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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Meet Our New Nomadic Intern!
From the kiwi coastal streets of Wellington, to the pot-holed road edges of Islamic Abu Dhabi, and after a romantically frantic cycle over Parisian cobblestones and through struggling post-colonial corners of Cape Town, I find myself on Birkegade – ready … Read More
Report: Studying Age-Integration in Cities
We can depart in a little correction on our behalf: We’ve come to use the word generation and age interchangeable, though they really are two different concepts. Age, relates to different kinds of time passing. It could be the biological … Read More
Designing Cities with People
Yesterday Rasmus came back from Australia full of new inspiration and possible future cooperation. The lecture at the International Urban Design Conference was a great success, with a room packed with people, who listened, fully engaged, to our democratic design … Read More
A New Book by arki_lab Underway
After studying abroad here in Denmark until May, I was not quite ready to leave. For the past three months, I have interned at arki_lab to develop a book project on their design philosophy, which had long remained in a … Read More
arki_tools goes to Australia
Democratic Urban Design is the core of our philosophy. Everyone who lives in a city, regardless of her/his age, education level, ethnicity and social class must be involved in making even the most minor decisions for her/his living environment, namely … Read More
arki_lab @ 8th International Urban Design Conference
“Wuhu! Arki_lab goes to Australia again! Rasmus is invited to give a talk at the 8th international Urban Design Conference. First established in 2007 in Melbourne, the international Urban design conference that has been held yearly ever since brings together … Read More
Exhibition at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
It has been an intense week at arki_lab, where we have been preparing for the final exhibition, which was successfully completed yesterday at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art. We had 170 students from five schools from Fredensborg municipality at the … Read More
Park(ing) Day- Engaging in the City
The third Friday in September is the global Park(ing) Day, where parking spaces throughout the whole world are being transformed into livable green oasis. We are going to join the movement in cooperation with young students from Blågårds skole, who … Read More
Students Building and Learning Together
The days at arki_lab office are never the same, it is dynamic, lively and full of experiments, meetings and workshops. This tuesday was one of those days, where the office was extra dynamic. We started our morning on the rooftop … Read More
Lousiana Museum meets Nordvest
As you might know we are doing this great project in cooperation with Louisiana Museum and five schools from the local area, called ‘The Architecture Around You’. Through the fall the students will be working on a suggestion to an … Read More
Ethnography: meeting the real people
Last week we started the next stage of our research project on how you can create intergenerational urban space, by beginning our work in the two last case-areas Sydhavn and Albertslund. Both unique and intriguing in their own way: Sydhavn, … Read More
CoCityApp Gets Grant from Danish Arts Foundation
Good news has arrived from the Danish Art Foundation! We are pleased to announce that we have received a grant to develop arki_lab’s CoCityApp, a free and easy-to-use smartphone application that places urban design in the palm of your hand. … Read More
Collaboration with Louisiana Museum
This week, we made a quick and dramatic announcement that we have been appointed ‘house artists’ at Louisiana Gallery! This is in fact a collaborative project between the gallery, arki_lab and four schools in the local area, called ‘The Architecture … Read More
Intergenerational Research Update
arki_lab has been involved in a research project into the field of intergenerational integration, funded by the Danish Ministry of Housing, Urban and Rural Affairs. The emerging demographic shift of an ageing population brings with it a new set of … Read More
(re)stitch Tampa revisited
The importance of making the most out of the city’s waterfronts has come into currency in recent years. From the Rebuild by Design project as a response to the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy, to exhibitions here in Copenhagen on … Read More
Update on the winning competition in Marseille
arki_lab has just returned from an intensive and productive workshop last week in Marseille, and we are happy to share with you that the process of developing Plan d’Aou is moving forwards. After the initial start-up last workshop, where arki_lab … Read More
Getting to know the Needs through 1:1 Prototyping
Last week, arki_lab got our hands dirty and built around 20 of the boxes that the children at Vesterbro Ungdomsgård have designed in the collaborative process we have been working on. The Easter Festival that they put on offered a … 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
US Study Tour
US Study Tour: Post #1 arki_lab meets rebel architect in a car-centric city US Study Tour: Post #2 US Study Tour: Post #3 How to design and build together with the youth? Visiting Project H and getting an opportunity to … Read More
Marseille In Process
Last week, arki_lab was in France ! We met with the local stakeholders in Marseille, about the implementation process for our project Plan d’Aou – A new Urban Village. How did this all happen ? Let’s take a look back … Read More
arki_lab Event at Brønshøj Skole
Last week we organized a successful event at Brønshøj Skole with students who participated in arki_lab urban design workshops. Our methodology in these workshops aims to educate young people about urban design and planning in an engaging way by applying … Read More