THE LIVEABLE CITY a CELEBRATION of ARCHITECTURE and URBAN PLANNING London, 13 – 16 JUNE 2017

THE LIVEABLE CITY A CELEBRATION OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING London, 13 – 16 JUNE 2017

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The Liveable City is a celebration of architecture and urban planning where central and local government, businesses, politicians, professionals and the general public take part in talks, seminars and debates. The four-day event features seminars addressing the question of how to find new ways in which cities can become better places to live, work and play as well as increase quality of life for everyone. The Liveable City will have seminars on masterplanning, housing, air quality, smart cities, cycling, climate adaptation, education and district heating. The event is organised by the Royal Danish Embassy in London in partnership with RIBA and is proud to form part of the official program for the London Festival of Architecture.

In Partnership with: MASTERPLANNING AND URBAN DEVELOPMENT PUTTING PEOPLE FIRST

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We all want to create liveable cities in which people thrive and prosper, but how? The TUESDAY 13 JUNE Liveable City’s opening seminar focuses on the political process of moving from vision to 08:30 – 09:00 Registration action, bringing in experiences from recent 09:00 – 12:00 Seminar years where cities around the world have undergone a remarkable transformation. VENUE: Royal Danish Embassy, 55 Sloane Street, London SW1X 9SR Chair: For more information, please contact Lucy Carmichael, Director of Practice, RIBA Rasmus Leth Tranberg, [email protected] Conference opening speech: Claus Grube, Danish Ambassador to the UK Speakers: FREE ADMISSION – sign up at Tina Saaby, Chief City Architect, Copenhagen https://liveable-city-masterplan.eventbrite. co.uk Municipality Kim Herforth Nielsen, Partner, 3XN Roger Madelin, Head of Canada Water Development, British Land Ian Lindsay, Land & Property Director, Crossrail Deirdra Armsby, Director of Regeneration and Planning, London Borough of Newham THE LIVEABLE CITY A CELEBRATION OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING • LONDON 13 – 16 JUNE 2017 ORGANISED BY THE ROYAL DANISH EMBASSY IN LONDON HOUSING ACCELERATING DELIVERY

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Delivery of housing is at the top of the political agenda, but how do we ensure that the demand TUESDAY 13 JUNE for more housing is met by a supply of well-de- 12:30 – 13:00 Registration signed, energy efficient homes? The seminar focuses on new and innovative approaches to 13:00 – 15:30 Seminar accelerate delivery of homes, which are sustainable – socially, economically and environ- VENUE: Royal Danish Embassy, 55 Sloane mentally. Street, London SW1X 9SR

For more information, please contact Chair Rasmus Leth Tranberg, [email protected] Steve Partridge, Director of Housing Consultancy, Savills Speakers: FREE ADMISSION – sign up at Tina Saaby, Chief City Architect, Copenhagen https://liveable-city-social-housing.eventbrite. Municipality co.uk Claus Gade, Partner, Nova5 Steve Coleman, Director of Development and Investment, Lewisham Homes Martin Feakes, Market Director for Buildings, Ramboll Nick Hayes, Property Director, Unite Students

THE LIVEABLE CITY A CELEBRATION OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING • LONDON 13 – 16 JUNE 2017 ORGANISED BY THE ROYAL DANISH EMBASSY IN LONDON AIR QUALITY CREATING A HEALTHIER CITY

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Air quality is a highly topical issue for a good reason: The air we breathe is foundational WEDNESDAY 14 JUNE for our health. We all know that poor air quality is detrimental to human welfare and 08:30 – 09:00 Registration a very costly burden for a society’s health 09:00 – 12:00 Seminar system, but to change the status quo takes political will. In this seminar, we will look VENUE: Royal Danish Embassy, 55 Sloane closely at solutions that can make our cities Street, London SW1X 9SR healthier for all, improve the air quality and For more information, please contact lower the pollution. Rasmus Leth Tranberg, [email protected]

Chair: Dr. Gary Fuller, Environmental Research FREE ADMISSION – sign up at Group, King’s College London https://liveable-city-air-quality.eventbrite.co.uk Speakers: Sara Røpke, Head of Department, The Danish Environmental Protection Agency Jakob Strømann-Andersen, Partner, Henning Larsen Architects Ned Johnson, Air Quality Manager, Borough of Enfield Elliot Treharne, Air Quality Manager, GLA Leapcraft THE LIVEABLE CITY A CELEBRATION OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING • LONDON 13 – 16 JUNE 2017 ORGANISED BY THE ROYAL DANISH EMBASSY IN LONDON SMART CITY EFFICIENCY THROUGH BIG DATA AND SUPPORTNING TECHNOLOGIES

