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CAFx is non-profit organisation raising awareness of how architecture shapes lives and worlds.

Who We Are
We are CAFx, a non-profit organisation raising awareness of how architecture shapes lives and worlds. Co-founded by Josephine Michau in 2014, we have been an active member of the European platform LINA since 2022, supported by Creative Europe. Our main supporters are the Municipality of Copenhagen, Realdania, Statens Kunstfond. What We Do
Our main activities involve managing an annual

public program, primarily centered around our event and exhibition space at Halmtorvet 27. Our role in the architectural sphere is to foster the exchange of ideas by connecting people and knowledge across social, professional, cultural, and methodological boundaries. Why We Do It
We believe that a broader understanding of architecture can inspire change and that it’s relevant to everyone—not just professionals. We see architecture as a catalyst for building communities and a tool for promoting equality, justice, and planetary health.

11/06/2026

Værtshuset opening next week!

Join us for the opening party for our new exhibition at Halmtorvet 27, Wednesday, June 17.

These curtains were created by Maiken Stæhr as an artistic contribution, originally made for the legendary bodega Det Rene Glass, where they were a permanent part of the interior until it closed in 2025.

For decades, they have absorbed the life of a bodega — conversations, cigarette smoke, moments of hospitality, late nights, and awkward silences.

Come see the curtains in a new setting at Halmtorvet 27.

10/06/2026

Exhibition Opening: værtshuset

CAFx invites you for an exhibition investigating the meaning of hosting and hospitality today, and how it might contribute to a more open city. Who has access to the city and who participates in shaping it ?

Join us at Halmtorvet 27 for speeches, radio cinema, free drinks and a tour inside a one-of-a kind “værtshus” in the heart of Copenhagen.

With the exhibition værtshuset, Lauge Floris Larsen and Christine Bjerke – two leading architects from the younger generation – argues that openness depends not only on housing policy, but also on forgotten and underrecognized forms of hospitality: the social practices through which people welcome, tolerate, and make room for one another.

The white, transparent exhibition space of Halmtorvet 27 is turned into a reimagined space for hosting. A new structure has been erected, space condensed, and colors added to the white canvas.

Supported by: Realdania, DREYERS FOND, Københavns Kommune, Statens Kunstfond, Blēo and Vesterbro Lokaludvalg

10/06/2026

AFFORDABILITY 🏗️

In almost every European city, housing has become unaffordable for a growing number of people. But what is actually driving this crisis - and what would it take to change it?

A few weeks ago, we helped convene a roundtable with 22 key actors from the building sector to think through one of the most urgent challenges of our time: how to create sustainable, affordable housing and cities.

Now we’re able to share the first result: a 25-minute video of the key findings on three central aspects of the overall question of affordability:

💫 Pulls & Pressures: What pulls people to cities, while at the same time pushing others away?

🧱Forms & Footprints: How can we transform existing housing stock sustainably?
🔐Keys & Queues: Who gets access when housing becomes scarce?

Watch the whole film via the link in bio 🎬

Around a single table in Copenhagen, leading architects, economists, planners, developers, and housing experts came together - meeting across disciplines and geographic contexts. Reflecting how solving the crisis of affordability can only happen through collective solutions.

The roundtable and video is made for, and in collaboration with, Living Places Copenhagen and Velux - who won the New European Bauhaus Prize for Affordable Housing in 2025 for their partnership with EFFEKT and Artelia Denmark.

Today the film is shown at the New European Bauhaus Festival in Brussels and soon we’re ready to share a three-part podcast series, delving even deeper into the main questions with you!

09/06/2026

Sustainability Doesn’t Happen By Itself 💚

In our new podcast series Inclusion Talks – A Universal Design Perspective we investigate and share stories of how we can collectively create truly inclusionary spaces - spaces that are successful in rethinking our shared spaces, inviting more people in – from physical spaces to AI and digital spaces.

In our first episode we go straight to a fundamental question: What does it truly take to ensure a sustainable future for us all?

Listen via link in bio 🔊 
The question lies at the heart of the Bevica Scholarship Programme, and to answer it we have invited two big capacities. Tune in and hear Camilla Ryhl, Director of Research and Head of the Universal Design Hub at the Bevica Foundation, in conversation with Daura van Vuuren, a former recipient of the scholarship.

