“Doughnut for Urban Development: A Manual” is a groundbreaking framework for scaling urban development within social and planetary boundaries. The manual aims to empower professionals with the knowledge and tools for steering the building industry towards a safe and just space for humanity, within the limits of the planet’s natural resources. From setting building targets to taking material choices – How can the Doughnut be applied in practice?
Meet Us at Regenerative Metropolis ’24
DATE: Friday, September 27, 2024
TIME: 9:00 A.M. – 7:00 P.M. (EST) – Door opens at 8:45 A.M.
VENUE: Starr Foundation, 63 Fifth Avenue, New York, NY, 10011
Dani Hill-Hansen – Architect, Sustainable Design Engineer | EFFEKT
Dani’s work is in sustainable transition of the Danish building industry. Her professional experience includes teaching, lecturing, research & design, construction, building design, staging participatory design processes and sustainable consultancy. In her role as project manager, she specializes in facilitating cross-sectoral research projects working to bridging the gap between climate science and building industry action. She has led various of EFFEKT’s research projects such as The Doughnut for Urban Development and the Reduction Roadmap, a science-based transformation tool that translates the Paris Agreement and the Planetary Boundary for Climate Change into industry-specific reduction targets for new Danish housing projects. The Reduction Roadmap turned into a campaign, which has succeeded in mobilizing the support of 600+ companies and organizations across the value-chain in the Danish building industry. Dani also teaches sustainable design courses, lectures on absolute sustainability and is an advocate for Degrowth. She recently co-edited ‘Doughnut for Urban Development: A Manual’ and aspires to steer the world towards a safe and just future.
“Doughnut for Urban Development: A Manual”
is co-edited by Dani Hill-Hansen (EFFEKT) and Kasper Guldager Jensen (Home.Earth) and co-authored Aalborg University – BUILD, Danish Technical University, Doughnut Economic Action Lab (DEAL), Green Building Council – Denmark, EFFEKT, Home.Earth, SLA, Sweco, Stockholm Resilience Centre and Vandkunsten
Project Highlight – Biome | EFFEKT
EFFEKT, a firm of 60+ employees based in Copenhagen, operates in the fields of architecture, urban planning, landscape and urban spaces and research and development. EFFEKT is the Danish word for impact and the firm believes that architecture and urbanism is about creating a lasting positive impact on our surroundings and our planet. Driven by the vocation that great architecture generates a lasting positive effect, EFFEKT combines innovative solutions with an understanding of the general dynamics in society and the social dynamics of everyday life. Their distinguished international track record of architecture and planning projects across a broad spectrum of building typologies has established a reputation for devising sustainable solutions with high social value, that benefit the environment, society, user and the economy.
