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200

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Discounted for CAFx Community Members

Date

26.5.25

18.8.25

August 18, 2025

May 26, 2025 5:00 PM

Europe/Copenhagen

Living With Other Species: An Evening School

The city is buzzing with life, yet we often overlook everything but the human. Living With Other Species is a six-part evening school—with talks, film screenings, and city walks—exploring how to plan for and live alongside other species in the cities of the future. Moving across scales from regional planning to the secret lives of bats, ants, and m

Time

17:00

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Location

CAFx Copenhagen Architecture Forum

Halmtorvet 27, 1700 Copenhagen V

Language

English

Living With Other Species: An Evening School

Programme

🌍 The City As a Garden

"Fingerplanen" With Anna Aslaug Lund, Skye Jin, Studio Coquille

26/5 | Halmtorvet 27

A conversation on regional planning for all species, infrastructural imagination, and perma culture.

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🌊 A Plan for the Future: Copenhagen is a Delta!

Schønherr (Sanne Slot Hansen) on Karens Minde Aksen & Copenhagen Islands

27/ 5 | Karens Minde Aksen

A fieldtrip exploring Schønherr’s work on Karens Minde Aksen. You'll learn about climate adaptation, living with other species, and planning for a future shaped by rising water levels.

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🎥 Interspecies Politics: Philosophizing with Dogs

‘Animal Antics’ (Patrick Goddard) with introduction by Madeleine Kate and Mikkel Moller Roesdahl

2/6 | Vester Vovvov

A talking dog narrates Patrick Goddards darkly humorous film about the borders of human and animal. Madelaine Kate will introduce the film, focussing on the political possibilitie of cross-species encounters.

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🐜 Insect Urbanism: The Insect As Worker and Citizen

Hjalte Calberg Ro-Poulsen fra IGN, Biodiversity in Urban Nature

16/6 | Halmtorvet 27

A conversation on the role of insects as urban workers—pollinators, decomposers, and ecosystem engineers—and how designing with (and for) them challenges aesthetic norms, maintenance culture, and anthropocentric planning.

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🦇 Twilight Ecology: The Secret Life of City Bats

Inger Kærgaard

11/8 | Unknown

A twilight exploration of the life of bats in Copenhagen. Inger Kærgaard will take you on a trip through Fælledparken, exploring sonic navigation and night ecologies through the lives of the red listed species.

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🦠 Microbial Architectures: Sharing the City With Microbes

Adam Bencard

18/8 | Halmtorvet 27

A lecture on how microbes and human well-being is connected through soil ecologies, building materials, and urban planning—and how acknowledging processes of decay can inform healthier, more resilient cities.

After the lecture Madland, MYCO, and Bygaard will serve a snack of mushrooms harvested from the exhibition (To be confirmed)

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Ticket Price

200

DKK

Discounted for CAFx Community Members

Date

26.5.25

18.8.25

August 18, 2025

May 26, 2025 5:00 PM

Europe/Copenhagen

Living With Other Species: An Evening School

Time

17:00

—

Location

CAFx Copenhagen Architecture Forum

Halmtorvet 27, 1700 Copenhagen V

Language

English

Category

Seminar

Speakers at this event

Anna Aslaug Lund

Anna Aslaug Lund (born 1983) is an architect and landscape architect MAA, PhD, and Assistant Professor at the Section for Landscape Architecture and Planning. In her research, Anna Aslaug Lund focuses on climate adaptation of urban spaces and landscapes in relation to flooding caused by sea level rise, storm surges, and cloudbursts. Within this broader field, she specifically studies ecologies, narratives, and sensory qualities in both existing landscapes and imagined solutions. Methodologically, her research is practice-based.

