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You are listening to a podcast from Copenhagen Architecture Forum: A place that explores, discusses and communicates architectural and urban questions through a number of interdisciplinary initiatives.

  1. 4D AGO

    Living With Other Species: Insect Urbanism (2/3)

    Living With Other Species is back! The second episode, "The Insect As Worker and Citizen", is a conversation on the role of insects as urban workers with - pollinators, decomposers, and ecosystem engineers. How might cities look if we began to think of insects not only as inhabitants, but as workers and citizens of the city? The episode asks how designing with (and for) them challenges aesthetic norms, maintenance culture, and anthropocentric planning.   On the episode you'll meet:   - 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 at Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management, University of Copenhagen.   - Studio Coquille: Marion de Lingua de St Blanquat and Frederik Mads Svendsen. The architects behind The Habitable Skin, along with TERROIR, in collaboration with Lasse Carlsen and MYCO.
 The studio focuses on creating organic, sensory experiences that promote biological connections and co-creation between buildings and landscapes.   "The Insect as Worker and Citizen" is a part of the podcast series Living With Other Species. The series explores how to plan 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 microbes, we shift our gaze to imagine new forms of interspecies cohabitation.

    59 min

  2. MAR 3

    Archive: Biochemist Irina Iachina Lets Spiders Weave the Future of Design

    This week we're taking a short break from the Living With Other Species podcast series to revisit our extensive archive. But we continue our focus on the lives and architectures of other species — and what we might learn from them. What follows is a conversation in which biochemist Irina Iachina shares her groundbreaking work on biomimicry, focusing on spider silk as a model for sustainable innovation. The talk was held as part of architect Pavels Hedströms exhibition Strange Adaptions, which was on display at Halmtorvet 27 from late 2024 into 2025. Next week, Living With Other Species returns — with a conversation on The Insect As Worker and Citizen.

    49 min

  3. FEB 24

    Living with Other Species: The City as a Garden (1/3)

    From today you can listen to the first episode of Living With Other Species. A conversation on regional planning for all species, infrastructural imagination, and permaculture. Listen, as we dwell on a simple but far-reaching provocation: the city as a garden. What do we see when we conceive of the city as a garden? And how can we promote the garden-like qualities of the city? On the podcast you'll meet: Anna Aslaug Lund: Landscape Architect at Schønherr and author of The City as a Garden Skye Jin: Artist, educator, permaculture designer, and cultural sustainability advisor Studio Coquille: The architects behind The Habitable Skin, along with TERROIR, in collaboration with Lasse Carlsen and MYCO.

    58 min

  4. FEB 17

    Everything is Transformation: Building Across Disciplines (3/3)

    We conclude the Everything is Transformation podcast series — a three-episode deep dive into the thoughts, ideas, and methods behind Djernes & Bell's work on the Hedeskov Center for Regenerative Practice. In the last episode, we go fully interdisciplinary with Marie Stender—anthropologist and senior researcher at BUILD, AAU—and Torben Valdbjørn Rasmussen—civil engineer and senior researcher at BUILD, AAU. In a conversation with Justine Bell, they explore how Hedeskov can be perceived as a kind of "basic research," and how anthropology, physics, and a range of other disciplines informed the building process—and helped measure and test the finished building.

    1h 6m

  5. FEB 10

    Everything is Transformation: Utilizing Vernacular Crafts (2/3)

    Tune in for a conversation between Ben Bosence from Local Works Studio and Justine Bell, of Djernes & Bell. Bosence is a artist turned conservator and an expert in vernacular building structures. He is a major capacity when it comes to vernacular construction and repair—and of uncovering the materials available on site, and their relations and possibilities. The conversation centers on Bosence's and Djernes & Bell's collaboration on the Hedeskov Center and investigates techniques and technologies of mapping and sourcing materials - as well questions regarding seasonality architecture and the topic of collective maintenance rituals.

    1h 23m

  6. FEB 3

    Everything is Transformation: Making Regenerative Architecture (1/3)

    The series podcast centers around one of the most remarkable architectural transformation projects and experiments with material localism in recent Danish architectural history: Hedeskov Center for Regenerative Practice, by Djernes & Bell. Across three episodes, relying on three conversations that took place at Copenhagen Architecture Forum in March 2025 in the exhibition of the same name, we investigate the knowledges, techniques, ideologies, and social relations shaping the project.  In the first episode, we sit down with architect Justine Bell from the studio behind the project, and Sofie Aagaard, co-founder and co-owner of Hedeskov Center for Regenerative Practice. The conversation traces the origin story of the project, with a particular focus on the architectural ideas driving it, and on the client–architect relationship that made it possible. Central to the discussion is the question: What does regenerative actually mean in the context of architecture?

    34 min

  7. 10/28/2025

    Assemble!: EP. 03 ADAPTATION REWILDING

    In this third episode on the policy proposal ADAPTATION > REWILDING, drafted by landscape architect and founder of SCAPE, Kate Orff, we sit down with Kate alongside Copenhagen's City Architect Lars Jensen and legal adviser in the business association of Pensions and Insurances in Denmark, Thomas Brenøe to discuss Kate's proposal for the strategic rewilding of our landscapes as a tool for successful climate adaptation.  Read the law proposal at this link.   This podcast was produced by KoozArch in collaboration with Copenhagen Architecture Biennial.

    34 min

  8. 10/28/2025

    Assemble!: EP. 02 XO Policy - Extraction Zero Policy

    In this second episode on the policy proposal XO Policy – Extraction Zero Policy, drafted by architect and Dark Matter Labs co-founder, Indy Johar together with & Ivana Stancic, we sit down with Indy alongside architect and both Innovation Director and director and initiator of The Planetary Project at Sweco Karl-Martin Buch Frederiksen as well as director of the Regenerative Built Environment Network at BLOXHUB Jacob Rask to discuss Dark Matter Lab's policy which  bans construction processes that are extractive to the point of endangering human and ecological systems.  Read the law proposal at this link.   This podcast was produced by KoozArch in collaboration with Copenhagen Architecture Biennial.

    27 min
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