UiWE is co-organizing a course in user-oriented innovation for libraries in Region Sjælland along with Changedesign, Gesamtkunstwerk and Agnethe Kirstine Green. On the agenda is guiding library managers and workers to involve users in efficient and productive ways. The ambition is to create truly inspiring libraries through understanding and collaborating with the library users.
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.
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.
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!
