[Air-L] Accommodations in Copenhagen

[Lisbeth Klastrup]

- and following up on Charles' mail:

Some time ago, under the "best of cph" menu item on the conference website 
(http://conferences.aoir.org > left hand menu > "Best of Copenhagen" )
I have posted various information about Roskilde sightseeing options (incl 
the viking ship museum) and a couple of links to help out the practical 
planning of a trip to the city.
Also note that the Danish Museum of Contemporary Art, right next to the 
cathedral in Roskilde, during the conference hosts the exhibition 
"TOTAL_ACTION: Art in the New Media Landscape" - Im negotiating a deal where 
conference participants should get a very good discount on access to it.

As time nears, we will be posting more info on things to do in Cph under the 
"Best of Copenhagen" item, as recommended by the local committee and other 
Cph afficionados :)

best
Liz



----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Ess" <charles.ess at gmail.com>
To: <air-l at listserv.aoir.org>; <jath at ruc.dk>
Sent: Wednesday, August 20, 2008 3:38 PM
Subject: Re: [Air-L] Accommodations in Copenhagen


Jannie's helpful note reminds me -
Roskilde is an easy, ca. 20 minute train ride from Copenhagen - and worth
the visit for a number of reasons, including the cathedral, and a very nice
park that you can walk through on the way to the Viking Ship Museum:
<http://vikingeskibsmuseet.dk/page.asp?contentsection=3964B7C731974A1DA15F57
41EA743FE9&zcs=>

For those of us interested in communication, culture, and technology - I
cannot recommend a visit to the Museum strongly enough.  In addition to the
impressive display of five 11th-century ships recovered in 1962, there are a
number of exhibits that provide interesting, sometimes staggering, insight
into, e.g. ship-building technologies (these were the starships of the day,
for a host of interesting reasons - including the use of some techniques
subsequently lost in the late middle ages and only recovered via the efforts
to reconstruct these ships), important and highly influential cultural
interactions made possible by these technologies (beyond the stereotype of
raiding, etc.), aesthetics, etc., etc.

Of course, I don't mean to put temptation to skip any of the IR 9.0
conference in anybody's way - so I hope conference participants will be able
to take a day or two on either side of the conference to enjoy not only
Copenhagen, but also Roskilde, Aarhus (for those going to the workshop on
Internet histories), Skagen and any number of other splendid places in our
host country ...

on those happy thoughts,
cheers,
- c.

> take Copenhagen city - it is in walking distance from Copenhagen
> university. (10-15 minutes). Copenhagen dowentown is a bit further,
> but also central. You would have to get a bus from there or hire a
> bike:)

> De Bedste Hilsner/Sincerely
>
> Jannie Møller Hartley
>
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Ph.D. student
> Institut for
> Kommunikation, Virksomhed og
> Informationsteknologier
> Roskilde Universitetscenter
> Bygning 43.3
>
> Universitetsvej 1
> 4000 Roskilde
> Tlf.: (+45) 4674 3695
> Mobile: (+45) 30251066
> E-mail: jath at ruc.dk
> EAN: 57980004181
>
> Institute of communication, business and information technologies, 
> Roskilde
> University


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