Open to anyone interested in archiving practices!
We hope to see you for the first of a series of events hosted by the Copenhagen case of the research project INNATURE: Enhancing biodiversity and social inclusion by transforming Europe’s living environments. In the common housing area AKB Lundtoftegade, we combine arts, humanities and technological approaches to bring biodiversity and people diversity together to re-imagine and accelerate new living futures and ‘next practices’ across Europe.
The upcoming seminar on Living and Open Archives is organized by Heidi Svenningsen Kajita, University of Copenhagen and hosted by Til Vægs. Joined by our archive-interested friends from London, Malmø, and Copenhagen we look forward to discuss the role of memory work and in community building and urban change.
We will meet at Lundtoftegade 23, 2200 Copenhagen N on the 19th of February 2026 @ 10.00-12.00. Please RSVP to Heidi Svenningsen Kajita (hsk@ign.ku.dk) by February 16th. Remote participation is possible via Zoom: https://mau-se.zoom.us/j/3797491833.
Preliminary programme:
Welcome. (Til Vægs and Heidi)
Round of introductions. Everyone, please prepare a short 1-2 min statement about your interest in archives, documents, memory work, community-based engagement, activism, public scholarship etc. (All)
Short presentation (8 min) about the preparatory work for a community-based living archive in Lundtoftegade. (Heidi)
Presentation (20 min) about the Matrix Open Feminist Architectural Archive. (Jos Boys).
Conversation about researching and practicing living and open archives in processes of urban change. (All)
Malmö University contact: Robert Nilsson Mohammadi (robert.mohammadi@mau.se)