ArchDaily and Copenhagen Architecture Festival (CAFx) interviewed project partner Michael Alexander Ulfstjerne from Emergency Architecture & Human Rights (EAHR) on film, architecture and inclusive design.
Paulin Panetta (PP): Can you give us an introduction to EAHR and to your approach to architecture: what does inclusivity mean for EAHR?
Michael Ulfstjerne (MU): First of all, I guess we work in the cheap end of architecture, meaning we work primarily with different kinds of vulnerability. That could be working with displaced populations, homeless people, migrants, kids in social housing areas. We also work in a cross-disciplinary way, combining insights from anthropology, sociology, geography, social sciences with architectural design and building competences. We sometimes collaborate with artists or people that work in film and sound as well, resulting in a broad palette of methodologies. The end goal for using this broad palette is also to ask the question: How do we involve people in the processes of designing architecture?
