Un-guided journeys
Tracing the multi-layered temporalities of Amager Commons in Copenhagen, Denmark
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19230474 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kristine Samson (0000-0002-6685-4194, Roskilde University, corresponding author), Linda Lapiņa (0000-0002-3562-6949, Roskilde University), Eduardo Abrantes (0000-0002-9870-9426, Åbo Akademi University) |
| Year | 2026 |
| Publication date | 2026-04-09 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Urban Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0042-0980 • E-ISSN: 1360-063X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/00420980261428397 |
| OpenAlex | W7152489548 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 45 |
Based on collective walks, this article explores the entangled, multi-layered temporalities of Amager Commons, and how these might offer possibilities for new relationships with urban environments. The article draws on and contributes to scholarship on arts-based, collaborative methodologies, urban nature-cultures, and more-than-human temporalities. Having been used as common farmland, a garbage dump, and a shooting ground for the military, today Amager Commons is a high biodiversity zone, located close to central Copenhagen. Increasingly put to multiple recreational uses, the Commons is also subject to urban development. While spatial politics and planning initiatives enact the Commons on a linear timeline of preservation and development, our walks enabled explorations of the Commons’ multi-layered temporalities, shaped by emergent, heterogeneous ecologies. Engaging with creative writing, sensory ethnography, memory work and two unguided tours, we develop a multi-layered, porous and polyvocal methodology to foster reciprocity and socio-environmental care for urban ecologies. The article contributes to methodologies in urban studies and cultural geography, with a focus on temporalities, urban nature-cultures and commoning. We invite you, the reader, to venture into the text and immerse yourself in it as if walking in the Commons
Collective memory · Commons · Politics · Recreation · Scholarship · Subject (documents) · Temporalities · Timeline · Urban planning · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Urban Planning and Landscape Design · Urban Studies · Water Governance and Infrastructure
Natura Urbana
Novel urban ecosystems, biodiversity, and conservation
Introduction “the Rot Remains”
Songspirals Bring Country Into Existence
Performance as Methodology
Walking with sheep, dancing with dragonflies
Re-wilding the Environmental Humanities
The urban political ecology of the commons or commoning as a socio-natural process
Fences, seeds and bees
Site-Specific Performance
Weathering
Listening to place, practising relationality
Affectual intensities
Unintentional landscapes
Telling times
Towards Decolonial Choreographies of Co-Resistance
Memory Work
Co-becoming Bawaka
From Environmental Case Study to Environmental Kin Study
The Creatures Collective
Ecological Gentrification
Introduction
Living with others
Bala ga' lili
The Mushroom at the End of the World
Situated Knowledges
Lively Ethography
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |