Tools for Change
Jan Gehl: 50 years researching public space & public life!

This is Jan Gehl’s Anniversary Year! Jan has been inspiring us to create cities for people for 50 years. We’re celebrating with a masterclass that will inspire, energize and offer new tools with which to address the complex range of city-wide issues that everyone is facing around the world.

Over the course of three days you will become part of a dialogue about how to make cities for people. Copenhagen will be your laboratory, a place to try-out new tools for measuring and evaluating places, for discussing how quick urban interventions can radically transform and speed-up the process of planning. Along with the Gehl team you will walk-about, bicycle, listen to talks, watch films, engage in the analysis of case studies, join working sessions and eat delicious food; all while forming part of a network of people who are taking-on the challenge of designing cities for people.

Masterclass team

Guest speakers

Itinerary

Day 1 – Getting to Know the Research

Talks & guest talk, case studies, in conversation sessions, urban safari, film screening & dinner
Gehl team: Jan Gehl, David Sim, Henriette Vamberg and Birgitte Bundesen Svarre + guest speaker Tina Saaby.

Day 2 – Investigating the City

Guest talk, case studies, in conversation sessions & bicycle tour
Gehl team: Jan Gehl, David Sim, Camilla van Deurs, Andreas Røhl and Lars Gemzøe + guest speaker Klaus Bondam.

Day 3 – Urban Visions & Change

Talks, case studies, in conversation sessions & evening reception
Gehl team: Jan Gehl, Helle Søholt, David Sim, Jeff Risom, Blaine Merker and Kristian Villadsen.

The masterclass fee Includes light breakfast and lunch for the three days, dinner on the first evening and cocktails on the last day.