Copenhagen & Christiania / Archive

1a) When you think of Copenhagen, what first comes to mind?
1b) Is there a place in Copenhagen that reminds you of another place in the world, and if so, which place?
1c) Which place is for you personally significant or characteristic for Copenhagen? Please tell us something more about you and the story of this place.
1d) If Copenhagen would be personified, what kind of person would it be?
1e) The senses: Is there a specific smell, taste, sound or music that is for personally you connected to Copenhagen? If a specific location associated please name it.
1f) If you would be the good fairy and had a wish free for Copenhagen – what would you wish?
2a) When you think of Christiania, what first comes to mind?
2b) Is there a place in Christiania that reminds you of another place in the world, and if so, which place?
2c) Which place is for you personally significant or characteristic for Christiania? Please tell us something more about you and the story of this place.
2d) If Christiania would be personified, what kind of person would it be?
2e) The senses: Is there a specific smell, taste, sound or music that you connect to Christiania? If there is a specific location associated please name it.
2f) If you would be the good fairy and had a wish free for Christiania – what would you wish?
2g) What experiences from the last 30 years can Christiania give to the world? What can the world learn from Christiania?
3a) What does freedom mean to you?
3b) What does control mean to you?
3c) How would you characterize the relation between Copenhagen and the free city of Christiania?

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1a) When you think of Copenhagen, what first comes to mind?

• That's way the betsest answer so far!
• It's spooky how cveler some ppl are. Thanks!
• That's way more celver than I was expecting. Thanks!
• With the bases laoedd you struck us out with that answer!
• That's a mold-baerekr. Great thinking!
• That's not just the best asnewr. It's the bestest answer! (Connie)
• Very nice post, good luck! ;-)
• Awesome stuff!
• christiania
• 9fgTEK hi! nice site!
• romantic walks with my handsome boyfriend along the flowerbeds
• beautiful flowerbeds happy picnicks
• marmaid (from a very personal point of view from early childchood - just for the record, i am not danish), of course christiania - especially out of its centre, i love to wonder around and take photos, males, young husbants in most cases I guess, taking care of their kids (sexual revolution is such a new thing for me to observe - as I come from Poland, the country so differentm and totally traditionl in those terms) (marta derska)
• The place where my 3 children took their first steps.
• Dirty streets and beautiful red brick houses with funny little different details. (Ingu)
• Christiania!!! and the (former) Ungdomshuset!! (c.b-zen)
• photo of street
• The main library - there's everything - good books, newspapers, films, internet connection, coffee and relaxed atmosphere :)
• my first encounter with cph, living with my friend liv
• Beautiful city with closed and cold people. (katrien jans)
• copper (the real geeves)
• This huge ground has such a potential for a peoples park. Wild nature in the middle of nørrebro all kind of plants are growing there . We have taken videos from there and inagurated the ground with an Accahannoach tribe spir.(video)hoping this area can become a free zone for people free park or wilderness.
• This is tippen!
• In this small harbor of South West of Copenhagen lies two local restaurants with view over the water. Theese very idyllic restaurants serve traditional danish food and the costumers are mostly the wonderfull local citicens of south harbor.
• Valbyparken. Great green area. Park with arkitectual gardens, the garden of roses, room for festivals (!), playground, barbeque area, landscape with possibilities. The park borders on the sea.
• gay (philipp)
• The Water and the Habour (Katrine Helman)
• home (ole henriksen)
• Cold and straight lines. (cyrano)
• bicycles
• beautiful trees along the street
• very good Tai Chi
• Real Center of Copehagen
• here
• Jörgen Nash (Synnöve)
• Nice sommer
• The 1960s and early 70s. Socialism. Idealism Alternative culture Fight in the streets for a just cause (Magnus)
• noise (Mette)
• streets, politics, love, culture and ungdomshuset (tone)
• boredom
• Alottment of South harbour city side. South West of Copenhagen has its own special history. Here are many beautiful people.
• Smörrebröd, beer, Queen Margarete and the new Opera House
• my home. (Matti LeBeau)
• The meeting of the old and the new and the possibility of beautiful silent mornings just listening to silence and to the pigeons cooing --- its a silent soft rhythm that expresses this atmosphere of soft modern urban style (lis engel)
• my home (Tove Johansen)
• Quietness, wind in my hair, time to meditate, to take the load off!!!
• Young love (Camilla Rohde Madsen)
• My childhood school (Sortedams gymnasium) and where the older boys would throw me into the water (Sortedams Dosseringen 97)
• The seebreeze and friends (Philip Roitmann)
• that this where i live - it's home
• red bricks and cobber roofs (frederik)
• red bricks and cobber roofs (frederik)
• A smell is connected to the area where I live. It is the smell of hops from the brewery of Carlsberg. It is great smell but it is slowly dissapearing because of the closing down of Carlsberg, which is really a pity.
• The Parliarment. A lovely spot that sets you back in time (look at Smashing Pumpkins cover - Adore CD, and you'll know what I mean)
• tjilli pop cafe. mostly young people going there, but sunday morning I enjoy going there for a coffee. Looks like a Christiania place in Noerrebro
• Tippen a little Island near to Valby parken - Its just typically Copenhagen to have a place where you can feel free and autonom close to a big city. (
• My street skjalm hvides gade. I have lived a lot of different places in Cph. but I have never felt more at home than when I moved in with my boyfriend in skjalm hvides gade. i like the mix of the cozy court yard and the industrial tracks that we can see.
• Istedgade remainds me of Orainenstrasse in Berlin
• Nørrebrogade in the summer with all the smells and stress reminds me of faraway places that I have visited.
• bopa plads is square which is hidden away and reminds me of southern european fantastic small chaotic structure in the city where there is space for small squares with intime cafees.
• Rush hour in slow or speed tempo on the bikes (lotte juul petersen)
• Bikes (Stine Hansen)
• My own neighborhood. Vesterbro.
• Fucking dogshit under my shoes, angry cyclists, too many cars, ugly people, ugly street! Entering that holy place is like moving back in time 100 years - quiet, old gravestones half hidden behind thick heavy greenth, mysticism, magic. After an hour or tw
• interesting cultures
• Atmosphere (Morten)
• The harbour is totally different from the rest of the city and still quite central, some of it is very untouched and still functions as a reminder of past times and technologies
• this hole is aprox. 40 m deep and the size of Rundetårn. An amazing sight. go in evenings and knock the gate. Ask politely if it is possible to see the hole. Impressive!!!
• a few days ago I came home at night. on pusher street the pushers were standing around the fire, getting warm and singing. was nice.
• Perhaps a gypsy concert in The Opera could be somewhere exotic, Balkan mixed with Rajahstahn (India) and California in the 60´s. (Kristine Agergaard)
• It is a cultural center as well as a social ( NYhavn beside) Magasin
• bycicles, harbour...
• this hole is aprox. 40 m deep and the size of Rundetårn. An amazing sight. go in evenings and knock the gate. Ask politely if it is possible to see the hole. Impressive!!!
• mouse and elephant - jokes!
• 2 elephants made of granit. to symbolize the company of Carlsberg.
• Still 3 years ago they brewed beer - Carlsberg - in versterbroe and you could smell it.
• Copenhagen to me is not a very big city. It is kind of medium size. It is easy to travel around. (Flemming Keldebaek)
• bycicles (Betty Soerensen)
• the 5-finger plan!
• strangest experience: downstairs older white men and thai girls. upstairs a dancing club. I spent a great night there dancing, the thai girls loved me and carried me on their shoulders!
• Home (Martin)
• The old towers and spires that look like from a fairy tale. They have spirals, dragons, and the old bronze covering has gone completely green. (Kristine Agergaard)
• My hometown, bikes, friends, the little mermaid (Christian Jensen)
• the seabreeze! (phillip)
• beautiful moments with my friends

1b) Is there a place in Copenhagen that reminds you of another place in the world, and if so, which place?

