As part of Form/Design Center’s autumn public programme and its ongoing work with Kunskapsforum för gestaltad livsmiljö, Form/Design Center is deepening its collaboration with Gylleboverket, an interdisciplinary platform for contemporary art, culture and resilience in Österlen. The collaboration builds on Gylleboverket’s long-running project A House That Knows How to Die.
Over three days, architects, artists and ecologists will come together at Gylleboverket, located on a former building salvage yard, to explore alternative ways of understanding the house, shelter and dwelling in relation to the more-than-human world. Through lectures, an ongoing exhibition, workshops and conversations, thought and hands-on practice come together in a shared laboratory led by artists, architects and ecologists.
Gylleboverket as an Ecological Laboratory
For many years, Gylleboverket has been a unique and radical meeting place where art, ecology and the site itself are allowed to merge. Based in a former quarry, it serves as a living laboratory for exploring how we might restore broken relationships with the world around us.
Through the project A House That Knows How to Die, Gylleboverket challenges some of architecture’s most fundamental conventions. Rather than viewing the built environment as static, permanent monuments imposed upon a landscape, the platform explores processes of decay, cycles and transience. How can our human-made structures be built to age, break down and ultimately return to the earth – in complete symbiosis with the local ecosystem?
Program
The seminar takes place over three days. The full programme and information about all sessions can be found on Gylleboverket’s website:
Program: A House That Knows How to Die
About Form/Design Center’s Participation
On the second day of the seminar, Form/Design Center, together with CAFx and Gylleboverket, presents a direct continuation of the 2025 exhibition Slow Down, in which we explored methods for slowing the pace of overheated cities and societies. Now, together with Emma Rishøj Holm and Tideland Studio, we take the conversation further and turn our attention to the seabed – more specifically to Køge Bugt, where marine sand extraction is accelerating. As land-based resources for the construction sector become depleted, the seabed is being quietly excavated, with dramatic consequences for marine ecosystems.
We delve deeper into the intersection of architecture, infrastructure and ecology, examining the “slow violence” reshaping landscapes beneath the surface. How can architecture help make these processes visible – while also acting as a force for slowing them down?
About Tideland Studio (DK)
A research-based design studio working across disciplines at the intersection of architecture, artistic expression and holistic sustainability, creating narratives and spatial experiences that transform how we perceive the built and natural environment.
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Absout Emma Rishøj Holm (DK)
PhD fellow at Aarhus School of Architecture, focusing on marine sand extraction in Køge Bugt and researching alternative material solutions for a more circular and less environmentally harmful construction industry.
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Registration
Registration covers all three days, and we ask that participants attend the seminar in its entirety.