The 8th annual World in Denmark, Copenhagen 27th- 28th- 29th June: City PLANTastic

World in Denmark 2012: City PLANTastic NEW DEADLINE: 11 June 2012

Programme

The city is going green. From New York to Copenhagen vegetables are enthusiastically planted on city squares, and buildings are turning green everywhere . The word “plant” is on everyone’s lips, reflecting a growing desire to solve ecological, technical and social challenges in the city.

Hovever, any attempt to create a green city is motivated by certain ecological, political and esthetical perspectives. Therefore the role of plants in tomorrows cities is everything but straightforward. Rather, a broad range of possibilities unfolds.

City PLANTastic is the title of the 8th World in Denmark conference, which invites you to discuss the contemporary tendencies for a greener city. Come and listen to five international key note speakers, whose projects have showed new directions for planting in urban spaces:

The conference presents key note speakers from landscape architecture, urban design and urbanism, who reflect upon the multiple roles of plants in the future city through their most recent projects. The theme for the 2012 World in Denmark conference is City PLANTastic, which will also be explored by researchers through their works.

Price
27 June conference day with key note speakers:        
Normal participants DKK 2.800
Phd students / Suscribers of the Forest & landscape Extension service DKK 2.200
Students DKK 500
27 & 28 June conference day and presentation by researchers:    
Normal participants DKK 3.500
Phd students / Suscribers of the Forest & landscape Extension service DKK 2.800
Students DKK 700
28 June conference dinner (optional) :  DKK 450
29 June Post  conference Tour A (optional): DKK 300       
29 June Post  conference Tour B (optional): DKK 300

The conference will take place at the Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Copenhagen.
More information about the conference rooms to come later.

World in Denmark 2012 is organised by Copenhagen University, Forest and Landscape, The research group for landscape architecture and -urbanism (Danish) in collaboration with the research group for plants and technology.

Book presentation – Landscape Architecture Europe