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Humanity vastly exceeds our planetary boundaries: how we inhabit our planet is due for an immediate and radical change. In this environmental emergency, architects are called to take the lead. The contemporary city is the focal site where architecture should tackle environmental sustainability issues. Most buildings in Europe are found in urban settlements, where more than 70% of the EU population resides, even though adequate housing is increasingly outside the reach of those without generational wealth. Our cities, which were tailored to the production processes of the past, are eating up the majority of global resources while becoming emblems of social inequality.

Can we transform contemporary urbanity into a sustainable, post-extractivist metropolitan area? How can we encourage the shift from building to renovating? How can we organise our cities around sustainable mobility and efficient food supply? Can we intervene in the infrastructure that supports our excessive way of living and gear it up for processes of de-growth? The LINA community—an alliance of architectural organisations and emerging professionals and thinkers—wonders: Can we create more resilient cities focused on de-growth?

The 2023 LINA Conference will bring together 32 members and 28 featured emerging talents — LINA fellows — along with local and international keynote speakers — Keller Easterling, Camilla Van Deurs, Phil Ayres, Nick Axel. An opportunity to connect and catch up with the most topical conversations in architecture, the 2-day conference will present novel visions for the city that aspire to bring about more liveable futures.
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PROGRAMME‍‍

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‍DAY 1 - Royal Danish Academy, Philip De Langes Allé 10, Building 53/J, Auditorium 2

9.00 Registration & coffee

10.00 - 10.15 Welcome address
Josephine Michau - Co-founder and CEO Copenhagen Architecture Festival
Jakob Brandtberg Knudsen - Dean, Royal Danish Academy - Architecture

Mia Nyegaard - Mayor of Culture, Copenhagen Municipality
Matevž Čelik - Head of LINA, the European Architecture Platform
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10.15 - 10.45 - LINA fellow panel 1: Exploring Coexistence
Invisible jobs in the city
The Missing Dimension
Eden’s Archipelago
The Minor and its Spatialities
Objects of the Encounter
Memoryscapes of Sarajevo

10.45 - 11.15 LINA fellow panel 2: Cycles of Transformation
Future Foodscapes Compendium
Georgian Railways: How Trains can Remake a Country
Building Transparency
Sedimentary Myths
Cycle of materials
As if radio…AIR

11.15 - 11.45 Coffee break

11.45 - 12.15 LINA fellow panel 3: Beyond City Limits
Academy of Margins
Soil-Knowledge
Peripheral Cartographies
(De)Growing the Rural Village of the Future
An Atlas of forest occupations
Alluring Rural

12.15 - 12.45 LINA fellow panel 4: Progressive Cityscapes
The Grafted CityMigration & the urbanism of assimilation
The Degrowth Institute
Neo-Futuristic Walks
Never Never School

13.00 - 14.30 Lunch break / Cantine

14.30 - 15.00 LINA fellow panel 5: Materials Matter
Deconstruction of an OliveWild Hedgesreuse.matters
Experimental HouseMiniera

13.00 - 17.00 Matchmaking Session
LINA fellows and LINA members

18.00 - 19.00 LINA General Assembly

10.00 - 16.00 Architecture Display

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‍DAY 2 - Royal Danish Academy, Philip De Langes Allé 10, Building 53/J, Auditorium 2

10.15 - 10.45 Registration & coffee

10.45 - 11.00 Welcome and presentation of new LINA member
Matevž Čelik - Head of LINA, the European Architecture Platform
Metalab - new LINA member

11.00 - 11.30 State of Architecture:
Nick Axel

11.30 - 12.00 Focus talk 1: Medium Design
Keller Easterling

12.00 - 12.30 Focus talk 2: Building for Copenhagen Life
Camilla Van Deurs

12.30 - 14.00 Lunch break / Cantine

14.00 - 14.30 Focus talk 3: Extending technologies of the past towards solutions for the present and visions of the future
Phil Ayres

14.30 - 15.30 A Resourceful City: Insights and Actions
Roundtable
with Keller Easterling, Camilla Van Deurs, Phil Ayres, Jutta Kastner and Matevž Čelik

15.30 - 16.00 Final remarks & conclusion

10.00 - 16.00 Architecture Display

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Produced by the LINA platform in collaboration with CAFx.

Made in partnership with the Royal Danish Academy, supported by the Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Denmark, co-funded by Creative Europe.