2022
Rainwater Architecture
Folkeuniversitetet
Autumn 2022
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Rainwater Architecture
Stadsbyggnadsdagar, Gøteborg
7. April 2022
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What is the State of The City?
Belfast
24. Marts 2022
This session will provide an overview of the emerging themes affecting post-pandemic cities and will examine questions lie what will the pandemic mean for how we design and build cities and what are the trends impacting upon the workplace. We will consider how are cities responding, what is developing ‘best practice’ to aid recovery and what type of cities will succeed and which ones will struggle.
Read more here
Build for creativity - Creative Placemaking
Building Green, Copenhagen
8. Marts 2022
DEBATE: What is the good city and how do we build it? Are the Danish cities really good for our residents?
What is it really we talk about when we talk about how we create a good city, and what role can creativity and culture play in this?
Read more here
The Urbanism Hour specials: Learning from The Urbanism Awards
4. marts 2022
EQUAL CITIES
Italian Cultural Institutes in the Nordic Countries
3. Marts 2022
Which are the practices in Europe that strengthen the capacity to deliver an inclusive urban strategy?
Which are the actions that not only enable but enhance the contribution of women to society?
I am joining a Equal Cities - panel with: '
Karin Carlsson - PhD History at Stockholm University
Rebecka Lennartsson - PhD in Ethnology and Head of Research at Stadsmuseum Stockholm
Liisa Horelli - PhD and Adjunct Professor at Aalto University,
Ellen De Vibe Architect, urban planner and former director of The Planning and Building Services Agency (PBE) in Oslo,
Silvia Serreli - Engineer and Urban Planning from University of Cagliari
Eleonora Carrano - Architect of La Sapienza University.
Read more here
2021
From architecture policy to good sitespecific planning
KL network for cityplanning
12. December 2021
Read more about the network here
Why cities need nature? European Green Cities
8. December 2021
The winner of European Green Cities Award 2021 will be announced by César Luena, vicepresident, Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI Committee).
Read more here
Feeling the city
Munich, Germany
2. December 2021 - postponed
The Oscar von Miller Forum have invited me to talk about learnings from Copenhagen. I will reflect on element as climate change, placemaking, bikeculture, nature in the city and how to create cities for and with people
Read more here
Byens Saloner: City architects on a climate course
18. November 2021
A part of the series about the country's city architects. This time the spotlight is on the world goals and the climate policy agenda with Lisbet Wolters from Vejle and Tina Saaby from Gladsaxe Municipality. Both play a key role in the sustainable transformation of their municipalities.
Hosts for the event are Byens Netværk and Arkitektforeningen
Read more here
Conversation on citynature with cityarchitects
Building Green, Copenhagen
4. november 2021
Main stage
Dream Play Challenge - The future of Residential Living
Berlin Germany
24. June 2021
The symposium challenges the traditional concept of the “residential” as beacon of stability and permanence and look for approaches that respond to economical, ecological and cultural contestations in today's societies. In this context, we look forward to Tina sharing her expertise and personal thoughts on how to imagine and build new modes of residing.
Read more here
Lifecycles
Ghent, Belgium
26-28 May 2021 - postponed
Lifecycles is a festival of inspiration and innovation. A prime selection of forward-thinking innovators and experts will be presenting their experience and insights, with the aim of setting the agenda for the future.
Read more here
How to make your city more usable for seniors?
webinar, Copenhagen
29 April 2021
I will join a debate with CEO in Danish Seniors Katrine Lester about how to create usable cities for different seniors.
Read more here
Global Small Talks - creating living cities across the globe
RIBA Yorkshire, online
29. january 2021
Together with David Thorpe (Wales) and Chan Ea Mun (Singapore) I will give a lunch talk about green infrastructure and have that have influenced the creation of living cities across the globe.
Read more here
Listen and see here
Productive cities, intersessions virtual forum, living cities
From E15 to E16, online
18-22 january 2021
Europan is a biennial competition for young architects under 40 years of age to design innovative housing schemes for sites across Europe. The competition offers the opportunity for cross-cultural learning and networking for the architects and site promoters involved. I have joined as a jurymember three times and as a city representive two times.
This virtual event - The Intersessions forum promotes exchanges, meetings and debates between E15 actors (cities, experts and prize-winning teams) and E16 actors (new site representatives).It is an event between two sessions, which closes the Europan 15 competition on the theme Productive cities, one year after the results and opens the next Europan 16 session around the theme Living cities.
I will join monday and friday, reflect on the Theme: From Linear Economy to Circular Economy and friday discussion on the future of Europan.
