N55 members Ion Sørvin, Till Wolfer, and Anne Roome will collaborate with Carleton students to set up a design laboratory focused on public space by imaging a hypothetical new building complex for the College’s Cowling Arboretum. The residency will include public lectures and events, culminating in an exhibition in the Braucher Gallery of the Perlman Teaching Museum.

Founded in 1994, N55 is a Danish art, architecture, and design collective consisting of Sørvin, Wolfer, and Roome. The group creates objects, buildings, and environments that cause us to question the ways we use public spaces. What are the different—even competing—functions of an urban street or a public park? Who has the right to use these spaces or claim ownership over them? Who constitutes “the public”? These are some of the questions N55 provokes us to consider through their works that encourage us to use communal spaces in different, often unorthodox, manners. More about the group can be found online at www.n55.dk.