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
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
Urban Planner for a Week
Last week we were lucky to have the bright student Bjørn as our intern, who contacted us, because we did a one-year architecture project at Brønshøj School. Through the week he should work like a real urban planner working on … 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
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
Workshop + Exhibition at Johannes Gymnasiet
Tags: arkilab,Design Thinking,Co-Creation,Process,Johannes Gymnasiet,huskunstnerordningen,Sustainable Classroom,Hands-On Learning,Ideate,Citizen Ownership Last Thursday our design project with Johannes Gymnasiet moved along toward a final exhibition of student solutions to better their academic and social spaces. With the students of classes 1.z and 2.z, we … 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
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