The final episode of On Air: Redesigning Democracy explores how democratic engagement becomes possible when it must take shape across fragmented and intersecting regimes of rights.
This episode is the last part of "On the Air: Redesigning Democracy," a three-part evening school we hosted live in our exhibition space at Halmtorvet 27 in the spring of 2026. Each evening brought together philosophers, political theorists, architects, community workers, and curators around one shared question: what happens to democracy when it meets a reality it wasn't designed to accommodate?
Across the three conversations, that question is asked from three different angles — through future generations, other species, and the participation for refugees. On this third and final episode of On the Air: Redesigning Democracy, we explore how asylum policies and temporary living conditions shape refugees' opportunities to participate in society, and how new forms of community building, shared spaces, and collective decision-making might create more inclusive ways of living together.
On the podcast you will meet:
→ Mohammed Zanboa, a Syrian architect, researcher, and photographer based in Luxembourg, whose work on spatial justice and refugee inclusion takes shape through collaborative urban and civic initiatives, including his project Municipality 101.
→ Tone Olaf Nielsen, a independent curator and co-founder of the curatorial collective Kuratorisk Aktion, Trampoline House and CAMP / Center for Art on Migration Politics, whose practice has explored questions of forced displacement, structural racism, and the legal status and participation of refugees in Danish society for the past 25 years.
→ Zachary Whyte, an Associate Professor at the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS), University of Copenhagen, whose research and practice spans housing, language schools, arts, sports, rurality, and policy with refugees and the institutions around them.
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