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Big data and IoT technologies can help managing and building smart cities that WEDNESDAY 14 JUNE improve our lives. This seminar looks at how cities can benefit from gathering information, 12:30 – 13:00 Registration use it to make informed decisions and to 13:00 – 16:00 Seminar make cities smarter. It will highlight innovative smart city solutions from the UK and Denmark VENUE: Royal Danish Embassy, 55 Sloane and facilitate a dialogue around innovative Street, London SW1X 9SR solutions to urban challenges. For more information, please contact Rasmus Leth Tranberg, [email protected] Chair: Elaine Trimble, Director for Urban Infrastructure, Siemens

FREE ADMISSION – sign up at Speakers: https://liveable-city-smart-city.eventbrite.co.uk Andrew Collinge, Assistant Director, Greater London Authority Teddy Larsen, Project Leader, DOLL Living Lab Trine B. Stoltenborg & Søren H. Knudsen Smart City Consultant, Kamstrup Jim Short, Technology Sales Manager, Smart Parking Kieran Fitsall, Head of Service improvement & Transformation, Westminster City Council THE LIVEABLE CITY Léan Doody, Associate Director, Arup A CELEBRATION OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING • LONDON 13 – 16 JUNE 2017 ORGANISED BY THE ROYAL DANISH EMBASSY IN LONDON CYCLING AND CONNECTIVITY CITIES IN MOTION

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Smooth transportation is a major challenge, but nonetheless foundational for a liveable WEDNESDAY 14 JUNE city. In this seminar, we look at how future cities might enable people to travel even 17:00 – 17:30 Registration more actively by bike, how this can help 17:30 – 19:30 Seminar improve traffic safety, attract tourists and create healthy, people-friendly environments that can reduce congestion, pollution and VENUE: Royal Danish Embassy, 55 Sloane carbon emission as well as help cities cope Street, London SW1X 9SR with growing populations and workforces. For more information, please contact Jakob Holm, [email protected] Chair: Dr. Tom Cohen, Senior Research Associate, UCL Centre for Transport Studies FREE ADMISSION – sign up at Speakers: https://liveable-city-cycling.eventbrite.co.uk Gustav Friis, Project Manager, Smart Mobility, Aarhus Municipality Dr. Will Norman, Walking and Cycling Commissioner, Greater London Authority Ole Kassow, Founder and CEO, Cycling Without Age Robin Snell, Founder of Robin Snell Architects and Partner of Bystrup Architects THE LIVEABLE CITY A CELEBRATION OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING • LONDON 13 – 16 JUNE 2017 ORGANISED BY THE ROYAL DANISH EMBASSY IN LONDON CLIMATE ADAPTATION CREATING FLOOD RESILIENT URBAN AREAS

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Climate change means that we have to prepare our cities for heavy downpours THURSDAY 15 JUNE and flash flooding. It makes clever flooding solutions, the use of geographical data and 08:30 – 09:00 Registration digital tools to analyse risk a requirement. 09:00 – 12:00 Seminar It also adds value because sustainable, landscape-based rainwater handling can bring VENUE: Royal Danish Embassy, 55 Sloane nature back to our cities. Street, London SW1X 9SR Chair: For more information, please contact Kirsten Guida, Manager, London Climate Rasmus Leth Tranberg, [email protected] Change Partnership Speakers: Simon Toft Ingvertsen, Project Leader, EnviDan

FREE ADMISSION – sign up at Thomas Mølhave, CTO, Co-Founder, Scalgo https://liveable-city-climate-adaptation. John Kissi, Flood Risk Manager, Southwark eventbrite.co.uk Council Bodil V. Henningsen, Master Strategic Planner, Aalborg Municipality Nick Ayling, Senior Water Manager, Thames Water

Andrew Eden, Senior Flood Risk Manager, Environmental Agency THE LIVEABLE CITY A CELEBRATION OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING • LONDON 13 – 16 JUNE 2017 ORGANISED BY THE ROYAL DANISH EMBASSY IN LONDON EDUCATION AND LIVEABLILTY CREATING THE BEST LERNING ENVIRONMENT

