Mikael Colville-Andersen has spent over 30 years observing, shaping, and telling stories about cities. As an urban designer and host of The Life-Sized City, his work has taken him to more than 100 cities around the world, exploring how cities actually work when they are designed for people, not systems.
Everything Mikael does is driven by the simple idea: cities should make life better for the people who live in them. His career spans urban planning, bicycle culture, design, photography and filmmaking, always rooted in observation, curiosity, and real human behaviour.
In recent years, this work has taken him to Ukraine, where he has volunteered since 2022, applying urban thinking in the middle of war – from tactical urbanism to spaces designed for trauma recovery and care. And navigating it all - and everything else - with his own anxiety disorder, PTSD and ADHD.
Learn more about Mikael here: https://www.colville-andersen.com/
About the Evening
This is a rare chance to spend an evening with a true change-maker, in an extended Silvers format designed to go deeper.
Mikael welcomes guests into his home for a longer, more relaxed gathering that feels closer to friends coming over than a traditional dinner event. Over dinner and conversation, with time to explore his home, he will share his stories from a life spent observing cities up close.
Mikael wants the evening to feel like high-energy hygge: curious, open, and conversational. There will be space to really get to know one another, ask questions, and let the evening unfold naturally.
SILVERS is a Copenhagen-based platform connecting guests with experienced people over dinners and conversations in their homes.
- A simple homemade meal (vegetarian option available)
- Access to Mikael's home, life story, and work across cities worldwide, with 6 other guests
- Conversation about cities, urban life, and human behaviour
- Please arrive on time, the event duration is 3 hours
- The conversation will be in English
- Guests are welcome to bring alcohol beverages.
