Collective Experiment 1968 – 2018

SERIES OF TALKS AND FILMS ON COLLECTIVE AND ACTIVIST HOUSING EXPERIMENTS FROM CHRISTIANIA, BZ-SQUATTERS, THE YOUTH HOUSE, ETC. WHAT HAVE WE LEARNED SINCE 1968 AND HOW DO WE EXPERIMENT WITH COLLECTIVE HOUSING TODAY?

50 years after 1968, when experimental collectives and ‘local’ flourished in Denmark, we examine what we learned and what happened afterwards. Celebrate the anniversary of 1968 by using the medium of film and witness accounts to discuss how collective bottom-up initiatives around Christiania, Youth House Jagtvej 69 and Thy camp and join the debate on the development of collective accommodation facilities. The Dutch curator, researcher and activist Rene Boer from research platform Failed Architecture will moderate and perspective to the Netherlands, where BZ culture historically has characterized the urban development by the research and exhibition project The Architecture of Appropriation, a collaboration with Het Nieuwe Instituut in Rotterdam (2017) .

Rene Boer, Failed Architecture and curator of the exhibition and research project The Architecture of Appropriation (NL), Ole Lykke, archivist Christiania, Carsten Hoff, architect and pioneer in Thy camp, Gyda Heding, member of the Copenhagen City Council (SE), active in the squatting movement in the 1980’s.

You can choose to follow the whole program or participate in parts of it.

ARCHITECTURE OF Appropriation

11:00 to 11:45 Presentation of René Boer, Urban geograf (Failed Architecture and Non-Fiction NL)

What if the right to affordable housing, jobs and good living conditions rather than property was the main priority in urban development? Since the 1960s squatters who worked for this idea has been a contribution to urban development by the artist, appropriate parts of the city and change it from the outside in. Through a study of themes such as availability, ownership and collective housing, unfolds research project Architecture of Appropriation how the city’s infrastructure can be adapted to how networks can be reconfigured and how buildings can be rethought.

12:00 to 13:30 Film Viewing BZ Helle Hansen followed by Q & A with ex-squatter Gyda Heding (2006, 72 min)

The film portrays the development a radical youth movement in Nørrebro in Copenhagen. The activists later wrote history under the name ‘BZ’ by virtue of their squatting, street actions and militant confrontations with police. Helle Hansen’s documentary is the first film that detailed study squatter movement’s history.

1:30 p.m. to 14:00 lunch break

LOCAL PERSPECTIVES

Presentations followed by Q & A and moderated by Rene Boer

14:00 to 14:15 Carsten Hoff, architect, active in Thylejrens genesis in 1970,
14.15 to 14.30 Ole Lykke , Christiania Local History Archive
14:30 to 14:45 Gyda Heding , member of the Copenhagen City Council (SE), active in the squatting movement in the 1980s
14:45 to 15:15 Q & A

15.45 to 16.30 Film Viewing byggeeksperimenter in Thylejren during ‘the summer of love’ in 1970 (about 20 min.) By Carsten Hoff with Q & A

The event will be in english / event will be in English. Just show up and buy your ticket direkt at the venue.