This podcast explores the innovative urban projects and design initiatives led by superwien, an interdisciplinary studio focused on urban planning, architecture, and design. This podcast delves into various global projects, offering insights into contemporary urban issues, sustainable design practices, and creative approaches to shaping cities. With a focus on real-world solutions, it discusses the intersection of architecture, urbanism, mobility, social change, and the built environment.
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Henni+Milli #8: Beyond Placemaking: Cultivating Care and Social Trust in Gamlebyen, Oslo
In this episode, we take a deep dive into the Urban Living Lab in Gamlebyen, Oslo. We talk to Kim Weger from Natural State and Arild Eriksen from Fragment about how placemaking can become more socially inclusive by looking beyond physical accessibility and focusing on the social conditions that enable people to feel welcome, connected and cared for in public spaces. Together, we explore the challenges facing Gamlebyen, including fragmented urban spaces created by transport infrastructure, gentrification and the loss of affordable housing, and discuss how overlooked informal green spaces can become opportunities for community building and social trust.
The conversation explores a range of activities developed through the Urban Living Lab, including intergenerational neighbourhood walks, workshops with schoolchildren to create a wildflower meadow, and initiatives that reconnect residents with urban nature and edible landscapes. The Oslo experience highlights the importance of facilitation, local knowledge and community ownership in creating more inclusive neighbourhoods. It also challenges the assumption that urban improvement always requires physical transformation: sometimes inclusion means protecting existing spaces, recognising their ecological and social value, and giving communities the time and freedom to care for and shape the places they share.
About our guests:
Arild Eriksen runs the architecture practice Fragment (https://www.fragmentoslo.no), which works primarily with non-profit organisations and public-sector clients. The practice’s built portfolio includes schools, cultural centres and museums. Eriksen has extensive experience in European research and education, focusing primarily on resident-led architecture and urban development, as well as edible urban nature.
Kim Weger is a project manager at Natural State (https://www.naturalstate.org) in Oslo, a strategy agency specialising in sustainable place development. Kim works on European and local level placemaking projects, with a focus on participaiton and integrating social and environmental sustainability.
This podcast was produced in a cooperation with Placemaking Austria (https://www.instagram.com/placemaking_austria/) and superwien (https://superwien.com).
Hosts: Vivian Monteiro Malta & Roland Krebs
14 Oct 2026
Henni+Milli #7: Queering Vienna - From the First Rainbow Parade to a Caring City
Historian Andreas Brunner and architectural sociologist Julia Girardi-Hoog discuss queering Vienna, exploring how queer visibility and inclusive urban planning create welcoming public spaces in this interview.
23 Sept 2026
Henni+Milli #6: A City for All Ages
Researchers Elina Kränzle and Julia Hobiger discuss with hosts Vivian Monteiro Malta and Roland Krebs how to create inclusive urban spaces for all generations, emphasizing genuine dialogue and co-creative methods.
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