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Urban movement

admin — Mon, 12 Sep 2011 18:32:58 +0000

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.

Cultural feasibility

admin — Fri, 09 Sep 2011 12:24:45 +0000

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.

Press on PeeBetter

admin — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 12:02:38 +0000

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.

Thinking Culture House

admin — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 21:34:45 +0000

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!

Design better competitions

admin — Mon, 09 May 2011 09:51:34 +0000

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.

We are rebuilding

admin — Sun, 17 Apr 2011 09:03:23 +0000

Please bear with our website. We are finalizing a makeover and there might be some places that look a bit weird.

UiWE at COK’s Culture Conference 2010

admin — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:57:40 +0000

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.

UiWE at Copenhagen Business Centre

admin — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 11:39:02 +0000

How do you convert knowledge into business? That is the subject of the an introductory course February 1st at Copenhagen Business Centre. The course is geared toward the entrepreneur who wants to start his own business and uses a combination of theory and first hand experience.

Workshop on culture & quality in city-making

admin — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 12:02:16 +0000

UiWe and the task-force for public-private partnerships at Erhvervs- og byggestyrelsen (Danish Enterprise and Construction Authority) arranged a workshop at the municipality of Copenhagen on collaboration, culture and value in urban planning and administration. The workshop was attended by lawyers and economists of KEC (Copenhagen Center of Business), Center for Bydesign (Center of Urban Design) and Borgerservice (Citizen services )

OPS_09 completed

admin — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 09:26:38 +0000

UiWe has completed the OPS_09 workshop and process for Erhvervs- og Byggestyrelsen (Danish Enterprise and Construction Authority). See the film from the workshop and read the initiatives at the OPS_09 blog www.ops09.dk. The workshop results are to inspire the future work with government strategy for public-private collaboration.