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September 23, 2018

Equitable Public Space

The 2018 Studio Project was forecasted to redesign the 15th Ave East commercial node in a way that retained the neighborhood's soul and history while also cultivating a more "public life" culture. Their work was grounded in expressed wishes of the local neighborhood residential and commercial community that was garnered in a workshop in Spring of 2018. The participants of the workshop addressed safety, green space, small businesses, job development, and thoughtful density as their top priorities and concerns. The Studio explored how they can address these desires and will proposed policies, plans designs, and guidelines for improvements to 15th Ave East street and the public realm.

September 1, 2016

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During spring quarter 2016 Scan Design Visiting Professors Sinus Lynge and Tue Hesselberg Foged, founding partners of EFFEKT Architects in Copenhagen, led a graduate design studio in the Department of Architecture at the University of Washington. Co-taught by Associate Professor Peter Cohan, the studio focused on issues of housing in Copenhagen. The scale of inquiry was the perimeter block, a typical development pattern found in the medieval city. The challenge was to try to use this traditional typology to address the lack of affordable housing and the increasing homogenization of neighborhoods in Copenhagen today.

September 1, 2015

The Winter City

In spring 2015, Dan Stubbergaard, founder and creative director of COBE Architects in Copenhagen, served as the Scan|Design Foundation Visiting Professor at the University of Washington in Seattle. In that role Stubbergaard taught a graduate design studio in the Department of Architecture with Associate Professor Peter Cohan. The brief for the studio, “The Winter City,” posited that it was possible, indeed necessary, to create vibrant public spaces for wintertime use - even in cities with northern climates, like Copenhagen or Seattle. Picking up where the seminal work on the development of public spaces in Copenhagen, “Public Spaces Public Life” by Jan Gehl and Lars Gemzøe, leaves off, the studio brief proposes that the cultural life of a winter city can be improved significantly by developing strategies to extend the use of public spaces year-round.

September 1, 2013

Waterfront Seattle

During spring quarter 2013, students and faculty of the UW Department of Architecture welcomed Dorte Mandrup as the Scan|Design Foundation Visiting Distinguished Professor. For the second year in a row, the founder and owner of the award-winning firm Dorte Mandrup Arkitekter, based in Copenhagen, Denmark, came to the University of Washington and led a group of students in an advanced graduate architecture studio, co-taught by Associate Professor Peter Cohan. The primary goal of the studio was to examine how architectural ideas could reinforce the human scale and space of the city. In order to explore critical issues involved in the creation of public space and to contribute in some relevant way to the current architectural debate in Seattle, the studio focused on the Belltown Bluff portion of the new Waterfront Seattle Plan.

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