Recently our director, Josephine Michau, contributed to Icon Magazine with an opinion piece featuring reflections gathered after our inaugural Copenhagen Architecture Biennial. The piece explores how caring for architecture as a discipline means “to transform the discipline’s foundations. Treat continuity as innovation, stewardship as expertise, and redistribution as design”.
Below you can read a few central passages. The full piece is available here.
“If care is to move from architecture’s margins to its core, it must do more than refine our ethics. It must reorganise our value systems by rejecting outdated paradigms of linear growth. Instead, architecture must be understood as a practice deeply entangled in both politics, natural practices, and human and social sciences.”
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At the inaugural Copenhagen Architecture Biennial, we explored how slowness reframes architectural practice as one defined by maintenance, duration, and ethical presence. This theme - tested through exhibitions, pavilions, and research - was a collective assertion that architecture must resist the logics of acceleration and extraction that have dominated the discipline. Rather than valorising rapid production and novelty, contributors asked: How might design practice durability, reciprocity, and ecological attunement?
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