A film about street life, security and urban development in Amager Vest, Copenhagen. The film shows the attempts to foster positive urban life through street sports activitets such as football and parkour.
UiWE produced the movie “Urban life on the move” (Byliv i Bevægelse) for Amager West Local Committee as part of the “Safe city” initiative by the City of Copenhagen. On the agenda is the significance of street sports and urban play in supporting public life and enhance the feeling of security in urban neighbourhoods.
UiWE have delivered a feasibility study on location and programming of a cultural house in Køge for Køge Kyst and Køge Kommune. Together with Vandkunsten and Lean Design we have analyzed a range of scenarios and drawn on Danish and international experiences from cultural houses. Our focus is cultural feasibility and ensuring a cohesive and sustainable programming of cultural resources. Download the study (in Danish) at Køges Kommunes website.
Check out some of the Scandinavian press around PeeBetter and Pollee (the female urinal) at Roskilde Festival: A fine presentation at Politiken TV. Serious business and a lot of comments on the popular Norwegian webpaper ABC Nyheter. Ekstrabladet also wrote about our ambition to make it easier for girls to pee at parties and festivals and PeeBetter was on the frontpage of Metroexpress. Furthermore, Christian was talking on national radio P4 explaining what makes PeeBetter special.
Køge Kyst and Køge Municipality has assigned UiWE to work with architecture office Vandkunsten and LeanDesign on a feasibility study for a new culture house in Køge. Our role is to consider the cultural aspects of location, program and development process in the light of best practice in Denmark and abroad – and pave the wave for a truly great culture house in Køge!
May 23 at Danish Architecture Centre (DAC), Christian is giving a talk on the design of architecture competitions together with Thomas Koch from Polyform at a workshop organized by The Danish Association of Construction Clients (DACC). On the agenda is how to make architectural design competitions more inspiring, efficient and productive. The outset is the UiWE/Polyform manifesto on architecture competitions published in Arkitekten this spring.
Christian speaks at “Kulturkonference 2010” (Culture Conference 2010) organized by The Local Government Training and Development Centre (COK/Center for Offentlig Kompetenceudvikling) – the Danish municipalities’ and regions’ nationwide organization for training and development. On the agenda are cultural strategies in urban development with the cultural planning of Køge as case.
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