CO-CREATING THE STORY OF LIFE BETWEEN FREDERIKSBERG’S BUIL DINGS HIDDEN GEMS N ordreF asanvejKvarteret How temporary CO- CREATIVE urbanism fosters social networks and reveals existing potentials Anaïs Lora 45 ECTS MSc Thesis June 2013 Supervisors Anne Tietjen Trine Agervig Carstensen Jeff Risom Centre for Forest & Landscape Faculty of Science University of Copenhagen ABSTRACT Anaïs Lora ‘‘Born in Paris, I graduated from the Paris Ecole Spéciale des Travaux Publics with a Masters in Building Engineering and from Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris La Villette with a Bachelors in Architecture. Looking for a holistic understanding of the urban environment and its complex and multi-layered interaction with people, I am currently completing my Master’s degree at Copenhagen University MR XLI ½IPH SJ 0ERHWGETI %VGLMXIGXYVI and Urban Design. Through a realization that people are the key in developing regenerative neighbourhoods, I am now venturing into co-creative urbanism.’’ The Story of Frederiksberg’s Hidden Gems explores co-creative urbanism Sandra B. Helgason Alexandra Chairetaki through the process analysis of a temporary intervention, Frederiksberg’s Hidden Gems, that took place on Kong Georgs Vej and Dronning Olgas Vej on Friday the 31st of May 2013 and was realised together with local citizens, Frederiksberg Experience (the union of Frederiksberg’s local businesses), different departments of the Municipality of Frederiksberg and the student association, Creative Roots. The intervention had multi-layered purposes: to create synergies between the existing networks, to reveal the qualities of the neighbourhood, its residents and activities, and to engage the locals into a meaningful transformation of their neighbourhood. Before becoming the initiator and coordinator of Frederikbserg’s Hidden Gems, I founded the association Creative Roots in August 2012. After building up the association network through other projects, I used it as a tool to navigate between Lucia De Luca The Co|Urbanists the different stakeholders in order to create the necessary synergies that brought this thesis project to life. This book offers an overview of the background setting, the realization process, the local people, their activities and networks. I relate here details on the co-creative process, its successes and failures, its synchronicities and challenges, while drawing out local knowledge of the area’s social networks and activities, practical learning on civic engagement tools and recommendations for co-creation applied to starting a local urban renewal program. The Supervisors Trine Agervig Carstensen 45 ECTS MSc Thesis The Story of Frederiksberg’s Hidden Gems reports my individual thesis project, Student Anaïs Lora - pfh904 which takes its roots in a thesis group work of preliminary analysis that is presented in the book Common Ground, realized by the four ‘Co|Urbanists’. Supervisors Anne Tietjen - Assistant Professor However, this present book constitutes a whole in itself and can be read Trine Agervig Carstensen - Assistant Professor Jeff Risom - Head of Gehl Institute separately. Centre for Forest & Landscape Faculty of Science Key words: co-creation, participation, temporary, interventions, civic University of Copenhagen engagement, network, synergy, Frederiksberg, Nordre Fasanvej, Kong June 2013 Georgs vej, Dronning Olgas vej Anne Tietjen Jeff Risom 2 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Brian Hansen Westerheim Sine Lyons Nordre Fasanvej Kvarteret Områdefornyelse Project Leader Frederiksberg Experience Project Leader Frederiksberg’s Hidden Gems would not have been possible without the Bettina Lamm Charlotte Bagger Brandt special help of the associate professors from the University of Copenhagen, Anne Tietjen and Trine Agervig Carstensen, who created the opportunity of the Co-Creative Urbanism thesis group and offered their constructive critiques as supervisors, and the project leader of the Områdefornyelse Nordre Fasanvej Kvarteret from Frederiksberg Municipality, Brian Hansen Urban Play Westerheim, who supported the initiative from the early beginning. Initators & Facilitators I also thank the other Co|Urbanists, Sandra B. Helgason, Lucia de Luca, and Alexandra Chairetaki for our fruitful exchanges, friendly support and common work throughout the thesis period. The thesis group is also thankful to Bettina Lamm, Karina Sehested, Amelle Tardivaux and Jeff Risom for their valuable inputs and critiques as guests in our content and critique workshops. I personally thank Jeff Risom, head of Gehl Institute at Gehl Architects, who FIGEQIERI\XVEWYTIVZMWSVJSVQ]XLIWMWERHKEZIQIXLI½VWXHIGMWMZI impulse that led to the creation of the association Creative Roots and the realization of Frederiksberg’s Hidden Gems. Kultur og