• That's not just the best asnewr. It's the bestest answer! (Connie)
• no, its unique
• no, i did travel a lot, but copenhagen has its own unique spirit (marta derska)
• I cannot be specific here, because three times and I don't exsactly remember where, I smell some kind of cleaning remedy mixed with with maybe bread and a little sweat and immediately I'm in paris London or Greece. I think it is only on days with almost no wind. (Ingu)
• No.... Copenhagen is pretty unlike any of the toher places i've been in the world. But then I'm from Canada, and outside of denmark i've done most of my traveling within Canada and while it's really big and really spread out there's nothing quite like copehagen anywhere around here. (c.b-zen)
• The relaxed atmosphere in Nyhavn on a nice summer day reminds me of Graslei in Ghent Belgium. Youngsters sitting alongside the canal, socializing and having their drinks. Celebrating summer and the nice days in life. Copenhagen people warming up! (katrien jans)
• wellington (the real geeves)
• amsterdam (philipp)
• Chanel on Christianshavns have an Amstardam atmosphere, and the Habour is like a Nordic Venice (Katrine Helman)
• no (ole henriksen)
• Christiania smells (a bit) like brazil. Just a bit. (cyrano)
• Fields, in South Amager. 'Field's er skandinaviens største shoppingcenter samt det første superregionale center i Danmark' reminds me of home- i home from Canada, land of the sprawling shopping mall.
• yep, a place in Nørrebro reminds me P. Berg in Berlin, same kind of people (Synnöve)
• No
• Yes, Islands Bygge reminds me of Iceland (Magnus)
• the canals, especially at christianshavn reminds me of Amsterdam. (Mette)
• dronning louises bro reminds me of paris (tone)
• no
• The canals reminds me of Stockholm and Amsterdam
• the end of pile allé down by cafe intime reminds me of paris. (Matti LeBeau)
• Tivoli is a place that reminds me of the magic spce of 1001 night (lis engel)
• Glyptoteket reminds me of museums all over the world (Tove Johansen)
• Christianshavn reminds me of Amsterdam! (Camilla Rohde Madsen)
• no place (Philip Roitmann)
• rantzaysgade on nørrebro, nor very danish. maybe east village new york - just a bit.
• there are lots of places, but mostly the atmosphere of the places, like Islands brygge which reminds me of Södermalm in Stockholm (frederik)
• there are lots of places, but mostly the atmosphere of the places, like Islands brygge which reminds me of Södermalm in Stockholm (frederik)
• Bopa Plads. It is square which is hidden away and reminds me of southern european fantastic small chaotic structure in the city where there is space for small squares with intime cafees. (lotte juul petersen)
• The Café Vascator on Nørrebro remindes me of Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin. (Stine Hansen)
• christiania used to remind my of Katmandu in nepal. Nørrebrogade in the summer with all the smells and stress reminds me of faraway places that I have visited.
• no
• Christianshavn (Morten)
• The cityhall place, the main place reminds me of several other places in the world, the size, the architecture.... The building and the place is a copy of another twon, I forget the town... (Flemming Keldebaek)
• vesterbroe reminds me of kreuzberg berlin (Betty Soerensen)
• Christiania kind of reminds me of Prenzlauer Berg in Berlin. But also Nørrebro. Prenzlauer Berg is somewhere in between... (Martin)
• The red light district around the main station is the one of only places that comes to mind that could be in another European metropol such as Hamburg or Amsterdam. (Kristine Agergaard)
• a lot of the city centre reminds me of a lot of other european city centres with its squares, billboards, shops and hords of busy people (Christian Jensen)

1c) Which place is for you personally significant or characteristic for Copenhagen? Please tell us something more about you and the story of this place.

• That's not just the best asnewr. It's the bestest answer! (Connie)
• christiania; I studied in copenhagen for 1 year and proably the best year. I went on average a few times a week and have alot of amazing memories there with some great people.
• christiania - the answr is so obvious, but there is non such place anywere else on this planet. (marta derska)
• To me What is really Copenhagen is somewhere on Nørrebro or Vesterbro maybe even more, It is an Kiosk or an old secondhandshop. What make it Copenhagenish is the old man or woman the shopkeeper. It ould also be the drunkard on a bench. Some of these old copenhagenish people is to me Copenhagen at it's best. They have a strong almost distinct accent, and not talking fast as many others do. And they have a very rare honesty openness and kindness. Loving to tell about how they are writing their biography or tales of how people connected cooperated in theese hoods in the old days. (Ingu)
• Definitely Christiania and the (former) Ungdomshuset are the most significant parts of Copenhagen for me. In Christiania i met the friendliest people from all over the world, Rasta's from the caribbean, friends from spain as well as lifelong Christiania residents, born and raised there all of whom treated me like family even though they had only just met me. The same goes for the ungdomshuset, people i met in christiania were staying at the squat house. I contacted someone associated with the youth group pressuring the government for a new Ungdomshuset and she was nice enough to send me - a complete stranger half a world away - some of the t shirts (that say Intet Glemt Intet Tilgivet in a circle around a skull and crossbones with the # 69 in it's eyes) that they had made. I got several to give to some of my friends and i think i speak for us all when i say these t shirts are THE COOLEST T SHIRTS WE HAVE EVER OWNED. (c.b-zen)
• Assistens Kirkegarden. Zen place in the middle of the city. A place i have fallen in love with when the city was too harsh on me. (katrien jans)
• blasen bar - first night in copenhagen - up til 11am (the real geeves)
• christiania (philipp)
• Peblingesøen, It a beatyfull place in Copenhagen, and et came represent my first encounter with the Water in Copenhagen ;) Tivoli - as it used to be - more innocent an uniqe. (Katrine Helman)
• Rådhuspladsen, it is an open place with a lot of peoble (ole henriksen)
• I stayed in Christiania for 3 weeks. But it is not very important as the house i stayed in malkebotten specifically. And the streets, they were my closest friends. (cyrano)
• the new KUA, on Amager. this was where i met everyone important to me here, exchange student or otherwise when i came the DK in 2005
• I have a lot of places. can't choose only one (Synnöve)
• The Latin Quarter (Latinsk Kvarter) is very special: It´s an alternative neighbourhood, with shops and atmosphere that we only find and feel there.
• For the copenhagen I know it would be Norrebro (Magnus)
• I love the more or less deserted place between Valby Idræstpark and Sydhavnen. It's an in-between place with wild nature and a wiew of the Water (bay). The Sea is very important to me, because it reminds me of a certain scandinavian feeling, and I have a (Mette)
• dronning louises bro. it connects the 'posh' inner city with 'unruly' nørrebro. a lot of things have happened on it; riots, parties, love, traffic...I cross it almost every day. (tone)
• vesterbro - the area around enghave plads. I used to live there and I really miss it. a lot of my friends live just around there. it is a double feeling, you know. it is nice to see the same people all the time in the neighbourhood and to say Hi and to ha (Matti LeBeau)
• Botanisk Have - is a place that nearly can become like a garden of paradize especially in early springtime and early summer. I always feel it like the air is filled with love and it is very easy to fall in love so take care (lis engel)
• Of course Christiania is also characteristic for Copenhagen. I have been there from beginning as a guest. I always feel comfortable in Christiania and invite my friens from Jylland and Fyn to see the "exotic" place. (Tove Johansen)
• Christianshavn Canal. As I'm not originally from Copenhagen, I sometimes like to stand on the Christianshavn side of Copenhagen and watch the city from across the water. It is also where my husbond and I lived when we were young and at 3 in the morning so (Camilla Rohde Madsen)
• The far end corner of Sortedamssøen (Østerbrogade) where my childhood school (Sortedams Gymnasium) is. This is where I would always be thrown into the water by the older boys. (Philip Roitmann)
• i love riding my bike over dronning louises bro to nørrebro. there is a sculture of to people on the grass on one of the sides on the nørrebro side. it's a man and a woman talking. the woman is leaning towards the man. i just love her posture. i think i
• the Gefion fountain: It's a place where my parents use to take me then i was a child, and a place where I have memories of three different boyfriends. There is something melancholic about it, but in a good way. A sense of times past (frederik)
• the Gefion fountain: It's a place where my parents use to take me then i was a child, and a place where I have memories of three different boyfriends. There is something melancholic about it, but in a good way. A sense of times past (frederik)
• A place which is personal significant to me is the church yard Vesterkirkegaard. Here there are many stories about significant people. The area has a fantastic atmosphere and respectful grandeur to the past and to people. Many different nationalities are (lotte juul petersen)
• My street skjalm hvides gade. I have lived a lot of different places in Cph. but I have never felt more at home than when I moved in with my boyfriend in skjalm hvides gade. i like the mix of the cozy court yard and the industrial tracks that we can see f
• tjilli pop cafe. mostly young people going there, but sunday morning I enjoy going there for a coffee. Looks like a Christiania place in Noerrebro
• The Parliarment. A lovely spot that sets you back in time (look at Smashing Pumpkins cover - Adore CD, and you'll know what I mean) (Morten)
• The main walking street. I enjoy walking on the street, itis full of life, relaxed athmosphere. (Flemming Keldebaek)
• enghave park, a parc iin vesterbroe. I played there when I was a child because my granpa lived there (Betty Soerensen)
• Lakes on the edge of Nørrebro: Sortedamssøen. And the bridge crossing it: Dronning Louises Bro. When i first moved to Cph I lived by the lakes and crossing that bridge was always special. A proud sense of being where I was. Now I live a different place (Martin)
• Christiania. When I was a kid I was taken there by my stepfather, later when I was a teen I went there very often to hang out, smoke joints and go to parties, a little later on a was quite active out there, working in a vegetable shop, organizing parties (Kristine Agergaard)
• The harbour, because it is totally different from the rest of the city and still quite central, some of it is very untouched and still functions as a reminder of past times and technologies (Christian Jensen)

