Spaces of Danish Welfare

How are welfare spaces conceptualized, implemented, experienced and represented?

This research project explores the spatial transformations of Danish welfare systems over the past half century through the fields of anthropology, art history, architecture, and urban planning.

Through concrete, local studies — including senior housing, super hospitals, school inclusion, public spaces, dementia care homes, crematoria, and welfare’s new peripheries — spaces have been shown to play a significant role in the transformation of both our conceptualization of welfare, and how welfare is implemented and experienced in the everyday life of citizens and other actors, such as politicians, administrators, architects, and the media.

In addition to textual reflection, visualizations play a central role in the project, as a complementary common spatial language of exploration, analysis, and communication.