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Regenerative Dialogue: Lectures and debate between two research projects 

Tid: kl. 10.00-11.30

Sted: Europaplads 8, 8000 Aarhus C eller online via tilmelding på LinkedIn. 

Lectures and debate between two research projects, addressing the connectedness between the wellbeing of the living world and the wellbeing of humans. How does this impact the design of the built environment?

THE MICROBIOME IN OUR ORGANS
Professor AU, Department of Public Health: Torben Sigsgaard

The microbiome in our organs - especially the gut microbiome shape our health throughout our lifespan.
We shape our microbiome and the environmental microbiome shape us.
Studies on the indoor microbiome with respect to urbanicity shows higher diversity in the rural areas vs cities.
When looking at farms we do se an even higher diversity in farmers homes.
This diversity translates into less chronic diseases in farmers children compared to the general population e.g. a halved risk of allergic sensitisation.

NIEHS definition; The microbiome is all microbes, such as bacteria, fungi, viruses, and their genes, that naturally live on our bodies and inside us.

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ECOSPACING AS A POST-GROWTH RESEARCH FRAME
Professor Aarhus School of Architecture: Marie Frier Hvejsel, Lotte Bjerregaard Jensen (MSO), Aarhus University Ecoscience: Senior Researcher Ane Kirstine Brunbjerg, Professor Aalborg University, Urban Sociology: Anja Jørgensen.

Ecospacing as post-growth research frame? Spatial potentials for interspecies wellbeing and regeneration
We will present and discuss a research collaboration rooted in AU Ecoscience: Drawing on the ecospace framework (Brunbjerg et al., 2017), we explore how biotopes differ across four dimensions—position, expansion, spatial and temporal continuity, and uniqueness - and how these differences shape species diversity. Using “mirroring,” we extend ecospace into architecture and sociology, situating the built environment and human communities within a coupled technosphere–biosphere continuum.

Brunbjerg AK, Bruun HH, Moeslund JE, Sadler JP, Svenning J-C, and Ejrnæs R (2017) Ecospace: A unified framework for understanding variation in terrestrial biodiversity. Basic and Applied Ecology 18:86-94

LCA Volume: Sænk klimaaftrykket med parametrisk byplanmodel

Tid: kl. 10.00-11.30 (kaffe og netværk fra kl. 9.30)

Sted: Europaplads 8, 8000 Aarhus C eller online via tilmelding på LinkedIn - tilmeldingslink. 

Den 13. marts inviterer Aarhus Center for Regenerativt Byggeri, CEBRA og Aarhus Universitet til en præsentation af resultaterne fra Bevar Mere-projektet “LCA Volume: Sænk klimaaftrykket med parametrisk byplanmodel”.

For at lette belastningen på klima og økosystemer er det afgørende at tage udgangspunkt i den eksisterende bygningsmasse, når vi udvikler fremtidens boliger.

LCA Volume er et open source, digitalt værktøj, der integrerer tidlige overslagsvurderinger af miljøpåvirkning under skitsering af helhedsplaner. Formålet er at synliggøre de miljømæssige konsekvenser af forskellige scenarier og dermed muliggøre mere informerede designbeslutninger for rådgivere og bygherrer. Blandt andet synliggør værktøjet det miljømæssige potentiale i at bevare og bygge videre på eksisterende strukturer.

Værktøjet er udviklet som et Grasshopper-baseret script til softwaren Rhino, som er et udbredt digitalt redskab på danske og udenlandske arkitekttegnestuer.

På dagen vil de involverede fortælle om tankerne bag projektet samt give en introduktion til værktøjet. 

Oplægsholdere:

• Professor Steffen Petersen og adjunkt Pil Brix Purup, Department of Civil and Architectural Engineering, Aarhus Universitet
• Partner Mikkel Schlesinger og seniorarkitekt Jacob Christensen, CEBRA

Projektet er udført i samarbejde mellem Aarhus Universitet, Institut for Byggeri og Bygningsdesign, arkitektvirksomheden CEBRA.

Projektet er støttet af AU Connect og Bevar Mere. Bevar Mere er et fælles brancheinitiativ af Grundejernes Investeringsfond, Dreyers Fond, Landsbyggefonden og Realdania.