1d) If Copenhagen would be personified, what kind of person would it be?

• That's not just the best asnewr. It's the bestest answer! (Connie)
• what would happen if a hippy, punk, right wing nazi and michael foucault had a child?
• artistic, for sure, modern in a way, a bit arrogant and extremely feminist (marta derska)
• It would be a charming but very self-absorbed person at first sight. But as soon you have solved a problem together or you have shown your strength somehow, it is a very deep, loving and loyal friend, talking a little harshly but having a heart of gold, caring about other people. (Ingu)
• i don't like to put people into categories or classifications. If anything i try to defy classification. That being said, i don't know what KIND of person copenhagen would be but it would definitely be the kind of person i would want to be friends with. As long as there's a christiania (and with any luck a new Ungdomshuset as well). Without those things i don't think i would ever talk to copehagen again (c.b-zen)
• You do not want to know (katrien jans)
• librarian (the real geeves)
• zorro (philipp)
• Artist, but cool, lean, laughing, quiet in the morning, night raven, Love nature, fairytales, adventures, sailing, romantic, but not pathetic, (Katrine Helman)
• bill clinton (ole henriksen)
• Not a very friendly one. (cyrano)
• an H&M model, with a gold purse.
• an artist (Synnöve)
• Tall blond hippy kind of people (Magnus)
• A very neat and conservative person that was afraid of his imperfections (Mette)
• when I'm in a good mood it would be a bobo (bourgeois/bohème), when I'm not: a paranoid schizophrenic (tone)
• a dead one
• Winston Churchill or Jörg Heider
• it is constantly changing. it is a really stupid question, but not the kind of stupid question that'll bring interesting answers. (Matti LeBeau)
• Its very complicated but first came to my mind the entertainer Amin Jensen - because he has got this suttle rhythm that opens into adventure caracterized with openness, shyness, sensuality and audacity. (lis engel)
• a princess (Tove Johansen)
• A woman still trying to grow up, but feeling good about herself. Sometimes meaybe even too good! (Camilla Rohde Madsen)
• A person full of herself. (Philip Roitmann)
• someone laid back, with flip flops on so one could wave with all the toes - happy and angrily
• a friendly but timid person who's not too sure of itself, but really has a lot of nice quiet qualities (frederik)
• a friendly but timid person who's not too sure of itself, but really has a lot of nice quiet qualities (frederik)
• A woman in a red/green raincoat (lotte juul petersen)
• A wealthy, well dressed person who sees himself as tolerant and open minded, but who also is a little bit afraid of things that look different. (Stine Hansen)
• It would be one of those old ladies with a decadent past and secrets in the closet. she is one of those people who dress up really nice but once you scratch in the surface she reveals a totally different side than you had expected when you met her first h
• Artistic, creative, but now old enough to have family and children, so not so much of a partyfreak anymore
• Christian the fourth (Morten)
• Copenhagen is a wealthy elderly man, proud of his status but somewhat not completely at ease.... There is a frown on is forehead... He is trying to ignore and suppress the attraction for the beautiful, naked lady Christiania, that is dancing around him, v (Inge Demuytere)
• a nice schizophren woman. (Flemming Keldebaek)
• a smal an slim person (Betty Soerensen)
• En elderly woman with hat and golden finger rings - in her youth she dated an artist. (Martin)
• A mother to a small child, around 30 years old, with fancy clothes, riding a bike. (Kristine Agergaard)
• Prins Frederik because he merges the idea of fairy tales, and tradition, with the ordinary and mediocre (Christian Jensen)

1e) The senses: Is there a specific smell, taste, sound or music that is for personally you connected to Copenhagen? If a specific location associated please name it.

• That's not just the best asnewr. It's the bestest answer! (Connie)
• fresh air, coffee, raggea and jazz
• well, the fake bird singing instalations are pretty obvious, but for me, special sound of copenhagen are the classic music in my dearest friend's apartment in Aboulvard (marta derska)
• The smell of asphalt after rain, on a summerday, and the taste of rotting rush on Amager Fælled. A nice sound is the silence and the absense of sound of wheels againt the road on a winterday just after heavy snow. The sound of the bats in the bridge-hoods on a summernight. Someone who shouts really loud out and proud, a long abuse is something funny and to me specific Copenhagenish. (Ingu)
• The smell of diesel fuel (from the buses) and the smell of cigars (my far far always used to smoke them) and the smell of hash in christiania (c.b-zen)
• broken glass on a saturday night. engaged young people protesting and daring to express themself. (katrien jans)
• cigarettes (the real geeves)
• the smell of burned plastic bins (philipp)
• The smell is the scent there is on a warm quit summer night in Copenhagen - The scent from the Salt Ocean blending with the flowering lilacs ...can be experienced every year around may, whereever there a flowering lilac, The sence of the sun hot paiving - (Katrine Helman)
• Caetano Veloso has to do with christianshavn cannals, the air and the sun. The floor has to do with these electronic musics young people enjoy. The city smells nothing, except for the vegetarian restaurant Morgen Stedet inside Christiania. (cyrano)
• the sick stench of beer piss in the street the morning after. i hate the public peeing here.
• Copenhagen sounds as a RATM song for me (Synnöve)
• No
• "Midt om Natten" og Kim Larsen (Magnus)
• The smell of Kebab - in nørrebrogade and rantzuasgade where i lived. The peru people playing pipes at the city hall. (Mette)
• sirens, tear gas, roasted almonds, smells and sounds of traffic, talking and laughing, jazz and punk (tone)
• the smell of too clean air
• Caramelled almonds on Ströget and the smell of gigars
• my home - my lovers armpit. the smell of islands brygge in the summertime. burned flesh and sun tan lotion. salt. the smell of winter and vanilla riding my bike outside tivoli gardens on the backside by glyptoteket. (Matti LeBeau)
• the song of blackbird and the smell of water from the harbour (lis engel)
• --- (Tove Johansen)
• Jazz music (Camilla Rohde Madsen)
• Seebreeze. B&W, Langelinie (20 years ago). (Philip Roitmann)
• the bell on all the bikes and the horn on cars, taxis and busses.
• A smell is connected to the area where I live. It is the smell of hops from the brewery of Carlsberg. It is great smell but it is slowly dissapearing because of the closing down of Carlsberg, which is really a pity. I hope that another sensual dimension w (lotte juul petersen)
• The smell of fresh made bread in Ahlefeldtsgade early in the morning. I used to live there. When I came home from a night out early in the morning in the weekends I would some times pick up bread from the back door of the bakery. (Stine Hansen)
• walking up through carlsberg and the smell of barley being brewed and the smell spreading across vesterbro and frederiksberg.
• Smell from cars and old dirt.
• Nothing in particular - nothing specific (Morten)
• the sound of bycicles. everywhere. (Flemming Keldebaek)
• still 3 years ago theu used to make beer in vesterbroe: carlsberg. you could smell the beer. (Betty Soerensen)
• Taste of shawarma, sound of cars. Music would be reggea and alternative country. (Martin)
• A crisp autumn air. It smells fresh. In the right whether this sensation is strong on Knippelsbro. (Kristine Agergaard)
• The smell of hashish in Christiania, and maybe of kebabs in Nørrebro (Christian Jensen)

