Tag: English
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Meet Noreen Ali
Noreen Ali is an artist originally from Pakistan, currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Copenhagen. She is passionate about rethinking and decolonizing the food system, with a focus on the potential of “Symbioscene-ry”, which advocates for symbiotic, multispecies co-existence. At NXT, we are excited to welcome Noreen Ali as an intern this fall, where she…
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Multispecies Postcards
Multispecies Postcards is an analogue format developed by NXT and inspired by our year-long activation with the Garden Caretaker project in Herlev. Through creative and poetic writing, we tune into the voices of other species, exploring their thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Imagine seeing the world through the eyes of a kestrel, an oak tree, or…
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Yale diaries
Diary by artistic director at NXT, Madeleine Kate McGowan, from her journey to Yale School of Architecture this Spring 2024, as she was invited as guest-reviewer on the final presentations by students attending the seminar ‘Feral Surfaces – Multi Species Architecture’. — While the cherry-blossom trees were in early bloom in New York City, I…
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Moving away from separation
New European Bauhaus is an initiative that aims to connect the EU Green Deal with our daily lives and ways of living. One of the outcomes from the New European Bauhaus Festival in Brussels this April was a White Paper made by the multidisciplinary design institute, Dark Matter Labs, about A New European Bauhaus economy. The paper highlights key challenges embedded in the built environment,…
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NXT at New European Bauhaus festival
Being at the New European Bauhaus Festival 2024, is a dynamic and touching experience. Set at the spectacular Art & History Museum in Brussels, holding a vibrant space for policy-makers, regenerative farmers, artists, community builders and many more to interact, share and explore. As the New European Bauhaus describe the movement: Beautiful, sustainable, together. NXT was invited to…
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Article by Nikolaj Schultz: Major Tom at the farm: Rearticulating freedom in our new climatic regime
Article by Nikolaj Schultz, Sociologist & writer for The NXT: Garden of Desire. This article is based on the conviction that if political ecology is to succeed in creating political results and competing on an equal footing with the ideologies that defined the 19th and 20th centuries, then it must offer a concept of freedom…
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Seeing the city as a garden
Article by landscape architect and researcher Anna Aslaug Lund about Human-made urban landscapes for The NXT magazine: Garden of Desire. In essence, as physical spaces that contain multiple lives and stories, could we not then describe cities as remodeled landscapes? Landscapes that have been carved, molded, split, fitted out by humans over decades, centuries, millennia. And…
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Resonance and artistic practice
Like a gigantic raindrop fallen from the sky, on the outskirts of an old industrial compound, lies a shiny spherical construction. It does not resemble any of the other buildings in the neighborhood, and has, with its transparent structure, an apparent fragility. Here, one is neither outside nor inside. Or rather, one is precisely both.…
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In the beginning was nature
On a symbolic level, the garden is our original home, a hortus conclusus, an architectural composition of earth, a material metaphor for our relation to nature. The gardens, which the hands of humans have cut, trimmed, cropped, watered; these shapes, figures and collections, tell us something about ourselves as a species. Different times have brought forth…
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NXT at UIA World Congress of Architects
As a part of the Desire panel debate at UIA World Congress of Architects CPH 2023, Madeleine Kate McGowan represented NXT in discussion on beauty as a part of the green transition in the built environment, in front of a full auditorium at Bella Center, Copenhagen. Apart from NXT, the panel featured Enlai Hooi (Senior Associate & Head…
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Stedets Væsen at Yale
The other day Artistic leader of Stedets Væsen [Being of Place], Madeleine Kate McGowan, presented our work via a videocall for a group of 15 students at Yale University, USA, invested in designing for the multi-species city. Artistic leader Madeleine Kate McGowan, presenting at Yale University, 2023 Stedets Væsen, which is a part of The…
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NXT in Paris
Just before the beginning of 2023, NXT exhibited in Paris under the title Place of Encounter – An exhibition of earthly dialogues. It was a gathering of all our NXT Magazine contributors and a celebration of the collaboration with Paris-based 1909 Bookstore. Together with 1909 Bookstore, we invited guests to explore and immerse themselves in a series…
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Breathing layers of time
Tid kan opleves på mange måder – som dyb tid, cirkulær, opdelt og systematiseret. Tids-oplevelserne ligger som et fundament for den måde vi organiserer vore samfund. I følge tids-forsker Christina Berg Johansen er vi på vej ind i en helt ny dimension af tid. Breathing layers of time er episode nummer syv i en serie af fortællinger. Vi…
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Politics of listening
We do not just listen. Listening has been shaped by the technological devices of the 19th century and being a present listener is revolutionary, as Canadian composer Hildegard Westercamp puts it. In this episode we meet up with Sound Historian, Melissa Van Drie, to talk about ‘Politics of Listening’; and the revolutionary potential of listening.…