Fritid KUBE 52 Weeks of activities Project Leader I would also like to thank the long list of people I met on the way of this one-year adventure of the co-creations of Creative Roots and Frederiksberg’s Hidden Gems: local citizens, decision-makers, professionals, and passionate students who offered me their time, their trust, their portraits and more. Hanne S. Nissen Marianne Hovmand Among them, I have special thoughts to Bettina Lamm and Charlotte Bagger Brandt for the great opportunity and inspiration that was Urban KulturalContainer Gruppen Jens Degerbøl Bente Dahl Play and connecting me to Hanne S. Nissen; Hanne S. Nissen for believing Initiator & Co-creator in Creative Roots before Creative Roots [EW FSVR MRMXMEXMRK SYV ½VWX partnership under the name KulturContainer Gruppen and orienting my interest towards KUBE in Flintholm; Lene Schaumburg from ZARK and the many professionals who supported Creative Roots with their advice; Marianne Hovmand from Kultur og Fritid at the Municipality of Frederiksberg for welcoming Creative Roots in the project KUBE 52 Weeks of Activities, trusting and supporting through advice and funding the new student association’s projects; Gertrud Jørgensen and Karen Sejr representing the Smedekollektivet department of Landscape Architecture at University of Copenhagen, who Active Residents 4 also supported Creative Roots with funding; Sine Lyons from Frederiksberg Jette Lynnerup Experience for trusting my capacities, sharing her practical experience and network and starting a tight and intense creative partnership between the FDKC union of Frederiksberg’s businesses and the student association for FRB Day School Leader Dage; Jens Degerbøl from the Smedekollektivet for supporting my initiative with enthusiasm, offering time, help, local knowledge through walks, stories and books during the co-creation process and the guided tour Stories from the past and present at the event; Bente Dahl and the close neighbours of the Smedekollektivet for organizing the Sommerfest Planning; Hanna Jette Lynnerup Feddersen, together with the staff and the students from Frederiksberg Project Coordinator Daghøjskole og Kursuscenter for their numerous portraits and taking their activities outdoors; Jette Lynnerup for welcoming me at Betaniahjemmet, Hanna Feddersen facilitating my exchange with the residents and organizing Betaniahjemmet Simon Wiboe WLS[WEVXERH½PQ; Usama Sherif from Frederiksberg Snedkeri for offering the wood of the portrait gallery; Albert Simon Wiboe also from Frederiksberg Snedkeri for his professional helping hand during FRB Dage; Tina Grunwald from AMOR for the costumes from the past; Mikko Seppinen and Helena Hertz Melkjorsen from Mysore Yoga CPH for the free try-out yoga classes; Frederiksberg Snedkeri Maria Kynne and all the members of Stjernekoret for singing outdoors in Carpenter Stjernen; Lars Kræmmer and all the others who are too many to quote from the atelier Kong Georgs Vej for organizing an open house; Jannie Rydahl Magnussen and Ditte Klerens Søndergaard from Nordre Fasanvej Kvarteret Områdefornyelse for participating in the walk Imagine the future; and Kristine Ericson her contribution in the last minute help with editing Usama Sherif of this present book. Frederiksberg Snedkeri Owner & Manager Finally, I would like to thank all the courageous ones who took part in the active team of Creative Roots (Sandra B. Helgason, Søren Schaumburg, Heidi Thorstensen, Sidsel Genee, Jacob Coln, Thomas Kerekes, Lucia De Luca, Victor Aalund-Olsen, Adam Roiget, Ana Santini, Pauline De Gorostarzu, Alexandra Chairetaki) for their time, work and passion invested in the co- creation process of this association as well as all the students, professionals and local citizens, who participated in one or more of our events for Mysore Yoga CPH making our motto Meet & Create alive and bringing ideas to life. Owners & Teachers Mikko Seppinen Helena Hertz Melkjorsen Anaïs Lora Maria Kynne Lars Kræmmer June 2013 Stjernekoret Singer and Teacher Atelier Kong Georgs Vej Visual Artist 6 ABSTRACT ACKNOWLEDGEMENT CONTENT 2 4 CONTENT COMMON FOCUS PROBLEM INTRODUCTION GROUND SITE FORMULATION 8 12 18 22 PROJECT PROJECT PROJECT IN BRIEF METHODOLOGY TIMELINE 10 23 24 26 1.1 1.2 1.3 PROJECT 1 POLITICAL LEGAL URBAN SOCIAL LOCAL NETWORKS BACKGROUND CONTEXT CONSTRAINTS 32 34 36 This book offers an overview of the background setting, the realisation SETTING process of the project Frederiksberg’s Hidden Gems and its evaluation. 1.4 CREATIVE ROOTS The introduction sets the project into its general context and explains how and why the project was initiated and what its objectives and methods 28 30 38 were. 2.1 2.2 2.3 2 GETTING CREATING CO-DESIGNING Three parts constitute the section project: CO-ACTION IN TOUCH SYNERGIES TEMPORARY - the background