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EXPLORING BORNHOLM - A boutique style consultancy
16.09.2020We are happy to announce the launch of our new initiative: Exploring Bornholm.
With a successful precedent set by the island, Exploring Bornholm is a boutique style consultancy that offers customized seminars to decision makers, leadership groups and students in which the aim is to share insightful knowledge on how to achieve sustainable urban transformations.
Would you like to take part in this? We are open to new collaborations, partnership and ideas of how to reach more...
read moreEPICLAY - Framing their stay in Copenhagen
09.09.2020Last Friday we had the pleasure to host EPICLAY on a tour through our innovative city of Copenhagen.
Epiclay are an international Start-up developed throughout the Build Solutions Project, co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Union, and are now part of the accelerator program hosted by City Facilitator at BLOXHUB. Their aim is to make urban areas more liveable and healthy by creating a modular green wall system, which can...
read moreZERO WASTE BORNHOLM
07.09.2020By 2023 Bornholm plans to become the first waste free Island. An ambitious and conscious initiative that should set the scene for a new way of living. Therefore, last friday Lea Wermelin, the Danish minister of environment has visited BOFA, Bornholm’s waste management authority, to learn more about the strategies that will soon be implemented on the island.
Amongst others, some of the topics discussed included: a new tender for collection of household waste; partnerships with local...
read moreKANALHUSET
02.09.2020Across the bridge from the Royal Theatre in the heart of the historic Christianshavn district in central Copenhagen, visitors are now able to set eyes on Kanalhuset. A former military base, the building dates back to 1754 and now contains 12 boutique hotel rooms, 14 hotel apartments, a bar and a restaurant where chef Kristoffer Josefsson - who has a particularly good eye for seasonal ingredients and a catalogue of recipes from all over the world - serves his meal of the evening every day at...
read moreSIMIAN _ ØRESTAD'S NEW EXHIBITION SPACE
01.09.2020Ørestad might be best known for its innovative take on architecture and planning, but it is thought that soon it will also be known for the art scene. While several artists such as Bjørn Nørgård, Per Kirkeby and Dan Graham, already made their mark in the district, a new art venue is scheduled to open its doors for the public on the 5th of September.
Meant to house experimental contemporary art, Simian will form a framework for...
read moreKICK-OFF STADT WIEN
31.08.2020Now that the regulations concerning COVID-19 have eased and travelling has become something we can consider again, we want to take a moment to celebrate our KICK-OFF TOUR of 2020. In collaboration with Stadt Wien [23 PAX] and Hans Staudinger of ÜBERBAU, we have spent the last 4 days Exploring Copenhagen together with an inspiring group of 23 architects, engineers and high ranking city officials representing 3 branches of the construction directorate of the city of...
read moreTHE WELFARE STATE 2.0 : Co-creating a new citizen-driven future
28.08.2020Today we congratulate Bo Christiansen, the founder of Scale Denmark and Exploring Copenhagen for his newly published article n the American based Online Platform : Culturally Enriched Communities.
In the article, The Welfare State 2.0 : Co-creating a new citizen-driven future, Bo talks about the Danish welfare model. He starts by sharing the story of how his grandparents have been part of co-creating a thriving community around the...
read moreBRDR. KRÜGER ON BREDGADE 28
25.08.2020Brdr. Krüger was founded in 1886 as a wood-turning workshop by brothers Theodor and Ferdinand Krüger. Today, after 5 generations, the family company has evolved into a self-producing furniture brand that celebrates classic Danish design values while embracing modernity.
Besides the numerous custom pieces that furnish leading restaurants around Copenhagen, the brand recently decided to showcase their innovative yet timeless designs in a...
read moreA NEW HAPPINESS MUSEUM
14.08.2020For as long as the rivers have run and the grasses have grown, man has been fascinated by the pursue of happiness. But what is it that makes us happy? Where in our bodies is the epicentre of happiness? And how did the idea oh happiness change over the last 2000 years?
