Mød Det Kongelige Akademi på CAFX

Dato
23.09.2025
Tidspunkt
13.00 - 17.00

Mød Det Kongelige Akademi på en række talks, workshops og seminarer på årets CAFX biennale. 

SlowWood: Timber Reuse as Driver of Circular Construction

Seminar
Sted: CAFX, Halmtorvet 27, kl. 13.00-17.00
Onsite and Online (zoom link after registration)

Seminar exploring design and manufacturing with reclaimed timber in the emerging circular ecosystem of the built environment. It investigates how reusing timber demands care, patience, and craftsmanship.

Recovering timber is meticulous work — each piece must be individually assessed and handled, as it might suffer from decay, contamination, or moisture. Yet this slowness also opens opportunities: like traditional craftsmanship, reuse generates design and manufacturing processes that embrace the individuality of salvaged wood.

The seminar examines how sourcing and processing reclaimed timber can scale from highly local and craft-based contexts to municipal and industrial systems—and what the consequences of such scaling might be.

Two sessions bring together Danish and international actors from research and industry to share cases of reclaimed timber design and manufacturing, and to discuss the emerging circular ecosystem around its reuse:

Context in Current Research Projects

  • Mette Ramsgaard Thomsen, Martin Tamke (Royal Danish Academy - CITA) and Ana Teresa Lima (DTU Sustain).

Session#1 – Source to Product – Design and Manufacturing with Circular Timber

  • Marta Malé-Alemany,  Automated fabrication with reclaimed timber - Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences, The Netherlands
  • Tom Svilans, Cph Slow Pavillion - Royal Danish Academy - CITA / Omtre
  • Niels Jakubiak Andersen, Circular Timber for secondary buildings - Næste, Denmark

Session#2 – Scaling the Circular Timber Ecosystem 

  • Kristine Nore, Developing a business model for reclaimed Timber in Norway - Omtre. 
  • Kristian Fribo, Logistics of a circular timber system in the Nordics -  Starck/ Gentræ, Denmark.
  • Elif Erez Henderson, Socio-technical infrastructures in salvaged wood – EPFL, Switzerland. 
Registration for the seminar - CAFX