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Talking girl peeing

admin — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 19:35:34 +0000

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.

UiWE GOES HONG KONG

admin — Sat, 22 Oct 2011 18:24:59 +0000

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.

How public design

admin — Fri, 02 Sep 2011 13:32:59 +0000

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.

THINK SPACE

admin — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 15:30:26 +0000

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.

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.

peebetter online

admin — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 16:01:26 +0000

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.

Surprisingly Good!

admin — Tue, 29 Jun 2010 08:56:23 +0000

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!

Thank you for innovating

admin — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 11:00:24 +0000

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.

Social Innovation at Malmö University

admin — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 19:14:52 +0000

UiWE starts up a master program course running through March on social innovation and design methodology at Malmö University’s school of Arts and Communication, Culture- and media production. The course explores cultural analysis and strategies to promote social change. In this case it’s about developing cross-sector solutions to one of the great health challenges in western societies: child obesity. See Geoff Mulgan’s TED Talk if you forgot why we need social innovation.