TALK ON THE TEMPORARY FESTIVAL CITY
Talk and guided tour for architects, planners and civic actors at Roskilde Festival. The story of a temporary city that is, nonetheless, Denmark’s fourth-largest city for eight days a year. A huge logistical achievement that contains virtually all the elements of a conventional city as full-scale, functioning mock-ups: large open spaces, small intimate meeting places, funky niches, recreational landscapes, cultural monuments, bedroom communities, assembly halls, eateries, emergency rooms, shortcuts to romantic encounters and prototypes of future urban furnishings – physical settings for new ways social interactions that have yet to emerge. The festival is the biggest Mockup City in Denmark, if not all of Northern Europe.
This event is followed up by the knowledge festival GRASP in September and a recently published publication, which you can download here