GUIDED TOUR OF THE FESTIVAL CITY
For eight days a year, the Roskilde Festival is Denmark’s fourth-largest city. An impressive logistical accomplishment in which almost all the elements of a standard city are constructed as full-scale and fully functioning mock-ups: large public spaces, small intimate meeting places, quirky niches, recreational landscapes, cultural monuments, bedroom communities, assembly halls, restaurants, hospital emergency departments, shortcuts to a rendezvous and prototypes of future street furnishings – physical settings for new social interactions that have yet to be invented. Every year, this temporary urban experiment attracts many visiting architects and planners.
This year, together with members of the festival staff and volunteers, I guided visiting groups around the festive city, including a group of colleagues from the Royal Danish Academy.