Presentation

Signe Sophie Bøggild has contributed to the main exhibition of the festival with examples from Denmark. In her presentation called “Rethinking Tingbjerg between Welfare City and Ghetto” she will discuss the postwar new town Tingbjerg in Copenhagen, which was planned as an ideal frame of the welfare state’s citizens from cradle to grave. Things went differently. Today Tingbjerg tops the national ‘ghetto list’ and outsiders rarely visit the multicultural neighbourhood. Yet, the area has resources of iconic architecture and local associations.

Using the experience of relocating Copenhagen Architecture Festival to Tingbjerg, Signe (who was one of the festival’s organisers) will discuss the potential of practice-based research, activation of local knowledge and the festival as platform for rethinking a ‘ghetto’.

As art historian educated at University of Copenhagenand Goldsmiths, University of London, Signe does research, lecture and publish on postwar new towns in Denmark and abroad. She is affiliated to Landscape Architecture and Planning, University of Copenhagen, work as curator of Copenhagen Architecture Festival and collaborates with Crimson Architectural Historiansfrom the Netherlands.

Entrance: free

Photo: “Tingbjerg’s planner Steen Eiler Rasmussen discusses with local pioneers while they are building”

Mønstersamfundet, filmic installation, 25:09 min, Gåafstand (Nis Rømer and Pia Rönicke), 2012. Still from 16 mm film found at Denmark’s Art Library, director unknown.

Signe Sophie Bøggild comes in Bulgaria with the support of Embassy of Denmark in Sofia and Agency for culture and Palaces.