Agency of Knowledge – Whose Spaces, Whose Knowledges? Conversations about landscape, architecture, and urbanism

This symposium brings together diverse perspectives—scientific, practical, artistic, industrial, and experimental—across both complementary and conflicting views. It emphasizes democratizing knowledge, including forms often overlooked in academic and industrial settings.

The first session explores how knowledge creation intersects with power, addressing issues like ownership, bias, inclusion, and exclusion. Through discussions with experts in urban issues from NGOs, arts, and academia, we examine how different types of knowledge are produced, used, and circulated.

The second session focuses on care, maintenance, and repair, featuring voices from those who maintain landscapes, buildings, and cities. Through storytelling, we explore how these actors engage with the material world and consider how knowledge is generated within institutions and organizations.

Open to researchers, practitioners, architects, planners, engineers, and anyone with an interest in urbanism and urban research.

PROGRAM

COFFEE & REGISTRATION (9.30-10.00)

• Welcome
• Introducing DARE Symposium III / Carolina Dayer, Aarhus School of Architecture, and David Pinder, Roskilde University.
• Knowledge Democracy: How do we bridge ‘classic’ critical urban research perspectives on knowledge and power to contemporary positions acknowledging diversity, pluralism, and the non-human realm? / Ole B. Jensen, Aalborg University.
• Moderated panel session / Moderator: Bettina Lamm, Copenhagen University.
• Panel conversation with participants from NGOs, academia and arts practice / With Tora Balslev, Daily Fiction, Bo Heide Jochimsen, Projekt Udenfor, Rasmus Koustrup Larsen, New Urban Voices, Troels Schultz Larsen, Roskilde University, and Emma Nielsen, Building Diversity.
• Plenary debate involving the audience / Moderator: Anne Wagner, Copenhagen University.

LUNCH & NETWORKING

• Maintenance & Care: The assembly of diverse storytellers will tell about maintenance episodes, their knowledge about and within their practices, research and cause / Session organised and moderated by Carolina Dayer, Aarhus School of Architecture, Heidi Svenningsen Kajita, Copenhagen University, and Maja de Neergaard, Roskilde University.
• Short presentations by panelists followed by conversations / Panelists: Ellen Braae, Copenhagen University, Beate Hemer, The Royal Academy, Mads Hobye, Roskilde University, Jesper Pagh, Horsens Kommune, and Silje Sollien, Independent Researcher.

BREAK

• Reflecting and concretizing / Moderated by Henriette Steiner, Copenhagen University.
• Reflection exercise: ‘If I knew this, how would I react to the knowledge I now have’ – reflect and write 1-2 sentences on ‘post-cards’ and share in plenum.
• End of symposium and next step / Thomas Bo Jensen, Aarhus School of Architecture and Maja de Neergaard, Roskilde University.

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