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
Everyone Wants a Water Slide in Their Front Yard
Last Wednesday we had a user involvement session at Vesterbro Ungdomsgård, Where we talked to the members about their dreams, needs and preferences for the front yard. The front yard makeover project was launched in 2014, and now arki_lab 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
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
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