To address these questions and bring some happiness to life, the Happiness Research Institute led by Meik Wiking, author of The Little Book of Hygge, curated The...
read moreEXPLORING ØSTERBRO TOUR
18.07.2020Copenhagen is full of research-driven designs to promote health and well-being. There is a willingness to experiment, analyze and develop new models for integrating opportunities for better health and social inclusion in our urban environment. Scaledenmark recently led a bicycle tour in the vibrant Østerbro and Nørrebro neighborhoods, highlighting design strategies related to climate change, health, and social justice. This tour explores how “greening the city” has benefits beyond...
read moreOUR NEW PLATFORM: EXPLORING COPENHAGEN
23.06.2020It is a great time to discover new ways to use our city. “Exploring Copenhagen” is our answer to this! Our new platform offers tours and discussions for diverse users of Copenhagen. Exploring Copenhagen has developed four tours in four exemplary neighborhoods: Ørestad, Nordhavn, Østerbro and the Inner Harbor. Each tour addresses one of the main topics determining the development of ...
read moreBORNHOLM BECOMES WORLD'S FIRST ENERGY ISLAND
23.06.2020In November 2019, Ørsted presented its vision to use the Danish island of Bornholm, situated in the Baltic Sea, as an energy hub by making it the centre point of a proposed new interconnection between Denmark and Poland, in reality making Bornholm the world’s first energy island...
read more62.000 NEW TREES FOR COPENHAGEN!
15.06.2020For a long time it has been Copenhagen municipality's aim to plant 100.000 trees before 2025. Only one third of them have been planted, mostly in the city forest on Amager. But that will change soon, as the municipality has decided to use 1.3 billion kroners to reach its goal! Picture: Naturpark Amager.
DENMARK MOST SUSTAINABLE COUNTRY ON 2020EPI
08.06.2020The 2020 Environmental Performance Index has named Copenhagen as the best environmental performing country of 180 studied countries. The report states: “Denmark leads the world on climate change action, having reduced its CO2 emissions by more than half since peaking in 1996 (World Bank, 2019). Denmark’s capital city of Copenhagen has slashed emissions through investment in wind energy and biomass, adoption of district heating and cooling systems, and expansion of bike lanes to the point...
read moreVIRTUAL LUNCH WALK MALMÖ
27.05.2020Join us next wednesday, 3rd of June 2020 on a virtual architecture and urban planning tour. We will 'walk' around Hyllie, a commercial hub close to the Øresund Bridge, and the Western Harbour, a residential neighbourhood developed on a brownfield site. The sustainable neighbourhoods focus on the latest high-tech solutions and form Swedish flagships of energy efficiency. Both areas aspire to be in harmony with nature as much as possible, with diverse green space and a high biodiversity. Find...
read moreWORLD ARCHITECTURE CAPITAL 2023: COPENHAGEN!
20.05.2020Copenhagen is the second city to recieve the label "Unesco world capital of architecture". In 2023, Copenhagen will also host the World Congress of Architects. It is a good opportunity to reflect together with the world and continue our road to carbon-neutrality.
CPH VILLAGE AWARDED
30.04.2020CPH Village has been awarded a building price by Copenhagen municipality. The focus of the award is a special relationship to the surrounding urban environment. The student housing employs old containers to create a harbor aesthetics and is very outgoing towards its industrial surroundings. The students each have their own small living space, with a shared bathroom per two persons. The rest of the living functions is shared in a community house which can also serve for bigger arrangements,...
read moreBORNHOLM MOST SUSTAINABLE ISLAND IN EUROPE
30.04.2020Bornholm has been chosen as the most sustainable island in Europe! Samsø, another Danish Island, is a close second. Bornholm has been focusing for a long time on the green transition. Bornholm, among other things, has distinguished itself by beginning the phase-out of coal and oil early. And with limited financial resources available installing renewable energy sources. The result is an efficient and reduced energy consumption and large reductions in CO2 emissions. Other initiatives as...
read moreNORDIC CO-OPERATION VISION 2030
30.04.2020We can't loose track of other challenges we were facing. Therefore we want to highlight again the vision for the Nordic Region, something we should continue to keep in mind. The Nordic Council of Ministers envisioned last year in Iceland that the Nordic region will become the most sustainable and integrated region in the world by 2030. Co-operation is key in achieving this goal.
The shared priorities:
1. A green Nordic region – towards carbon neutrality and a sustainable...
read moreFEMERN-TUNNEL
24.04.2020Good news from the mobility front! The construction of the Femern belt, a tunnel from Denmark to Germany will start next year. This was decided by the Danish Parliament, after five years of struggling getting the project approved. With its 18 kilometer it will be the longest tunnel of its kind. Soon it will be possible to travel between Rødby (DK) and Puttgarden (GE) in 7 minutes by train and 10 by car, instead of the usual 45 minutes on the ferry.
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