Women in Danish Architecture's Events

This calendar shows activities between the beginning of the project in fall 2020 to its finalization in March 2025. Thereafter, information about new publications, lectures and other activities by following Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner.

29 March 2025

Panel on Kitchen Design in Denmark and Germany, Design Museum Denmark

Jannie Rosenberg Bendsen and Svava Riesto

7 March 2025

Launch of the book af bogen Women in Scandinavian Landscape Architecture Building Collaborative and Transnational Feminist Histories, University of Copenhagen.

Jannie Rosenberg Bendsen, Mathilde Lundt Larsen, Mathilde Meroli, Liv Løvetand Rahbek, Svava Riesto,  Henriette Steiner, Frida Ivring Søltoft.

 04 March 2025

Lecture and guided tour Carlsros arkitekturhistorie – fortalt fra en køkkenvinkel, Rødovre Library

Jannie Rosenberg Bendsen

01 October 2024

Lecture Women and Gender in Danish Architecture, DIS Study Abroad in Scandinavia

Svava Riesto

March 7, 2024

Masterclass: Women, Diversity and Entrepreneurship -what can we learn from history? Webinar organized by the Foundation of Entrepreneurship.

Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner

February 19, 2024

Lecture on Women, gender and architecture in Denmark 1930s-1980s, at the Royal Danish Academy, School of Architecture, Læreanstalternes Fælles Byplankursus (interdisciplinary urban planning course).

Svava Riesto

February 13, 2024

Lecture on diversifying history at the DIS – Study abroad in Scandinavia-programme

Svava Riesto

November 27, 2023

Talk at the bookstore Kristian F. Møller in Aarhus. Ufortalte historier – Om kvinder, køn og arkitektur i Danmark | Billetter | Aarhus | Optræden & Visuel Kunst | Billetto — Denmark

Jannie Rosenberg Bendsen

November 22, 2023

Lecture on historiographical approaches in the project, Azrieli School of Architecture and Urbanism – Carleton University, Canada

Henriette Steiner

November 15, 2023 

Collins/Kaufmann Lecture at Columbia University, New York, US.

Henriette Steiner and Svava Riesto

November 14, 2023

Public lecture at MIT, Department for Urban Studies and Planning.

Svava Riesto and Henriette Steiner

November 10, 2023 

Public lecture at University of Massachusetts, Amherst and The American Institute of Architecture, Amherst, US.

Henriette Steiner and Svava Riesto

November 8, 2023 

Public lecture at University at Buffalo, School of Architecture and Planning, New York, US.

Henriette Steiner and Svava Riesto

November 5, 2023 

Presentation and interview about the book Untold Stories – Women, Gender and Architecture in Denmark at the BogForum literature festival, on the main stage in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Henriette Steiner, Jennie Bendsen and Svava Riesto

July 4, 2023

Common Space: Diversity and Inclusivity in Architecture and Design – UIA World Congress of Architects, Copenhagen. A discussion across Irish and Danish architecture and design practices, including a presentation of the book Untold Stories. Women, Gender and Architecture in Denmark.

Svava Riesto

 

June 19, 2023

Launch of our co-written book Untold Stories. Women, Gender and Architecture in Denmark and –in the Danish version- Ufortalte Historier. Om kvinder, køn og arkitektur i Danmark (Strandberg Publishing).

Jannie Rosenberg Bendsen, Svava Riesto, Henriette Steiner

June 16, 2023

The second edition of the guidebook By Women. A guidebook to everyday architecture in Greater Copenhagen is published (the first edition was sold out).

Liv Løvetand Rahbek, Svava Riesto, Henriette Steiner

June 13, 2023

Presentation of the project Women in Danish Architecture and the mode of co-leadership that was developed in this project, for the Young Futures forum at the Landscape Architecture and Planning Sections at the University of Copenhagen.

Svava Riesto, Henriette Steiner 

May 30, 2023

Gendered archival research in architecture and musicology – a CIRCLES-conversation in the Women’s Building in Copenhagen. Presentations and dialogue with Katrine Wallevik (Department of Arts and Cultural Studies and active in the organization Women in Music) and Svava Riesto (Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management).

