Innovation Academy

Informative Trip to Copenhagen-Malmö

Copenhagen
This Danish metropolis is preparing to present itself in 2015 as the world capitol for sustainability and bicycle traffic. Copenhagen’s Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard has announced that in future, bicycles will be given priority over automobiles. One of the city’s most important traffic veins will become a bicycle thoroughfare. Copenhagen is already leading in other spheres – 97% of all households are connected to distant heating networks, the CO2 emissions per person are less the 5 tons, about half of the German average, and are expected to sink by a further 20% by 2015. The Danish capitol is also setting trends in contemporary architecture.

Albertslund
Only half an hour by city train from Copenhagen lies the community of 30,000 inhabitants that is know in Denmark for its exemplary climate protection policies. In the coming years, according to a master plan, buildings constructed in the 60ies and 70ies will be modernized and become passive energy buildings. The greatest challenge is that these are privately owned row houses. Working with architects, modules have been developed that the owners can install step by step.
In addition Albertslund has a phenomenal reporting system and encourages citizens via its environmental reporting to produce their own micro-reports.

Malmö
The new bridge over the Öresund connects Copenhagen with Sweden’s third largest city which is now only 30 minutes away by city train. Malmö is known for its new city district Västra Hamnen that resulted from the international construction exhibition BoO1 in 2001. Electricity and heating demands are fulfilled100% by renewable energies. Solar collectors over a surface of 1400 m2 on 10 buildings support heat production. In houses organic waste is dumped into a pipe and falls to an underground collection tank that leads to a biogas plant. This biogas moves gas-run busses and supports the production of heat or electricity. The ecological and social restoration of the city’s district of Augustenborg is considered exemplary in all of Sweden.

Programm/Events:

Wednesday: Travel

Thursday: Arrival in Copenhagen.
Bicycle tour through Copenhagen.
Experience the “Green Wave” for cyclists and get a feeling for the Bicycle Capitol.
Lunch
Lecture and discussion with an environmental planer.
Today, with a 36% of traffic, bicycles in Copenhagen are the most important vehicles for getting to and from jobs and school. By 2015, 50% of commutes are projected to be done by bike. Sustainable food, noise protection, reduction in air pollution, and climate protection are further themes. The Office for Technology and Environment will present the project “Eco-metropolis CPH 2015”.

Hedebygade – City Renovation and Energy Renewal
The city district of Vesterbro was once a social hot spot in the Danish capitol. Today it is a popular part of town. Hedebygade, a block with 350 apartments built in the 19th century, is an exemplary project for Copenhagen’s sustainable city district renewal. Modern trends in architecture that are supported by important international architects like Rem Koolhaas and Daniel Libeskind are experiencing a veritable building boom in Copenhagen. The Neue Züricher Zeitung (New Zurich Newspaper) considers the area around the historic inner harbor to be an open museum for contemporary architecture. Weather permitting, you will visit architectural highlights by bicycle. If the weather is bad, the exhibition “What If Architecture Can Change the World – Building Sustainable Communities” in the Danish Architecture Center can be visited.
Overnight Lodging in Copenhagen

Friday: Albertslund
Climate Protection Policies, City Renewal, Agenda 21, Innovative Art Projects in Rent-Controlled Apartments, and Energy Renewal in a middle-sized town: Lecture and visit with the project director.
Lunch

Orestad – Where Copenhagen Continues to Grow.
Orestad covers an area of 767 acres and lies a few kilometers south of Copenhagen’s center. It is the city’s newest development for 20,000 inhabitants. The American top architect Daniel Libeskind drew up the master plan.
Overnight Lodging in Malmö.

Saturday: Visit to city district Västra Hamnen.
The new residential district hosts exciting architecture as well as restaurants, cafes and cultural events. Above it all towers its trademark - Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava’s “Turning Torso”. The car-less district with its recreational areas and service zones has been so built to make cars unnecessary. Pedestrians and bicycle riders have priority.
Visit the city district of Augustenborg with its buildings from the 1950s.
Since 1998, the 1,800 apartments here are being modernized for improved energy use and renovated to meet social and ecological criteria in cooperation with the renters.

Key words: Green Roofs, Rain Water Treatment, Composting, Garbage Separation in new wooden houses, Solar Collectors, Photovoltaic, Car-Sharing, and Appropriate Housing for Seniors.

Return trip

Sunday: Arrival in Freiburg

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