Much has been said about Superkilen, but what it is exactly is hard to define. The kilometer-long expanse of color-blocked pinks, reds, and oranges in Copenhagen’s ethnically diverse Nørrebro neighborhood is part playground, part outdoor exhibition, part social experiment.
The collaborative creation of architect it-boy Bjarke Ingels, urban landscape architects Topotek 1, and artist collective Superflex features more than 100 pieces of “urban furniture” — neon signage from Russia, manhole covers from Israel, trashcans from around the world — to represent the 60-or-so nationalities of the neighborhood’s residents, as well as myriad examples of urban modernity: bicycle paths, pedestrian trails, and the most avant-garde of playground equipment. It opened last fall to showers of praise for its lofty goals of bringing together one of Denmark’s most diverse neighborhoods, starting with its children.
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