DSA ARK STUDIO, Atelier for Byens Rum, AVPD and Olivia Toftum are a part of the exhibition Mission Neighbourhood – (Re)forming communities with the project People's Palace.

People’s Palace is an architectural statement confronting such urban development and instead pays tribute to the city's complexity and openness. In this visionary project, the Palads theatre in central Copenhagen, Denmark, currently a cinema, is transformed into a non-commercial, covered urban space, extending the outdoor season. The large inner space takes shape as an open, urban marketplace – but indoors – and not fully programmed.

Based on the artist Poul Gernes’ striking colour palette, the project gives hope to a more open, imaginative, and experimental urban development. ThePeople's Palace is the result of an ideas competition organised by the Gernes Foundation and Copenhagen Contemporary in 2021 about the transformation of the cinema Palads Teatret (The Palace Theatre). The competition was won by a team consisting of Atelier for Byens Rum, the artist collective AVPD, DSA ARK STUDIO and Olivia Toftum.

Team
For this exhibition the project has been set-up by:

Knud Aarup Kappel, Atelier for Byers Rum
Lauge Floris Larsen, Atelier for Byers Rum
Aslak Vibæk, AVPD
Peter Døssing, AVPD
Jørgen Taxholm, DSA ARK STUDIO
Nils Jeppe Hansen, DSA ARK STUDIO
Olivia Toftum, Olivia Toftum