Svava Riesto

May 15, 2023

Visions of Welfare. A conference discussing the role of women in the creation of space in the post-war Welfare States, co-organized by the research project Women of the Welfare Landscape (Liverpool University, Luca Csepely-Knorr), The Society of Architectural Historians SAHGB (Elizabeth Darling) and Women in Danish Architecture (Henriette Steiner and Svava Riesto), at the London Garden Museum.

Svava Riesto, Henriette Steiner 

January 26, 2023

Presentations at the publicly accessible seminar Conserving Histories: Women and Transnational Collaborations. Organized by the Society of Architectural Historians

Svava Riesto, Henriette Steiner 

December 21, 2022

Lecture “Studying Women in Architecture History -reflections on methods, archives and historiographical approaches” Chair of the History and Theory of Urban Design, GTA, ETH Zürich

Svava Riesto & Henriette Steiner

November 29, 2022

Marking the opening of the Women of the Welfare Landscape travelling exhibition, Kingston School of Art.

Henriette Steiner

November 28, 2022

Lecture ‘How can we build more diverse and equitable cities in the future if our existing knowledge of architectural history unjustly focuses on the creative work and formal innovations of a handful of architects?’ St John’s College Architecture Society, University of Cambridge

Henriette Steiner

November 25, 2022

Lecture «Exhibitions: Producing Knowledge Together” Architecture and Civil Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, and part of the Swedish Research School ResArc’s PhD course Situating Research: Approaches, Ethics, Collaborations

Svava Riesto

November 16-18, 2022

PhD course Architecture, Landscape and Gender: Rethinking Theory, Methodology and Practice.

Workshops and afternoon seminars with Luca Csepely-Knorr (University of Liverpool), Svava Riesto, (University of Copenhagen), Henriette Steiner, (University of Copenhagen), Despina Stratigakos (University at Buffalo), Kelly Hayes Mcalonie (University at Buffalo), Margeret Vickery (University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Mary McLeod (Columbia University). Organized by the University of Copenhagen

Svava Riesto & Henriette Steiner

November 10, 2022 

Presentation about Anne Marie Rubins summerhouse plan in Lolland, organized by the municipality of Lolland who are currently making a new large landscape development plan for this area.

Svava Riesto

November 3-4 and 16-18, 2022

PhD course Architecture, Landscape and Gender: Rethinking Theory, Methodology and Practice. Workshops and mentoring sessions, Organized by the University of Copenhagen

Svava Riesto, Henriette Steiner

May 13 – October 23, 2022

Danish Architecture Center (DAC): Exhibition “Women

October 6, 2022

Presentations at Collaboration and Leadership Beyond the Hero, organized by Danish Architecture Centre

Svava Riesto, Henriette Steiner

September 23, 2022

Radio interview with 24syv program “Frederiks Værk”

Henriette Steiner

September 23, 2022

Lecture “Where are the women in the history of architecture? Stories about architectural practice and gender, Denmark, 1930s-1980s” Faculty of Architecture, Technical University Delft

Svava Riesto

September 19, 2022

FOF København and Danish Architecture Center (DAC) invite you to the DAC Architecture Academy, where Jannie Bendsen will give a lecture.

Jannie Rosenberg Bendsen

 

September 15, 2022

Guided tour through exhibition Women in Architecture for Dansk Kunsthistoriker Forening at the Danish Architecture Center

Svava Riesto

 

September 10, 2022

Guided tour through exhibition Women in Architecture at Golden Days at the Danish Architecture Center

Henriette Steiner

 

September 8, 2022

Lecture: Women in Danish Architecture 1925-75. Realdania, Jarmers Plads 2, 1551 Copenhagen V

Jannie Rosenberg Bendsen

September 1-2, 2022

Reseach Network “Where are the women in Scandinavian Landscape Architecture?,”  Copenhagen

August 12, 2022

Guided tour through exhibition Women in Architecture for Danske Landskabsarkitekter at the Danish Architecture Center

Svava Riesto

 

June 15, 2022

Presentation ‘Gendered norms and alternatives. The exhibition Alternative Architecture, Copenhagen 1977’ at the European Architecural History Netword EAHN, Madrid conference, Topic group Women and Gender in Architecture and Urban Design’s session on Women and Exhibitions

