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October 26, Christian tells the story of Pollee the female urinal at Pecha Kucha night at Copenhagen Central Library.

Pollee was presented at Roskilde 2011 together with the platform Peebetter to adress the challenges girls face peing in public space. Pollee is designed in collaboration with designers Sara Nanna Jørgensen and Nuala Collins.

November 20 – December 4, UiWE directs a culture design workshop about the urban development of the Kai Tak River in Hong Kong. The aim is to create projects together with local actors along the Kai Tak River that supports a creative and sustainable development in this complex urban river area. Our host is The School of Architecture, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

The Danish cross-ministerial innovation unit Mindlab hosts the international seminar “How Public Design” Sept. 1 & 2. On the agenda i how design and creative thinking can help adress the great challenges facing public sector management in smarter ways. We were happy to be part of the talks and highly recommend you to check out Mindlabs great work with public sector innovation.

The good people behind GivRum host the conference Think Space, August 19-20. On the agenda is creative use of empty buildings, urban planning and user participation. Christian moderates talks by two international pioneers in the field: Tim Jones from Artscape (Toronto) and Daniella Brahm from Exrotaprint (Berlin). The conference takes place at Prags Boulevard 43 – itself a good Danish example of creative use of empty buildings.

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.

UiWE puts the challenge of peeing in public spaces on the agenda with the platform PeeBetter – human solutions in public space. We present thoughts, solutions and ideas on how to adress this banal problem that causes so much trouble – not least for girls. Check out our website www.peebetter.dk – and have a glimpse of our new female urinal Pollee that premieres at Roskilde Festival 2011.

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!