The series centers around one of the most remarkable architectural transformation projects and experiments with material localism in recent Danish architectural history: Hedeskov Center for Regenerative Practice, by Djernes & Bell.

Across three episodes, relying on three conversations that took place at Copenhagen Architecture Forum in March 2025 in the exhibition of the same name, we investigate the knowledges, techniques, ideologies, and social relations shaping the project.

In almost every European city, housing has become unaffordable for a growing number of people. But what is actually driving this crisis - and what would it take to change it?

Unaffordables is a three-part podcast series that gives you knowledge and arguments to better understand and take part in solving one of the most urgent challenges of our time: how to create sustainable, affordable housing and cities.

The series is made in collaboration with, Living Places Copenhagen and VELUX - who won the New European Bauhaus Prize for Affordable Housing in 2025 for their partnership with EFFEKT and Artelia Denmark.

Det 21. århundredes store problemer bliver løst og skabt i byerne: Mere end 50% af verdens
befolkning bor her, og denne andel forventes at nå 85% inden 2100.

Samtidig føles modernitetens overleverede ideer om byen i stigende grad slidte; vi higer ikke efter storbyens chok, spænding, spektakel og anonymitet. Vi sukker efter nye fortællinger, fantasier og fantasmer; ideer om bilfrihed, autonome karré-demokratier og bioinklusive bykvarterer.

Med Ord og Byer har CAFx inviteret fire fremtænde danske forfattere til at skrive disse fortællinger om mulige fremtider. Et ubestemmeligt sted mellem drøm og mareridt.

På tværs af poesi og prosa skriver Luka Holmegaard, Liv Sejrbo Lidegaard, Mikas Lang og Sebastian Nathan om landsbykollektiver, storbyer i pagt med årstiderne, serverparker og militærbaser.

• Mikas Lang om den Omstridte By
• Sebastian Nathan om den Levende By
• Luka Holmegaard om den Åbne by
• Liv Sejrbo Lidegaard om den Jordiske By

Offentligt program, podcasts og andre medier

I oktober 2025 præsenteredes de første bidrag, da Mikas Lang og Liv Sejrbo Lidegaard læste op og var i samtale i Louisianas Koncertsal. Mikas Lang i samtale med arkitekt Margarida Waco, der forsker i byens dekoloniale og økonomiske dimensioner. Liv Sejrbo Lidegaard i et møde med kulturgeograf Emmy Laura Pérez Fjalland, hvis arbejde kredser om økologiske forbindelser mellem landskab, krop og sted.

I foråret fulgte et offentligt arrangement på Halmtorvet 27 med Sebastian Nathan i samtale med Søren Nørkjær Bang, Head of Program ved CAFx, og Johann Sten Nielsen, litteraturkritiker ved Dagbladet Information.

I september 2026 vil det sidste offentlige arrangement finde sted, når Luka Holmegaard møder forfatter og arkitekt Runi Weihe til en samtale på Halmtorvet 27.

Fra september og frem vil samtalerne blive gjort offentligt tilgængelige på CAFx’ platforme, mens teksterne vil blive lanceret i nationale medier.

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København står over for store udfordringer med stigende boligmangel, boligpriser, der buldrer i vejret, og klimaforandringer, der stiller store spørgsmål ved nybyggeri som en løsning. Med Kære Overborgmester har Copenhagen Architecture Forum inviteret 40 aktører på tværs af arkitekturbranchen til at skrive breve til Københavns overborgmester, Sisse Marie Welling, med deres konkrete forslag til og drømme om, hvordan arkitekturen kan være med til at gøre hovedstaden til en socialt og klimamæssigt bæredygtig storby.

Samtidig er brevene et stærkt samlet vidnesbyrd om vigtigheden af at skabe stærkere forbindelser mellem de udøvende arkitekter og de politiske beslutningstagere.

I 2019 var det lige blevet meldt ud, at København havde en ambition om at være CO2-neutral i 2025. Dengang kom vi på idéen om at få et bredt udsnit af den danske arkitekturbranche til at skrive breve til Københavns overborgmester for at levere forslag til, hvordan kommunen kunne skabe rammerne for at lykkes med det ambitiøse mål.

Initiativet fik navnet Kære Overborgmester, og en række af brevene blev dengang bragt i Byrummonitor. Det var coronatid, og et stort anlagt program med events måtte aflyses.

Du kan genbesøge Kære Overborgmester 1.0 her

Tre år efter kunne den daværende overborgmester, Sophie Hæstorp, melde ud, at målsætningen om Københavns CO2-neutralitet var droppet. Ambitionerne var intakte, men vejen dertil var for uoverskuelig. Og det blev heller ikke i hverken 2026, 2027 eller 2028, lød meldingen fra den øverste politiske instans.

Nu siger kalenderen 2026, og København står som hovedstad over for massive problemer, som kalder på arkitektoniske svar. Hver dag skriver de nationale medier historier om boligprisernes himmelflugt, mens efterspørgslen efter lejligheder, som er til at betale, stiger parallelt.

Herunder kan du læse de 40 breve. God fornøjelse!

A series of podcasts recorded during Copenhagen Architecture Festival x Sense of Place in 2022. The conversations were part of the event program related to the exhibition 'New Methods for Big Challenges: Architecture and Extreme Environments' addressing the extreme as a living condition and a design condition.

CAFx2021: Care and Soft Agency

Through the events of CAFx2021, the theme of care is articulated primarily in terms of care for individual and collective health, care for the urban commons as social practice, and care for the environment's sustainment. The work carried out by Soft Agency's members—whether it be a publication on experiences of care throughout the global pandemic, or a collaborative research project about repairing urban and earth systems—speaks to this conceptualization of care and extends it from both a thematic and methodological perspective. For this reason, we have collected their writings under CAFx Soft Agency, hoping to arouse curiosity and share knowledge about their approach to the study of urban and social landscapes.

About Soft Agency

Soft Agency are a Berlin-based group of female architects, artists, curators, scholars and writers from different countries working with spatial practices. While busy with many projects of their own, carried out individually or collectively, with or without other 'soft agents', in 2020 Ana Filipovic, Fiona Shipwright, Gilly Karjevsky, Rosario Talevi, Valentina Karga and Teresa Dillon formed Soft Agency to reify the platform they have created over the years through knowledge exchange and collaboration. The core interests of Soft Agency revolve around experimentation with situated feminist methodologies and multispecies approaches, employed to investigate and create spaces and commons. In their practice this translates into the implementation of care, softness and attentiveness as research strategies, listening and being together as pedagogies, and community-driven counter-hegemonic urban practices as objectives.

The Collection

To learn more about Soft Agency's coming into being and their practice in relation to feminist thinking and architecture, we have asked them a set of questions which they answer in the Interview article. The second entry of this collection is Methodologies of Softness, in which Soft Agency situates themselves within specific feminist traditions of thought and research, and delves into the particularities of its fluid methodological approach. Following this methods essay, Soft Agency have composed Landscape of Terms: Expanding a Lexicon, a loose glossary of quotes that ground and inspire Soft Agency's work around the term care. Furthermore, the collection includes three case-studies that illustrate how, bridging hydropheminist and decolonial, embodied and more-than-human approaches, Soft Agency's ethics and methods manifest in collective urban action.