Livable City – 28 Urban Developments in Denmark.
A City Dialogue with Basel

Exhibition Duration: August 13 to September 28, 2025
Opening: Wednesday, August 13, 2025

In the Great Refectory and the Monastery Kitchen, the Kleines Klingental Museum presents an exhibition by the Royal Danish Embassy in Berlin, conceived in collaboration with the Danish Urban Planning Laboratory (led by Tina Saaby, the former City Architect of Copenhagen). It presents realized examples from Danish cities that demonstrate how a city can be developed to be livable today: More green spaces, biodiversity, ecological construction and living, attractive design of architecture, streets, and squares, waterfront living, and participation. In Basel, these examples meet the “Position 2024,” which was developed during the “Dialogue Days 2023” by the Forum Städtebau “Basel 2050.” This will enable a dialogue about further development, recognition, and new impulses for the objectives for Basel’s future.

As part of the exhibition, the MKK, together with Städtebau & Architektur and the architect and curator Chrissie Muhr, has conceived an attractive series of events: “A City Dialogue with Basel,” actively bringing together experts from Denmark and Basel in a diverse program of lectures, tours, and workshops. The series of events will offer opportunities on Wednesday afternoons and evenings to exchange views from Denmark and Switzerland, specifically in and from Basel, on the design and practice of a “livable city” and to learn from one another. Invited participants include: Tina Saaby, Beat Aeberhard, Vittorio Magnago Lampugnani, Oliver Martin, and emerging practitioners from architecture, teaching, research, and politics will be featured. Complementing this program will be a concert entitled “Denmark” on September 3rd as part of “Blüthner on Tour,” and a weekend-long celebration of the Danish lifestyle with “Det Danske Club Basel.”

Museum Kleines Klingental, Unterer Rheinweg 26, 4056 Basel
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