Designing Culture for You, I and We
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.
Christian gives a crash course in cultural communication and planning at Malmö University’s masters program Kultur- och Medievetenskap. The product is a mapping of cultural potential and challenges in the city of Århus, looking ahead to the bid for Århus Cultural Capital 2017.
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
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 )
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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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.
This autumn we produced 11 short films capturing the events of LYSLYD– a regional project revolving around the development of urban culture, business & innovation in the Copenhagen region. The result is 11 stories from today’s urban and suburban Denmark mirrored in the projects of Danish and international artists.
”Herlev i Farver” and ”Herlev’s Stemmer” (”Herlev in Colour” / ”The Voices of Herlev”) is a film about two audio walks by Claus Handberg taking place in Herlev DK.
UiWe is conducting a survey to establish an idea of the cultural habits of the target group expecting to visit a new cultural offer in Hornbæk. The suvey is in danish and will only take you 5 minutes. Thank you
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Today UiWe recieved a grant from Statens Kunstfond (Danish Art Foundation) to attend Creative Places + Spaces in Toronto october 28th – one of the world’s leading forums on creativity.
Under the theme of ‘The Collaborative City’, the conference will engage global perspectives on collaboration and connect them with local change makers. Among the speakers are Ken Robinson, Richard Florida and Charles Landry. The conference is curated by ArtScape of Toronto. See more at www.creativeplacesandspaces.ca
UiWe have been assigned to facilitate an all-day idea workshop for Erhvervs- og byggestyrelsen (Danish Enterprise and Construction Authority) for some 60 managing directors from the municipalities, the regions and private companies. The aim is to develop new ideas to enhance public private collaborations. The workshop takes place on September 15th 2009.
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The workshop is designed in collaboration with ChangeDesign
”…the ”spirit” of a place has to do with the interrelation between house and human. Any building expresses an understanding of how people act and interact….”
UiWe was asked to comment on a top ten of the past five years most significant buildings in the Copenhagen area. All build and taken into use during the past economic boom.
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We hope you had a great holiday.
UiWe is back with lots of new exciting projects this fall.
Keep a close look here at this new upgraded uiwe.dk. Best summer wishes UiWe
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Styrelsen for Bibliotek og Medier (Agency for Libraries and Media) invites UiWe to
join a task group working to propose new partnerships for libraries.
The group is a part of a project launched by Kulturministeriet (The Minestry of Culture) aiming to rethinking the role of libraries in the knowledge society.
UiWe has been selected to document this years Green Footsteps initiative at Roskilde Festival. Green Footsteps is a strategic initiative to make partying sustainable. The question that interest us is: what makes people take common responsibility? We are eager to find out, and let you know.
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UiWe begins the second phase of research, planning and idea development for a cultural hub in the renowned Danish summer town Hornbæk, North Sealand. Second phase includes designing a process with creative, commercial and local actors aiming at creating a concept truly fit for the site and the town.
The results from first phase was compiled in a 50 page publication.
UiWe documents the official launch of the ambitious LYSLYD (LIGHT SOUND) project, initiated by KIT (Copenhagen International Theatre) and 10 municipalities in the Copenhagen region. The EU-funded project focuses on light and sound in an urban context and involves a range of scientific and commercial partners working in this field.
The documentary “Battle of Rabbit Town” (55 min.) directed by Christian Pagh has been selected for the official competition at Odense Film Festival 2009. The film follows two favela leaders in Recife, Brazil, during a tough and corrupt election for city government. Battle of Rabbit Town premiered at Copenhagen Dox November 2008
From August UiWe will be working from our new office in Kødbyen. As a part a of the creative office collective Kunstbyen. We are looking forward to seeing you all there…
UiWe is collaborating with architecture collective MKL on the exhibition “Zoom on the boom – seven samples of Chinese cities under change”. The exhibition is based on the team’s spring trip to Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta.
The project is supported by The Danish Ministry of Culture and the Danish Arts Foundation.