Svava Riesto

June 15, 2022

Presentation at Three Days of Design, Trommesalen at Vesterbro

Jannie Rosenberg Bendsen

June 9, 2022

AfterDAC with Henriette Steiner and bestselling author Gry Jexen in conversation with Ane Cortzen at Danish Architecture Center

Henriette Steiner

June 9, 2022

Book launch of ByWomen – A Guidebook to Everyday Architecture in Greater Copenhagen at Danish Architecture Center

Henriette Steiner, Liv Løvetand, Svava Riesto

May 11, 2022

Launch of Podcast series that presents our research finding, in collaboration with Niels Bjørn, Immersive Stories/Ane Skak and Realdania.

Jannie Rosenberg Bendsen, Svava Riesto, Henriette Steiner 

March 29, 2022        

Lecture ‘Writing a new history of praxis and gender: Women in Danish Architecture’ the Saxo Institute at the University of Copenhagen’s Faculty of the Humanities. 

Svava Riesto 

Februar 11, 2022

Talk at Aarhus School of Architecture: “Gender and Diversity in the Curriculum”
Henriette Steiner

Februar 10, 2022

Presentation at Manchester School of Architecture’s Gender Week: “Between passion and possession: women architects and the houses they built for family, love and work”
Henriette Steiner

December 1, 2021

Virtual Workshop Presentation for “The Art of Display – Ausstellungsentwürfe und Schaukonzepte von Architektinnen, Planerinnen und Designerinnen – Schweizer und Dänische Forschung im Dialog,” SNF Forschungsprojekts Saffa 1958
Svava Riesto, Henriette Steiner

 

November 26, 2021

PhD Course “Architecture, Landscape and Gender: Rethinking Theory, Methodology and Practice” Module 2, University of Copenhagen

 

November 24-26, 2021

Reseach Network “Where are the women in Scandinavian Landscape Architecture?,”  Copenhagen and Sweden (first meeting)

 

November 17, 2021

Presentation at Realdania By og Byg, Copenhagen
Jannie Rosenberg Bendsen

 

October 28, 2021

Presentation at Alumni Network event, Department of Geosciences and Natural Resource Management (IGN), University of Copenhagen
Svava Riesto

 

October 28, 2021

PhD Course “Architecture, Landscape and Gender: Rethinking Theory, Methodology and Practice” Module 1, University of Copenhagen

 

October 10, 2021

Copenhagen Architecture Festival: Talk at Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Svava Riesto

 

September 30, 2021

Presentation at The Union of Architects and Designers (FAOD), Copenhagen
Jannie Rosenberg Bendsen

 

September 3, 2021

Presentation at The University of Southern Denmark, Odense
Jannie Rosenberg Bendsen

 

August 22, 2021

Talk at Holstebro Art Museum
Jannie Rosenberg Bendsen

 

June 29, 2021

Radio interview with the Danish Broadcasting Corporation Radio program “Kulturen på P1”
Svava Riesto

 

June 11, 2021

Participant in Research Seminar “Czech – Women, Architecture, Emancipation after 1945” (virtual)
Svava Riesto

 

April 23 2021

International Panel Member at CFP: V International Congress Architecture and Gender | ACTION. Feminisms and the spatialization of resistances (virtual)
Svava Riesto

 

March 5, 2021

Podcast Interview with Dorthe Chakravarty
Svava Riesto, Henriette Steiner

 

March 8, 2021

Virtual Women’s Day Event “Celebrating women in architecture – Stories of collaboration, diversity and care”

 

November 12, 2020

Virtual Project Launch and Presentations: Introducing Women In Danish Architecture 1925-75

 

November 10, 2020 09.00 CET

PhD course Workshop: Practice and politics of archival research at Copenhagen University Library

 

November 9-13, 2021

PhD Course “Architecture, Landscape and Gender” Module 2 at the University of Copenhagen

 

October 22, 2020

Virtual seminar “Roundtable: Gender and Design Education”

 

October 21-23, 2020

PhD Course “Architecture, Landscape and Gender: Rethinking Theory, Methodology and Practice” Module 1 at the University of Copenhagen

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