MUTOPIA’s Vertical Village proposal for a new space effective and socially sustainable vertical neighborhood in Copenhagen made of stacked family houses is part of the exhibition Vertical Village in Taipei, Taiwan, by Dutch practice MVRDV.
Produced by The Why Factory, MVRDV’s research think tank based at TU Delft University, The Vertical Village analyzes the rapid urban transformation occurring in East Asia, and assesses the qualities of informal settlements as an alternative to the rapid and monotonous block urbanization of Asian cities from Taipei to Tokyo, Beijing to Bangkok.
The exhibition is the result of a three-year long research project, commissioned by the JUT Foundation for Arts and Architecture, the cultural branch of the JUT Group, Taiwan’s leading luxury housing developer.
Suburban development is the most rapidly expanding driver of land use change in Europe.
The rapid expansion of the urban sprawl has many negative social and environmental impacts which call for new models for growth of these urban environments to achieve economic, social and environmental sustainability.
Serban Cornea will deliver a lecture on densification strategies as a means of creating sustainable development and attractiveness in future suburbs at “Future suburbs”, a conference on potentials for transformation of Danish suburbs towards becoming sustainable living environments.
The event is organized by The Danish Society of Engineers (IDA), and will take place at Nordkraft, Aalborg the 7th of February 2012.
OKS (Odense Comrades’ Sportsclub) have decided to commission MUTOPIA to develop a new concept for a public recreative space in central Odense – a sports park dubbed ‘Spark’.
The park will feature a double layered functionality, for sports, football, exercise and play, while also staging an informal open social space.
Kristina Adsersen discusses communication at Oslo Architecture Festival
November 21st, 2011
MUTOPIA partner Kristina Adsersen discusses the potential of communication in architecture to stimulate new development processes which, in turn, can contribute to making architecture more relevant for society today.
The lecture, followed by a panel discussion with C-Lab director and former AMO principal Jeffrey Inaba and Snøhetta founding partner Craig Dykers, and moderated by Carson Chan, took place during the Oslo Architecture Festival the 23rd of September 2011.
MUTOPIA launches U_Build University, an internet-based platform to visualize and manage the moving of staff and functions during the process of re-building of universities.
U_Build University is a follow-up to U_Build, MUTOPIA’s web-based dialogue- and process management tool, designed to ensure more effective moving processes while minimizing their impact on the university staff. U_Build University is launched during summer 2011 at The University of Copenhagen – Southern Campus.
Academic and technical personnel at universities are facing a large number of moving processes in the upcoming years as a result of the new reform of the Danish research- and university sector. Due to rebuilding processes and the new mergers, large numbers of employees will shift to new working environments.
In the same time, the education of highly qualified workforce and the production of new knowledge within the university sector are significant for future Danish competitiveness worldwide.
U_Build University targets an improvement of the working environment by means of user involvement and technology support, aiming at reducing time consumption, expenses and stress caused by lack of overview and coordination of large scale moving process, thereby securing a greater and sharpened focus on research and education.
U_Build University is economically supported by University of Copenhagen and The Danish PWT Foundation – Investments in Public Welfare Technology (ABT-fonden) – The Danish Ministry of Economic and Business Affairs as a part of the program directed towards developing and improving public sector services through the implementation of labour-saving technologies and more efficient working processes.