Read more here
2020
Opportunity to change the old rules of a century on cities and territory government
Italian Architects Council, online
18. december 2020
Read more here
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Food for thought seminar: future urban planning
DTU, Copenhagen, online
2. december 2020
The coronavirus has spread rapidly in cities around the globe. How will the virus make us think differently about urban design in the future? Innovation districts like Science City Lyngby with plans to expand co-working and collaborative spaces, and design for open innovation, community and density are challenged. At the same time, there is an increasing demand for sustainability in our built environment.This Food for Thought Seminar gathers companies, researchers, urban planners, architects, investors and developers to discuss our new reality. How do we build for education, innovation, and networking in the light of Covid-19? And how do we respond to an urgent need for climate adaptation and green solutions?
I will reflect about these questions together with Jorge Lobos (ARCH + H.R.), Deane Simpson (KADK),, Jeff Risom (Gehl) and Jacob Steen Møller (DTU Campus Service)
Read more here
The future of urban living
Krakow, online
11. november 2020
The SHARE Forum has created in the past 23 years an essential networking platform for professionals in the AEC (architecture, engineering, and construction) industries from Central and Eastern Europe. Presently, the SHARE events are held in 15 countries from Central and Eastern Europe and the SHARE Community has over 50.000 members worldwide.
This lecture is in collaboration with The architectural Association of Slovenia.
Read more here
Building Green / Det bæredygtige element
Copenhagen
29. oktober 2020
Participates as an expert panel on sustainable dilemmas
Read more here
And a blog about it here
You can see the conversations here
PUBLIC PRACTICE - THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC DESIGN
York Design Week, online seminar
28. oktober 2020
I will join a dialogue about hosted by the social enterprise Public Practice, we will explore the future of design in the public sector in the context of the Government’s new Planning White Paper. If local government is often seen as being ‘top down’, how far can councils work with the ‘bottom up’? And if activism is assumed to happen from the ‘outside in’, how far can public designers act as activists for good change from the ‘inside out’?
Read more here
NORDIC URBAN LAB
NUL Athens, online seminar
9. oktober 2020
In the evolving dialogue between “cities, citizens and culture”, the rebalancing and renegotiating key aspects of our urban community are in many ways similar in all cities. But given local, national and regional historic, cultural and political realities, there are highly individual and contextualized experiences and challenges as well as different dynamics and forces in each city as well as different protagonists and initiatives. In defining the most relevant topics for NORDIC URBAN LAB in ATHENS, the programme have 4 themes or rather “perspectives/lenses” in which to look at these dynamics. I will talk about "Culture and Urbanism"
Read more here
Unpostponable Dialogues
Copenhagen Architecture Festival
8. oktober 2020
Is The World Going To A Permanent State Of Emergency? How can architects, artists, and planners respond to a new social order that we do not still know?
Perhaps, we should have the courage to re-think our social structure and life models for proposing a more delicate balance between Nature and Society. Perhaps, we should dare to redraw our ethical principles and moral values.
Read more here
The welfare city in transition
Copenhagen Architecture Festival
30. september 2020
Launch of the festival’s own publication The Welfare City in Transition and get five sharp mini lectures, I will do one of them.
Read more here
Build Better, Live Better
The Academy of Urbanism, online seminar
2. september 2020
The topic is how to deliver affordable homes and my keynote will focus on Copenhagen's approach to affordable housing and how to secure good places for people to live.
Read more here
Tourism on pause for thought
DAC, Copenhagen
1. september 2020
From one day, the corona pandemic put an end to the tourism that had taken over the city with tourist flocks, selfie sticks and unsafe cyclists. But it has also given us a break from thinking about what tourism should look like in the future.
Read more here
#STAYATHOME
Webinar
20. may 2020
Dialogue about home, homeliness, community and neighborhood after being "alone at home" for 2 months
HE HOUSE - What have we learned about the housing space distribution and use of the space? What has made the home more dynamic? What housing solutions have supported a well-functioning everyday life?
THE ENVIRONMENTS - What have we learned about housing access zones and communal facilities? What forms of neighborhood and community have these days taken to minimize physical encounters?
CITY - What have we learned about the urban location of the home? Do we still think the dense city is sustainable?
I reflect on that together with: • Claus Bech-Danielsen, Build • Lise Groes, Is it a bird • Martin Wagner, Tetris • Mette Mogensen, Domea.dk • Signe Kongebro, Henning Larsen • Ofri Earon, Ramboll Architects
Implementing Your Vision
8 80 Cities and Knight Foundation host a learningtrip to Copenhagen.