1f) If you would be the good fairy and had a wish free for Copenhagen – what would you wish?

• That's not just the best asnewr. It's the bestest answer! (Connie)
• that immigant would be better accepted in society and the community learned had a better understanding of other cultures
• to get more sun (marta derska)
• There is a danish poet still living modern and strange, Inger Christensen. Who wrote this poem about:Excerpt: Et samfund kan være så stenet at alting er gået i stok, og indbyggermassen så benet at livet er næsten hørt op... til nogen begynder at bygge en by der er blød som en krop. I would wish that people would start appreciating each other more, like you said in the interwiev praise eadh others more and giving more time and attention to eadh other.. Know that alone you cannot really accomplish much,,, that when you share things, they get much bigger. More kommunication, less lonelyness, kindness and respect, and consideration and feeling organic, like we need each other, because we exist right next to each other, and we might as well think it more positive and beautiful. Instead for pulling each other down. Basically more love! And the same goes for the streets, I like them to be cleaner and yards and places could be make more round and beautiful. (Ingu)
• I would wish that Christiania never dies or is spoiled in any way and that there will soon be a new Ungodmshuset. The thing that makes copenhagen the most awesome place i've ever been is that it seems to actually be accepting of the people who want to live a different way of life than the rest of the rat race; people who want to live by their own rules and their own vaules. It seems there is a very sad trend for these places to be less and less valued by the establishment (even though they are what makes the city awesome in the first place) and to be lost in the name of 'profit' and 'progress' i wish for Denmark's sake that they rediscover the spirit of why these places were allowed to exist in the first place and that they resverse the trend before it's too late and these unique communities are lost to us forever. (c.b-zen)
• More tolerance Less fear of foreigners And more Open and less rigid thinking (katrien jans)
• smoke free bars (the real geeves)
• just better weather (philipp)
• More green in the street, not artificael just natural spieces, better and more public transport copenhagen - maybe the tram should be back, No highrise buildings in inner city and on "broerne" , Open the Åboulevard stream "Å" means stream, recreate the (Katrine Helman)
• to bee clean and to accept other peoble and there beliefs (ole henriksen)
• A yellow sun. (cyrano)
• i would wish for copenhagen to be a more inclusive place. for people to smile more at each other in the streets and welcome strangers into their lives and homes.
• More places like Christiania (Synnöve)
• To make the city more clean and the inhabitants more considered towards eachother
• That Christiania was kept open (Magnus)
• May all beings be free from suffering and have the key to this knd of freedom. (Gerd Gerhard Loeffler)
• More diversity, less cars in the center and an alternative hous of culture (Mette)
• Copenhagners should be able to make other people feel nice.
• dismiss the politicians (tone)
• skyscrapers in the city
• To get rid of the antisemitism and rascism i Copenhagen.
• I would like a gigantic mountain - in the middle of the city. a huge one and a very jungle like one, with a waterfall and with exotic birds - I would like more integration of the nature in the city structure. give me a mountain with a jungle and a waterfa (Matti LeBeau)
• much more awareness of the beauty of the town so that nobody would harm it or anybody (lis engel)
• big roads for bikes (Tove Johansen)
• That Copenhagen would grow much bigger and attract all kinds of people, and be the city that it is supposed to be! (Camilla Rohde Madsen)
• space! affordable housing
• I would give Copenhagen 1 million foreign settlers, in order for the danes to become a minority. (Philip Roitmann)
• car free sundays
• that it would be set free to do what it liked, room for a little more chaos and difference (frederik)
• that it would be set free to do what it liked, room for a little more chaos and difference (frederik)
• To be open to new thinking and integrate it in the city (lotte juul petersen)
• Copenhagen should use the talent tat is there iin the city. Not being caught up in mediocre consensus!
• AWARENESS!
• Copenhagen should ne more open and should be a cultural centre. (Kirsten Olesen)
• That there were no cars in Copenhagen. (Stine Hansen)
• clean air
• I would donate a good portion of curiosity! use your talents, Denmark!
• Vehicles out of central Copenhagen (Morten)
• Copenhagen - become mor curious!
• The Copenhagners should use their beautifu designer kitchens not only as an alibi for the perfect life but should socialize and actually cook more!
• Give Copenhagen the Ungdomshuset back!!!
• more bycicle streets. (Flemming Keldebaek)
• I wish there should be less cars in the town. (Betty Soerensen)
• A time machine that would return the youth house - Jagtvej 69. (Martin)
• Let the free communities of Christiania and Ungdomshuset live and grow. (Kristine Agergaard)
• Experimental architecture and more free recreational spaces at the harbour and other creative urban landsscapes - spaces for all to use and not just meetings places for specific political groups (Christian Jensen)

2a) When you think of Christiania, what first comes to mind?

