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.
In the conversation Occluded Depths, Simon Strøyer (Tideland Studio) and architect and PhD fellow Emma Rishøj Holm bring to the surface the millions of cubic meters of sand dredged from the seabed to sustain modern construction. Through artistic and architectural inquiry, they trace the spatial and ecological afterlives of this hidden extraction.
Continuing through their respective projects Archive of Endangered Spaces and Sediment Assemblies, the conversation weaves together methods of digital documentation and earth-based building practices. Join the curators for a conversation on architecture’s unseen material costs and pathways toward more careful approaches.
About Tideland Studio (DK)
Tideland Studio is a cross-disciplinary practice working at the intersection of architecture, landscape and research. The studio takes a forensic approach to environmental disruption, employing spatial mapping, 3D scanning and large-scale datasets to make hidden or inaccessible territories visible.
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Absout Emma Rishøj Holm (DK)
Emma Rishøj Holm, Ph.d. fellow at Aarhus School of Architecture, is an architectural activist focusing on the role of architecture and the planet's habitability across scales. Using artistic and transdisciplinary methods, her Ph.D.-project seeks to embed the connection between the landscapes of extraction and the sites of material use, focusing on sand and other sediments.
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Registration
Registration covers all three days, and we ask that participants attend the seminar in its entirety.