Who is included in our cities, and whose stories are lost in the drawings?
In this lecture, we meet Copenhagen-based architect Asal Mohtashami, co-founder of the platform Building Diversity and initiator of Aiming Spaces.
Asal presents her pioneering work collecting “emotional facts” — personal stories, emotions, and experiences of the built environment. These subjective narratives are often missing from traditional planning processes, yet are essential to creating a city where everyone feels they belong. Drawing on Building Diversity’s latest publication, she demonstrates how we can move beyond quantitative data to better understand the emotional layers that shape a person’s relationship to space.
Asal Mohtashami works at the intersection of architecture, social sustainability, and representation. Through the Danish initiatives Building Diversity and Aiming Spaces, she advocates for a more inclusive building industry and challenges existing power structures by highlighting underrepresented perspectives. Her work has become an important voice in developing concrete methods for creating a more equitable and diverse built environment.imple, local, and environmentally friendly ways of building that both protect the planet and improve people’s living conditions.
MALMÖ MÖTS
Malmö möts is a democracy week during which Malmö comes together to focus on democracy and explore the future. The programme combines conversations and knowledge-sharing with experiences that move, engage, and inspire both laughter and reflection — through encounters taking place across the city and welcoming more people to take part.