• That's not just the best asnewr. It's the bestest answer! (Connie)
• sunday jazz/ stoned on the beach
• drugs, but also art, and freespirit (marta derska)
• Heartbeating and arrogance. (Ingu)
• My friend and his super cute little dog and his awesome house right on the banks of the lake with it's beautiful mural that was painted (i assume although i have never asked because it was painted after the last time i talked to the houses's owner) by my other dear friend who is dear friends with the house's owner. And crazy parties and crazy concerts and people who would put another drink in my hand before i'd even finished the last one and the most fun i've ever had in life. (c.b-zen)
• A place of expression and creativity (katrien jans)
• dirt roads (the real geeves)
• den blå karamel (philipp)
• Freedom for alternative livestyles...Fires at night, Nature, Weird people ; ), and a bit of magic... (Katrine Helman)
• Here I can atmen (ole henriksen)
• Cold. (cyrano)
• hash
• Freedom (Synnöve)
• Different place
• Alternative culture A Museum (Magnus)
• I have no other idea of Christiania than the one i get from this website. So Christiania is more like a 'virtual' location fro me than a real one. Maybe it is a kind of dream for me now, too. (Gerd Gerhard Loeffler)
• Architecture, dreams of a better world, kollektivitet, hash, summernight partys, økologi, rebels, drunks, mysteri, crafts (Mette)
• nature, architecture, people, politics, pot, possibilities (tone)
• hash
• Oslo, the norwegian capital!
• bying hash for a lover. (Matti LeBeau)
• play and creativity and the rules of no rules (lis engel)
• The nature (Tove Johansen)
• Openness, freedom and people beeing taking advantage of! (Camilla Rohde Madsen)
• christiania is a dream.
• yoga hippies with broad bushes (Philip Roitmann)
• freedom
• something good that is being destroyed (frederik)
• something good that is being destroyed (frederik)
• Lars von Trier: The Idiots
• ...(cont. from below) and then called the police and said there is a lunatic on the street.
• In the Mid70s due to big conflicts with drug dealers the Christianites locked the dealers in one house and barricated it. When the dealers ran out of water and food and one by one came out they got stripped naked, thrown out of Christiania and then called
• No cars (Stine Hansen)
• it is amazing hat is still around, that is exists
• Despite all the polemic about christania - I have always felt extremely safe. As if it was a place i immediately knew my way around. Being safe it what first comes to mind.
• Christiania og naturlighed (mælkebøtter som livsstærk pynt i håret, dyrevelfærd) – fantasi – rummelighed/tolerance – beskyttelse – ophøjede værdier (inkl. den spirituelle dimension) (Janice Granados)
• alternative lifestile, room for lost people.
• Culture (Morten)
• The very specific feeling I get when biking/walking through one of the entrances gates in Christiania: a feeling of relief, love and freedom. A feeling of entering into an energy field that is so much more evolved than that of the world surrounding Christ (Inge Demuytere)
• Blade Runner
• big inimidating daogs
• misfits, all the people who do not fit anywhere else.
• öko-village in the city. creativity.
• good concerts, good organic food, recycling
• alternative way of living
• Natural living, freedom, hash. relaxation. graffiti. art. improvisation.
• Fri place, local community with self control. cultural. diversity. heart. freedom.
• Music and pot (Martin)
• Decaying hippies, police control, secret hash smoking and a nasty underground crime milieu around this, and idealistic people finding a way and a positive out look nevertheless. (Kristine Agergaard)
• christiania is like an old oasis
• hashish, a stubborn (hi)story, tourism, alternative living, my bikes for the kids, weird dogs, something that doesnt make sense in primciples and then a cultural political battle zone (Christian Jensen)

2b) Is there a place in Christiania that reminds you of another place in the world, and if so, which place?

• That's not just the best asnewr. It's the bestest answer! (Connie)
• over the bridge amoungst the little houses and trees - the fairy tale in my mmind.
• some very suburban and poor life in american east cost, somwere between New Jersey and Georgia (marta derska)
• nothing that comes to mind immidiately. (Ingu)
• No but i've been told that Goa in india has a similar feel...... but i've never been to goa so i wouldn't know firsthand. (c.b-zen)
• NO (katrien jans)
• wellington (the real geeves)
• only the bath house - which to me is sometimes like out of an historybook speaking about tha old romans bathehaouses (philipp)
• It's uniqe... (Katrine Helman)
• no (ole henriksen)
• When i got inside Christiania, it did not look like brazil anymore. When i get out, i can imagine this comparasion as something posible. Only when i am not there. (cyrano)
• it reminds me of hippy festivals everywhere, kind of half baked and not at free as it claims.
• woowwvery difficult, maybe the coffe with the list of "police's visits" on the wall, remind me some squated houses in Berlin (Synnöve)
• Yes. Favelas in Brasil
• No (Magnus)
• nope. Haven't been there yet. (Gerd Gerhard Loeffler)
• there is no place like christiania - I think? (some of it may resemble the hippie part of san francisco, but it is not at all the same!) (tone)
• no
• Christiania = Amsterdam
• roskilde festival. the naive lawlessness. (Matti LeBeau)
• not really but may be a kind of gloabal circus village (lis engel)
• My türkish friends told me, it was like a türkish village (Tove Johansen)
• Café Victor reminds me of Paris and parisians (Camilla Rohde Madsen)
• RAW-tempel e.V. Revaler Straße, Berlin-Friedrichshain. Same vibe. (Philip Roitmann)
• it's very much it's own
• No - as I see it Christiania is unique. (Stine Hansen)
• pusherstreet used to remind me of being 8 years old and going to Katmandu with my parents. THe smell was the same, the loose dogs were the same, the colors and the setting seemed to remind me of Katmandu in Nepal.
• no
• Camden Towm, London (Morten)
• it reminds me of Nelson in New Zealand, very 70s like
• many places.
• Nemoland reminds me of al sorts of touring fairs. In a bad way. (Martin)
• Perhaps a gypsy concert in The Opera could be somewhere exotic, Balkan mixed with Rajahstahn (India) and California in the 60´s. (Kristine Agergaard)
• no (Christian Jensen)

2c) Which place is for you personally significant or characteristic for Christiania? Please tell us something more about you and the story of this place.

• That's not just the best asnewr. It's the bestest answer! (Connie)
• wow what a hard question. The sunday jazz club, the music is incredible, i have paid good money and seen far far worse.. It really had a huge affect on me.
• the bridge with the view on 4 chimneys, i like it; also, just the houses around the old fort waters, also a tibetan building (marta derska)
• The sauna! I was once quite depressed had been so for a week and feeling very lonely, being unemployed. so one gray day I dragged myself along to the sauna, thinking I should sweat and move more to get ovver it. In the sauna We were more people talking about alternative medicine. and this man asks if I liked to have a massage. I felt totally confident and I had the most wonderful almost hour long hole backside massage. It totally connected me to life and people again. And when I got out the sun had come out too. That man whose face and name I don't remember I will be forever grateful! The jazz/børneteateret is very typical for Cristiania as well, the air of self containment, but underneath also a big tolerance and love. I guess more than one has returned from death by being picked up and talked with by a friendly soul who has been there him or herself at the bars in CA. I once a summernight felt so good and light and had music in excess in my entire body. I danced with different people. It was so funny and creative like telling stories while dancing. This woman came to me and gave me a a big and warm compliment. I never forget that! (Ingu)
• / (katrien jans)
• had someone try to tell me DK weed was as good as NZ weed (the real geeves)
• the bridge - i go there to think and speak and dream and listen or drink beers (philipp)
• The Marked sqaure - Carl Madsens plads . It didn't have a name then, and it was a square of dust. I spend my first summer i Copenhagen there with my first job selling crystals and semiprecious stones...it was the summer of 92 - the sun shined without one (Katrine Helman)
• The house i stayed in malkebotten, and the morgen stedet. (cyrano)
• in front of the grey hall, where i went and sang with some people- we were just trying to do something beautiful and a pusher came and yelled at us.
• that coffe I told before, I did some friends there and felt like in home (Synnöve)
• None
• No particular place (Magnus)
• Voldene der løber igennem Christiania. Love to walk along the looking at the houses nearby. (Mette)
• maybe den grå hal or morgenstedet. I like the organic/vegan food at morgenstedet and the garden in the summertime. den grå hal houses nice concerts and cultural events... (tone)
• pusherstreet
• there is a certain part of the fortification that I used to sit and smoke on with my ex lover. nights and days we would sit there being unhappy. (Matti LeBeau)
• the funny little houses along the hidden brincks and the twitred narrow and wild pathways (lis engel)
• The bridge from where I like to meditate a little (Tove Johansen)
• The gate. Because I just to pass it every day for 4 years! (Camilla Rohde Madsen)
• sorry...that's quite too personal. (Philip Roitmann)
• growing up we had a lot of exchange students in our home. from all over the world. and the one thing they had all heard about was christiania and pusher street. we took them all there, så that must be it.
• Morgenstedet - the restaurant. The food is good - homey - fairly cheap and the people who work there aren't particurlarly caught up with hygenics.
• Loppen, for eating and music. And the Opera, for different lace to play different music.
• The water that surrounds Christiania (Morten)
• Badehuset. The Bathing House. I was a guest there since many years and now I am working there. It is my absolute favourite place in Christiania and one of my favourite places in Denmark. It is a sauna with a wood oven and men and women share the sauna. (Inge Demuytere)
• there happened 3 murders on pusher street!
• a few days ago I came home at night. on pusher street the pushers were standing around the fire, getting warm and singing. was nice.
• the vegetarian Restaurant. It is very iternational there, nice people, small, intimate
• There is some kind of secret entrance or axit in Christiania. It is hard to find and if people who kno it se you there thy know that you are an "insider".
• on a positive level the Vegetarian restaurant with natural pure food with relaxing friendly people.
• Operaen - small music venue. Great name although it was stolen by some other place... Very Christiania. Humouristic. (Martin)
• There are many places.... There is a very cool foot massage club in the health house where you lean back in the a big fat arm chair for a thorough foot massage, listen to the newest Buddha Bar sounds, smell the sweet smell of smoke and hear the latest Chr (Kristine Agergaard)
• pusher street, ecological food stalls, månefiskeren, the lake (Christian Jensen)

