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Learning to Belong
– Reflections from the New European Bauhaus Festival Text by Madeleine Kate McGowan, Artistic Director at NXT Every time I take part in the New European Bauhaus Festival, I experience a kind of sprouting tenderness towards this old continent that is my home: Europe. Like family, Europe is not simple to love. There are many…
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the place that speaks back
Article by Gaetano Licata, Creative Director & Co-founder of Stoëmp The NXT Magazine: Transformations of Care What if a museum wasn’t a monument, but a membrane? This is a proposal for listening – to bricks, to tides, to people, to the ghosts that anchor a place. This is a proposal that never became a reality. A…
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SOLASTALGIA
a dogma terra performance Article by Madeleine Kate McGowan The NXT Magazine: Transformations of Care This movement roots itself in the planetaryboundaries not as restrictions, but as contoursthat unleash originality – an art of necessitythat turns limits into original expression. With a trembling step and a warm singing voice, I guided the audience members who had…
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Reflecting on Multispecies and Artistic Practices in Herlev
Article by Olivia Thomassen Harre The NXT Magazine: Transformations of Care Many elements and inhabitants that surround me – such as asphalt, crows, pigeons, brick, plants, rocks, and many others – rarely play an active role in my awareness and understanding of my urban surroundings. But what if they did? In this text, I reflect on…
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Aesthetics of Transformation
Article by Alba Carbajo Cano The NXT Magazine: Transformations of Care Whenever I visit a site together with architect friends, we instinctively find ourselves sensing the building’s surface. As if, by touching it, we might reach deeper layers to its understanding. Camera in hand, I decided to engage on an exploration in Copenhagen using the same…
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Theatres of Change
– Can Art Transform Society? Article by Andrew Todd, in conversation with Florentina Holzinger & Christiane Jatahy The NXT Magazine: Transformations of Care Theatre and film director Peter Brook was a noted revolutionary of the stagefrom the 1950s onwards, railing against the Vietnam War in his polymorphous 1966 protest-spectacle US. Revolted by injustice and racism, he…
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SEEDS ANGELS
Artwork by Alma Feline Junker The NXT Magazine: Transformations of Care The inspiration for my work SEEDS ANGELS (2024) stems from knowledge gained during my studies at the Organic Agriculture School, Kalø Økologisk landbrugsskole, in spring 2024. It became clear to me how much of today’s economy and lucrative business is built at the expense of…
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It always starts with something
Article by GXN The NXT Magazine: Transformations of Care For much of the last century, architecture has operated under the idea of tabula rasa – the belief that land can be treated as a blank slate, free from history, context, or memory. This offered an efficient and optimistic way to imagine the future, where the past…
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Care and Counting: Building Multi-Species Surfaces
Article by Ariane Lourie Harrison, Co-founder of Harrison Atelier The NXT Magazine: Transformations of Care Humans are an extremely successful species, predicted to reach 10 billion by 2050. Most of the other 1.2 million named species on our planet, however, have been diminished in number, characterizing our present period as the sixth mass extinction. Loss of…
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The New Aesthetics of a Green Ethics
Editorial by Madeleine Kate McGowan The NXT Magazine: Transformations of Care To see limitation and sufficiency as a space of possibility, may become the new aesthetic shaping architecture and construction in the 21st century. The building industry now stands at a decisive turning point. For too long, progress and economic growth have been equated with demolition and…
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Nybrogade Press is going to CHART Book & Print Fair
We’re thrilled to announce that Nybrogade Press will be among the 26 independent publishers participating in this year’s CHART Book & Print Fair (@chart_artfair) on 29-30 November. Entry is free and open for everyone, we can’t wait to see you there! Organised in collaboration with @kunsthalcharlottenborg & @kglakademi Where?FestsalenThe Royal Danish Academy of Fine ArtsKongens Nytorv 1 When?Saturday…
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Hidden Behind
Article by Davide Ronco The NXT Magazine: Transformations of Care For me, this is an occasion to write and share my own transformation – to uncover what lies behind my practice as a visual artist: the anxiety, the struggles, the things hidden behind the cover. A flow of consciousness, blended with diary notes and reflections. Photo:…
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Meet Noreen Ali
Noreen Ali is an artist originally from Pakistan, currently pursuing her Master’s degree in Copenhagen. She is passionate about rethinking and decolonizing the food system, with a focus on the potential of “Symbioscene-ry”, which advocates for symbiotic, multispecies co-existence. At NXT, we are excited to welcome Noreen Ali as an intern this fall, where she…
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Multispecies Postcards
Multispecies Postcards is an analogue format developed by NXT and inspired by our year-long activation with the Garden Caretaker project in Herlev. Through creative and poetic writing, we tune into the voices of other species, exploring their thoughts, feelings, and experiences. Imagine seeing the world through the eyes of a kestrel, an oak tree, or…
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Yale diaries
Diary by artistic director at NXT, Madeleine Kate McGowan, from her journey to Yale School of Architecture this Spring 2024, as she was invited as guest-reviewer on the final presentations by students attending the seminar ‘Feral Surfaces – Multi Species Architecture’. — While the cherry-blossom trees were in early bloom in New York City, I…
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Moving away from separation
