Articles by Cajsa Carlson

The next part of today’s VDF collaboration with ArkDes features a video interview with Australian artist Linda Tegg, who has temporarily rewilded the car park outside Sweden’s national centre for architecture and design. Tegg has added thousands of plants to the asphalt of the Exercisplan car park for the installation, which is called Infield. The

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In the second part of our VDF collaboration with film-makers Laura Mark and Jim Stephenson, we screen the first episode of the duo’s Practice series, in which architect Piers Taylor of Invisible Studio explains why he built his own house in the woods. Mark and Stephenson’s documentary series Practice focuses on the process of making

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The final talk for Virtual Design Festival’s partnership with CAMP sees Brooklyn and Detroit-based architecture studio Interboro share its views on public space interventions and urban planning. “How can the built environment support, increase or play a role, at least, in the idea of the public sphere as one of playful interaction?” Interboro co-founder Tobias

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As part of today’s collaboration with CAMP, VDF is showing this lecture where Danish architecture studio COBE explains how it helped make Copenhagen one of the most liveable cities in the world. COBE, which was founded in 2006, primarily works in three fields: urbanism, architecture and public space, the studio’s project director Thomas Krarup explained

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