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Good school buildings have a significant and positive impact on pupil behaviour, THURSDAY 15 JUNE educational outcomes, engagement and wellbeing. In this seminar, we will focus 12:30 – 13:00 Registration on the correlation between the physical 13:00 – 16:00 Seminar learning environment and the ability to learn and thrive with examples of good design VENUE: Royal Danish Embassy, 55 Sloane from schools and universities in the UK and Street, London SW1X 9SR Denmark. For more information, please contact Chair: Rasmus Leth Tranberg, [email protected] David Slater, Director, London & Partners Speakers: Ann Bodnik, Head of Design and FREE ADMISSION Specification, Education and Skills Founding https://liveable-city-education.eventbrite.co.uk Agency (ESFA) Nick Hopper, Technical Director, Monodraught Jacob Kurek, Partner, Henning Larsen Architects Nick Mirchanandani, Director, Architecture PLB SteensenVarming THE LIVEABLE CITY A CELEBRATION OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING • LONDON 13 – 16 JUNE 2017 ORGANISED BY THE ROYAL DANISH EMBASSY IN LONDON DISTRICT HEATING DELIVERING AFFORDABLE HEAT

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Heat networks are the most energy efficient way of heating houses as well as being an FRIDAY 16 JUNE environmentally very friendly solution and hence future-proof. In this seminar, we’ll 08:30 – 09:00 Registration focus on practical ways of reaching low or 09:00 – 12:00 Seminar preferably zero carbon by connecting to heat networks (district heating). We’ll look at how VENUE: Royal Danish Embassy, 55 Sloane district heating can help social landlords Street, London SW1X 9SR deliver energy efficient homes, tackle fuel For more information, please contact poverty, reduce carbon emissions and Rasmus Leth Tranberg, [email protected] improve energy security, and examples from Danish cities and London will be presented.

FREE ADMISSION https://liveable-city-education.eventbrite.co.uk

THE LIVEABLE CITY A CELEBRATION OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING • LONDON 13 – 16 JUNE 2017 ORGANISED BY THE ROYAL DANISH EMBASSY IN LONDON HOW TO RUN A PROFITABLE PRACTICE THE FOUNDATION FOR VISIONARY DESIGN

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Architects create great architecture but do they make money? Successful firms recog- FRIDAY 16 JUNE nize that in order to have the freedom to create great architecture, the practice needs 08:30 – 09:00 Registration to be run as a healthy business. 09:00 – 10:30 Seminar In this regard, AutoPilot is the industry standard for project management software in VENUE: Royal Danish Embassy, 55 Sloane Denmark because of its market share of over Street, London SW1X 9SR 50% and its proven track record: In 2016 the For more information, please contact Per industry of the Architects in Denmark faced Kaag Andersen, [email protected] an increase in profit of DKK 100 Million com- pared to 2015. Companies using AutoPilot as project management tool achieved 82% FREE ADMISSION of the growth in profit despite representing only 58% of the industry turnover. https://liveable-city-profitable-architects. At this seminar, the founder of AutoPilot, eventbrite.co.uk Jørgen Korsgaard, will lay out the main principles for running a financially sound architectural practice.

Speaker: Jørgen Korsgaard, Founder, AutoPilot

THE LIVEABLE CITY A CELEBRATION OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING • LONDON 13 – 16 JUNE 2017 ORGANISED BY THE ROYAL DANISH EMBASSY IN LONDON HYGGE AND ARCHITECTURE THE HUMAN ELEMENT IN ARCITECTURE

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The Danish word for comfortable living is gaining attention around the world as de- MONDAY 13 JUNE signers and architects look for ways to foster wellness in buildings. The interest in the 18:00 – 21:00 Evening reception Danish cultural traditions of hygge can help VENUE: Royal Danish Embassy, 55 Sloane us looking inward at human culture and what Street, London SW1X 9SR makes us feel at home. At the opening reception of The Liveable City, Marie Hesseldahl For more information and registration, Larsen will talk about how the philosophy of please contact Rasmus Leth Tranberg, hygge can be incorporated into the design [email protected] and architecture of buildings as an important part of creating a more liveable atmosphere.

Speaker: Marie Hesseldahl Larsen, Partner, 3XN

THE LIVEABLE CITY A CELEBRATION OF ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN PLANNING • LONDON 13 – 16 JUNE 2017 ORGANISED BY THE ROYAL DANISH EMBASSY IN LONDON