Announcing the Copenhagen Architecture Festival's website
April 24, 2020
We’ve been hacked by TV!
Apparently we’ve been hacked, and as a consequence, from today, a rather fancy selection of TV-flicks is being screened on our website: www.cafx.dk
We contacted the initiators (very polite hackers!) about their intention and the program and they described their „ideology" as "anti-philantro-tech-capitalist“ and asked for an "alternative storytelling“. Concerning the program they wrote "What are you talking about?" and announced inputs and "alternative scenarios" by Sandra Bartoli, Diann Bauer, John Berger, J.G. Ballard (“hell yeah, there is a lot of Ballard in this!"), Signe Bøggild, Donna Haraway, Ray Brassier, Siddhartha Lokanandi, Suhail Malik, Niklas Maak, Stine Dalager Nielsen, Christopher Roth, Deane Simpson and many more…
You’ll find their entire response in the "about" section of their hack on our website www.cafx.dk
(The project is part of the Danish-German friendship year 2020.)
Copenhagen Architecture Festival was supposed to happen April 23-May 3. Instead it is now partly happening online, partly being postponed indefinitely.
What we were going to present you was a curated festival of more than 220 events in the cities of Copenhagen, Aarhus and Odense under the overall theme, “The Welfare City in Transition.”
Through its public program of films, guided tours, workshops, seminars, exhibitions, etc. the festival was going to examine the legacy of the post-war welfare city, constituting the physical framework of the welfare state. A relevant study today, where many cities are undergoing significant changes from more inclusive welfare cities to more exclusive “wealth cities.” Emerging out of the ashes of war, ruins and fascism after WWII ended in 1945, many of the challenges that the architects of the post-war welfare city dealt with are similar to the crises we are facing today: financial crisis, migration crisis, democracy crisis, housing crisis, etc.
Questions to look into would be and still are: What can we learn from past experiences to tackle the urban challenges of today? To what degree is the contemporary urban development regulated, and are social engineering and tabula rasa planning reappearing in new shapes? How does economy, politics, home ownership and demographics affect urban development? Who do we design, plan and build for when our homes become the subject of investment?
For now we'll continue our quest into these questions online. Stay tuned!