21. april 2020 - postponed
The lecture is about how to go from higher level policy to on the ground implementation and how to bring communities and members of the public into the process when implementing changes to the public realm. There will be a special focus on affordable housing, communities and how to involved and be involved with universities and experts.
Read about the work of 8 80 here.
Challenges and opportunities in urban planning
Lecture as a part of a masterclass on how to work with strategic goals
25. February 2020
Experiences from Copenhagen, Denmark and international examples will be shared and discussed with the audience.
I will also facilitate the masterclass that will follow the lecture.
Read more here
Towards a new governance model
Public panel discussion
24. February 2020
What kind of administration does a liveable city need (which implements the SDGs)? Do we need a new way of (governing) collabo- ration in administration to tackle today’s/tomorrows problems? How could this look like?
Welcoming: Renate Treutel (Mayor of Kiel),
I will join the reflections together with Charles Landry (Author, speaker and international adviser on the future of cities)
Annette Wiese-Krukowska (Head of Cultural and Creative department of the city Kiel)
Dr. Ulf Kämpfer (Lord Mayor, City of Kiel)
Rainer Kern (Mayor’s Special Advisor for Global Affairs, Mannheim)
Dr. Anna Golędzinowska (Chairwoman of the Sustainable Development Committee, Gdańsk City Council)
Read more here
Tina Saaby's Copenhagen
Torsdagstale på Plan, By & Proces
6. February 2020
I talk about how Copenhagen has changed in the ten years I was the city architect in Copenhagen, to this day. And how the current politics and projects will change the city for the next ten years. It will also be a reflection on my experience with city management, planning and transformation of our cities.
2019
Feeling the city - how do we create cities for and with people?
Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel
11. December 2019
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Regnen maler byen grøn - klimatilpasning i København
"The rain will paint the city green"
Stockholm
5. December 2019
I will talk about how the city of Copenhagen will change the next ten years by investment in climatechange solutions.
Read more here
Planning the smart and liveably city
Fæstningens gård, Copenhagen
4. December 2019
This event is about what is understood by liveability in an urban context and what consequences it has when the vibrant and liveable city becomes SMART. I will be reflecting about this together with Jan Gehl and Jesper Pagh. The event is hosted by hosted by Aalborg University and BLOXHUB, as a part of the EU Jean Monnet Network project CCAMEU (Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility – EU and Australian Innovations).
Read more here
The water comes to town, IWA 2020
"Copenhagen and the water"
Building Green, Copenhagen
31. October 2019
In 2020, Copenhagen will host the “World Cup in Water”. The IWA Conference - "Water for Smart Livable Cities" comes to town with the entire global water industry. It is an obvious opportunity to discuss the meeting between water and the city, and as a prelude to the IWA 2020 this session will give up the beach ball at Building Green and debate the direction for a blue and green future.
I will give the copenhagen story over the last ten years and talk about how the water will give a lot back to the city
Read more here
The future of our Cities
Munster
23. October 2019
I will try to make an outline for some of the challenges and possibilities of our future city making and give some examples from the learnings I done in the last ten years in Copenhagen.
Read more here and here
Embracing change, Copenhagen Harbour - the common living room
C40, mayors summit, Copenhagen
09. October 2019
The masterclass looks at solutions that embrace the need for common ground in ways that leave the space better than before - Urban spaces that embrace the divers needs of our growing populations. I will show Copenhagen Harbour as a Copenhagen case on embracing change.
Copenhagen and Cork
Open house, Cork
05. October 2019
As part of Open House, Nano Nagle Place will host a talk where I will try to look at Cork and Copenhagen and see where we can see some connecting stories. The lecture will be with a introduction by John Hegarty.
read more here
Transforming Copenhagen
Open house, Cork
04. October 2019
As part of Open House, Nano Nagle Place will host a talk, where I will talk about the transformation of Copenhagen during the last 30 years.
Read more here
City in transition
Lecture at Architecture is a human Right festival, Zurich
28. september 2019
I will talk about developing communities and spaces – in a sustainable manner – that facilitate everyday life
Read more here
To plan or not to plan, that is always the question
This is the first 1Lectures on city architects, leading the development of three leading cities in Europe, Amsterdam
26. september 2019
The lecture will focus on general planning processes in Denmark and specifically on Copenhagen. How is the political leadership, the administrative leadership and the leadership through stakeholders and the citizens. What is based on long time continuity and what has changed as a part of society changing?
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World Car Free Day London Summit - Launch
Debate about Driving action on traffic-free city centres around the world, London
19. september 2019
I will together with Christophe Najdovski, Deputy Mayor of Transportation and Public Space, Paris and Daisy Narayanan, Project Director, Edinburgh Council talk about what lessons London can learn from the international transition to traffic-free, pedestrianised and cycle-friendly city centres?
