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RESEARCH GROUPS

Urban Design - Transformation and Mobilities
The research group is the only urban design research
group in Denmark and we customize interdisciplinary and
critical-creative research methods to the specificities of
people and places, to inquiry into critical agendas for cities
and territories. The group seeks to create knowledge that can
influence the creation of sustainable urban futures. The re-
search undertaken critically investigates how these futures,
are and for whom. Our dynamic research in the field of urban
design is grounded by two key components. Firstly, how can
we reimagine our built, lived and experienced environment
to create new futures, and secondly, to situate our findings
and results through action, in the form of practical design
solutions, policies, curatorial experiments and strategies.

The research covers the rapid change of our cities in the post
millennium period, focusing on the investigation of differ-
ent methods and approaches in order to create tools that
can support a more sustainable and long-term proof urban
development. Our research pays particular attention to the
entanglement of the physical and built environment with social,
cultural and political aspects of urban life. How commuting,
everyday life transport, digital media, new production and con-
sumption patterns have effects beyond mere displacement of
people, information and goods. Thus, the networked patterns of
contemporary urbanity are sites of social, spatial, cultural, and
technological transformation, which is explored in the interdis-
ciplinary research agenda of transforming and mobile cities.

WEB:
www.create.aau.dk/research/urban-design-transformation

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