Pernille Maria Bärnheim (DK) is Deputy Director of Copenhagen Architecture Biennial and Copenhagen Architecture Forum CAFx, Associate Director of the SDGs Local Learning Studio, and serves as board member of Building Diversity. Pernille has authored articles and books on the built environment with a focus on sociality and sustainability, curated talk programmes and exhibitions, conceptualized and led educational projects on architecture and urbanism for youth, and undertaken urban research on low-income housing strategies in Mexico and Argentina.

She has a particular interest in the relation between sociality and the built environment and considers architecture and planning multidisciplinary fields with still underdeveloped potentials for driving holistic thinking and practice across individual, societal and planetary perspectives. Her background is in critical urban studies, curation, and film making.