Skye Jin

Regenerative cultures Working with interdisciplinary with art & activism for 20 years and permaculture design for 10 years, I know, that culture bottom-up can change global agendas and people´s lives. Skye Jin is an artist, educator, permaculture designer and cultural sustainability advisor with a background in performative installations and public, co-creative art projects. MFA graduate from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts in 2010, receiver of the 3-year work stipend from the Danish Arts Foundation in 2015, certified PDC Permaculture Designer in 2018 and Diploma in Applied Permaculture from Permaculture Association Britain in 2024. Born in South Korea and grew up in Denmark.

Sanne Slot Hansen

Associated Partner, Landscape Architect MAA at Schønherr. Specialist in climate adaptation, coastal protection, cultural heritage, and nature development

Studio Coquille - Marion de Saint Blanquat & Frederik Mads Svendsen

Studio Coquille Studio Coquille is an innovative design studio founded by architects Marion de Lingua de St Blanquat and Frederik Mads Svendsen. The collaboration began in Milan in 2015 when they won the open design competition for the Lebanese pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Since then, they have received several awards for open architectural competitions. The studio focuses on creating organic, sensory, and beautiful experiences that promote biological connections and co-creation between buildings and landscapes. In our architecture, we integrate different species to create richer and more dynamic ecosystems, which we consider a new welfare model and a sustainable approach to design.

Madeleine Kate McGowan

Performing artist, filmmaker, director, researcher, singer, sound artist, choir facilitator, curator, writer. Focus areas are the cultural and mental aspects of the climate crisis, immersive art, multi-species sensitivities, ecological place-making, art-based research, speculative storytelling and community work.

Mikkel Møller Roesdahl

Architect working towards a regenerative future. Architect at and business developer at TERROIR who loves working with brilliant minds. He believes that the best way to learn and grow is by surrounding himself with talented, smart(er) people. His professional journey is driven by a passion towards sustainable architecture that doesn’t compromise on societal and aesthetic values.

Hjalte Calberg Ro-Poulsen

Biologist/entomologist/melittologist who conducts research, provides consultancy, and teaches about land and urban management based on the needs of wild bees and other insects. Currently researching competition between honeybees and wild bees, as well as the effects of year-round grazing/rewilding on wild bee populations. Consults on bee-friendly management practices, often based on species findings following monitoring in case study areas. Guest lecturer in courses such as Biodiversity in Urban Nature and Nature Management, and also serves as a "bee"-supervisor for bachelor’s and master’s students.

Inger Kærgaard

Inger Kærgaard is a biologist who this year initiated a research and communication project about bats called The City of Bats. In the project, she studies bats using listening devices and direct observations. One of these listening devices is placed in the Bird Reserve. The City of Bats aims to learn more about bats in Denmark and explore how we can improve their living conditions in both forests and urban environments.

Adam Bencard

Adam Bencard is Associate Professor in Medical Humanities at the Medical Museion and the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, University of Copenhagen. He has curated a number of exhibitions at the intersection of science, art, and history, including Mind the Gut (2017) and The World is in You (2021) at Kunsthal Charlottenborg. His research explores metabolism and microbiome science from historical and philosophical perspectives, investigating what it means to be human in the postgenomic era.

MYCO - Uffe Emil Holm Thomsen and Laurits Genzler

MYCO develops biogenic architectural building materials - specifically mycelium-based composite materials - to create new products and architectures that help cities. Cities worldwide are growing, and the construction industry needs local materials with high reusability and low embodied carbon usage to reduce its climate footprint.

Lasse Antoni Carlsen

Lasse Antoni Carlsen is an urban farming expert and food system innovator, dedicated to advancing modular, sustainable farming that bring specialty ingredients like mushrooms closer to consumers - improving the accessibility to sustainable quality food. As the founder of BYGAARD, he has collaborated with Michelin-starred restaurants like Noma, Geranium, Kadeau, many others and publicity and access to unique mushroom varieties for retail consumers. His approach focuses on lean principles, creative collaboration, and a constant drive for innovation, enabling BYGAARD to thrive even during global challenges.

Madland

Madland is a food-political hub and community rooted in and for microbial life. Together, they rethink and transform food systems with social responsibility, while eating and working toward resilient local food systems and global justice.

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