SDF has funded the University of Washington Architecture Intern Exchange program by UWCBE since 2009. The interns are placed at some of Denmark's top architecture firms. One of the 2023-24 SDF Interns was UWCBE Master of Architecture student, Shannon Payne. Read her blog about her experiences working at Cobe Architects and living in Denmark through the SDF Architecture Program.

Funded by a grant from the Scan Design Foundation, the Capitol Hill EcoDistrict partnered with COurban to embark on a Masterclass program in Copenhagen and Malmö, traveling with a cohort of 14 intentionally selected participants. The program focused on creating a comprehensive framework that would result in the development and innovation of public life and space design improvements in Capitol Hill’s EcoDistrict.

Scan Design Foundation sponsors the Danish intern exchange program at the Museum of Danish America for students from Denmark. Read this blog by Svend A. Buus, our fall 2023 intern:

Portland State University, the Initiative for Bicycle and Pedestrian Innovation and Scan Design Foundation offer students a unique opportunity: a 2-week study abroad course that introduces students to stellar bike cultures. Read the full blog about the 2023 program here.

Read this blog about two University of Washington programs in Greenland sponsored by Scan Design Foundation. SDF Program Officer, Line Larsen, writes about her experiences in Ilulissat with the students.

Under the banner “Sustainable futures - Leave no one behind”, thousands of architects, urbanists, politicians, civil servants, developers, designers, students and others gathered for four immersive days at the UIA World Architecture congress in Copenhagen in July 2023. Read this blog from Bettina Werner for some key takeaways!

Coming this summer! We are thrilled to announce an exhibition by Danish environmental artist, Thomas Dambo - Northwest Trolls: Way of the Bird King. Thomas is building six giant whimsical trolls entirely from recycled materials around the Pacific Northwest. Read our new blog for an introduction to the project by Scan Design Foundation Program Officer, Line Liblik Larsen, followed by a piece about trolls by Dr. Ann-Charlotte Gavel Adams.

John Halliday, Muckleshoot tribal member, was selected by the tribal council to represent Muckleshoot art and culture in an artistic exchange with Denmark’s artist Thomas Dambo, sponsored by Scan Design Foundation.

Cities are classrooms in this unique study abroad course organized by the University of Oregon. Scan Design Foundation funded the 2022 Sustainable Transportation Study Abroad Course in Denmark. Read more about the 2022 program in this blog by Rebecca Lewis and Nick Meltzer:

14 University of Washington students are traveling to Greenland during summer 2023 to participate in the Scan Design Foundation sponsored program, "Impacts and Responses to Changes in Arctic Ice and Climate", to explore how changes in ice impacts the Arctic environment and the people living in the Arctic. Read more about the program in this blog by Research Associate Professor, Michelle Koutnik:

A group of nine transportation students traveled to Denmark and Sweden during the summer of 2022 to participate in the Portland State University (PSU) Sustainable Transportation Study Abroad Program partially funded by Scan Design Foundation. Through the program, the students met with planners and engineers and experienced the transportation systems in Copenhagen and Stockholm.

Anders Jørgensen is in the Scan Design Foundation Danish Intern Exchange Program at the Museum of Danish America during the second half of 2022. Read his blog about his trip across Iowa as a Danish intern to interview people who have impacted the Museum.

Enjoy this selection of blog posts by Robert Spurlock, a professional urban planner in Oregon, who participated in the 2022 SDF-funded University of Oregon Bicycle Study Abroad Program in Denmark and the Netherlands. Robert Spurlock is the Regional Trails Planner for Oregon Metro.

17 Students are embarking on a trip to Denmark for a 2022 summer program to explore public art, culture, and colonialism. Read more about the program in this blog.

Read about the 110th anniversary of the Rebildfest in Denmark. Queen Margrethe II attended as the guest of honor. This blog is available in both English and Danish.

Learn about the history of the Rebild Festival and the Rebild Bakker flags in Denmark. In July 2022, for the 110th anniversary of the festival, new state flags will line the "Avenue of Flags", courtesy of Scan Design Foundation.

2020 was a year that shifted how we did most things. This was no different for Associate Professor Kimo Griggs and his Furniture Studio, sponsored by the Scan Design Foundation in the University of Washington College of Built Environments. Read more.

In November 2021, three University of Washington Scan Design Foundation Landscape Architecture interns went on an adventurous trip along Denmark's West Coast. Read their blog about the highlights of their trip!

Frederikke Lund Theodorsen shares her experiences in the Scan Design Foundation Danish exchange internship program at the Museum of Danish America.

Scan Design Foundation began a long and rewarding partnership with the University of Washington in 2004. Together we have created and funded a variety of programs for students to learn about and travel to Denmark and for Danes to learn about and travel to the U.S. This year, recognizing $10 Million in grants over the years, the UW awarded Presidential Laureate status to the Foundation.

With the support of Scan Design Foundation, hundreds of elected officials, city planners and bicycle planners from the Pacific Northwest have been able to experience world class bicycle infrastructure for themselves on i-SUSTAIN study tours to Denmark. Joined with local business leaders and NGO executive directors, this has led to continually improving bicycle structure in the PNW region.

Since 2005, Scan Design Foundation has supported innovative pain research by UW Medicine. In this blog, three UW researchers who were this year's Scan Design Foundation award recipients, Dr. David Marcus, Dr. Jay Parrish and Dr. Jia Zhu, are interviewed by Dr. Tonya Palermo from UW Department of Anesthesiology & Pain Medicine.

Scan Design Foundation partners with COurban to create custom Masterclass programs with hands-on learning in Copenhagen, Denmark. In the 2019 program, participants visit Copenhagen and Malmö, Sweden to study world-renowned public spaces and bring home inspiration and actionable strategies to the Capitol Hill EcoDistrict.

As a long-standing partner of Scan Design Foundation, i-SUSTAIN, a Seattle-based firm specializing in urban sustainability, has actively been working to bring best practices in sustainability from Denmark to the U.S.

A virtual lecture series on Danish Design by the UW College of Built Environments is now available online. The series is from a course funded by Scan Design Foundation in Autumn 2020. Some of the most innovative Danish architects, landscape architects, and furniture designers in Denmark today are featured in the series.

Scan Design Foundation was created by Inger and Jens Bruun to foster and support Danish-American Relations and to provide financial support for pain research.

Awarding a total of $2,400,000 to a dozen grantees this investment will provide critical support for US-based non-profit organizations and academic programs to continue the exchange between Denmark and the US.

When I returned to Copenhagen again this August for the ScanDesign internship, I looked up the Københavns Roklub (KR) and asked if I could join.

All in all, it is a semester that is very different from what I had hoped for. This is not necessarily a bad thing. I am in the epicenter of the corona infection, in the midst of an unparalleled election and a movement for racial justice.