This is Limbo

Copenhagen strives to present itself as a socially conscious city, offering a high quality of life to those residing within its borders. With inviting urban planning, often referred to as an urban living room, everyone can find something to do. Well, almost everyone. It seems that the city favors one public over another, one that doesn't align with the image the city is trying to create. On one hand, there are declarations about eliminating homelessness, while on the other, a rigid system of laws closes doors to those seeking shelter for the night, medical assistance, and so forth. As those individuals turn to hidden corners within the city, within what's called the rough sleeping space, the city also works to remove them through various means - blockage, aesthetic redesign, prohibition of stay, and demolition.

This is an impossible situation, navigating within a limbo of legal, emotional, and existential constraints.

Copenhagen's rough sleeper community is currently facing immense difficulty in accessing medical services and accommodation. A place that existed yesterday might vanish or be seized tomorrow, requiring a lot of creativity and concealment to preserve those who exist.

It also requires a lot of creativity to find spaces between four walls in a city where real estate values skyrocket, and there are hardly any unoccupied lands for non-profitable construction. It's extremely difficult to generate solutions for those at the bottom of the pyramid.

Denmark is one of the most secular countries in Europe, if not the most secular, where once churches held sway, now commercial centers dominate. The churches are left with splendid monuments, remnants of days when they were central. Magnificent prayer halls stand empty during the week, and entire service rooms remain unused. They try to strengthen their position within the community and introduce community-building activities into the agenda. The question arises - which ones?

The project seeks to establish a direct line between existing organizations, seeds of initiatives, and new insights. A line between the need for shelter and services and the latent possibilities within the non-personal spaces of the churches, those spaces between the sacred and the secular, those spaces of negotiation.

A line that will become a network, a network that will attempt to provide a degree of stability within an increasingly utopian reality.