Last week of TV / First week of Pandemic Resilient Cities talks
Copenhagen Architecture Festival’s offline program postponed until October 1–11
It was initially going to run in the cities of Copenhagen, Aarhus and Odense from April 23–May 3 under the title “The Welfare City in Transition.” October 1–11 will be the new dates to run parts of its intended offline program together with its collaborators as the country is opening up again. The festival attracts 50-100,000 audience members every year to a public program of guided tours, film screenings, debates, seminars, workshops and exhibitions focusing on architecture and urbanism. The festival will announce it’s full program for October in the beginning of September 2020.
Since April 1, the festival has been responding to the current pandemic situation by turning parts of its program online, partly creating new pandemic-related content.
Among others:
1) the TV-hack of the festival’s website telling us to Watch more TV!—more information below on what to expect for this last and sixth week
2) a long list of interesting essay-responses to the festival’s open call asking for reflections on the impact of the pandemic on the built environment
3) starting today and running for five consecutive Fridays:
Recorded talks on Pandemic Resilient Cities with key speakers from relevant fields—in collaboration with with Emergency Architecture & Human Rights (EAHR), WHO and Think-Fast: A collective urban response to COVID-19.
The talks will focus on the role and positionality of Architects and Planning Practitioners in preparing for Pandemic Resilient Cities where basics such as access to safe housing, space, clean air, food and water is not considered a privilege but a basic human right.
While everyone will be affected by the challenges emerging from the current crisis, the impact is hitting hard on the most vulnerable ones: the elderly population, migrants, displaced populations, slum dwellers and the so-called “low-skilled” workforce, who rely solely on their everyday income. However, these vulnerabilities aren’t new and were not merely caused by the pandemic, but gradually accumulated by multiple political, economic, social and spatial factors, that reduced our preparedness for such a scenario and left millions of people vulnerable to health crises and disasters.
This week we are focusing on Disasters and Pandemic: A pandemic is widely known as an epidemic of disease that has spread across a large region leading to potentially large human disasters.
Stephen O’Brian, former United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs and Emergency Relief Coordinator, and Luca Fontana, epidemiologist from WHO, will discuss how new kind of mitigation infrastructure will look like and how a multidisciplinary approach including the humanitarian, health and building environment sectors could help mitigate future pandemics. Michele Di Marco, CEO of Emergency Architecture & Human Rights will moderate the the talk.
HICK-UP TV!
Best of 5 weeks of hack, 5 weeks of pop-up, of puff out, blow out, hack-ups, and hick-ups from Copenhagen, from Berlin, from Mtwara, Tanga, Zurich and Subunbia.
6 weeks of Hack-Up TV
6 weeks of internationalism & co-habitation vs. distinction. Countryside vs. withdrawal. Star houses vs. Malaria. Subunbia vs. Suburbia. space-time.tv
6 weeks of Danish-German friendship!
We salute the Rebiennale in Venice and Achille Mbembe.
The online programming will continue into the end of June at www.cafx.dk
Thank you to Realdania, Dreyers Fond, The Danish Film Institute, Copenhagen / Aarhus / Odense Municipality, Goethe Institut Dänemark, The Danish Arts Council
