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Julie Holck and Simon Glinvad Nielsen

The Empty Square

http://www.theemptysquare.org

Nivå, Denmark
We’re two partners, Julie Holck, PhD, and Simon Glinvad Nielsen, MA. We're reinventing the structures, that make towns and cities come alive. We’re working on an international level, advising and inspiring governments, municipalities, the European Parliament, the European Commission, ministers, mayors, major banks, developers, NGO's and key stakeholders in private businesses. The primary goal is the shaping of towns and cities, that are resilient, both socially, economically, and spiritually.

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The Empty Square


The Empty Square


The Empty Square is a global platform nurturing caring communities, living cities, and local wealth.
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  • Systemic changes

The Empty Square was established in November 2020 on the conviction that in the process of building cities and communities we need a new holistic approach, reestablishing lost balances and seeking new coherence. The platform will connect learnings, ideas, and perspectives across borders and sectors.
The impact on future architecture will be felt in the social and caring fabric of communities, towns, and cities. It will lead to an increased understanding of human qualities and needs. It will provide an ongoing qualification of the foundations and frameworks supporting the architectural and urban practice. Finally, it will place architecture in the center of a new structuring language bridging economic, social, cultural, spiritual, environmental, and aesthetic challenges, only accelerated by the pandemic.
Today, one month after launch we have visitors from 29 countries and have been appointed a Best Practice by the European Commission’s Intelligent Cities Program.

The Empty Square


The Empty Square


The Empty Square is a global platform nurturing caring communities, living cities, and local wealth.
File under
Type of project
  • Systemic changes

The Empty Square was established in November 2020 on the conviction that in the process of building cities and communities we need a new holistic approach, reestablishing lost balances and seeking new coherence. The platform will connect learnings, ideas, and perspectives across borders and sectors.
The impact on future architecture will be felt in the social and caring fabric of communities, towns, and cities. It will lead to an increased understanding of human qualities and needs. It will provide an ongoing qualification of the foundations and frameworks supporting the architectural and urban practice. Finally, it will place architecture in the center of a new structuring language bridging economic, social, cultural, spiritual, environmental, and aesthetic challenges, only accelerated by the pandemic.
Today, one month after launch we have visitors from 29 countries and have been appointed a Best Practice by the European Commission’s Intelligent Cities Program.

Idea by

Julie Holck and Simon Glinvad Nielsen
The Empty Square
Nivå
Denmark
We’re two partners, Julie Holck, PhD, and Simon Glinvad Nielsen, MA. We're reinventing the structures, that make towns and cities come alive. We’re working on an international level, advising and inspiring governments, municipalities, the European Parliament, the European Commission, ministers, mayors, major banks, developers, NGO's and key stakeholders in private businesses. The primary goal is the shaping of towns and cities, that are resilient, both socially, economically, and spiritually.
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