Curatorial Statement

For the fifth consecutive year, we offer a varied festival program that sheds light on architecture, where it makes a difference: in the encounter with human life, aesthetics, and politics. It is the fourth year in a row that we are in Aarhus, the third year in Aalborg, and the first year in Odense. In 2018, we have chosen the theme HOUSING HOME, focusing on home, housing, and belonging as the framework for the festival's program. We examine what constitutes a home, what it means to be at home, and what it means to create a home in different situations.

The festival thus provides an opportunity to explore how we respond to various current challenges such as climate change, migration, rising house prices, increased urban migration, increased segregation, changing demographics, etc., in our ways of living and arranging ourselves - both privately and on an urban planning level, individually and in relation to a community, domestically and internationally, in the past, present, and future.

This year, we have many activities in public housing areas, which many are familiar with through the media but have never visited. At a time when boundary-drawing and policies seem to increase social division and inequality in the city and society, we arrange, among other things, open-air cinema and film screenings at the homes of residents in Mjølnerparken, Gellerup, and Vollsmose to bring people together for cultural experiences across city boundaries and habitual thinking.