Read more here
LABOR LECTURES
Lecturing at Latvian Landscape Architecture Award 2019, Riga
12. September 2019
Landscape Architecture, Jenny B. Osuldsen (Snøhetta, Norway) and Tina Saaby Madsen (Tina Saaby Copenhagen, Denmark) will talk about landscape architecture, the challenges and trends of today's urban environment, smart management and environmental coproduction.
Read more here
The role of the public sector - trends in the built environment
Lecturing at a Conference on "The State's Pride", Stockholm
10. September 2019
The theme "The State's Pride" gives a broad view on the best projects and discuss how to be an attractive client. I will focus on both the strategic issues as well as giving concrete examples by projects and processes.
Read more here
The role of public space in the transformation of our cities
Lecturing at the conference "Urban transformation through Art and Culture." Kiel
5. July 2019
The purpose of this conference is in the context of the INTERREG Project URBCultural planning, to explore new prototypes for models of integrated urban strategies and both people and place based approaches to dealing with the social, cultural and environmental challenges many cities are facing.
Read more here
A place to call home
Lecturing at a Conference on housing organized by The Academy of Urbanism, Eidhoven
21. June 2019
The conference will explore topics such as the changing role of the public sector as an affordable housing provider, different community-led housing models, or the ways of achieving affordability through innovative design solutions. Also the conference will discuss the applicability of the various regulatory and policy mechanisms, new financial and partnership models used around the world to secure delivery of affordable housing as a key component of great placemaking.
Read more here
Tingbjerg - Now with ghettoblars and new private housing
City walk in Tingbjerg as a part of CAFx Copenhagen Architecture Festival
12. april 2019
The tour will focus on both the spacial and architectural detail of the new library and culture house but also about the process of getting it built and decided and why it took so long time. Tina Saaby was involved in developing the programme for the house when she had her own office WITRAZ architects before 2010 and as the city architect after 2010. the tour will also focus on the development of the area, one of the most beautiful neighbourhoods of Copenhagen.
More information and buy tickets here
Critical City - book launch
Architectural Association, Copenhagen
11. april 2019
The book: Critical City - The success and failure of the Danish welfare city.
Tina Saaby as one of the contributors will be in debate about the development of Copenhagen together with the professor Deane Simpson (KADK) and the author Kristoffer Weiss
More information here
Implementing Your Vision
8 80 Cities and Knight Foundation host four day learningtrip to Copenhagen.
8. april 2019
The lecture is about how to go from higher level policy to on the ground implementation and how to bring communities and members of the public into the process when implementing changes to the public realm.
Read about the work of 8 80 here.
Arkitekturens politiske rolle i valgåret - "architecting after politics"
CAFx Copenhagen Architecture Festival
8. april 2019
Who "architects" the city? Film an panel discussion about bridging architecture and politics.
I am in dialogue with two politicians Marianne Jelved and Marcus Vesterager.
More information and buy tickets here.
The Future of our cities. Challeges and possibilities
Deutsches Architektur Zentrum, DAZ, Berlin
22. marts 2019
This evening, Tina Saaby will be awarded honorary membership in the Association of German Architects (BDA) for her special services to building culture.
Following her presentation, architect Stefan Rettich will name challenges of German cities to discuss together what we can learn from Copenhagen’s urban policy.
More Information
Developing society with architecture
Technische Universität München, Munich
26. February 2019
In this Lunch Talk students and visitors have a chance to meet Tina Saaby who has been talking part in shaping the physical framework of Copenhagen for the last eight years as the Chief City Architect. She will give an insight in the architectural guidelines of developing a city for people and will give examples and results of the built environment. The talk is moderated by TUM guest professor Mikala Holme Samsøe.
More information
Copenhagen – a city for people – methods and approach
Salon, Kvadrat, Munich
25. February 2019
The focus in this salon is to try to talk about planning in Copenhagen and Denmark generally and from that try to show some examples on how the strategic approach and the sitespecific understanding is shown in some of the projects.
How to create innovation in citymaking?
Wheatleys international conference, W.E. Create 2019, Glasgow
21. January 2019
The conference brought together international business experts, Wheatley Group’s leaders and a range of other delegates to explore Scotland’s culture of creative thinking.
More information
An outside view on official architects
Bund Schweizer Architekten, Luzern, Switzerland
18. January 2019
What is the future of officials architect? How does official architects works in different municipalities? The seminar is about officials architects in Schweizerland, Kantonsarchitekten, what is their tasks and roles?