New European Bauhaus is an initiative that aims to connect the EU Green Deal with our daily lives and ways of living. One of the outcomes from the New European Bauhaus Festival in Brussels this April was a White Paper made by the multidisciplinary design institute, Dark Matter Labs, about A New European Bauhaus economy. The paper highlights key challenges embedded in the built environment,…
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NXT at New European Bauhaus festival
Being at the New European Bauhaus Festival 2024, is a dynamic and touching experience. Set at the spectacular Art & History Museum in Brussels, holding a vibrant space for policy-makers, regenerative farmers, artists, community builders and many more to interact, share and explore. As the New European Bauhaus describe the movement: Beautiful, sustainable, together. NXT was invited to…
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Article by Nikolaj Schultz: Major Tom at the farm: Rearticulating freedom in our new climatic regime
Article by Nikolaj Schultz, Sociologist & writer for The NXT: Garden of Desire. This article is based on the conviction that if political ecology is to succeed in creating political results and competing on an equal footing with the ideologies that defined the 19th and 20th centuries, then it must offer a concept of freedom…
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Seeing the city as a garden
Article by landscape architect and researcher Anna Aslaug Lund about Human-made urban landscapes for The NXT magazine: Garden of Desire. In essence, as physical spaces that contain multiple lives and stories, could we not then describe cities as remodeled landscapes? Landscapes that have been carved, molded, split, fitted out by humans over decades, centuries, millennia. And…
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Resonance and artistic practice
Like a gigantic raindrop fallen from the sky, on the outskirts of an old industrial compound, lies a shiny spherical construction. It does not resemble any of the other buildings in the neighborhood, and has, with its transparent structure, an apparent fragility. Here, one is neither outside nor inside. Or rather, one is precisely both.…
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In the beginning was nature
On a symbolic level, the garden is our original home, a hortus conclusus, an architectural composition of earth, a material metaphor for our relation to nature. The gardens, which the hands of humans have cut, trimmed, cropped, watered; these shapes, figures and collections, tell us something about ourselves as a species. Different times have brought forth…
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NXT at UIA World Congress of Architects
As a part of the Desire panel debate at UIA World Congress of Architects CPH 2023, Madeleine Kate McGowan represented NXT in discussion on beauty as a part of the green transition in the built environment, in front of a full auditorium at Bella Center, Copenhagen. Apart from NXT, the panel featured Enlai Hooi (Senior Associate & Head…
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Stedets Væsen at Yale
The other day Artistic leader of Stedets Væsen [Being of Place], Madeleine Kate McGowan, presented our work via a videocall for a group of 15 students at Yale University, USA, invested in designing for the multi-species city. Artistic leader Madeleine Kate McGowan, presenting at Yale University, 2023 Stedets Væsen, which is a part of The…
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NXT in Paris
Just before the beginning of 2023, NXT exhibited in Paris under the title Place of Encounter – An exhibition of earthly dialogues. It was a gathering of all our NXT Magazine contributors and a celebration of the collaboration with Paris-based 1909 Bookstore. Together with 1909 Bookstore, we invited guests to explore and immerse themselves in a series…
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Hvor er her dejligt
Vi oplever ofte os selv og vores liv i forhold til de steder, hvor vi har levet. I forhold til alt det, der har omgivet os. Så hvad kan vi gøre for at skabe flere skønne steder i fremtiden – midt i den globale kamp om dem? Vi er alle rundet af den plet på…
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Deep listening
How everyday sounds matter: learning to listen deeply to sonic messages of place By Melissa Van Drie Deep listening is often cited as a key regenerative design practice that can help foster a participatory attitude towards the environment and can help change human mindsets to better understand what it is we are trying to sustain. Yet…
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Breathing layers of time
Tid kan opleves på mange måder – som dyb tid, cirkulær, opdelt og systematiseret. Tids-oplevelserne ligger som et fundament for den måde vi organiserer vore samfund. I følge tids-forsker Christina Berg Johansen er vi på vej ind i en helt ny dimension af tid. Breathing layers of time er episode nummer syv i en serie af fortællinger. Vi…
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NXT for a New European Bauhaus
Following a long cooperative process to partake in the EU Commission’s New European Bauhaus initiative, NXT has submitted a joint project proposal, Irresistible Circular Society, alongside BLOX and DI in the hope of being selected in June this year as one of five New European Bauhaus’. In the following text, Daniel Frank Christensen, Cand.mag in Philosophy & Theory of Science,…
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Landscape design as collaboration between human and non-human
In a time when the work of landscape designers and architects, is becoming ever more important, we meet with Amsterdam-based landscape architectural bureau Inside Outside, which approaches designs as a dynamic and interdisciplinary process. Work-process at Inside Outside, Amsterdam Through our conversation with Founder Petra Blaisse and Partner Jana Crepon, we journey through reflections on their transformational…
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Politics of listening
We do not just listen. Listening has been shaped by the technological devices of the 19th century and being a present listener is revolutionary, as Canadian composer Hildegard Westercamp puts it. In this episode we meet up with Sound Historian, Melissa Van Drie, to talk about ‘Politics of Listening’; and the revolutionary potential of listening.…