Welcome to UiWE

Together with Changedesign and Emil Tin we are creating Roskilde Social Lab. The Lab works to spread ingenious solutions to social challenges all over the world – and at the Roskilde Festival. We invite you to share your ideas about how to make the festival and the world a smarter, better place. Welcome to Roskilde Social Lab!

Join us for the official opening at Carlsberg on the june 24th

17.30: Lounging with music

18.00: Welcome by Lars Holten

Frank Jensen and Pia Allerslev speaks
David Bülow of Primus speaks
Performance by Streetmovement and GPT (Gerlev Performance Team)

18.30: Café Elefanten opens with beer and sausages + more lounging

Please join us! We would be very happy to see you and tell you more about the Carlsberg project!

The first stripes are being painted to mark up a contemporary, intimate and social urban space in the neighbourhood of Carlsberg. We hope to see you for the opening of the first of three squares June 24 where Carlsberg hosts a grand opening with an outdoor screening of the World Cup match between Denmark and Japan.

The French social innovation agency La 27e Region hosts a study to the Øresund Region for a range of regional decision makers in France. As part of the programme Uffe Elbæk and UiWE have been asked to give a presentation at Mindlab of the idea of a Social Innovation Lab in Copenhagen committed to develop new, cross disciplinary solutions to today’s (and tomorrow’s) social challenges.

Both Christian and Jacob will work as external examiners this summer. Christian is part of the examination team at Copenhagen School of Design and Technology (KEA) at the BA programme “Ideation Design”. Jacob is affiliated with the department of Architecture & Design at the University of Aalborg.

We welcome Lars Maarbjerg to the design team. Lars is an experienced architect and has a degree in Project Management in the Building industry from Danske Byggeøkonomer. Lars will be working on the planning and realization of Carlsberg temporary. We look forward to have Lars with us!

Together with Uffe Elbæk we have developed the idea of a “CPH Social Innovation Lab”, dedicated to solve social and urban challenges, working with public, private and 3rd sector actors. May 25 UiWE / Changedesign and kaospilot Emil Tin invited selected actors related to the field of social innovation to a workshop at Charlottenborg to give feedback on our ideas. We thank everybody for their time and valuable input.

May 18 Christian gives a talk at an idea-generating seminar on the development of Bispeengbuen. On the agenda is how creative businesses can contribute to the urban development process. The municipality of Frederiksberg hosts the seminar.

UiWE have been chosen to design temporary urban spaces in the new neighbourhood of Carlsberg with architectural office Keinicke & Overgaard and a team consisting of Primus Arkitekter and Streeetmovement. Our project aims to turn this unique old industrial area into places where you feel welcome, at home and encouraged to both hang out and be active. The first of three squares is expected to open by the end of June.

UiWE has been selected for the second phase of the Køge Kyst competition, aiming at the development of a new, sustainable urban area along the coast of Køge as a part of a team of five companies (Carl Bro Grontmij, 2+1, Ekstrakt, Oxford Research and Polyform). We are responsible for qualifying the cultural strategies of the project. We are looking forward to develop a cultural planning toolkit fit for Køge.
Cheers!

We are working on the design of temporary urban spaces in Carlsberg. Copenhageners, please fill out this short questionnaire about what you miss in your city and what you would like to happen in the Carlsberg neighbourhood. The questionnaire is in Danish.
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UiWE has been invited to propose a design of temporary urban spaces in the new copenhagen neighbourhood Carlsberg as a part of a team with architectural offic Keinicke & Overgaard. The aim of the competion is to open up the unique old industrial area to the public and enhance urban life, cultural expression and street sports. The project is a joint venture between Realdania, Lokale- og Anlægsfonden (The Danish Foundation for Culture and Sports Facilities), Carlsberg and København Kommune (the city of Copenhagen).

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UiWE has been highlighted as company of the month at the architecture and design network Link UP.
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The UiWE documentary about two favela leaders in Brazil in a tough, corrupt election, is screened at Doc Lounge CPH at Husets Café, i Huset March 10th at 8 PM, doors open at 7. An informal Q&A with Christian, Brazilian Music, Capueira, beers and drinks, follow the screening. Battle of Rabbit Town is also shown in Prague, March 10-17, as part of the official selection of One World International Human Rights Film Festival and Christian is going there to present the film.

On wednesday the 3rd of february UiWE was invited by KEC to talk about social innovation and entrepreneurship in urban development. The talk was attended by project managers from urban renewal projects (Områdefornyelse og områdeløft) in the copenhagen area and representatives from center for bydesign (centre of urban design) and center for byudvikling (centre of urban development)

UiWE has been prequalified for the parallel competition for the future development of KØGE KYST with a strong team consisting of Polyform, Grontmij Carl Bro, 2+1, Ekstrakt and Oxford Research. The competion aims at realizing a high-profile strategic project in the 24 hectar area involving the town opening up towards the water and linking the new part of town to the historical town centre.

From a warm office in a freezing meatpacking district we send greetings to all of you – collaborators, clients, and friends  – who made our first year in the culture design business possible. We hope we will have the chance to reunite next year! In the meantime we have made a small doll film to celebrate that special something that makes you and I a we. Merry Christmas!

UiWe has been assigned by Amager Vest Lokal Udvalg (Amager West Community Council) to design the brief for a workshop on the future development of Amager West. The workshop will be attended by Netværk for Yngre Planlæggere (Network for Young Planners), and aims at exploring a cross-diciplinary and process-oriented approach to the development of Amager West.

UiWe produces a new short film on urban artistic intervention as part of the LysLyd-project (SoundLight-project) and COP 15.The German art- and architect group Mader Stubic Wiermann turns Dong Energy’s Avedøre power plant into a 145 meters tall screen for light and video installation. Check it out from December 8-18. Read more on www.lyslyd.com

We have been invited to speak at Studio X in New York on the 5th of November. Studio X is a studio for experimental design and research run by Columbia University. The subject for the day will be “The A, B and C’s of Culture Design” in conversation with Leong Leong Architecture. Please drop by if you are in the neighbourhood.
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