Learning from collaboration - Building future practice

Webinar with Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner.

Researchers Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner (University of Copenhagen) will present their project Learning from Collaboration – Building Future Practice. The research explores the forms of collaboration that shaped Denmark’s remarkable building boom from 1960 to 1975—a period of technological innovation, social change, and holistic thinking in architecture and planning.

By examining how architects, landscape architects, engineers, and planners worked together across professional, social, and geographic boundaries, the project sheds light on both the successes and challenges of these collaborations. What made them possible? Where did conflicts arise? And what can we learn from these dynamics today?

The findings offer a richer understanding of the built environment and provide inspiration for contemporary efforts toward more diverse and sustainable practices in construction and urban development. This seminar will be an opportunity to reflect on history while looking ahead to future collaborations.

The presentation will be followed by a discussion with the Öresund Comparative Borderland Research Group, and questions from participants. This seminar is open to the public.

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Svava Riesto

Svava Riesto is Professor of Landscape Architecture History and Theory at the University of Copenhagen and leader of the Research Group for Landscape Architecture and Urban Histories. With a background in art history and landscape architecture, Svava Riesto intersects historical research on buildings, cities and landscapes with heritage studies and other interdisciplinary fields.

Henriette Steiner

Henriette Steiner is Professor in the Section for Landscape Architecture and Planning and Society at the University of Copenhagen where she currently serves as Head of Section. Henriette Steiner works on the history and philosophy of architecture, landscapes and cities. Through her research and teaching, Steiner strives to inspire more self-reflective, diverse, equitable, and compassionate spatial practices for designing cities and landscapes.

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The seminar is funded by CEMES.