I will talk about how the cityarchitect is organized in Copenhagen and about the Architecturepolicy as a tool for dialoque between professionals and administration and the political level.The theme "The State's Pride" offers a cavalcade of our best projects, good examples and strengths as attractive employers and real estate actorsHow to make your city more usable for seniors
Rainwater Architecture
Folkeuniversitetet
Autumn 2022
Read more here
Rainwater Architecture
Stadsbyggnadsdagar, Gøteborg
7. April 2022
Read more here
What is the State of The City?
Belfast
24. Marts 2022
This session will provide an overview of the emerging themes affecting post-pandemic cities and will examine questions lie what will the pandemic mean for how we design and build cities and what are the trends impacting upon the workplace. We will consider how are cities responding, what is developing ‘best practice’ to aid recovery and what type of cities will succeed and which ones will struggle.
Read more here
Build for creativity - Creative Placemaking
Building Green, Copenhagen
8. Marts 2022
DEBATE: What is the good city and how do we build it? Are the Danish cities really good for our residents?
What is it really we talk about when we talk about how we create a good city, and what role can creativity and culture play in this?
Read more here
The Urbanism Hour specials: Learning from The Urbanism Awards
4. marts 2022
EQUAL CITIES
Italian Cultural Institutes in the Nordic Countries
3. Marts 2022
Which are the practices in Europe that strengthen the capacity to deliver an inclusive urban strategy?
Which are the actions that not only enable but enhance the contribution of women to society?
I am joining a Equal Cities - panel with: '
Karin Carlsson - PhD History at Stockholm University
Rebecka Lennartsson - PhD in Ethnology and Head of Research at Stadsmuseum Stockholm
Liisa Horelli - PhD and Adjunct Professor at Aalto University,
Ellen De Vibe Architect, urban planner and former director of The Planning and Building Services Agency (PBE) in Oslo,
Silvia Serreli - Engineer and Urban Planning from University of Cagliari
Eleonora Carrano - Architect of La Sapienza University.
Read more here
2021
From architecture policy to good sitespecific planning
KL network for cityplanning
12. December 2021
Read more about the network here
Why cities need nature? European Green Cities
8. December 2021
The winner of European Green Cities Award 2021 will be announced by César Luena, vicepresident, Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Food Safety (ENVI Committee).
Read more here
Feeling the city
Munich, Germany
2. December 2021 - postponed
The Oscar von Miller Forum have invited me to talk about learnings from Copenhagen. I will reflect on element as climate change, placemaking, bikeculture, nature in the city and how to create cities for and with people
Read more here
Byens Saloner: City architects on a climate course
18. November 2021
A part of the series about the country's city architects. This time the spotlight is on the world goals and the climate policy agenda with Lisbet Wolters from Vejle and Tina Saaby from Gladsaxe Municipality. Both play a key role in the sustainable transformation of their municipalities.
Hosts for the event are Byens Netværk and Arkitektforeningen
Read more here
Conversation on citynature with cityarchitects
Building Green, Copenhagen
4. november 2021
Main stage
Dream Play Challenge - The future of Residential Living
Berlin Germany
24. June 2021
The symposium challenges the traditional concept of the “residential” as beacon of stability and permanence and look for approaches that respond to economical, ecological and cultural contestations in today's societies. In this context, we look forward to Tina sharing her expertise and personal thoughts on how to imagine and build new modes of residing.
Read more here
Lifecycles
Ghent, Belgium
26-28 May 2021 - postponed
Lifecycles is a festival of inspiration and innovation. A prime selection of forward-thinking innovators and experts will be presenting their experience and insights, with the aim of setting the agenda for the future.
Read more here
How to make your city more usable for seniors?
webinar, Copenhagen
29 April 2021
I will join a debate with CEO in Danish Seniors Katrine Lester about how to create usable cities for different seniors.
Read more here
Global Small Talks - creating living cities across the globe
RIBA Yorkshire, online
29. january 2021
Together with David Thorpe (Wales) and Chan Ea Mun (Singapore) I will give a lunch talk about green infrastructure and have that have influenced the creation of living cities across the globe.
Read more here
Listen and see here
Productive cities, intersessions virtual forum, living cities
From E15 to E16, online
18-22 january 2021
Europan is a biennial competition for young architects under 40 years of age to design innovative housing schemes for sites across Europe. The competition offers the opportunity for cross-cultural learning and networking for the architects and site promoters involved. I have joined as a jurymember three times and as a city representive two times.
This virtual event - The Intersessions forum promotes exchanges, meetings and debates between E15 actors (cities, experts and prize-winning teams) and E16 actors (new site representatives).It is an event between two sessions, which closes the Europan 15 competition on the theme Productive cities, one year after the results and opens the next Europan 16 session around the theme Living cities.
