Scan Design Foundation

Join the National Nordic Museum in two weeks for the next Nordic Innovation Series: Designing Better Cities. From climate resilience to human-centered urban design, the evening will explore how design can help shape better places to live, work, and connect.

As a longtime partner of the National Nordic Museum, Scan Design Foundation is proud to support programs that bring ideas and innovative solutions from Denmark to audiences in the United States. This program brings together other longtime partners of SDF, including COurban and University of Washington College of Built Environments.

📅 July 23rd at 6:30pm

Hear from:
🌳 Sofie Kvist, Director of Gehl Architects' SF Office
🌳 Rico Quirindongo, Director of Seattle's Office of Planning and Community Development
🌳 Vincent Javet, Assistant Teaching Professor at the University of Washington
🌳 Katy Scherrer, Co-founder of COurban
🌳 Zahra Rasti, Assistant Teaching Professor at University of Washington College of Built Environments
🌳 Joshua McNichols, KUOW Public Radio's Growth and Development Reporter

Learn more and register: https://nordicmuseum.org/events/nordic-innovation-series-designing-better-cities

Organized by the National Nordic Museum together with Frederikke Møller Kristiansen

Nordic Innovation Series: Designing Better Cities — Nordic Ideas for t... Join five global and local voices for an evening on the future of urban life, and how Nordic approaches are taking root in the Pacific Northwest.

This week, our partners at Nordic Northwest welcomed His Excellency Jesper Møller Sørensen, Ambassador of Denmark to the United States, for an intimate event to celebrate 225 years of uninterrupted diplomatic relations between Denmark and the United States. The event also served as a welcoming event for the new Danish Honorary Consul for Oregon, Jesper Angelo, and Nordic Northwest's new Executive Director, Andrew Haight!

The reception gathered the Danish-American community in Oregon, leaders of Danish organizations including Philip Lund, the President of the Museum of Danish America and Danish Honorary Consul for WA, Mark Schleck. Scan Design Foundation Staff attended along with other business and government representatives who were attending the regional Industrial Symbiosis Conference by Center for Sustainable Infrastructure.

It was a lovely evening of hygge and Danish and English conversations.

Embassy of Denmark in the United States

What an honor it was for us to be a part of this exceptional conference. Thank you to our partners at CSI for their groundbreaking work!

It wasn't just that ours was the first Industrial Symbiosis conference ever held in the United States...

Or that over 250 I.S. leaders and the I.S.-curious from all over the West converged in Vancouver, WA to discuss technology, feedstocks, end-products, and financing of multi-benefit infrastructure partnerships...

Or that our partners in this groundbreaking work from Denmark arrived en masse and helped explore practical, imaginative solutions...

Or that the Ambassador from Denmark to the U.S. and Washington Lt. Governor Denny Heck put a metaphorical bow on the event when they stopped by Tuesday morning to announce a formal Industrial Symbiosis partnership between the two governments...

It was all of these things AND the palpable buzz all three days as everyone learned and imagined something new...and possible!

We are grateful to our partners at State of Green Denmark
Kalundborg Symbiosis, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Denmark, Washington State Department of Commerce, Scan Design Foundation, and all of our sponsors for helping us bring over 250 people together to work on smart solutions for our economies, communities, workers, and environment.

Tonight our Scan Design Foundation President, Fidelma McGinn, will be moderating a talk between special guest, Edgar the Troll, and Troll Historian, Lotta Gavel Adams! Join us at the National Nordic Museum for this live Q&A session to hear about a troll's perspective on our world.

⏰ 6:30 pm
📍National Nordic Museum, Seattle, WA

Register for this special event here:
https://nordicmuseum.org/events/conversation-with-a-troll

-Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams is Professor Emerita of Scandinavian Studies, University of Washington in Seattle, Barbro Osher Chair Emerita of Swedish University of Washington Scandinavian Studies Department

-Edgar the troll is the Forest King of Vashon

Conversation with a Troll Join 357 year-old Edgar, the Forest King of Vashon Island, and troll historian Lotta Gavel Adams for a live Q&A session where you will explore a troll's perspective on our world.