LINK UP SHOWCASE 2009: GREENER BIGGER BETTER
27 August - 6 September 2009
LINK UP SHOWCASE 2009: GREENER BIGGER BETTER
Link UP Showcase exhibits fifteen young architects’ and designers’ visions on how to create a sustainable Copenhagen. The exhibition participants have staged an itineraries through central Copenhagen divided into five legs each telling the story of Copenhagen as a green, clean, easy and dense city by emphasizing and manipulating elements taken for granted knowledge that makes (or does not make) Copenhagen a sustainable city.
Link UP creates the project in corporation with Copenhagen X and Sustainable Cities™.
The exhibited projects are all temporary and site specific and created especially for Copenhagen Design Week. They will be visible as separate points of impact around the city, possible to follow from the map in Copenhagen Design Week’s catalogue and through a SMS service and other online media.
For the opening of Link UP Showcase 2009 on August 27 each exhibition team will host a separate event along the itineraries. Our experts, partners and exhibitors will speak on sustainability by design in general and the exhibitions in particular. The opening event will therefore link the exhibitions together by opening one place at a time, thus making it possible for the audience to follow the whole event.
During Copenhagen Design Week, guided tours, talks and debates will be hosted both along the exhibition itineraries themselves and at Danish Architecture Centre with the aim of casting a light on future possibilities for developing
The five exhibitions, itineraries and teams are:
City Intercom
Citizens have adapted steps around town as an informal piece of furniture for conversation and gathering. The project takes this change from pragmatic function to a means of social interaction further through a series of newly created steps.
Anne Haaning / Manstrem, Architect, installations and animation.
www.manstrem.com
Inger Margrethe Larsen. Crafts & Design
www.imlarsen.com
Morten Emil Engel. Architect & Furniture Designer.
www.mortenengel.com
The Parallel City
Uncover the parallel universe of Copenhagen! We will during the Copenhagen Design Week invite you to explore the hidden courtyards of Copenhagen and give you a peek into the parallel universe of the city. Instead of touring the city along well-known streets and alleys, we invite you onto a journey that takes you through some of Copenhagen's many adventurous courtyards.
On the journey, which stretches from Skt. Petri Hotel to Kongens Nytorv, we will highlight the character and history of these hidden courtyards. And not least, their potentials!
USUS/ Isabel Ahm & Sabine Kjærulff
www.usus.nu
JAJA Architects
www.ja-ja.dk
Philip Dam Roadley-Battin, Graphic Designer
www.battin.dk
Green Space – a pocket park for your neighborhood
Green Space is a pocket park for your neighborhood. Green Space is a patch of grass, shade and quality of life in the midst of the city. Green Space is sustainable, reusable and mobile. Green Space is such a good idea that you wonder why it hasn’t been done yet…
Christina L. Halstrøm, Furniture Designer
www.under-opsyn.dk
Sandra Jouatte, Graphic Designer & Architect
B14 (Morten Scholz , Projektdesigner + Rasmus Høymann Laursen, Partner & designchef)
www.b14.dk
Harbour Bike
Using the unused ‘roads’ of the city, the project creates new connections across the harbour revitalizing both banks and benefitting both inhabitants and visitors by making it possible to travel from one place to another in the easiest soundest and environmentally friendly way: Crossing the water on bike.
Troels Øder Hansen / Dulldays, Furniture & Product Designer
www.dulldays.dk
Sandra Johansson, Product & Spatial Designer
Shift Control, Interaction design
www.shiftcontrol.dk
Mekano City
Mekano City emphasizes experiences and qualities that go unseen and questions the idea of the city as a static structure. Through three interventions on the itinerary the project encourages playful thoughts on city spaces and their transformation.
Louise Hold Sidenius, Typografisk Afdeling
www.typografiskafdeling.dk
Mia Scheel Kristensen, Architect Maa
www.miascheel.com
Ronald Laurits Jensen, Furniture & Spatial Designer
Learn more on the Link UP website
