ADFF Panel on The Tingbjerg Experiment
The Tingbjerg Experiment is a portrait of a changing neighborhood. A documentary portrait that, through a series of character-driven stories, goes beyond the prejudices about one of Copenhagen’s most notorious districts.
Over the course of several years, the neighborhood’s population is set to double, and private homes will be built among the public housing. This is based on the “parallel society law” of 2018, which provides the framework for this massive construction project—what researchers call the largest social housing experiment since World War II. No one knows what this process will lead to. Will it be perceived as a loss and a political intervention when houses are built on the lawns just outside residents’ windows? Will the new homes attract new residents eager to create new activities, and will new forms of neighborhood community emerge?
Panelists
Am Johal, Moderator | Am is Executive Artistic Director of the Indian Summer Festival. He was formerly the Director of SFU’s Vancity Office of Community Engagement and Co-Director of SFU's Community Engaged Research Initiative. He has been on the boards of the VanCity Community Foundation, Vancouver International Film Festival, Bloom Group, 221A, the Or Gallery, Greenpeace Canada and the City of Vancouver’s Arts and Culture Committee and the Vancouver City Planning Commission. Am is currently on the board of Urbanarium.
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Cindy Brenneis | Cindy’s day job is at RWA Group Architecture as a Senior Associate. She is originally from a very small town in Alberta which, for some reason, led to a fascination with cities. She is interested in all sorts of design with a focus on urban design and how cities can be great places for community building. She is a long-time resident of East Vancouver - lives in and loves Grandview Woodland. Her other interests include illustration and ceramics.
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Gabrielle Triquet | Gabrielle is an architecture student at Dalhousie University’s School of Architecture, currently completing her internship at Measured Architecture in Vancouver. Gabrielle is committed to grassroots urbanism and community advocacy. Before moving to Halifax for her studies, she served on the Neighbourhood Advisory Committee supporting initiatives of Reframing South Vancouver where she contributed to a working group to encourage public activity. She is an organizer of the Art of City Building, an annual conference focusing on the evolving needs of our changing cities.
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Inge Rocker | Inge is the founding Principal at AIR studio, an internationally recognized research-in-practice architecture design firm. Inge’s practice is centered on inclusion, collaboration, and sustainability with expertise ranging from multi-generational to student and senior housing. All projects designed at AIR studio support the mindset that all justice must include climate justice. Inge’s research and design projects investigate social issues arising through the mismatch between people and the spaces they inhabit. Her projects respond to how we can meaningfully house people regardless of age, ability, or demographics.
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