I will join monday and friday, reflect on the Theme: From Linear Economy to Circular Economy and friday discussion on the future of Europan.
Read more here
2020
Opportunity to change the old rules of a century on cities and territory government
Italian Architects Council, online
18. december 2020
Read more here
Read mere here
Food for thought seminar: future urban planning
DTU, Copenhagen, online
2. december 2020
The coronavirus has spread rapidly in cities around the globe. How will the virus make us think differently about urban design in the future? Innovation districts like Science City Lyngby with plans to expand co-working and collaborative spaces, and design for open innovation, community and density are challenged. At the same time, there is an increasing demand for sustainability in our built environment.This Food for Thought Seminar gathers companies, researchers, urban planners, architects, investors and developers to discuss our new reality. How do we build for education, innovation, and networking in the light of Covid-19? And how do we respond to an urgent need for climate adaptation and green solutions?
I will reflect about these questions together with Jorge Lobos (ARCH + H.R.), Deane Simpson (KADK),, Jeff Risom (Gehl) and Jacob Steen Møller (DTU Campus Service)
Read more here
The future of urban living
Krakow, online
11. november 2020
The SHARE Forum has created in the past 23 years an essential networking platform for professionals in the AEC (architecture, engineering, and construction) industries from Central and Eastern Europe. Presently, the SHARE events are held in 15 countries from Central and Eastern Europe and the SHARE Community has over 50.000 members worldwide.
This lecture is in collaboration with The architectural Association of Slovenia.
Read more here
Building Green / Det bæredygtige element
Copenhagen
29. oktober 2020
Participates as an expert panel on sustainable dilemmas
Read more here
And a blog about it here
You can see the conversations here
PUBLIC PRACTICE - THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC DESIGN
York Design Week, online seminar
28. oktober 2020
I will join a dialogue about hosted by the social enterprise Public Practice, we will explore the future of design in the public sector in the context of the Government’s new Planning White Paper. If local government is often seen as being ‘top down’, how far can councils work with the ‘bottom up’? And if activism is assumed to happen from the ‘outside in’, how far can public designers act as activists for good change from the ‘inside out’?
Read more here
NORDIC URBAN LAB
NUL Athens, online seminar
9. oktober 2020
In the evolving dialogue between “cities, citizens and culture”, the rebalancing and renegotiating key aspects of our urban community are in many ways similar in all cities. But given local, national and regional historic, cultural and political realities, there are highly individual and contextualized experiences and challenges as well as different dynamics and forces in each city as well as different protagonists and initiatives. In defining the most relevant topics for NORDIC URBAN LAB in ATHENS, the programme have 4 themes or rather “perspectives/lenses” in which to look at these dynamics. I will talk about "Culture and Urbanism"
Read more here
Unpostponable Dialogues
Copenhagen Architecture Festival
8. oktober 2020
Is The World Going To A Permanent State Of Emergency? How can architects, artists, and planners respond to a new social order that we do not still know?
Perhaps, we should have the courage to re-think our social structure and life models for proposing a more delicate balance between Nature and Society. Perhaps, we should dare to redraw our ethical principles and moral values.
Read more here
The welfare city in transition
Copenhagen Architecture Festival
30. september 2020
Launch of the festival’s own publication The Welfare City in Transition and get five sharp mini lectures, I will do one of them.
Read more here
Build Better, Live Better
The Academy of Urbanism, online seminar
2. september 2020
The topic is how to deliver affordable homes and my keynote will focus on Copenhagen's approach to affordable housing and how to secure good places for people to live.
Read more here
Tourism on pause for thought
DAC, Copenhagen
1. september 2020
From one day, the corona pandemic put an end to the tourism that had taken over the city with tourist flocks, selfie sticks and unsafe cyclists. But it has also given us a break from thinking about what tourism should look like in the future.
Read more here
#STAYATHOME
Webinar
20. may 2020
Dialogue about home, homeliness, community and neighborhood after being "alone at home" for 2 months
HE HOUSE - What have we learned about the housing space distribution and use of the space? What has made the home more dynamic? What housing solutions have supported a well-functioning everyday life?
THE ENVIRONMENTS - What have we learned about housing access zones and communal facilities? What forms of neighborhood and community have these days taken to minimize physical encounters?
CITY - What have we learned about the urban location of the home? Do we still think the dense city is sustainable?
I reflect on that together with: • Claus Bech-Danielsen, Build • Lise Groes, Is it a bird • Martin Wagner, Tetris • Mette Mogensen, Domea.dk • Signe Kongebro, Henning Larsen • Ofri Earon, Ramboll Architects
Implementing Your Vision
8 80 Cities and Knight Foundation host a learningtrip to Copenhagen.
