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Landscapes of Care

Landscapes of Care
Copenhagen Architecture Festival x 2021
October 7โ€“17, 2021
www.cafx.dk
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Theย full programย of the largest architecture festival in Scandinavia is out and can be discovered on the festival’s official website.ย Fromย October 7โ€“17, 2021,ย Copenhagen and Aarhus will be flooded with events, film screenings, debates, exhibitions, art performances, lectures and guided tours addressing the themeย Landscapes of Care.

In response to the most pressing global issues of our times,ย Copenhagen Architecture Festival x 2021ย explores the notion ofย careย in architecture and urban planning, in particular with regards toย healthย in the built environment, toย equityย andย diversityย in urban communities, and to the ongoingย climate crisisย by asking: How can spatial practitioners contribute to solving present and future health, social and environmental challenges?

As the work of designers, architects and urban planners mutates to address socio-political issues of identity, togetherness and urban change,ย Landscapes of Careย contributes to a shift towards greater sensitivity to matters of interconnection, association and interdependence.โ€œHealth and Architectureโ€

With the arrival of a pandemic that turned our everyday lives upside down, the classic relationship between hygiene and health, and architecture and urban planning, has taken on new relevance. Among the many events, films and seminars unfolding the subject of ‘Health and Architecture’, you can look forward to the symposiumย New Landscapes of Care in the Post-Pandemic City, to the guided tours to mentally soothing places around Copenhagen or through the pandemic history of the city, or toย Forugh Farrokzhadโ€™s filmย The House is Black.

โ€œDiversity and Communityโ€
The last years have seen an upsurge of debates about the commons: while marginalization increases, the intersectional fight for equal rights is revealing that structural inequalities are built into architecture and urban space. In โ€œDiversity and Community,โ€ the festival examines the social future of cities through debates, film screenings and city walks. Among others, check out the exhibition and debate programย Almen omsorgย on the public housing areaย Tingbjerg, the full-day program atย Louisiana Museumย about gender and architecture, or films from theย L.A. Rebellionย movement, main oeuvres in American film history, to gain insight into where research, discourse and practice stand today.

โ€œFrom Climate Sinner to Climate Care Agentโ€
We have pushed our planet beyond the limits of environmental sustainability. The construction industry is responsible for some of the worst CO2 emissions globally, but together with planners and architects it holds the potential and responsibility to radically change the way we design and build. Through a range of public film screenings and debates, CAFx 2021 invites you to join the discussion about the environmental footprint of urbanization and the future of cities in the face of climate change. Among others, the festival will host six afternoons within Space10โ€™s exhibitionย Climate Layers,ย dedicated to different debates about climate solutions in the built environment, and screen the Berlinale-winnerย The Works and Days,and films by one of Indiaโ€™s leading art film makers,ย Amit Dutta.

โ€œPortraits, Projects and Practicesโ€
This year, the recurring portrait category embraces film portraits of architects and their work, artistic performances byย Bob Kil,ย Nina Beierย andย Ying-Hsueh Chenย atย Thorvaldsens Museum, a focus onย David Lynch‘s filmic universe through film screenings, an exhibition and a dinner performance, revolutionary films fromย Black Wave Yugoslav Cinema, and this year’s special guest: speculative architect and film directorย Liam Young.

โ€œOpen Houseโ€
Another recurring format of the festival is the Open House, where the audience is invited into the private domains of leading architect studios, to look around construction sites, to hear more about their methods and practices and to participate in exciting debates about Copenhagenโ€™s future urban landscape.

About Copenhagen Architecture Festival
Born in 2014,ย Copenhagen Architecture Festivalย engages a wide public in the discussion on the impact of architecture on our everyday lives. The festival aims at creating new meetings between disciplines, people and ideas to broaden our understanding of what architecture is.

Join the conversation and find more info on all on- and offline activities atย cafx.dk.

[Reposted from e-flux]

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