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Project cooperationUpdated on 5 September 2025

Spongetown Christiania - Resilient, Circular, Symbiotic and Regenerative Transitions in Copenhagen

Manuel Higgs Morgado

Architect, Sustainable Design Eng., DGNB Consultant at Aalborg University

Copenhagen, Denmark

About

We are exploring the creation of a unique urban plan based upon DGNB and IUCN Standard for NBS. The Christiania community occupies a brownfield :an old military factory and base and faces several sustainability and climate-change resilience challenges on par with gentrification. We are looking for partners to form a transnational consortium of Living Labs for NbS. Collaborate with us in an urbsan plan for Spongetown Christiania.

Urban government authority

  • Yes

Topic

  • CUE topic 1 – Resilient green and social infrastructure
  • CUE topic 3 – Public procurement to foster urban greening and circularity 
  • 15mC topic 1 – Next steps for multimodal urban mobility, building on the travel experience
  • 15mC topic 2 – Reimagining parking – transforming urban parking policies
  • 15mC topic 3 – Mobility policymaking in context of radical contestation
  • PED topic 1 – Driving a just transition: PED strategies in social and subsidised housing
  • PED topic 2 – Ensuring positive socio-economic impact: PEDs in local economies and energy markets
  • PED topic 3 – PEDs in urban heating and cooling strategies

Type

  • Looking for partners to join a project
  • Looking to join a project

Organisation

Aalborg University

Research Organisation / University

Copenhagen, Denmark

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    • PED topic 3 – PEDs in urban heating and cooling strategies
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    • PED topic 1 – Driving a just transition: PED strategies in social and subsidised housing
    • PED topic 2 – Ensuring positive socio-economic impact: PEDs in local economies and energy markets

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    • CUE topic 1 – Resilient green and social infrastructure
    • PED topic 3 – PEDs in urban heating and cooling strategies
    • 15mC topic 3 – Mobility policymaking in context of radical contestation
    • 15mC topic 2 – Reimagining parking – transforming urban parking policies
    • PED topic 1 – Driving a just transition: PED strategies in social and subsidised housing
    • 15mC topic 1 – Next steps for multimodal urban mobility, building on the travel experience
    • PED topic 2 – Ensuring positive socio-economic impact: PEDs in local economies and energy markets

    Jamal Jokar Arsanjani

    Professor at Aalborg University

    Copenhagen, Denmark

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    Urban diagnostics

    • Looking to join a project
    • CUE topic 1 – Resilient green and social infrastructure
    • PED topic 3 – PEDs in urban heating and cooling strategies
    • CUE topic 2 – Sustainable tourism – circular benefits and challenges
    • 15mC topic 3 – Mobility policymaking in context of radical contestation
    • 15mC topic 2 – Reimagining parking – transforming urban parking policies
    • CUE topic 3 – Public procurement to foster urban greening and circularity 
    • PED topic 1 – Driving a just transition: PED strategies in social and subsidised housing
    • 15mC topic 1 – Next steps for multimodal urban mobility, building on the travel experience
    • PED topic 2 – Ensuring positive socio-economic impact: PEDs in local economies and energy markets

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