Instant Urbanism / Den midlertidige by

This research project is established in 2008 as part of the project Performative Urban Design (Hans Kiib) and continued in 2009 as part of the project Experience City.DK (Gitte Marling, Hans Kiib and Ole B Jensen).

In March 2013 a research cluster is established at Aalborg University. It include 14 researchers from the Department of Architecture and Media Technology and Department of Civil Engineering.

Instant Urbanism Research Cluster conduct research in the following fields:

- Art installations and instant architecture : Urban intervention, relational art, Curatering, Empowerment, Aesthetics of urban art and temporal installations, Temporal structures as architectural drivers. - Mediated Urbanism :  Wearable, Pervasive urban art, Urban Media Spaces, application development, - Temporality in Strategic Urban Development : Cultural Planning,  Incubator environments, Master planning for temporal use.

Within the cluster a range of different projects are conducted including 5 Ph.D.-projects.

Selected publications:

Instant City@Roskilde Festival Marling, G. & Kiib, H. 1 Mar 2011 1 ed. Aalborg: Aalborg Universitetsforlag. 403 p. (Art and Urbanism; No. 3, Vol. 3). Publication: Research - peer-review › Book

Instant City: learning Lab and Performative Architecture Marling, G. & Kiib, H. dec 2013 I : Nordisk Arkitekturforskning. 16 p. Publikation: Forskning - peer review › Tidsskriftartikel

Instant City Design Kiib, H.1 mar 2013 I : Dansk Arkitektur Center. Publikation: Forskning › Tidsskriftartikel

The Orange Feeling: The social construction of experiences Kiib, H. & Marling, G. 2013 Scandinavian Journal of Hospitallity and Tourism. 22 p. Publikation: Forskning - peer review › Tidsskriftartikel

Deturned City Design: - tools for experiential urban living Kiib, H. Dec 2012 In: Musings: An Urban Design Anthology. Lanng, D. B., Smith, S. & Andrade, V. (eds.). Aalborg: Aalborg Universitetsforlag, 13 p. Publication: Research - peer-review › Book chapter

For more information please contact Hans Kiib
kiib@create.aau.dk