2d) If Christiania would be personified, what kind of person would it be?

• That's not just the best asnewr. It's the bestest answer! (Connie)
• a slightly alcoholic, free thinking, beautiful inviting person accepting of everyone
• free-spirit, open minded, a bit addicted to drugs and alcohol (artist tend to do that, don`t they?) dressed in all colors of the rainbow, with the sunshine in the soul, very relaxed, also sustainable (marta derska)
• A very complex person, a little hard and hash-damaged arrogant person, who is talking nonsense and mostly praising himself and his own kind, but also with an alteer ego that jumps out of his pocket a little wild and all-loving trikster with whom you can play and sing and joke with all night long. running around and surprising people making them laugh and cry (Ingu)
• the coolest person i've ever met!!! Some kind of artist.... who likes to drink and smoke and travel and generally enjoy life to the max (c.b-zen)
• Goliath (katrien jans)
• ferrel cat (the real geeves)
• obelix (philipp)
• A 196 cm tall guy original from Munich, with a big indian like nose, can juggle, roll a joint with one hand, can sing play music, are useally broke, Exellent cook, special very healthy veggie stuff, fantastick lover, blue eyes, Have travelled around the w (Katrine Helman)
• A busy, not quite friendly, one. (cyrano)
• my roomate.
• an artivist (Synnöve)
• Robin Hood, that fights for the good cause
• See 1 d (Magnus)
• dunno. (Gerd Gerhard Loeffler)
• En slags lidt fordrukken nybygger med mange børn og gode drømme om fremtiden og verden (Mette)
• bohème (maybe a bit bourgeois too???) (tone)
• an old man
• Cheech and Chong
• I really dislike this question. (Matti LeBeau)
• everybody but especially children & artistic people (lis engel)
• a dancer (Tove Johansen)
• A person at Woodstock (Camilla Rohde Madsen)
• some one who protects what they believe in
• an old rebel that hasn't really kept up with the world, and is still saying the same things as in the 70'ties, but should be allowed to (frederik)
• an old rebel that hasn't really kept up with the world, and is still saying the same things as in the 70'ties, but should be allowed to (frederik)
• An old hippie who wants peace and love for him and his freinds. (Stine Hansen)
• a very idealistic person - a person who didn't have too many predicaments with rules. Also a diverse person.
• Old hippie
• Jimi Hendrix (Morten)
• ‚Corba the Buddha’, an idea of a new and revolutionary kind of enlightended person, created by Osho. It is a saint, a highly evolved soul, but not an ascetic! It is a smiling Buddha, dancing and singing it’s way through life, enjoying everything. (Inge Demuytere)
• an ugly duck, that might turn into a swan (?)
• definitely a woman. voluptuous, lush, fertile, big. She has been pregnant for many years but the baby is not coming out yet.
• old hippie
• christiania would be a person who is unmaterialistic, relaxed and who does not like to live in a society developed by authority restrictions.
• The Buddhist figure reminds me of many other placs in the world.
• En elderly woman with hat and wodden finger rings. She's dating an artist. (Martin)
• A quite old and beautiful hippie who probably had a both hard and fantastic life with a vast experience of drug use and spiritual wisdom. (Kristine Agergaard)
• an old hippie (Christian Jensen)

2e) The senses: Is there a specific smell, taste, sound or music that you connect to Christiania? If there is a specific location associated please name it.

• That's not just the best asnewr. It's the bestest answer! (Connie)
• jazz (jazz club), spunk (myself) Laughter
• smell of earth (soil), green colour of foliage, a fresh breeze from the water, the christiania flag overhelming, sound of children having happy childhood (marta derska)
• A slave hash smell and the smell of coffee (Ingu)
• The smell of hash... (mixed with tobacco) and reggae music (dub) and crazy psychedelic acid trip rock (both live and recorded) (c.b-zen)
• Music and art. (katrien jans)
• beer, fire and pissoir (the real geeves)
• hash joints and cofe (philipp)
• bob marley at carl madsen square, dogs barking, pot and incense, taste of hot hot hot chilli (Katrine Helman)
• burning of wood in the fireplaces in the street (pusher street) (ole henriksen)
• I heard ducks nearby and we got friends, once. By those lakes. Nice friends. (cyrano)
• yep !! smell as freedom, taste as nectar and sound as a mestizo music concert mixed with punk music maybe Gogol Bordello?? Manu Chao?? (Synnöve)
• None
• No not really (Magnus)
• hash smell, the smell af fire and graffiti (Mette)
• gravel, pot, incense, food and flames (tone)
• the smell of hash
• Smell: attics or cellars
• the smell of hash obviously. and of the bon fires. it is so dark there. in the night. (Matti LeBeau)
• ? (lis engel)
• ---- (Tove Johansen)
• Music, hashish, filth, dogs, ... (Camilla Rohde Madsen)
• The fumes of pusherstreet and the hot hyldeblomstsaft from månefiskeren. (Philip Roitmann)
• smoke
• In "Operaen" I've often heard blue grass music, wich I really like. (Stine Hansen)
• The taste of the bakery's carrot cake and lying on the wodden bridge in christiania.
• hash
• The smell og marijuana at many spots (Morten)
• The spiritual music my colleague at the Badehuset plays. Mostly Sufi music. (Inge Demuytere)
• wel, ofcourse: the smll of joints!
• Fire at night in the huge cans
• the Felafels from Christiania are very good!
• apple cake from sunshine bakery
• Reggaumusic at the Opera
• october time -> smell of wood fires. smells like fires in the attacama desert, Chile.
• Dogs barking. different musik. people on the streets laughing.
• smell of hashish - sound of reggea. (Martin)
• There was a band that oftne played in the 90's (at least I saw them then a lot), OOH STICKY, I think they were called, a guy played on a weird bass that had the shape of big triangle and a jggler type on a little drum. They played often in front of Moonfi (Kristine Agergaard)
• hashish (Christian Jensen)

2f) If you would be the good fairy and had a wish free for Christiania – what would you wish?

