Assemble!: EP. 01 Material Ownership
Copenhagen Architecture Forum's Podcast
Release Date: 10/28/2025
Archive: Material Responsibility From Cradle to Cradle with Anders Lendager
Copenhagen Architecture Forum's Podcast
In this first episode on the policy proposal of Material Ownership, drafted by architect and founder of Lendager, Anders Lendager, we sit down with Anders alongside Co-Founder of both Home. Earth & Transformer.Build Kasper Guldage Jensen, Vice President of Global Sales at Fritz Hansen, Martin Scharff and Senior Adviser at construction company DI Byggeri, Jakob Thaysen Rørbech to discuss the proposal for the extended producer responsibility for construction products. Read the law proposal at . This podcast was produced by KoozArch in collaboration with Copenhagen...
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Archive: "Right to Housing! Now and Forever" with HouseEurope!
Copenhagen Architecture Forum's Podcast
This week we are revisiting an episode from last year, to celebrate our newly announced fellowship with HouseEurope! Instead of demolishing and rebuilding, HouseEurope! calls for sustainable renovation and adaptive reuse, pushing for new EU laws that protect and prioritize existing spaces. Our joint fellowship invites talented young professionals from the fields of law and architecture to join forces for a week in Copenhagen, to question existing laws and take steps to create a more sustainable building sector and world. Last year, using the European Citizens' Initiative (ECI), HouseEurope!...
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Archive: "Architecture is more than buildings in cities"
Copenhagen Architecture Forum's Podcast
As debates about rural life resurface across Denmark, including in Altinget’s highly recommended podcast , the countryside is once again being cast as a political battleground. The debate is not new, but it is encouraging to see it begin to move beyond a long-standing assumption: that the countryside mainly matters insofar as it serves the urban environement or the agricultural industry. It led us to revisit this episode from the archives with the Danish architecture studio Rural Agency, which enters that shift. Are we operating within an underlying urban bias? And what would it...
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Archive: Exploring the Future of Danish Architecture
Copenhagen Architecture Forum's Podcast
Many still assume that buildings must excite. They must capture attention, produce images, and offer experiences. Boredom is treated as failure. But this reveals a hidden intuition that human beings need constant stimulation to remain engaged. What if this intuition is wrong? This episode explores that question. It suggests that architecture has become entangled in a psychological economy of attention, reflected in approaches such as hedonistic sustainability. Here, the “good” solution is often the one that is also pleasurable, fun, and instantly rewarding. But this carries a risk. What if...
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Archive: "Convenience Is Not Progress" with anthropologist Jeanette Lykkegård
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Modern life is built on a simple promise: the more comfortable, stable, and controlled our surroundings become, the better our lives will be. We insulate ourselves from weather, reduce friction in daily routines, and design spaces that are predictable and easy to navigate. Progress, in this view, means minimizing effort and exposure. But this logic may carry an unintended cost. This week, we return to our podcast archive. As the exhibition Tales of a Nomadic City at Halmtorvet 27 enters its final days, we revisit a conversation on nomadic life and forms of knowledge, asking what such...
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Slow Down: Architecture and Extreme Environments (2/2)
Copenhagen Architecture Forum's Podcast
Listen to the second podcast series Slow Down. A conversation between David Garcia and Kristoffer Weiss on the architecture of extreme environments. An important conversation on the future of architecture in a world of increasingly extreme conditions. In this second and last episode of Slow Down we delve into the architecture of extreme environments with a true expert: David A. Garcia. Since 2013 he has been the director of the Master Program "Architecture and Extreme Environments" at the Royal Danish Academy – Architecture, Design, Conservation. And last year Garcia...
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Slow Down: The Slow Violence of Sand Extraction (1/2)
Copenhagen Architecture Forum's Podcast
We are back with a new podcast series! Listen to the first episode of Slow Down, a series investigating ways to slow down overheated sites, cities, and societies. In this episode, we follow a deep dive into the Køge Bay and explore the violent praxis of marine sand extraction. As part of her PhD, Emma Rishøj Holm descends to the seabed to experience firsthand the hidden consequences of marine sand extraction — a practice that is accelerating as land-based resources disappear, yet remains largely invisible. Together with Tideland Studio and marine biologist Stiig Markager, the...
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Living With Other Species: Microbial Architecture (3/3)
Copenhagen Architecture Forum's Podcast
Today we conclude Living With Other Species. A series exploring how to plan and live alongside other species in the cities of the future. The last episode is a talk on how microbes and human well-being is connected through soil ecologies, building materials, and urban planning—and how acknowledging processes of decay can inform healthier, more resilient cities. What happens when we begin to think of the city as a living microbial ecology? On the podcast you will meet: Marie Sainabou Jeng: Is the founder and program director of Madland. A food policy hub and...
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Living With Other Species: Insect Urbanism (2/3)
Copenhagen Architecture Forum's Podcast
Living With Other Species is back! The second episode, "The Insect As Worker and Citizen", is a conversation on the role of insects as urban workers with - pollinators, decomposers, and ecosystem engineers. How might cities look if we began to think of insects not only as inhabitants, but as workers and citizens of the city? The episode asks how designing with (and for) them challenges aesthetic norms, maintenance culture, and anthropocentric planning. On the episode you'll meet: - Hjalte Calberg Ro-Poulsen: Biologist/entomologist/melittologist who conducts research,...
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Archive: Biochemist Irina Iachina Lets Spiders Weave the Future of Design
Copenhagen Architecture Forum's Podcast
This week we're taking a short break from the Living With Other Species podcast series to revisit our extensive archive. But we continue our focus on the lives and architectures of other species — and what we might learn from them. What follows is a conversation in which biochemist Irina Iachina shares her groundbreaking work on biomimicry, focusing on spider silk as a model for sustainable innovation. The talk was held as part of architect Pavels Hedströms exhibition Strange Adaptions, which was on display at Halmtorvet 27 from late 2024 into 2025. Next week, Living With Other Species...
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