21. april 2020 - postponed
The lecture is about how to go from higher level policy to on the ground implementation and how to bring communities and members of the public into the process when implementing changes to the public realm. There will be a special focus on affordable housing, communities and how to involved and be involved with universities and experts.
Read about the work of 8 80 here.
Challenges and opportunities in urban planning
Lecture as a part of a masterclass on how to work with strategic goals
25. February 2020
Experiences from Copenhagen, Denmark and international examples will be shared and discussed with the audience.
I will also facilitate the masterclass that will follow the lecture.
Read more here
Towards a new governance model
Public panel discussion
24. February 2020
What kind of administration does a liveable city need (which implements the SDGs)? Do we need a new way of (governing) collabo- ration in administration to tackle today’s/tomorrows problems? How could this look like?
Welcoming: Renate Treutel (Mayor of Kiel),
I will join the reflections together with Charles Landry (Author, speaker and international adviser on the future of cities)
Annette Wiese-Krukowska (Head of Cultural and Creative department of the city Kiel)
Dr. Ulf Kämpfer (Lord Mayor, City of Kiel)
Rainer Kern (Mayor’s Special Advisor for Global Affairs, Mannheim)
Dr. Anna Golędzinowska (Chairwoman of the Sustainable Development Committee, Gdańsk City Council)
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Tina Saaby's Copenhagen
Torsdagstale på Plan, By & Proces
6. February 2020
I talk about how Copenhagen has changed in the ten years I was the city architect in Copenhagen, to this day. And how the current politics and projects will change the city for the next ten years. It will also be a reflection on my experience with city management, planning and transformation of our cities.
2019
Feeling the city - how do we create cities for and with people?
Muthesius Kunsthochschule, Kiel
11. December 2019
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Regnen maler byen grøn - klimatilpasning i København
"The rain will paint the city green"
Stockholm
5. December 2019
I will talk about how the city of Copenhagen will change the next ten years by investment in climatechange solutions.
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Planning the smart and liveably city
Fæstningens gård, Copenhagen
4. December 2019
This event is about what is understood by liveability in an urban context and what consequences it has when the vibrant and liveable city becomes SMART. I will be reflecting about this together with Jan Gehl and Jesper Pagh. The event is hosted by hosted by Aalborg University and BLOXHUB, as a part of the EU Jean Monnet Network project CCAMEU (Cooperative, Connected and Automated Mobility – EU and Australian Innovations).
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The water comes to town, IWA 2020
"Copenhagen and the water"
Building Green, Copenhagen
31. October 2019
In 2020, Copenhagen will host the “World Cup in Water”. The IWA Conference - "Water for Smart Livable Cities" comes to town with the entire global water industry. It is an obvious opportunity to discuss the meeting between water and the city, and as a prelude to the IWA 2020 this session will give up the beach ball at Building Green and debate the direction for a blue and green future.
I will give the copenhagen story over the last ten years and talk about how the water will give a lot back to the city
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The future of our Cities
Munster
23. October 2019
I will try to make an outline for some of the challenges and possibilities of our future city making and give some examples from the learnings I done in the last ten years in Copenhagen.
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Embracing change, Copenhagen Harbour - the common living room
C40, mayors summit, Copenhagen
09. October 2019
The masterclass looks at solutions that embrace the need for common ground in ways that leave the space better than before - Urban spaces that embrace the divers needs of our growing populations. I will show Copenhagen Harbour as a Copenhagen case on embracing change.
Copenhagen and Cork
Open house, Cork
05. October 2019
As part of Open House, Nano Nagle Place will host a talk where I will try to look at Cork and Copenhagen and see where we can see some connecting stories. The lecture will be with a introduction by John Hegarty.
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Transforming Copenhagen
Open house, Cork
04. October 2019
As part of Open House, Nano Nagle Place will host a talk, where I will talk about the transformation of Copenhagen during the last 30 years.
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City in transition
Lecture at Architecture is a human Right festival, Zurich
28. september 2019
I will talk about developing communities and spaces – in a sustainable manner – that facilitate everyday life
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To plan or not to plan, that is always the question
This is the first 1Lectures on city architects, leading the development of three leading cities in Europe, Amsterdam
26. september 2019
The lecture will focus on general planning processes in Denmark and specifically on Copenhagen. How is the political leadership, the administrative leadership and the leadership through stakeholders and the citizens. What is based on long time continuity and what has changed as a part of society changing?
