Lela Cooper was recently selected as one of the 2025 Husky 100. Lela first learned about and experienced the benefits of Scan Design Foundation as a participant in the Greenland Exploration Seminar led by Dr. Michelle Koutnik at the UW College of the Environment. Lela also pursued a minor in Danish at the UW Scandinavian Studies Department. As part of her graduate program in Urban Design and Planning she participated in the 2024 SDF Interdisciplinary study tour and studio at UW College of Built Environments. She consequently worked with the new Interdisciplinary Scan Design Foundation Professor, Vincent Javet, on her thesis on bicycle planning, for which she returned to Copenhagen last winter to interview several bicycle planners and advocates.

BOLIGLABORATORIUM: A DANISH HOUSING LAB is a joint initiative of the Danish Arts Foundation and Realdania. The U.S. premiere of the exhibition is presented by Seattle-based Scan Design Foundation. The exhibition was first showcased at the 2023 Architectural Congress in Copenhagen. It has been on tour in the Pacific Northwest from November 2024 to May 2025, joining institutions in Seattle and Portland to spur cross-cultural dialogue about how we can build for the needs of today’s communities.