Assemble!
A Two-Day Conference
18 & 19 September
The ecological crisis demands a building sector operating within planetary boundaries. But significant structural barriers block the road. Over two action-packed days, you’ll gain the tools, strategies, and narratives to overcome them.
Our shared goal is clear: create a building sector that operates within planetary boundaries and ensures a thriving future for both people and planet. Systemic change can’t happen in silos.
That’s why Assemble! brings together architects, engineers, economists, developers, legal experts, and practitioners to rethink the regulations, ownership models, and design processes that quietly define our cities.
Assemble! is a structural experiment, a policy rehearsal, and a launchpad for bold ideas to become real-world action. It’s a space for inspiration, professional growth, cross-disciplinary collaboration — and for making change happen in your organisation, your projects, and beyond.
At Assemble!, you will:
- Receive concrete tools to implement change
- Develop new narratives and strategies to influence decision makers.
- Leave with actionable ideas ready to spark long-term impact
- Gain insight into motivations uniting disciplines and stakeholder positions
DAY ONE
18 September
Breaking Barriers Through Law
Day One delivers radical ideas, rigorous debate, and real-world inspiration. You’ll experience innovative law proposals, high-level panel discussions, and best-practice case studies, including:
Their proposals are followed by panel discussions with key players across the building value chain — from developers and engineers to contractors, economists, and legal experts and supported by best-practice case presentations that will showcase how these future-oriented ideas are already taking shape in built and planned projects.
You can look forward to meeting: Schønherr, Dan Stubbergaard (Founder of Cobe and professor at Harvard University), Thomas Gammeltoft-Hansen (Law professor at University of Copenhagen), Lars Jensen (Chief City Architect of Copenhagen), Kasper Guldager (Co-Founder of Home.Earth), DI Byggeri (DI Danish Construction) and Christele Harrouk (Editor-in-Chief of ArchDaily) among others. All moderated by Kristoffer Lindhart Weiss (Publisher at The Danish Architectural Press).
DAY TWO
19 September
From Vision to Movement
Too many conferences end with ideas that never leave the room. Not Assemble!
Day Two turns vision into action through hands-on workshops, hosted together with The Green Youth Movement. Building on Day One’s proposals and debates, you’ll co-create new collective stories, communication strategies, and visual narratives to fuel sector-wide transformation.
If we want to shift the rules and activate change, we need new collective stories, compelling images, and shared ideals. Day Two focuses on building momentum that extends far beyond the event itself.
TICKETS
Join us in Copenhagen on September 18–19, 2025, for Assemble! — a two-day glimpse into the building sector of the future, hosted by the Copenhagen Architecture Biennial 2025 in collaboration with the Green Youth Movement (Den Grønne Ungdomsbevægelse).
We extend our gratitude to our Advisory Board: Nicolai Bo Andersen, Christine Bjerke, Hassan Chaachouh, Kika Brockstedt, Kenneth Balfelt, Mette Skjold, Line Thorup Schulz, Camilla van Deurs, Vibeke Grupe Larsen, Pernille Schyum Poulsen.
Ticket includes: Program, lunch, fruit, coffee/tea on both days plus a complimentary drink at the Biennial Opening Party at Thorvaldsens Museum and access to a special tour of the Biennial pavilions.