Presentation
Anne Faurskov is an experienced architect and project manager. She has worked with all scales of building projects, from design to city planning. Anne has a strong profile in design for persons with functional variations. She has a master’s in inclusive architecture, specializing in universal design and accessibility. She also has a strong profile in sustainability and has trained as a consultant in both the DGNB and the Passive House assessment systems. Anne's recent building projects have mainly focused on buildings for persons with functional variations. She has led the transformation of several social housing projects into more accessible buildings, with the involvement of the residents through workshops and other user input.
She is currently engaged in the research project 'BUILDS-UP: Building Universal and Inclusive Local Design - a Swedish-Ukrainian Parnership', financed by the Swedish Institute. The project provides support to a Ukrainian ministry and 10 Ukrainian municipalities to to take account of the needs of people with functional variation via an enhanced focus on universal design.
She previously led the accessibility subparts of the Malmo University research projects 'LUPSRUSS' (2017-19) and 'LUPSRUSS-2' (2020-21), funded by the Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD). These aimed to strengthen local democracy through citizen involvement in city planning and to examine accessibility of public spaces. The projects developed a methodology to allow municipalities to assess city centre accessibility and develop new ideas on how to adapt for persons with functional variations. This resulted in a ICLD Policy Brief (”Engagement of people with functional variation in the urban planning processes”), which was also adapted into a video summary that has been used in training contexts. The methodology has since been used used by municipalities in three continents.
Anne has studied the political processes behind the accessibility project at the listed building Akershus in Oslo, and the accessibility of restaurants in Copenhagen. She has also worked with town planning in Thailand and Bolivia. In 2012, she won the Bodum Design Award.