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Tid: kl. 10.00-12.00

Sted: Europaplads 8, 8000 Aarhus C 

Vi åbner døren til workshop. Kom og vær med!

Dagens tema er "mapping af centerets økosystem", og alle er velkomne til at være en del af økosystemet.

Tid: kl. 10.00-12.00

Sted: Europaplads 8, 8000 Aarhus C 

Vi åbner døren til dialog. Kom og vær med!

Dagens tema er "Relationen mellem mennesker, sted og landskab". Vi snakker udvidede intelligenser, holistiske tilgange, resonans og subtile påvirkninger i indretning og design.

Alle er velkomne til at være en del af dagens dialog, til at netværke og til at give og modtage inspiration.

Tid: kl. 10.00-12.00

Sted: Europaplads 8, 8000 Aarhus C 

Vi åbner døren til dialog. Kom og vær med!

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ACRB præsenterer igangværende og afsluttede projekter om veje til regenerativt byggeri

Dato: torsdag den 23. april 2026

Tid: kl. 12.20 

Sted: Aarhus Congress Center, Main Stage

Dette event kan kun tilgås ved fysisk fremmøde. Det er gratis at deltage, men husk tilmelding.

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How can we live together? a dialogue on multi-species design

Tid: kl. 10.00-11.30

Sted: Europaplads 8, 8000 Aarhus C eller online via tilmelding på LinkedIn (tilmeldingslink på vej). 

Onlinedeltagelse benytte dette: Deltagelseslink

This session will reflect on how architecture can facilitate moments of coexistence in times of biodiversity distress. Moving between speculative and realized projects, it will explore the needs for new design strategies that operate across scales and involve collaboration with a broader range of specialists. It will also address the importance of engaging with - and challenging - prevailing tastes and desires, while acknowledging the frictions such approaches generate, and learning from vernacular precedents.

This session is a joint presentation between two architectural practices that explore how architecture can be a tool to support or integrate biodiversity needs. The talk will start with a presentation by Alicia Lazzaroni on speculative and research projects by Animali Domestici, together with teaching explorations at Aarhus School of Architecture. This will be followed by a presentation by Marion de Saint Blanquat on learnings from realised projects within the public, cultural, and private sector, through Studio Coquille workframe. These presentations promote a shift from anthropocentric approaches to multi-species design, and will showcase animal and human cohabitation, plants and microorganisms in construction, materials beneficial for ecosystems, dilemmas, and radical opportunities.

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Marion De Saint Blanquat

Studio Coquille https://www.coquille.dk/

Alicia Lazzaroni

Teaching associate professor at Aarhus School of Architecture

AARCH

Animali Domestici

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Cement as a living system: Toward regenerative and energy-storing building materials

Time: kl. 10.00-11.30

Place: Europaplads 8, 8000 Aarhus C or online. 

Join this presentation by Qi Luo, postdoc, at Aarhus University CAE as he presents his research that represents more than a proof of concept - it marks the beginning of a new paradigm for cement-based materials!

For millennia, cement has been regarded as an inert material. Here, we challenge this long-standing perception by transforming cement into a regenerative, “living” energy system, pioneering a new class of microbial cement supercapacitors. By embedding electroactive microorganisms within cementitious matrices, we establish a biohybrid material capable of storing and releasing electrical energy by harnessing microbial redox activity and extracellular electron transfer. This transformation redefines cement from a passive emitter of CO₂ into an active participant in regenerative infrastructure, capable of both structural support and functional energy contribution. Remarkably, the embedded microbes can be reactivated through nutrient infusion using an integrated microfluidic network, enabling cyclic regeneration and sustained charge transfer after dormancy. This adaptive responsiveness, rarely observed in traditional building materials, introduces a new temporal dimension to cement and allows it to recover and renew its electrochemical functionality over time.

By infusing biological intelligence and regenerative capability into the very matrix of cement, we envision the next generation of construction materials that are alive, adaptive, and regenerative by design. In this vision, cement evolves beyond its historic role as a carbon-intensive binder to become a platform for regeneration—a foundation for future infrastructures that not only support human life but also restore ecological balance and close the loop of material life cycles.

Join us for this very inspiring presentation of groundbreaking research. A dialogue and Q&A-session will follow the presentation.

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