How A Neighbourhood Becomes Itself — a conversation about participation and everyday democracy in Nordvest

​What does participation actually look like at the neighbourhood level, and what makes it possible?

​That's a question I've been thinking a lot about lately, especially since releasing the Still Arriving report last month. So I'm glad to share the first in a series of events built around it. And glad, too, to start in my own neighbourhood.

​Together with Demokrati Garage, RENTEN Transition Nordvest, and We Do Democracy, we'd like to invite you to an evening of conversation about contribution, participation, and what Nordvest might yet become.

​We're also really happy to welcome Jakob Ingemann Parby, curator and senior researcher at the Museum of Copenhagen, who will open the evening with a talk I think is worth showing up for on its own:

​"From cornfields to postindustrial urban communities — a history of Nordvest 1845-2026"

​Alongside Jakob, Louisa Mathies of RENTEN will speak about local action and what agency looks like at street level. International residents involved in RENTEN will share how they found their way in, and what shifted when they did. The evening closes with an open conversation and drinks.

​Hope to see you there.

​This event is part of a series of gatherings instigated by Curious Neighbours, a Copenhagen-based neighbourhood lab exploring how people participate in the places they live. Through small-scale experiments, local collaborations, and public conversations, we look for ways to make participation more possible, especially for international creatives living in Denmark.

​RENTEN Transition Nordvest is a local transition initiative and neighbourhood community based at Demokrati Garage, which, since spring 2024, has brought together neighbours and local stakeholders around Rentemestervej in Nordvest. We are working to create a vibrant, healthy and green neighbourhood where we live, work and thrive within the planet's limits.