CAFx NEWSLETTER – membership, film submission and more! 07.12.22
DEAR READER
For this newsletter we have exciting news to share! Firstly, we are launching CAFx Community, which means you can now become a member of our organisation and get a ton of benefits while keeping the critical architectural conversation alive! We will also be disclosing the theme we have been brewing on for the coming year at CAFx. Get a glimpse further down. Lastly, we are also launching our annual open call for film submissions to the festival. Read on to learn more about our activities and catch our latest podcast now available on CAFx Journal.
ANNOUNCEMENT
Join CAFx Community 2023
What if we came together across social and professional divides to create a more equal and regenerative urban development? CAFx Community unites our audience, peers and colleagues in keeping the progressive architectural conversations alive all year round, and now you can become a member for less than 3 dkkr a month. What else do you get from being part of the CAFx Community?
Free access to all events and exhibitions at CAFx in Halmtorvet 27 for the whole of 2023
Discounts and free access to selected events during the festival in June
Updates and information about CAFx exhibitions and public program
Invitations to openings and launches
A personal membership card
Join us in our mission to challenge the discourses within architecture and planning, while also pushing for a more empathic and democratic agenda! Your contribution helps the production of public events, exhibitions, open calls, pilot projects, social initiatives and experimental projects together with architects, artists, activists, and researchers and more in Copenhagen and abroad.
It's the perfect Christmas gift for your self or a loved one. Read on to get a glimpe of what to expect from us in 2023.
In 2023, life takes the centre stage: the symbiotic, the habitats, the life balances and life cycles; nest, cave, hive and feeding chamber.
The wild and blooming ideas of our time centered around concepts such as regenerative design, bio-inclusive biomimicry, symbiotic co-creation, architectural asceticism and do-ocracy will be the guidelines for our programming. We will seek to expand our current discussion about the future of urban planning and built environments to foster the necessary recalibration of our architectural imagination for the age of climate and ecological breakdown.
11 days of festival from 1.-11. June, a special program during the UIA2023CPH World Congress from 2.-6. July, events and exhibitions at Halmtorvet 27 all year round and a series of digital initiatives will encourage us to rethink the relationship between form and life through new narratives, metaphors and models for architecture and architectural production.
Photo: Andrea Segre 'Molecules', Deckert Distribution
You can now submit your film for our film and architecture festival taking place 1.-11. of June 2023. Our film program this year will reflect our theme Life Form.
Every year we have a big curated film programme of 40-90 film titles based partly on submissions. We are looking for both documentaries, fiction and hybrid formats.
CAFx ArchDaily: New Article Series on Film & Inclusive Design
Believing in the power of film to depict and communicate effectively the material and immaterial qualities of socially sustainable design, CAFx launched a short film competition aimed at documenting examples of inclusive design found in different geographical contexts, while disseminating this knowledge across borders to inspire students, researchers, practitioners and decision makers worldwide working with inclusivity.
In collaboration with ArchDaily, we are launching an article series to dig deep into inclusive design practices and explore the potential of the film medium in architecture, focusing on the crossing between the two disciplines. The first article is out now on ArchDaily.
Creating Sustainable Cities with Carlos Moreno & Martha Thorne
The mini-symposium held by CAFx with keynote speakers Martha Thorne and Carlos Moreno is now a podcast! On CAFx Journal you can listen back to their short lectures and exciting conversation about which solutions we should implement to create socially and environmentally sustainable cities.
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.
