Congratulations to our industrial PhD researcher, Simon Sjökvist, on the successful defence of his industrial PhD: Redevelopment, Replacement, Repair.
His dissertation critically examines contemporary urban redevelopment practices in Copenhagen, exploring two key questions:
The first concerns redevelopment as both a historical and contemporary approach to planning, urban design, and architecture, and its relationship to broader urban and environmental agendas.
The second explores the potential for, and barriers to, expanding preservation, reuse, and repair within redevelopment, as shaped by changing practices of construction, demolition, replacement, and reuse in the context of the ecological crises.
At a time when the built environment must rethink its impact, the research offers valuable perspectives on how we move forward more responsibly.
This industrial PhD is the result of a strong collaboration between Cobe,
@kglakademi ,
@aalborguni and
@ethzurich , and has been supervised by Professor Dean Simpson, and Cobe’s Head of Sustainability Jacob Blak, along with co-supervisors Professor Jonna Majgaard, Professor Harpa Birgisdottir, and Professor Silke Lanbenberg.
Thank you to
@innovationsfonden for supporting the project.
Graphic design by
@studio.atlant .
