Press Statement

The electronic marketplace – only one click away!

The Cultural Fair Days in the Nørrebro Park, 23 and 24 August can now also be visited from home via the Internet, as there has been constructed a digital 3D-model of the marketplace with all its information booths and activities. This means that from home – like in a computer game – you can take part in the information, activities and experiences and that are offered in the marketplace. Just click on the Internet address: http://www.e-kvarter.dk

Furthermore you can on certain times chat with the hosts from some of the many work groups of the urban regeneration project. The digital 3D-model is similar to the market place, but it creates its own universe in the green surroundings of the Nørrebro Park . Besides the many digital booths and the big stage, you can also see a digital model of the park with drawings, proposals and historical photos from the park. In the electronic multicultural tent, art and cultural features are shown, and in the digital Informatek you can meet a virtual version of the shop consultant, Shariar Shams Ili, giving information about his work.

It is the research project, The Electronic Neighbourhood, who with support from the Business Affairs- and Housing Administration (Erhvervs- og Boligstyrelsen) and the Ministry of Integration has developed the digital model. Researchers from the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture and researchers from Danish Building and Urban Research (DBUR) are carrying through the project. In the marketplace it is possible to meet representatives from the research project – both at the Internet and in real life. “The digital medium has its strength in making it possible to get in contact with everybody with access to the Internet across physical and cultural bounds” says Steen Holmgren, who is in charge of the project. And you can cross the limits of the physical world. Actually a whole new universe is created - a new type of urban space designed for meetings.

The Electronic Marketplace will remain on the Internet even when the cultural fair is over, and the booths are gone. Then this new virtual meeting place is passed to the Urban Regeneration Secretariat and the residents, who can improve and develop the market place further as more activities are started in the area.

Contact:

E-mail: e-kvarter@karch.dk

Architect Steen Holmgren, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Architecture School and Danish Building and Urban Research, telephone: 32 68 66 60, mobile telephone: 50 50 90 08

Architect Bjarne Rüdiger, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Architecture School , telephone: 32 68 66 60

Sociologist Kresten Storgaard, Danish Building and Urban Research, telephone: 45 74 23 41

Architect Bruno Tournay, The Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Architecture School , telephone: 32 68 66 62  

Pictures from the Electronic Fairground