Moderator Moussa Mchangama asks Camilla Ryhl and Daura van Vuuren: How do we take the right steps towards a sustainable future - without leaving anyone behind?

Inclusion Talks is a podcast that has been developed in collaboration with the Bevica Foundation. Tune in the next two Tuesday for more engaging conversations on creating an inclusionary future.

03/06/2026

værtshuset

CAFx invites you for an exhibition investigating the meaning of hosting and hospitality today, and how it might contribute to a more open city. Who has access to the city and who participates in shaping it ?

Join us at Halmtorvet 27 for speeches, radio cinema, free drinks and a tour inside a one-of-a kind “værtshus” in the heart of Copenhagen.

With the exhibition værtshuset, Lauge Floris Larsen and Christine Bjerke – two leading architects from the younger generation – argues that openness depends not only on housing policy, but also on forgotten and underrecognized forms of hospitality: the social practices through which people welcome, tolerate, and make room for one another.

værtshuset investigates the meaning of hosting and hospitality today, and why it might be the key to a more open city.

The white, transparent exhibition space of Halmtorvet 27 is turned into a reimagined space for hosting. A new structure has been erected, space condensed, and colors added to the white canvas.

Supported by: Realdania, DREYERS FOND, Københavns Kommune, Statens Kunstfond, Blēo and Vesterbro Lokaludvalg

Swipe to se the programme, or read more at cafx.dk

02/06/2026

Sharing The City With Microbes 💚

Today we conclude our three-week dive back into Living With Other Species. A series exploring how to plan and live alongside other species in the cities of the future.

With todays episode we turn our attention to the smallest and often most overlooked inhabitants of the city: microbes. From the soil beneath our feet to the materials that make up our buildings, microbial life shapes the health and resilience of urban environments.

Listen via link in bio 🔊

So what happens when we begin to think of the city as a living microbial ecology? And how might processes such as decomposition, fermentation, and soil regeneration inform the way we design and inhabit urban space?

On the podcast you will meet:

Adam Bencard: Researcher and curator at the The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research and at the Medical Museion. Bencard is interested in what he calls “molecular being.” This concept revolves around the idea that we, as human beings, are fundamentally a part of an expansive, material network, stretching inside and outside of our bodies.

Marie Sainabou Jeng: Marie Sainabou Jeng is the founder and program director of Madland. Madland is a food political community for rethinking the food system. They are co-created by people vested in changing traditional food systems and actively working towards a more sustainable way of producing and eating. Madland embraces all the agents out there who both develop and nurture Denmark as a food nation. 
Lasse Antoni Carlsen: Is an urban farming expert and food system innovator, dedicated to advancing modular, sustainable farming that bring specialty ingredients like mushrooms closer to consumers - improving the accessibility to sustainable quality food. 

Gerd Laura Juul Dahl is moderating the conversation.

28/05/2026

As 3 Days of Design is upon us, we invite you for a film about the iconic and avantgardistic house that marked the beginning of Gerrit Rietveld’s career as an architect. A house modelled on a radically simple yet historically significant chair.

A hundred years ago, the iconic Rietveld Schröder House - built in the outskirts of Utrecht - marked the beginning of Gerrit Rietveld’s career as an architect. It turned the ideas behind his Red-Blue Chair into architecture and acted as a testament to his artistic and romantic relationship to the owner of the house, Truus Schröder.

Seventy-five years after the construction of this house, it was the first residential house ever to be admitted to the list of Unesco’s World Heritage Sites in 2000. And it became a blueprint for ideas that Rietveld would pursue for the rest of his career.

Many would say, that Rietveld would never built anything so exceptional and avant-gardistic after that first project. Controversial to present-day ideals, Rietveld wanted the house torn down after 50 year, but it still stands as a testament to his important contribution to the De Stijl movement and modernism in general.

The film explores Rietveld’s work from the perspective of Truus’s love for the man and his work, documented in an audio interview from 1982, and in interviews with her loved ones.

🗓️ 10.6.2026, 17:00
📍Gloria Biograf
🎫 90 DKK (15 Discount for Community Members)

Ticket via link in bio!

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