Master programme

Urbanism & Societal Change

‘On Civic Grounds’ considers social capital as a bearing parameter for urban development by mobilizing civil society actors in the creation of hybrid public spaces. This is explored in the architectural transformation of an asphalt plant in Herlev. Afgang 2021, Daniel Rea Kragskov.
Responding to the expected large-scale emigration of Hong Kongers as a result of recent political events, the project ‘Hong Kong is Dead, Long Live Hong Kong’ explores the possibility of stateless, networked new ‘Hong Kong’ diasporas outside of the current territory of Hong Kong. Afgang 2020, Desmond Man-Kit Choi.
‘Outliving Cars’ explores a new life for the urban typology of the carparking building in which parking functions are gradually reconfigured into spaces of dwelling. Candidate Studio 2019, Eva Pavlic and Lauge Floris Larsen
‘Close to Home’ integrates a series of community healthcare facilities into Beijing's hutongs to help alleviate China's mental health crisis. Afgang 2019, Cameron Clarke
‘Close to Home’ integrates a series of community healthcare facilities into Beijing's hutongs to help alleviate China's mental health crisis. Afgang 2019, Cameron Clarke
'The Rural Combine’ explores the re-inhabitation of former cooperative factories (VEB) in Eastern Germany as a distributed-network campus. Vacant buildings are re-connected by strengthening historically dense infrastructure.
Afgang 2019, Kaspar Dettinger
‘30°+ Berlin’ explores alternative spatial responses to the increasing frequency of urban heat-waves. The project implements a range of spatial interventions to explore the limits of an architecture of atmosphere within Berlin. Afgang 2019, Ananda Joelle Ehret
‘Choreography of Logistics - The Architecture of the Consumer Society’ explores the spatial challenges created by the on-demand society and proposes an alternative organizational model for the ‘networked’ city, through re-imagining distribution as a vehicle for new narratives of urban space. Afgang 2019, Jana Patricia Possehn and Meggan Collins
'Homemaking' explores the renewed potential for domestic neighbourhood spaces to function as productive workplaces, made possible by networked smart technology, and allowing for new spatial and social neighbourhood configurations. Candidate Studio 2018, Cameron Clarke, Archie Cantwell and Hugh Diamond
‘Municipal Planning Strategy Supplements’ (temporary re-use/retail strategies) proposes an alternate strategy for the city's increasingly vacant ground floor in an age of online-shopping. Candidate Studio 2017, Archie Cantwell and Tamara Kalantejevska

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Short about Urbanism & Societal Change

‘Urbanism and Societal Change' is based upon the ambitions to:  

  • relate the architectural/urban project to the dynamic conditions and challenges of contemporary society

     
  • couple research and design within the project process in order to formulate relevant and novel responses

     
  • and in particular to educate future architects as leading actors in the sustainable development of the built environment within planetary boundaries.
Institute
Architecture, Urbanism and Landscape
Subject area
Architecture
Head of Programme
Deane Alan Simpson
Study level
Master programme
Location
Copenhagen
Semester start
September
Language
In English
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