• Thursday 18^th February 2016, 6.30pm
• Tessa Blackstone Lecture Theatre [11_0003]

Martin Rein-Cano will be presenting the Superkilen project by TOPOTEK 1, a public park in the culturally diverse neighbourhood of Nørrebro, Copenhagen. As a reflection and celebration of the neighbourhood’s heterogeneity, a collection of foreign objects representing over 50 nationalities allow the reality of diversity to be spectacled, representing the identities of the community’s migrant backgrounds in Danish public space.

Founded in 1996, Martin Rein-Cano will present TOPOTEK 1 projects from the past 20 years, with a focus on the design of urban open spaces. Based on a critical understanding of immanent realities, the search for conceptual approaches leads him to decided statements concerning the urban context. Throughout design, planning and construction he searches for solutions for independent new parks, squares, sports-grounds, court-yards and gardens, whose designs answer to contemporary requirements for variability, communication and sensuality. Collaboration is a central issue in Martin Rein-Cano’s work, as a concept of merging qualities and abilities that extends from site conditions and design ideas, the involvement of a plethora of related fields, through to recognizing and esteeming the asset of ongoing collective input from client and designer.