• That's not just the best asnewr. It's the bestest answer! (Connie)
• That there would not be a monomply over the herb. That the outsiders would respect it for the amazing ceation that it is and respect its existance.
• just sty as it is (marta derska)
• The same as I wish for copenhagen LOVE and some more rehab (Ingu)
• That the government abandon it's 'normalization' plans and the cops stop their constant patrols and leave it's residents to live in peace. (c.b-zen)
• continuity CONTINUITY CCOONNTTIINNUUIITTYY (katrien jans)
• get less agro (the real geeves)
• for more fairies (philipp)
• old times back - but with modern effeciency (Katrine Helman)
• stop all dibat on normalisation, and stop all press on christiania (ole henriksen)
• That pushers vanished away. (cyrano)
• that the pushers would leave.
• to live for ever (Synnöve)
• That they would be left in peace
• Let Christiania live (Magnus)
• May all beings be happy and have the key to this happiness. (Gerd Gerhard Loeffler)
• That it was much bigger, had more ressources and was saved (fredet) from the thread of being closed. (Mette)
• legalize marihuana! that would solve a lot of problems
• I want the stat to understand that Christiania is untouchable. It just has to be there and it has to be free!
• I want the stat to understand that Christiania is untouchable. It just has to be there and it has to be free!
• people in Christiania should get rid of their anger.
• more acceptance from outside.
• that it stays forever.
• I wish: No borders, no boundaries, no limits!
• I wish that people understand that it simply has to be there. Almost no people go to churches anymore today but tons of people go to Christiania. It should be there just like churches.
• more peace for the people living here.
• more creativity and less hash.
• that it stays 'free' (tone)
• to get rid of it
• To make it into a gigantic playground for children.
• for the stupidity to end - for the criminal aspects of the place to disrupt. for people to be happy. it is a place for essentially sad people. sad or disappointed people. disappointed that the utopia remained a such. a utopia. (Matti LeBeau)
• the same as for Copenhagen - that it can continue to develop as a beautiful place filled with joy and love and where there is spce to live life from an integration of body-heart-mind interwoven in unpredictalbe patterns (lis engel)
• free food (Tove Johansen)
• That it could be that place of freedom that it started out as! (Camilla Rohde Madsen)
• Progress. Youth. (Philip Roitmann)
• let it stay
• Christiania, define waht you are! Then you can do anything.
• I wish Christiania will become some place of influence so that politicienas will learn from that.
• I wish Christiania will become some place of influence so that politicienas will learn from that.
• That it could live forever. (Stine Hansen)
• magic
• That progress and alternatives didn't scare neither the politicians nor the christianians
• keep the criminals out of Christiania.
• That it continue if it is still a needed place
• preserve it (Morten)
• The internal struggles should vanish. All of the brothers and sisters should have their eyes opened and new waves of cosmic love would reach them so we can continue buidling love and community. Like the enthusiasm and love 30 years ago. (Inge Demuytere)
• Leave out all the drugs from Christiania. The drugs carry with them the problem of dependance on money and take away from the original Christiaia ideas: freedom, love and autonomy.
• I wish that people here dare to change.
• just get some peace and understanding!
• live your idas, dreams, do not wait for the government to say anything, just do!
• If I would be the good fairy I would give a surplus of energy to be able to handle more, especially wha comes from outside.
• I would give the feeling of unity, not the clans working against each other.
• Christiania should develop ONE true vision and live that out.
• bring the old and strong enthusiasm back to maintain things in alternative way.
• on ore more strong, maybe young people with strong visions to reform and get Christiania out of the timewarp.
• There should be more a kind of security - that people will be able to keep the houses they built, with no fear that the government can take the houses away any time. there should be contracts with 5- or 10-year security.
• people should keep their beautiful homes and live peacefully.
• selfcontrol.
• A younger generation doing it all over again. (Martin)
• That the government would drop all plans of 'normalisation' and allow Christiania to develop as a free community and give support to a lot of alternative building on the area and that Christiania in return would let in a lot of fresh, young, visionary peo (Kristine Agergaard)
• leave it alone and get rid of all the criminal and violent types that pest the area (Christian Jensen)

2g) What experiences from the last 30 years can Christiania give to the world? What can the world learn from Christiania?

• That's not just the best asnewr. It's the bestest answer! (Connie)
• Simply the wold can learn alot. It can learn that materialism, greed, centralised power, class divide and oppression are not needed as the base of society. being seek happiness but none of the perivious bring that, we need new values, christinia showed me that.
• i dont know, i just realise that such place exist 5 months ago, i am amazed by it, also angry that its in danger now (marta derska)
• To have space for everybody, to allow diversity and a lot of music (Ingu)
• I don't know but i'm sure the people who were born there and have lived their for the past 30 years of their lives would be able to tell you. (c.b-zen)
• / (katrien jans)
• less agro, less agro (the real geeves)
• to make friend instead of money (philipp)
• It can be beneficial for the bigger sociaty to give space and room for alternative livestyles, tolerance, recycle ( Den Grønne Hal) (Katrine Helman)
• it is a place where nearly all can live, that means a great tolerance ( exept for junkies, but that the influence fram america) (ole henriksen)
• That arrogance doesnt help. (cyrano)
• that over 30 years idealism fades unless you have built something more capable of withstanding change.
• to show how is possible to live in freedom. ALL. (Synnöve)
• That different people can live side by side without interfering in eachother´s lifes
• That alternative cultures need to be accessible to everybody who is interested without them made feel as if the were weirdos (Magnus)
• Christiana has lots of essential thoughts about architecture. And also about the story of people fighting for their own way of life against authorities (Mette)
• maybe something about organising a community..? (tone)
• how to sell drugs
• Nothing, not even tolerance... Drug abuse and drug addiction is the same all the world over.
• absolutely nothing both ways. (Matti LeBeau)
• The wold could learn that life has to do with experimentation and the creation of ways to live - Christiania can give the possibility of living in a greater freedom to narrow normativity and with greater responsability (lis engel)
• make love not war (Tove Johansen)
• Not to be so naive! (Camilla Rohde Madsen)
• Christiania and the world(the rest of society?) seems incommensurable yet strangly entangled. Exhange of experience would serve no purpose. (Philip Roitmann)
• there is room for everyone
• that experiments are always valuable, even though you don't always succeed (frederik)
• that experiments are always valuable, even though you don't always succeed (frederik)
• People here have a better sense of democracy than in a normal 20th century city. Christianians recognize really easy where democracy is disfunctional.
• That different is possible (Stine Hansen)
• That idealism goes a long way.
• To have room for different lifestyles
• happiness and alternative culture (Morten)
• That freedom and community feelings are to bet he highest values! Without this our cultures get gray and eventually die. (Inge Demuytere)
• Consenus is a difficult thing because you canot vote for or against.... It only works very well at the 'violence' meetings: Here people really attend and take care of the person that did something wrong. here people really take responsibility and stand to
• people from all different lives can stand together, drink together and unified.
• a different society is possible.
• "just do it" is not as new a slogan as one would think. (Martin)
• That it is possible to self govern a whole community over so long time with consensus democracy integrating all the good and bad things and always surviving and developing somehow. (Kristine Agergaard)
• alternative organisation, that dreams are realizable (Christian Jensen)

3a) What does freedom mean to you?

