Feeling the City
Tina Saaby
Tina Saaby, city architect, Gladsaxe, Copenhagen
2023
Event
The lecture starts at 6:30 pm. At this time, a player will be displayed here with which you can access the livestream.
Topic
In her lecture Tina Saaby will share some of her learnings from being city architect in Copenhagen, designing the city as partner in WITRAZ architects and from conversations with citymakers, politicians and citizens around the world. She will reflect on element as climate change, placemaking, bikeculture, nature in the city and how to create cities for and with people.
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Tina Saaby
Tina Saaby graduated from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture and has more than 20 years of professional experience designing and managing projects partly as partner of Witraz Architects and as Vice President of the Danish Architects´ Association.
She is working now as an urban expert at Jan Gehl Architects and owner of Tina Saaby Copenhagen. Since April 2020 she is city architect of Gladsaxe, a part of greater Copenhagen.
Here she helps the politicians and administration to build up the position with a cityarchitect, creating a new architecture policy and to implement a broad urban strategic approach to urban development.
In 2019 she received the honorary membership of the Association of German Architects (BDA).
photo © Agnes Saaby Thomsen
Work
Being the Chief City Architect in Copenhagen from 2010 to 2019, Tina Saaby has been involved in developing new neighbourhoods, existing neighbourhoods, deprived areas and a lot of strategies for big areas like the harbour, the inner city, wild nature area etc. She had a leading role in developing a new vision for the city, called Co-Create Copenhagen, an architectural policy which supports the visions, and a strategy for urban nature. Parallel with that she was a part of developing strategies for dealing with climate change especially how to take care of cloudburst, strategies for more bikes, city life, waste, more pedestrians, CO2 neutrality, urban renewal or design-codes.
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