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About 'Spaces of Danish Welfare'

Spaces of Danish Welfare is funded by Danish Council for Independent Research. The research period runs from 1.9.2017 to 31.5.2022. Head of the research project is Kirsten Marie Raahauge. 

The research group has been supplemented by researchers from KADK. In this way we have enhanced the research field at KADK and prosper from the findings of our colleges’ research. 

At the start of the research project we were the following researchers: anthropologist, Max Pedersen (collective housing); architect Runa Johannesson (super hospitals); architect Katrine Lotz (inclusion in elementary schools); architect Deane Simpson (security in public space); architect Merete Ahnfeldt-Mollerup (district psychiatry) and anthropologist Kirsten Marie Raahauge (the outskirts). 

The following researchers have become part of the research group after its start: architect Louise Dedenroth Høj (dementia care facilities); architect Niels Grønbæk (crematoria); art historian Dag Petersson (waiting rooms); art historian Martin Søberg (the architecture of Kay Fisker); architect Jesper Pagh (The contribution of architecture to the welfare society) and student of anthropology Iben Holck (The residential area Tingbjerg). Also, our coordinator, architect Susanne Eeg is always an important part of our group. Merete Ahnfeldt-Mollerup and Dag Peterson have both left the Spaces of Danish Welfare-project after having contributed significantly to the project. This is also the fact concerning Iben Holck, who has obtained a master of art in anthropology. 

Our advisory board is important for our progression; The members are the leading researchers of many of our fields of study. The Advisory Board consists of:

  • Helena Mattsson, Docent and Professor, KTH School of Architecture, Stockholm
  • Sten Gromark, Dr. Professor, Chalmers University of Technology, Unit for Building Design, Göteborg
  • Lars Bo Kaspersen, Professor, Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy, CBS
  • Claus Bech-Danielsen, Professor, The Danish Building Research Institute, University of Aalborg
  • Clare Melhuish, Dr., Principal Research Fellow and Co-Director UCL Urban Laboratory, London
  • Alison Clarke, Dr., Professor, University of Applied Arts, Vienna
  • Maja Hojer Bruun, PhD, associate professor, Department of pedagogical anthropology, DPU, AU
  • Steffen Jöhncke, PhD, visiting researcher, Department of pedagogical anthropology, DPU, AU 

Furthermore, we cooperate with several research networks and research projects :

  • Bevica Inclusive Design, research project at KADK (Masashi Kajita, Jonna Majgaard Krarup et al.)
  • APEN, research project at KADK (René Kural et al.)
  • Research into Danish prison Architecture, Dignity. Danish Institute against Torture (Tomas Max Martin et al.)
  • Reconfiguring Welfare Landscapes. FKK-funded research project, Section for Landscape, Architecture and Planning, KU (Ellen Braae et. al.)
  • Nordic Models for Architecture and Welfare Network (Thordis Arrhenius et al.).