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World Car Free Day London Summit - Launch
Debate about Driving action on traffic-free city centres around the world, London
19. september 2019
I will together with Christophe Najdovski, Deputy Mayor of Transportation and Public Space, Paris and Daisy Narayanan, Project Director, Edinburgh Council talk about what lessons London can learn from the international transition to traffic-free, pedestrianised and cycle-friendly city centres?
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LABOR LECTURES
Lecturing at Latvian Landscape Architecture Award 2019, Riga
12. September 2019
Landscape Architecture, Jenny B. Osuldsen (Snøhetta, Norway) and Tina Saaby Madsen (Tina Saaby Copenhagen, Denmark) will talk about landscape architecture, the challenges and trends of today's urban environment, smart management and environmental coproduction.
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The role of the public sector - trends in the built environment
Lecturing at a Conference on "The State's Pride", Stockholm
10. September 2019
The theme "The State's Pride" gives a broad view on the best projects and discuss how to be an attractive client. I will focus on both the strategic issues as well as giving concrete examples by projects and processes.
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The role of public space in the transformation of our cities
Lecturing at the conference "Urban transformation through Art and Culture." Kiel
5. July 2019
The purpose of this conference is in the context of the INTERREG Project URBCultural planning, to explore new prototypes for models of integrated urban strategies and both people and place based approaches to dealing with the social, cultural and environmental challenges many cities are facing.
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A place to call home
Lecturing at a Conference on housing organized by The Academy of Urbanism, Eidhoven
21. June 2019
The conference will explore topics such as the changing role of the public sector as an affordable housing provider, different community-led housing models, or the ways of achieving affordability through innovative design solutions. Also the conference will discuss the applicability of the various regulatory and policy mechanisms, new financial and partnership models used around the world to secure delivery of affordable housing as a key component of great placemaking.
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Tingbjerg - Now with ghettoblars and new private housing
City walk in Tingbjerg as a part of CAFx Copenhagen Architecture Festival
12. april 2019
The tour will focus on both the spacial and architectural detail of the new library and culture house but also about the process of getting it built and decided and why it took so long time. Tina Saaby was involved in developing the programme for the house when she had her own office WITRAZ architects before 2010 and as the city architect after 2010. the tour will also focus on the development of the area, one of the most beautiful neighbourhoods of Copenhagen.
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Critical City - book launch
Architectural Association, Copenhagen
11. april 2019
The book: Critical City - The success and failure of the Danish welfare city.
Tina Saaby as one of the contributors will be in debate about the development of Copenhagen together with the professor Deane Simpson (KADK) and the author Kristoffer Weiss
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Implementing Your Vision
8 80 Cities and Knight Foundation host four day learningtrip to Copenhagen.
8. april 2019
The lecture is about how to go from higher level policy to on the ground implementation and how to bring communities and members of the public into the process when implementing changes to the public realm.
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Arkitekturens politiske rolle i valgåret - "architecting after politics"
CAFx Copenhagen Architecture Festival
8. april 2019
Who "architects" the city? Film an panel discussion about bridging architecture and politics.
I am in dialogue with two politicians Marianne Jelved and Marcus Vesterager.
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The Future of our cities. Challeges and possibilities
Deutsches Architektur Zentrum, DAZ, Berlin
22. marts 2019
This evening, Tina Saaby will be awarded honorary membership in the Association of German Architects (BDA) for her special services to building culture.
Following her presentation, architect Stefan Rettich will name challenges of German cities to discuss together what we can learn from Copenhagen’s urban policy.
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Developing society with architecture
Technische Universität München, Munich
26. February 2019
In this Lunch Talk students and visitors have a chance to meet Tina Saaby who has been talking part in shaping the physical framework of Copenhagen for the last eight years as the Chief City Architect. She will give an insight in the architectural guidelines of developing a city for people and will give examples and results of the built environment. The talk is moderated by TUM guest professor Mikala Holme Samsøe.
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Copenhagen – a city for people – methods and approach
Salon, Kvadrat, Munich
25. February 2019
The focus in this salon is to try to talk about planning in Copenhagen and Denmark generally and from that try to show some examples on how the strategic approach and the sitespecific understanding is shown in some of the projects.
How to create innovation in citymaking?
Wheatleys international conference, W.E. Create 2019, Glasgow
21. January 2019
The conference brought together international business experts, Wheatley Group’s leaders and a range of other delegates to explore Scotland’s culture of creative thinking.
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An outside view on official architects
Bund Schweizer Architekten, Luzern, Switzerland
18. January 2019
What is the future of officials architect? How does official architects works in different municipalities? The seminar is about officials architects in Schweizerland, Kantonsarchitekten, what is their tasks and roles?
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