Speakers and organizers

Henriette AARTSEN has a master degree in Language and Culture studies, with special interest in gender studies. She is currently the producer of the Bicycle Film Festival Copenhagen. In her presentation Henriette will focus on three different ways in which visibility is lend to fixed gear bicycle practices in Copenhagen.....Read more

Stig L. ANDERSSON

Kenneth BALFELT is a visual artist who works with social intervention in public space. He will show us around at Mændenes Hjem, a shelt for homeless in Central Copenhagen....Read more

Janne BECH

Anna BISGAARD-NØHR is a graduate students at Visual Culture, University of Copenhagen, and one of the creators of the short film Heels on Wheels.... Read more

Gunhild BORGGREEN is one of the organizers of the seminar. She has been working with Japanese contemporary art and visual culture in her research and teaching....Read more

Mads BYDER

Signe and Christian COLD

Rikke FÅBORG

Julie HOLCK is an Industrial Ph.D. student working on a thesis about urban shopping environments and the relations between city, shop and citizen/consumer from a phenomenological point of view. In her presentation Julie Holck will use Torvehallerne as an example and discuss the role of the market place...Read more

Marianne Ping HUANG

Jacob KREUTZFELDT is one of the organizers of the seminar. He received his PhD Degree in 2009 on a study of urban sonic environments and it's methodology featuring case studies from Osaka... Read more

Jens KVORNING

Kirsten Oldenburg LAUT

Toshio MIZUUCHI is Professor and Vice-Director of Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University, and has been researching various aspects of urban studies, including historical analyses of urban development and planning in Japan and in former colonial areas of the Japanese empire... Read more

Shin NAKAGAWA is a professor of Asian Culture and Urbanism at Osaka City University. He has been working on soundscape and music in Southeast Asia and Europe. In his presentation professor Nakagawa will discuss how the range of social problems occurring as a result of globalization are clearly and dramatically intensifying after the outbreak of the global financial crisis since 2007... Read more

Anne Mette NIELSEN

Naja NIELSEN is a graduate students at Visual Culture, University of Copenhagen, and one of the creators of the short film Heels on Wheels.... Read more

Anne Nørgaard PAGH

Trine Lykke PEDERSEN

Hans Christian POST is currently writing a PhD at Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen, and making a documentary film on the ongoing endeavor to radically rebuild Berlin's Alexanderplatz....Read more

Henrik REEH is Associate Professor in Humanistic Urban Studies and Modern Culture, and will give two presentations at the seminar, one on the Spirit of the Place, and another about Darkness and Light in the City... Read more

Kazuya SAKURADA is a lecturer of the Urban Research Plaza, Osaka City University. He has 10 years experience of unix-like systems administration as a freelancer....Read more

Martin ZERLANG is Professor in Literature and Modern Culture. A recent competition for Israels Plads, a square in Copenhagen, will serve as an example of how experience, sometimes specified as fun, fear or atmosphere, has become a keyword in the efforts to describe the development of modern urban culture....Read more