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
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
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
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