• That's not just the best asnewr. It's the bestest answer! (Connie)
• Freedom to be how i want to be..freedom of mind and expression without jusdgement from watching eyes.
• everything, its a second the most important thing in life after health. (the third one is love, just for the rcord) (marta derska)
• More responability and honesty towards eachother and being oneself, being allowed to feel and find oneself, create oneself (Ingu)
• Selfexpression (katrien jans)
• less agro (the real geeves)
• i means a lot of work (philipp)
• tolerance, choices (Katrine Helman)
• freedom means that my ideas are respectet, and that i may tell them without fear (ole henriksen)
• A feeling that walks by my side, giving me strenght to keep on. (cyrano)
• having somewhere to live, people not judging me by my gender, no national boundaries.
• life (Synnöve)
• Do to what we want as long as it doesn´t interfere with the next one´s space
• Choice (Magnus)
• Freedom to choose how to react on something. A (short) pause that allows you to 'step' back and look at a situation from a distance. (Gerd Gerhard Loeffler)
• Knowlegde, having basic needs covered, the abiliy to make choices (Mette)
• one of the big questions..! it could be power of the self, respect for others and openness - among other things... (tone)
• everything
• Sensible/aesthetic freedom that always makes sense despite duty, rights, consequences and regulations
• it is not a static thing. flux. movement. freeing the ideas. pushing forward the ideals. not to turn that place of freedom into an obtainable size. (Matti LeBeau)
• freedom is connected with nonjudmental love and respect of all kinds of life (lis engel)
• no war (Tove Johansen)
• To be the best self that one can! (Camilla Rohde Madsen)
• Freedom means choosing your own actions. (Philip Roitmann)
• freedom means responsibility of my own happiness - i can do whatever i whish and dreams can come true
• freedom is having an open mind (frederik)
• freedom is having an open mind (frederik)
• responsebility (Stine Hansen)
• freedom means responsibiity
• that there are possibilities
• everything
• to accept people like I wish to be accepted (Morten)
• Freedom means understanding that every negative aspect one encounters in life can be turned into something positive and understanding. Every experience is a lesson we can learn from. One can learn that everything in this Universe is at it should be and en (Inge Demuytere)
• Freedom: It must be paradise o be a kid or a dog in Christiania
• freedom: in Christiania you can walk anywhere. there are no yards.
• freedom is a fight against power.
• a lot of parties!
• Respecting the misfits
• you can make your own choice (Betty Soerensen)
• freedom to me means where you as a person feel free, relaxed to do as you please.
• respect. equality. responsibility, dialogue, with authority and fear.
• Freedom is for doing good things or at least things that aren't wrong or hurting anybody. Or something... (Martin)
• Freedom is for example to let other people take responsibility for the own lifes and not interfere. (Kristine Agergaard)
• freedoms to change to your mind and do something else than originally and rationally planned (Christian Jensen)

3b) What does control mean to you?

• That's not just the best asnewr. It's the bestest answer! (Connie)
• not good things, modern world, my sick mind, when i am to down to earth and everyday struggling. (marta derska)
• fear and allowing fear to grow, (Ingu)
• no selfexpression. (katrien jans)
• more agro (the real geeves)
• the struggle for freedom is going up while the the war for control is trying to take everybody dowen (philipp)
• stops a proces to check, (Katrine Helman)
• control means that all my ideas and all my doing will be registret and valued (ole henriksen)
• Art. To learn to control is an art, the most important one. (cyrano)
• necessary for current economic systems to function, not necessary for survival.
• death (Synnöve)
• To be locked in a cage
• No choice (Magnus)
• Its an illusion (Mette)
• fear. (tone)
• notthing
• Borders and lines that always pop up in existence, even freedom is a kind of border and control mechanism.
• in this sense it is sort of the counterpart. can't live without it. (Matti LeBeau)
• Tah you never hurt anything or anybody and act from integrated reflection from body-heart-mind (lis engel)
• no freedom (Tove Johansen)
• Personal insecurity makes people want to control you! (Camilla Rohde Madsen)
• Control is a mean of achiving your/any goal. (Philip Roitmann)
• to be put in boxes. i dont like boxes. i like taking the other road to a place.
• all the conventions and dogmas that rule peoples minds, that doesn't allow them to see things differently (frederik)
• all the conventions and dogmas that rule peoples minds, that doesn't allow them to see things differently (frederik)
• freedom to control your own life. (Stine Hansen)
• supremacy - that someone can set the agenda completely.
• good in some situations
• to mainstream poeple and their surroundings (Morten)
• It is a tool powersick people use to remain at their positions. They are rigid and do not understand spontaneity, love or freedom. They are scared of it because they don’t understand it. Never tried to be free and don’t dare to be. The need for contro (Inge Demuytere)
• control by the neighbours
• rules and lows for all things (Betty Soerensen)
• governments, corporations and money making institutions.
• a dog on a chain.
• ...Control is necessary when people are using their freedom wrong. (Martin)
• To interfere with how other people live their lifes. (Kristine Agergaard)
• national legislation as well as individual ties and boundraies that creates boring people and situations (Christian Jensen)

3c) How would you characterize the relation between Copenhagen and the free city of Christiania?

• That's not just the best asnewr. It's the bestest answer! (Connie)
• People from the outside take from chrisitiania but do not always respect its existance. It feels one way.
• so far so good, symbiosis (but some "smart guys" wants to destroy it, eh... (marta derska)
• Some outside can bear over with CA, some see CA as everything bad in one place. And most has a romantic view and need Ca as at least a symbol of freedom, and tolerance. Many CA people loves Copenhagen. Some project equally bad things on all normal people forgetting we belong together-like (Ingu)
• Don't know what you've got till it's gone.... they paved paradise and put up a parking lot (or some really expensive condo's..... well not yet thank god but it's sure heading in that direction) (c.b-zen)
• tensed (katrien jans)
• agro (the real geeves)
• I think Copnhagen needs a place like Christiania. Especially in the last years where it got more and more stiff and controled to live in Denmarks Capital.
• to small (philipp)
• I can be beneficial for the bigger sociaty to give space and room for alternative livestyles, tolerance, recycle ( Den Grønne Hal) - Christiania is a part of Copenhagen - but some of Copenhagen is filtered of in Christania (Katrine Helman)
• the relation between copenhagen and christiania is good, because christiania is solving some problems for copenhagen (ole henriksen)
• Problematic and full of energy being used in pointless directions. (cyrano)
• people in Kbh seem to see Christiania as a relic of the 60s, not an alive entity still.
• very bad (Synnöve)
• None existing almost. No tolerance
• That Christiania is not free from Copenhagen and vise verse (Magnus)
• complicated. Fx. I admire Christiania and would like it to continue. At the same time i dont think it's very democratic, because it's only for the few (you are not allowed to move their and at the same time the people who love there are so proud of their (Mette)
• complementary (tone)
• there is none
• it is sad. sadness. again. (Matti LeBeau)
• Christiania and Copenhagen is already integrated and it would be a great pity to destroy that (lis engel)
• ok (Tove Johansen)
• A loving mother to a son that has gone a bit crazy, where she waits for him to grow up... (Camilla Rohde Madsen)
• a worn out symbiosis. (Philip Roitmann)
• misunderstood. it's a place for everyone. some tend to froget that.
• as characterized by a mix of love and lack of understanding (frederik)
• as characterized by a mix of love and lack of understanding (frederik)
• Outside of Copenhagen what my neighbor thinks is not imprtant. Inside Christiania you cannot survive without or at least you are dependant on yur neighbours.
• I think that people in Copenhagen are used to and accept the excistence of Christiania - though some envy the lovely houses. I also see Christiania as a closed area, wich I can visit but not be a part of. (Stine Hansen)
• copenhagen is pressuring christiania a lot.
• Most of copenhageners love christiania as they love unruly children.
• I think they are good for each other, it is good for free spirits to know about different possibilities
• Good. Christiania is one of the top tourist spots in DEnmark (Morten)
• Copenhagen is a wealthy elderly man, proud of his status but somewhat not completely at ease.... There is a frown on is forehead... He is trying to ignore and suppress the attraction for the beautiful, naked lady Christiania, that is dancing around him, v (Inge Demuytere)
• accusations based on ignorance. It is a pure prejudice from the people 'outside' that Christianians just live cheap here and go to the city with a big car, and xploit the copenhagen citizens. Livig here is not for free!
• I would say: pride. Copenhagen is proud that somethig like Christiania is possible, even if it is difficult.
• just neighbours. (Flemming Keldebaek)
• Christiania is a part of Copehagen. (Betty Soerensen)
• I get the feeling in some ways the danish like christiania. in other ways it is kept very seperate from Copenhagen.
• Each others bad conscience. (Martin)
• In general I think the people of Copenhagen appreciate Christiania more than Christiania appreciates the city of Copenhagen. (Kristine Agergaard)
• now a totally integrated tourist attraction and a political battle zone (Christian Jensen)