Christiania Researcher in Residence (CRIR) offers residency for artists and academic researchers with a specific interest in Christiania as an important field of study. style="font-family: Arial; font-style: italic;"> The CRIR house, Photo: Emmerik Warburg

Why CRIR?

The aim of the Christiania Researcher in Residence project is to involve artists, researchers and academics in an open, critical and reflective dialogue around the free town Christiania in Copenhagen, and to feed new creative and critical thinking into the public realm.

Since 2004 the CRIR house has hosted researchers from around the world with a particular interest in Christiania as a research area. Christiania’s insight and experience into local organisation, alternative architecture, lifestyle, culture, sustainable environments, quality of life, democracy and innovation is unique in the world and could generate important knowledge that may inspire new urban thinking.

Researchers are invited to live in Christiania for short periods, depending on the nature and needs of their proposed projects, typically up to one month. They are asked to consider their project’s expected visibility and how it may contribute to public debate – whether in the form of an academic text, a public lecture, an event, an artwork, a conference or an exhibition.

Applicants are asked to consider how their project can be communicated internally in Christiania. Residents will have access to support and guidance as well as a historical archive from a network of Christiania residents. Various venues and public spaces may be available for events, exhibitions and public presentations.

Refurbished CRIR house 2025

The steering group has in 2024-25 given the CRIR house a major makeover and thank all previous guests, neighbors and Mælkebøtten inhabitants for their help.

The aim is to make the house an attractive working environment for researchers as well as visual artists. The terrace in front of the house is being refurbished to accomodate practical work with posters and visual boards.

The House

is financed by the Christiania community fund and is hosted by the area of Mælkebøtten (one of Christiania´s fourteen community regions).
The house is about 25 Square metres (270 square feet). It has a kitchen/dining room with a double bed for sleeping, toilet and shower and a bedroom. It has central heating and the front of the house has a large covered terrase.
CRIR supplies duvets and linen, towels, free broadband internet. There is access to a shared pay-per-wash washing machine. The CRIR house must be kept in order and cleaned by the guest. The house is booked for one guest only at a time, for a maximum of 1 month (but you can invite whoever you want to stay with you!). It is important to respect that the neighborhood is quiet and residential.

What is in the house?

Cost

Please refer to our page how to apply.

Organization - Steering group

The Christiania Researcher in Residence project is managed by a group of Christiania residents, and previous Christiania residents and members living in Denmark and abroad, involved in architecture, urban planning, art and culture. The CRIR steering committee currently consists of:

• Emmerik Warburg, affiliated to Christiania’s Secretary office, Christiania resident
• Ida Dam Juutilainen, Masters degree in Cognitive Semiotics from University of Aarhus, ex-Christiania resident
• Anders Lund Hansen, Associate professor in Human Geography, Lund University, lives in Copenhagen
• Jens Brandt, architect, lives in Brussels
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• Lise Autogena, artist and Professor in Cross-Disciplinary Art at the Creative and Culture Research Institute, Sheffield Hallam University, UK, ex-christiania resident. Lives in London
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• Louise Fabian, Associate Professor University of Aarhus, Denmark. School of Culture and Society, Lives in Aarhus
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• Nina Gry Jacobsen, Bachelor in architecture and Masters in environmental and urban planning. Former Christiania’s building office. former Christiania resident.
• Secretary: Nina Gry

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