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INTERNATIONAL URBAN DESIGN CONFERENCE | Keynote Speaker : Deane Alan Simpson

INTERNATIONAL URBAN DESIGN CONFERENCE | Keynote Speaker : Deane Alan Simpson
Published Date: Friday, 11 December 2020

Keynote Speaker : Deane Alan Simpson


Professor, Institute of Architecture, Urbanism, Landscape, The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Design and Conservation, Denmark

Deane Alan Simpson is an architect, urbanist and educator teaching and researching at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts School of Architecture, Copenhagen, where he is professor and co-leader with Charles Bessard of the masters program Urbanism and Societal Change.

His research addresses contemporary forms of socio-spatial transformation at the intersection of demographic change and processes of modernization, globalization, neo-liberalization and welfare state transformation. His research has been published in journals such as Volume (Archis), Arbitare, Harvard Design Magazine, AD (Architectural Design), The Architectural Review, MONU, SAM and Archithese and in books such as Explorations in Architecture, Urban Transformations, Infrastructure as Architecture, Media and Urban Space, Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture, and Deviations: A Manual of Architecture. He is the co-author of the monograph Diller + Scofidio (+ Renfro): The Ciliary Function, published by Skira in 2007; author of Young-Old: Urban Utopias of an Aging Society published by Lars Müller Publishers in 2015; co-editor of The City Between Freedom and Security published by Birkhauser in 2017; and co-editor of Atlas of the Copenhagens published by Ruby Press in 2018.


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