CAFx NEWSLETTER – internship 2023, events and open calls! 10.11.22
DEAR READER
As the activities for our Sense of Place program continue throughout the rest of the year, the CAFx team is already preparing for a very special 2023, and there are many ways for you to get involved.
If you want to join us as an intern the coming Spring, read on for further details. We are also opening applications for our new film & architecture workshop in Albania, and remain open for short film submissions addressing inclusive design solutions.
In this newsletter, we have also collected the last architecture events happening this year at CAFx's own project space in Copenhagen's Meatpacking District, and you can read up on some of the initiatives we are launching for next year!
To stay updated on all our projects and activities, and find our curated production of podcasts and articles, check out the CAFx Journal.
OPEN CALL
Film & Architecture Workshops in Tirana
22-28 January 2023 / Application Deadline 28th of November 2022
Copenhagen Architecture Festival and BARLETI University in Tirana have partnered up to organize a film & architecture workshop focusing on filmmaking and socially inclusive design, architecture and urban planning.
Through international guest lectures, guided tours and spatial activities, participants will be guided in the production of a short film addressing an inclusive design solution found in the built, grown and planned environment of the booming Albanian capital city.
Submit your application before 28th November to summerschool@cafx.dk.
Are you our new intern for the Spring semester 2023?
We are preparing for CAFx 2023 'Sustainable Futures - Leave No One Behind' and would like to hear from you if you are interested in learning about communicating architecture to a wider audience, in event creation, communications, marketing, logistics and/or hospitality management.
The festival runs from 22nd June – 9th July 2023 but we will also have events prior to the festival in our own space. We hope for your assistance during the peak days of the festival when we experience the fruits of our work.
Welfare and Architecture – A Bus Trip to Albertslund (DA)
16. Nov 14:00-16:30 / CAFx Halmtorvet 27
Join us on a bus out of town and down memory lane to one of the 20th century strongholds Albertslund South. A pioneering modernist new town, designed from scratch in the 1960s, it has since housed Albertans from cradle to grave.
Our guides: the artist Jakob Kolding, who grew up in Albertslund, will talk about the influence the place has had on his artistic work - and him personally. Architect and former partner in the design studio Vandkunsten, Jens Thomas Arnfred, will talk about the welfare village and the architecture of Albertslund South, which his father, architect Tyge Arnfred, helped to design. Jens Thomas will also talk about the 'close-low construction', which Vandkunsten continued to work on. Along the way, a resident will invite you into one of the characteristic courtyard houses.
Finissage: New methods for big challenges - Conversation with Jacob Lillemose (DA)
18. Nov 16:30-18:00 / CAFx Halmtorvet 27
Come celebrate the last day of the exhibition "Architecture and Extreme Environments" by David Garcia, researcher and professor from the master program of the same name at the Royal Academy of Architecture.
Architect Thomas Bøjstrup and curator and author Jacob Lillemose will be our guests for a conversation about working in and with the extreme as an architect and curator respectively. They will be joined by David Garcia live from Jakarta, the sinking capital of Indonesia, which is the subject of the field work he is conducting with his master students this year.
Lillemose is currently employed at the Medical Museum and is curator of the Danish pavilion at this year's Venice Biennale. He is also the author of the novel Architecture Zero (2022) about a world, where disaster is the new normal. Thomas Bøjstrup is a ph.d researcher at the Royal Academy of Architecture in Copenhagen and has been affiliated with "Architecture and Extreme Environments".
The event is free, and we will be serving a chilled CAFx drink. Sign up to secure yourself a seat.
The event is a collaboration with Art Hub Copenhagen.
Empathic Environments: Soil Lab - involvement and local anchoring through architecture, crafts and design (DA)
22. Nov 16:30 / CAFx Halmtorvet 27
Soil Lab was the Danish contribution to the Chicago Biennial in 2021. Three architects and one designer won an Open Call, which was jointly organised by the Architecture Committee of the Danish National Art Foundation and Arts, Crafts and Design. In this conversation, the commissioner, architect and designer talk about the potential of interdisciplinary collaboration between architects, craftspeople and designers - both on a strategic level and in practice.
We invite you to an afternoon of debate and networking with panelists Ellen Braae, landscape architect and Head of the Architecture Committee of the Danish Arts Foundation, designer Maria Brunn and architect Anne Dorthe Vester, architect, moderated by Anni Nørskov Mørch, curator, writer and committee chair of the Danish Arts Council's Project Support Committee for Crafts and Design.
Which design solutions contribute to creating more inclusive spaces for everybody?
The Film Mosaic: Leave No One Behind is the short film competition calling for a max. 3-minute-long film documenting a non-discriminatory design, architecture, urban plan or practice that promotes the fight against inequality in the built or grown environment around you.
