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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
Drawing is made by Studio Coquille.
