017 kl. 12.30-14.30 indvies det nye byværksted på Gadehaveskolens udearealer. Byværkstedet er designet med elever fra 4.-5. klasse i faget håndværk og design, i et læringsforløb faciliteret af tegnestuen arki_lab og lærerne på Gadehaveskolen. “Jeg er … Read More
Towards a Sustainable Future
During the last 70 years the population of the world has been tripled, and our planet cannot sustain the progress if we hold on to our old ways of doing things. Moreover, half of the world’s population is concentrated in … Read More
New Collaboration Down Under
We’re excited to share the news about our new collaboration with Edmiston Jones GBB from Australia. The collaboration will join perspectives from two different parts of the world. Danish democratic design tradition mixed with the Australian approach that is about … Read More
Vi søger ny praktikant til efteråret 2017
Brænder du for at byplanlægning og brugerinddragelse? Og har du lyst til at omsætte dine teoretiske og analytiske kompetencer til praktisk erfaring? arki_lab leder efter en praktikant min. 30-37 timer ugentligt til at indgå i vores tværfaglige team i hjertet … Read More
Citylab for Co-Designing the Future of Asnæs
We can finally reveal the good news about our new project that we’ll be carried on over the next 1,5 years in a small city called Asnæs! We’ll be transforming an empty property into a co-creative Citylab, where the local … Read More
Action-Based Research Project: A Lively Outdoor Classroom
Today, as urban living becomes ever more the norm and digital interactions replaces face-to-face, personal interactions, children are becoming distanced from nature as well as their immediate social surroundings. Outdoor school, an increasingly widespread trend, is a response to such … Read More
Co-Designing an outdoor workshop space
These days we, at arki_lab, are busy developing teaching materials for our new project at Gadehaveskolen in Høje-Taastrup. Throughout the spring we’ll work in close collaboration with teachers and pupils at Gadehaveskolen in designing and constructing a new outdoor classroom … Read More
A Short Guide to How to Design Intergenerational Urban Spaces
Today Western societies in particular-and the rest of the world generally- is divided by age. From our birth to our death, society keeps us well within spaces occupied by peers to the degree that other age groups seem alien and … Read More
arki_lab goes to Spain
In the beginning of November 2016, arki_lab, invited by the Danish Embassy in Spain, Foro de la Culture and City of Madrid, travelled to Spain to be a part of several events around citizen involvement and empowerment. Below is a … Read More
How to Turn 104 Dreams into a Design
This autumn, arki_lab put the future of Kulbanekvarteret in Copenhagen on the agenda, in collaboration with 104 students from Lykkebo School and the Kulbane Urban Renewal group. The purpose of the project is to create awareness about the soon-to-be-constructed Kulbanepark, … Read More
From Engagement to Final Design
We started working with Vesterbro Ungdomsgård last Spring, where we facilitated workshops about architecture and urban design. After the workshops, we built movable wooden boxes that they could experiment and play around with. The members and staff could arrange the … Read More
Learning About Innovative Sustainable Design by Building
In 4 collaborative building days we went from idea to reality together with engaged students from 2.z. Jointly we transformed a small, forgotten, dirty site on the edge of the Johannes Highschool property into a new social outdoor space and … Read More
User Involvement at its Best
We are moving full speed ahead with our Vesterbro Ungdomsgård project. Yesterday we conducted the final hearing for the three architectural elements that we are going to build in the garden together with Repos and Studio Debris from Guldminen – … Read More
Skole+ Design
arki_lab is pleased to report that the Skole+ project has continued to progress successfully, moving on from the initial interactive workshops dedicated to the generation of ideas from the school community and other local users (see this session in an earlier … Read More
Seminar at Johannes Gymnasiet
Today arki_lab has conducted an introduction seminar for high school students at Johannes Gymnasiet in Frederiksberg, who will participate in our design project over the course of their spring semester. Our teaching method will enable the students at Johannes Gymnasiet … Read More
Community Involvement
Last weekend, arki_lab initiated community involvement process for Skole+, a collaborative design project which will redevelop the local school environment at Haarby into a space with enhanced capacity for physical activities, benefiting the entire community. In the first phase of … Read More
Prototyping with arki_lab
Prototyping is an important tool in arki_lab’s teaching method. In our prototyping workshops we use soda boxes as a building material. Creating prototypes in this way is a great way to learn about physical features of space (such as the … Read More