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How Can Participation Be Reimagined For Refugees?
May 26, 2026
Film Screening: Fire, Water, Earth, Air
May 20, 2026
Inclusion Talks: What’s AI Got To Do With It
May 28, 2026
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How Can Participation Be Reimagined For Refugees?
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28 May
Inclusion Talks - A Universal Design Perspective: What’s AI got to do with it?
In this second edition of Inclusion Talks - A Universal Design Perspective, we take a closer look at how the growing use of AI in architecture and design processes risks reinforcing historical assumptions about what is deemed ‘normal’
Inclusion Talks - A Universal Design Perspective: What’s AI got to do with it?
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21 May
Everyday Experience: Accessibility and Aesthetics In Our Shared City
Join us for a public talk exploring how accessibility and aesthetics shape the way we experience, navigate, and make sense of the city – and who gets to feel included within it.
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27 May
Legitimising the Commons Beyond Policy and Law: With Janet Sanz and Finn Williams
Join us for an exciting evening on commoning and how legitimacy is produced through political struggle, cultural narratives, care practices, and long-term municipal engagement. Guests include major international capacities like Finn Williams and Janet Sanz
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Everyday Experience: Accessibility and Aesthetics In Our Shared City
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26 May
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How Can Participation Be Reimagined For Refugees?
Join us for the third event in our new format, “On Air”: The Architecture of Interlegal Democracy
How Can Participation Be Reimagined For Refugees?
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27 May
27 May
Legitimising the Commons Beyond Policy and Law: With Janet Sanz and Finn Williams
Join us for an exciting evening on commoning and how legitimacy is produced through political struggle, cultural narratives, care practices, and long-term municipal engagement. Guests include major international capacities like Finn Williams and Janet Sanz
Legitimising the Commons Beyond Policy and Law: With Janet Sanz and Finn Williams
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28 May
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Inclusion Talks - A Universal Design Perspective: What’s AI got to do with it?
In this second edition of Inclusion Talks - A Universal Design Perspective, we take a closer look at how the growing use of AI in architecture and design processes risks reinforcing historical assumptions about what is deemed ‘normal’
Inclusion Talks - A Universal Design Perspective: What’s AI got to do with it?
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From The Podcast Archive: Should We Make Cities for Insects?
The episode asks how designing with (and for) insects challenges aesthetic norms, maintenance culture, and anthropocentric planning.
From The Podcast Archive: Should We Make Cities for Insects?
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From the Podcast Archive: Material Responsibility From Cradle to Cradle with Anders Lendager
If material producers took responsibility for the full lifecycle of their products, it could pave the way for a more sustainable building sector.
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From the Podcast Archive: Right to Housing! Now and Forever
This week we are revisiting an episode from last year, to celebrate our newly announced fellowship with HouseEurope!
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Opinion: Who Takes Care of Architecture?
In a recent opinion piece in Icon Magazine our director, Josephine Michau, reflected on how caring for architecture means transforming the discipline from the foundation up
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CAFx at the EUmies Awards in Barcelona
Last week our director, Josephine Michau, took part in the The EUmies Awards Days 2026 in Barcelona, a two-day programme of public events that brought together the winners and finalists of the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture / Mies van der Rohe Awards.
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Debat: Vi skal ikke lukke DAC. Vi skal ændre hele vores forståelse af, hvad arkitektur er
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ArchDaily

Copenhagen Architecture Biennial 2025 Reveals 'Slow Pavilion' Designs Built from Reused Materials

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Hube Magazine

Copenhagen unveils its first Architecture Biennial: a call to 'Slow Down'

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Architektura & Biznes

Architecture as opposition to haste? Polish studio at the 1st Copenhagen Architecture Biennale

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ACUMEN Magazine

Copenhague, en elogio de la lentitud

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CC Magazine

Copenhagen Architecture Biennial: the urgency of slowing down

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DETAIL

Premiere: Kopenhagener Architekturbiennale 2025

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ArchDaily

First Copenhagen Architecture Biennial Opens With the Theme "Slow Down"

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Dezeen

"It's time for activism" says Copenhagen Architecture Biennial director

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ArchDaily

Slow Pavilions, Chapel Retold, and More: 6 Key Highlights From the First Copenhagen Architecture Biennial

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Politiken

Den nye tids stjerne er ikke længere den fantasifulde formgiver Bjarke Ingels

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Wallpaper*

Copenhagen Architecture Biennial wants the world to slow down

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Berlingske

Det skal nok blive skægt! Her er det, du ikke må gå glip af under Københavns første arkitekturbiennale

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Parametric Architecture

First Ever Copenhagen Architecture Biennial Champions a Call to "Slow Down"

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Designboom

Copenhagen architecture biennial 2025: embracing 'slowness' for progressive change

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STIRworld

Slowness as metaphor and blueprint at the Copenhagen Architecture Biennial

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The Architects' Journal

How architectural activism is flourishing in Denmark

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Bauwelt

Kopenhagen, langsam

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Azure Magazine

Q&A: Josephine Michau on the Inaugural Copenhagen Architecture Biennial

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Parametric Architecture

First Ever Copenhagen Architecture Biennial Champions a Call to "Slow Down"

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Interni

Slow Down: la prima Biennale di Architettura di Copenhagen

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